The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-05
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

True to presidents. it rained the
Fourth.
| Eugene. .Hagan was in Kansas City on
The persons who kept on shooting today
should be jailed.
State Auditor George Cole spent the
Walnut trees are said to be well stock
ed with nuts this year.
JAY FarnSwOrth has gone to work on
the Kansas City World.
Frank Grimes was seen in Kansas City
yesterday at a ball game.
Three blocks of the new pavement on
HuntOOn street are completed.
The COultis farm is again opened to
its friends for the summer
This months Munsey contains an ex-
One hardware store sold $1,000 blank
cartridges to be used on the Fourth.
The Wakarusa was the Mecca of a num-
Der of Topeka Fourth of July picnic par
ties
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Crockett came over
from Leavenworth yesterday to visit
w. G. Brooks spoke at Barker's church
in North Topeka Tuesday on Advice to
Parents"
There are hundreds of bad colds in To-
peka today owning to the wettng people
got at the park.
at Valley Falls.
The wheelmen are talking up a big race
meet to take place next month on the
Garfield park track.
J. w Curtis Of Paris, III, is visiting his
brother, 1. S. Curtis. He made the trip
to Topeka on a bicycle.
. The, picnic parties which. went out on
tell about the rain storm
The religious meeting at the city park
was not disturbed by, rain or noise and
kept on all day Tuesday
Along with many other improyements;
several rooms with baths
This is the day that people 'recuperate''
and return thanks that the Fourth of July
comes only once a year.
Just because all the stores were closed
Tuesday lots of people remembered things
that they wanted to buy in hurry.
The man with his mustache dyed black
in evidence at Garfield park yesterday
J. H. Atwood. governor of Kansas
by the grace of fusion next year. so some
of his friends say, was in town Tuesday.
A new council of the Knights and La
dies of Security Will be instituted in To-
bers.
Crook Wright is now the trusty around
the county Jail. He is serving out a fine
of 800 and a thirty-day Jail sentence for
selling liquor.
The bicycle races at the park Tuesday
were slow compared with the time some
of the wheelmen made to get on this side
of the river before the rain.
The Knights and Ladies of Cecurity have
had 500 applications for membership in
the order in 1899, which exceeds the Whole
number of applications in 1898.
All trains had extra coaches attached to
them Tuesday, and were oVercrowded
then. People always have a mania to
go somewhere on the Fourth
Quite a delegation of Topeka people
have taken advantage of the special rates
to the Christian Endeavor convention at
Detroit and have gone east within the
past two days
Speaking of hazardous risks, the man
who tries to carry a big watermelon home
on a bicycle comes as near being an adj
Venturer man can be in Kansas at
this season of the year.
On the Fourth of July country people
think they have to come to the city to
have a good time, while city people go
to the country when they can. It is
anything for a change
There were $50 people in the crowd that
went out to Osawkie, Jefferson county,
Tuesday, to the picnic given by the Cot
tage Praying band of the First Methodist
church. They filled six coaches on the
Santa Fe.
If a boy won't work for money just be-
fore the Fourth of July there is no hope
for him. He will never amount to any
thing if his ambition for spending money