The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-24
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
JF. Myers is in Galena on business.
The schools close Friday for the season.
| Monday.
The Republican primaries will be held
Saturday.
| Strawberries are about ready to pick in
southern Kansas.
The Republican Flambeau club will
meet this evening.
Work has been commenced on the grad
| ing of Huntoon street.
Chef Crawford, son of L. NJ. Crawford,
has returned to Topeka.
The Arion society will picnic at Vine
wood park next Sunday.
A good crowd attended sLs1 the entertain
/ ment at Garfield park last night.
| The Topeka tennis courts are in better
shape this year than ever before.
Commissioner of Elections L, T. Yount
| has gone to Salina to visit relatives.
Superintendent Parker of the middle di-
! vision of the Santa Fe is in Topeka.
Last night was an ideal summer even
| far
| A party of Topeka Elks will go to Nc
PherSon May q to institute new lodge
! The casket used for the burial of G. G.
! Gage is said to be the finest ever used in
Dick Alden will umpire the state house
| and newspaper baseball game Saturday
| While the drift was being cleared from
the street railway bridge the cars crossed
| The high school commencement exer-
| cises viii be held Friday night in the high
school auditorium
J The city railway uses windlass to pun
| loose the driftwood that packs around the
| piers of the bridge.
! Music tomorrow evening at the mid
summer millinery opening. Lacey Il Pot
ter 1O4 East Sixth street.
Rev. John A. Bright will deliver the ad-
dress to the graduating class OF the Colby
! high school Friday evening.
James A. Troutman has, returned from
! Cincinnati where he attended the conVen-
| ton of Charities and Corrections.
There will be a. cottage t;t;ag prayer meeting Ing
c. Garlock, the evangelist, will attend.
E. D. McKeever has returned from New
York where he has been been taking akin deposi-
The fleet of roWboats in Garfield park
has been tied to the tree tops to keep the
Topeka orators are now busy with Mem
| orial day addresses AS usual, Topeka will
| be represented in all parts of the state.
Manager L. NJ. Crawford of the Craw
| ford theater here will have charge of the
| principal park in Lincoln, Neb., this sum-
mer.
The state house century plants have
! been removed from the hideous tobacco
| buckets in which they were exhibited last
year
Capt. James MCQUEEN Forsyth, the new
sembles Ex-Governor Leedy in appear
ance.
date for the nomination of coroner on the
Republican ticket, is a son of DR.. George
There will be a direct legislation meet
! ing at the Copeland parlors Thursday
evening to discuss organization to secure
direct legislation.
Special police will be on duty at every
evening performance at Garfield park.
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! There is a physician in Topeka who lives
! in constant fear of growing fat, and be
| but bread and milk.
! Oscar Sisson, who Joined the Oliver Col
| by Vaudeville company in this city Iu6S-
| day was seen here several years ago with
| Joe Cawthorne in 1.-The Little Nugget
The name OTIS Bounce, may in IN aH LIE
| his own way, but it is in reality one of
| the Sim Drug Co.'S popular soda foun-
Rev. NJ. c. Long, who is attending the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
| that the assembly may be brought to To-
/ peka next year.
The police stin receive many complaints
! about bicyclistS riding on sidewalks. 1t
would be well for the ordinance violating
| cycIst to keep his eye open, for the police
| Mr.. w. ]. Healy, chief clerk in the Of
| fee of the auditor of freight receipts of
the Santa Fe. is making a collection of
| to fill a good sized scrapbook.
The sign on Kansas avenue mail boxes
1870 to $50 each day. This fools many
people who put letters in the boxes at
| few moments before O'Clock.
Six, companies of the Sixteenth infantry;
on their way to the Philippines D passed ;ei
are from FIT Leavenworth and went
through the Santa Fe:;. The other four
J and went through on the Rock Island
/ The members of Lincoln post, G. A. R.,
/ among the members of the post this year
| Last year there were but eleven deaths
until this time thirteen deaths have oc-
CURED, that OF G. G. Gage being the most