The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-03
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

The city court has a telephone at last.
1t is just five weeks from today until
election.
Bowling promises to be popular sport
this winter.
The river is about as low just now as
1t ever gets
Coal houses are being rep1enished for
the winter just now.
The High school club of the 7. NJ c..
A. has been formed.
The paying on West Tenth avenue IS
completed to Fillmore.
Oyster signs are now given prominence
in all the Restaurants
Those horse blanket skirts and being
tabooed by many women
Browne Bros. have opened a new meat
market at seq w. 18th street
Kansas City has an offer of asphalt
pavement at $1.65 per square yard.
What has become of the annual Kansas
division race meet of the L. A. w?
State Treasurer Grimes has gone to San
Francisco to meet the Twentieth Kansas
Buckwheat cakes have become popular
once more with the advent of the oyster.
These chilly nights and warm days are
responsible for a great many colds Just
at present.
The tents which served during the re-
union have been dismantled and shipped
out of town.
Fingers covered with walnut stain have
become quite fashionable among boys OF
a certain age.
The. DR.. Lowry who has gone to Kan
sas City to attend lectures is not DR..
Charles Lowry.
W. V. Church. suPeriptendent Of in
Surance, has gone to Michigan for a two
The excursionfsts who went east at the
time of the Philadelphia encampment are
still drifting home.
The Washburn college athletic field will
be equal to the old Athletic park when a
grand stand is built.
The curbing for the pavement between
Topeka avenue and Harrison on Tenth
is being dressed.
7. The latest possible date on which it
can fall is November 8.
The reception for the Twentieth Kansas
the state house grounds.
Judge w. c. Hook Of the federal court
went to Leavenworth yesterday afternoon
returning to Topeka today.
Quite number of football enthusiasts
will go to Lawrence Saturday to see the
Washburn- University game.
Frank Sheldon of Kansas City is visit
ing his parents and friends in this city,
accompanied by Don Mosier.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
speaks a. Girard today, tomorrow at Fort
Scott; Saturday at Hiawatha-
With the approach of cold weather the
lay of the turkey is becoming monrnful.
Thanksgiving day is coming.
Judge Hazen has granted Tfllie NJ.
MayeT a divorce from Charles A Mayer
and has awarded her 81 900 aIimony.
Politics is rather quiet this year. People
have too many other things to think
about to quarrel about county offices.
The. changeable weather lately is re-
SDOnsible for a number of cases of colds,
which have developed into pneumonia
Extremes. year ago the style was
for skirts TO sweep the streets ana now
they win not touch the top of clover
field.
Horse buyers are now looking, to To-
peka for fine horses. Several fashionable
teams have been sold lately by Topeka
dealers.
Unless more men are put to work and
the supply of brick is increased the Tenth
avenue pavement will not be completed
this fall
Coal men are worrying because the
price of coal is going up. They do not
mind charging more but some of them
have contracts to fill.
A motion to quash the verdict. convict
ing Bob Pigg of selling liquor has been
filed in the district court by his attorneys
Hungate & Thompson.
The petition in bankruptcy of s. B.
Riggs of Clyde in the United States dis
trict court. has been referred to Referee
Slonecker by Judge Hook.
The street car company has offered 500
reward for the arrest and conviction of
from the poles in Oakland.
The coal famine is already upon Topeka
coal men Only one third or one half the
amount Of coal ordered by patrons is de-
Evered owing to the scarcity.
A Topeka woman recently received q