The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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Mr.. T. T. scudder is now located in
Chicago
The time is getting short in which
to register.
Topeka now has a chewing gum
mandatory.
1t is said that old cheese makes the
best fish bait
Is your name written thereon the
registration books?
Several Topeka men are talking of
buying automobiles
The Crosby annex on Jackson street
is up to the first story.
Topeka is very generously supplied
with ice cream wagons.
Labor day viii be celebrated at Gar
field Park, September 4.
The county commissioners VIII re-
sumo business tomorrow.
Chief Ramsey has found his badge.
He found it in his pocket
Capt J. E. Towers is in the optical
business in san Francisco.
Prof c. D. Hudson has leased Har-
mOny hall and will enlarge it.
The theatrical season in Topeka
opens one week from today.
The city now pays $40 per month
rent for the old city building.
Charles Joslin has taken a position
with drug firm in Atchison.
New windows are being cut in the
I
The school children are beginning to
plan for the opening of school
General Manager Frey of the Santa
F'e has returned from the west
The T. E Bowman Memorial Train
ing school win open October 2
Mrs. s. A. Thurston has been grant
ed commission as notary public.
A few holes in the pavement on East
Eighth street have been repaired.
Governor Stanley starts out on an
other speaking tour this evening
Two men are kept busy at Garfield
park keeping buggies off the grass
The job of carrying the mails to the
three sub-stations pays 81. O06 a year
Mrs. John McManus and little daugh-
ter are recovering from a serious i'll
ness.
Clyde. Kan. will have a watermelon
feast Topeka people have them every
day.
The CouItis farm is more popular
this year than ever as a country re-
sort.
The kissing bug seems to have run
his race Little is heard OF him any
more.
DR.. W. n. West expects to leave this
week for the northern lakes to join his
family.
The lodge season Of elections is about
due The winters work" will soon
be started.
The cruiser Topeka now ocucpies a
place in the south basement of the
state house.
Tom whitmer left yesterday for a
short vacation in Chicago and other
eastern points.
OFFICER Goff. who was injured while
stopping a runaway, is still unable to
do patrol duty.
The Santa Fe company grants each
weeks each year.
George Clark. secretary of state. viii
move his family from Junction City to
Topeka this week
Ed. Mcbride. George Stoker and Web
Wilder will play in the Kansas City
tennis tournament.
The AIodocs are practicing several
new songs for their trip to Philadel-
phia in September.
n. H Wilson has brought a suit in
the district court against A V. Matney
on a note for S419.SO
A Topeka man wants to know why
barber shops always seem to succeed
best in a basement
The sign of the Knights and Ladies
of Security now ornaments the front Of
the old city building.
Charles NetteIs has returned from
Iowa, where he attended at family re-
union at his old home.
If you want to make Topeka a better
place to live in. register and then vote
for the new city hall.
J. F. Daniels is expected home the
middle of this week to spend a few
days with his family.
The cannas in the state house yard
hOwerbeds this year are not so large
as those of last year.
Hal Hazlett, who is now a sergeant
in one of the new volunteer regiments,
spent Sunday in Topeka
A meeting viii be held tonight at
Fourth and Jackson streets in the in
terests Of rescue home
Mr.. Richard Thomas, of the Daily
Capital. left Saturday for Mackinac Is
land to spend a vacation.
There is a line in the registration
books that is meant for your name. See
how quick you can ill it.
DR.. H. c. Miner will move his office
into the new Arnold building on North
Kansas avenue this week
If rescue home is started in To-
peka, it will be called Willard hall, in
honor of Frances Willard.
The cartoon banners on the sides of
the -four train were made by a young
man not quite 20 years old.
Some of the merchants are talking Of
establishing a cooperative trading
stamp concern of their own.
c. II. Sessions. Topeka correspondent
for the Kansas City Journal, has gone
to Chicago for a few days.
The Topeka men who have agreed to
join the proposed golf club are now
busy reading up on the game.
Charles K. Miller, who is with the
Dawes commission. is spending a va
cation at his home in this city.
Large posters have been received in
Topeka announcing the watermelon
carnival at Clyde on August 81.
Miss Libbie CIary, OF 400 Van Buren,
street, leaves this evening for a weeks
visit with relatives at Wamego
a Topeka drug firm has arranged to
rent cameras by the day, and is find
ing the scheme a financial success.
A mothers. nurses, and young lad
les course viii be added to the kin
dergarten training school tins fall
Abilene is already making plans for