The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

song.
The crop OF fall fakirs is ready to
harvest.
Mr.. Charles Blood Smith left today
for New York city.
The city is being billed for the Sells
Forepaugh circus.
A crowd of little folks picnicked at
Tecumseh Wednesday.
Mr. William Macferran is at home af-
ter a trip to Washington.
Charles Lindsay has found his dog
and he is happy once more.
Governor Stanley has decided not to
move his family to Topeka
Several stones in the walk around the
postoffice ought to be fixed.
Assistant State Treasurer Kelly is in
Manitou visiting his family.
James Butler is preparing to open the
Epicurean restaurant again.
]. c. Going has sold his running horse
Hessin to a firm in Missouri.
Mr. Charles Wolff has returned after
a visit at the northern lakes.
Arthur Hudson of this city is now do
ing railroad work in Wellington.
There is a Crane & Co. in Dalton,
Mass, and it is a printing company,
too.
Frank Grimes will go to California,
Mo, Saturday to hear his friend, Mr..
Burton.
The view up and down the river viii
soon be cut off by signs and sand
QreQgeS.
DR.. ]. G. McCHntock will leave this
week for Colorado Springs to spend a
vacation.
Bananas are scarce in Topeka just
now owing to the yellow fever scare in
the south.
superintendent Nelson will be one of
the speakers at the soldiers reunion at
Seneca today.
Old fashioned tea pots with the han
die on the side are revived as the
proper thing.
1t may soon be possible for people in
Topeka to ride to Kansas City by the
electric cars.
State superintendent Frank Nelson
is one of the speakers at the Seneca
reunion today.
There was quite an exodus of Topeka
people to St. Mary's today to attend
the log rolling.
Stoves will be higher in price this
winter than last. Iron of all kinds has
advanced in price.
T. F. Doran made a speech at a
farmers meeting at Seigel, Douglas
county, Wednesday.
EIwood PETER, who is sick at his
fathers home in this city with malarial
fever, is improving.
year or so ago only one girl in
Topeka had the courage to ride astride.
Now there are a dozen.
w. H. Stillwel, general superintend-
ent of the Rock Island, is expected
back from Colorado today.
Home grown grapes are coming into
market. HOrticulturists report that
many are falling off the vines.
Frank Grimes will go to California,
Mo-, Saturday to hear J. R. Burton re-
ply to William Jennings Bryan.
1t used to be that a new tandem in
town created excitement. Now moth
ing but a quad would make a stir.
Walter N. Allen, a member Of the
state board of charities under the Lew
cling administration, is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Sessions have
taken up their residence at the corner
of Ninth street and Topeka avenue.
The gas smell near the corner of
Fifth and Kansas avenues is about as
disa greeab1e an Odor as could be found.
VIM. Bradbury's trotter, Lady Bird,
received third money in the 2:25 trot at
Washington Court House, Ohio, this
week.
Mr.. George G. Hodges, the Chicago
Record correspondent who has lately
been in Alaska and Hawaii, is in the
city.
The AuburndaIe and Potwin police
beat is considered the choicest during
the summer and the worst during the
winter.
A marriage license was issued We'd
nesday to John w. Cone, of POwhat-
tan, and Lille May Caskey, of North
Topeka.
Topeka orators are kept busy nova
days chasing around over the state at
tending old settlers and old soldiers
reunions.
Councilman J. w. F. Hughes left to-
day for St. Louis. After a few days
there he will visit his old home at Col
umbia, Tenn.
Representative Henley, of Lawrence,
passed through Topeka Wednesday on
his way home from an outing in yell
lOwStOne park.
Chas. H. Ridgway, assistant sperm
tendent of insurance, will Officiate as
judge of the baby show at the Frank
lin county fair.
D. NJ. Duggin's trotter Lady Ethel.
won the three minute trot at Washing
ton Court House, Ohio. The best heat
was made in 2:24A.
The grocers and merchants IN general
say that it will not be over three weeks
until the use of premium stamps will
be a thing of the past.
The Hutchinson News, whose editor
ought to know, says: There is more
natural gas in Copeland county than
any place else in Kansas"
G. c. Clemens goes up to Logan to-
day to speak at a harvest home cele-
bration there, which will be partici-
pated in by five counties.
Some of the colored men who drive
swell turnouts for Topeka families are
so proud. they look as if they imagined
they owned the whole outfit.
Elmo WhitmOre. stenographer to
General Superintendent Nudge of the
Santa Fe, left Wednesday for New
Mexico to meet Mr.. Nudge.
It is said that there are a thousand
tons of railroad rails piled up at Rich
land. They We're taken up from the
old Lawrence & Carbonate road.
The August meeting of the Woman's
Missionary society of the First Presby-