The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Prairie chickens are ripe, so the hunt
ers say.
The market will soon be flooded with
watermeIons.
Now is the time to register for the
The absent state officers are expected
home this week.
Congressman Curtis will return from
Washington tomorrow.
Robert Todd of this city is establish
ing cigar store at Alma.
Many business signs on Kansas ave
nue. are being retouched-
Emancipation day will be celebrated
at the city park Tuesday.
Smoky Row is giving way to feed,
scrap iron and notion stores.
Ewing Herbert now predicts the re-
nomination of Congressman Curtis.
The K. n. G. has been invited to at
tend the Dewey celebration in New
York.
Assistant County Attorney GaIen
house.
Rev. Magnus Larson of Rockport. Ill,
preached at the Swedish Baptist church
Sunday.
General Hughes now has six com
panies insured for the First regiment
K. n. G.
Mr.. and Mrs W. K Ward of Kansas
City, after visit here, have gone to
Colorado Springs.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Foster,
July %, a son. The family resides at
1875 Chestnut street.
when we get the new paving" say
the residents Of Tenth street I'VE will
have no more mud
Ex-senator PETER has been invited
to speak at the old soldiers reunion at
Gaylord in September.
So far no eastern capitalists have
proposed an electric road between To-
pelSa and the Trego gold fields.
J. w. Robinson and J. c. Marshall
will open a new clothing store at 7O3
Kansas avenue on September 1.
Colonel Tomhnson ''roasts'' E E.
Browne, who is getting up the Demo-
cratic conference at Hutchinson.
Paul LoveweH has returned from
Minnesota The largest fish he has re-
ported so far weighed II pounds.
H. V. Hinckley is engaged in sched-
uling the property of the Topeka Water
company and in planning extensions.
a number Of the local WoOdmen of
the World will go to Fort Scott this
week to the big lOg-rOlling down there
Comparatively few straw hats are
worn in Topeka this year. One Topeka
man says 1t Is because of the ridiculous
style.
The Rock Island will run a special
excursion to the Wathena Chautauqua
next Sunday on which day the Modocs
will sing.
The cold, damp weather of the past
three days has lessened the ardor of
those who have been anxious to 20
camping.
Mrs Belle Hollingshead, stenographer
In the office of the secretary of state
has returned from a vacation spent in
Colorado.
The ringing of bicycle bells by pass
ing wheelmen is oftentimes a serious
Interruption to the church services on
Harrison street.
wearing a straw hat, a duck suit and
macintosh, and carrying an overcoat
and an umbrella.
The local WoOdmen Of the World will
mold a reception on Wednesday evening
in honor of J. c. Root of Omaha. the
founder of their order
The officers of the Mother Bickerdyke
nome at Ellsworth held a meeting Sat
urday which was attended by Depart
ment Commander Coulter
Dr. H T. gill has returned to his
nome at Plttsburg- DR.. W. B. Swan is
In undisturbed possession of the Office
OF the state board of health
J. c. Elliott, W. 0. Anderson Pick
Smith and D A. Clements viii be mem
bers of a party to leave this week for
hunt around JacksOn's Hole.
Rev NJ. T. Harlan spoke at the First
Christian church last evening on what
ne saw at the recent Christian En-
deaVor convention at Detroit
George Bradshaw. the young man
VINO was declared insane a few DAYS ago
and who was taken to Bedweus asy-
AuIn, is said to be much better
The residents of Tenth street are
considerably puffed up over the fact
that Colorado red sandstone will be
used for the curbing of the new pave
ment.
The Boyd cadets viii go to the ma
tional G. A. r. reunion at Philadelphia.
State organizations Of the G.. A. r. are
now raising the funds to defray the ex-
pense-
The crying need OF the hour is a word
OF one syllable which win be a suitable
name for the automobile. Several To-
Peka people are studying on proposed
names.
Topeka men have abandoned the idea
OF making Sunday trips to Kansas CITY
TO see the Blues play ball. The Blues
DO not seem to belong to this class of
sportsmen.
Mrs-C. II. Sessions, who has been at
Excelsior Springs for several weeks for
the benefit Of her health is much i'm
proved She was quite i'll at Stormont
hospital for some time before going to
the springs.
The registration books for the Sixth