The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Charles K Holiday has returned from
Florence, Col.
There win be a meeting Of the school
Several Topeka people are anxiously
watching for kissing bugs
Ben Jordan,s joint in North Topeka was
pulled Saturday by the police
Secretary Of State Clark spent Sunday
at mis- home in Junction City
Swimming parties are becoming more
frequent than ever in Cages lake
The Y. NJ c. A. summer Bible school
at Wakarusa begins next Saturday
Harry Dean was arrested by the police
Saturday for stealing $50 bread tickets.
The wet weather of the last few days
has seriously interfered with camping par
The rural delivery carriers have had
muddy time of it during the past few
the members Of Shiloh Baptist church.
eolored, have raised 5000 toward new
Bin distributors continue TO litter up
yards and streets with dodgers that no
body reads
f r. Bacon IS hong. from a pleasure
trip TO Indianapolis. St Louis, Chicago
Water melons are getting cheaper every
day They will be cents apiece by
Emancipation day.
The miIkmen are complaining. OF too
much rain. It is not the water they OBJ
ject to, but the mud
The bicycle runs which had been planned
for sunday had to be postponed on ac-
count Of the rain and mud
The Sunday school of the Third Presby-
school grounds on Wednesday,
IL There is an elevator boy in Topeka who
ever ne gets tired of running it.
A new sidewalk is being laid on the
north side Of sixth avenue between Har-
rison street and Topeka avenue.
c. @. Coutant who used to be editor Of
the North Topeka Mail, is now editor of
the Lander Clipper. in Wyoming
The fishermen have III, Fepor55ed good go0d luck
hsh bite well during wet weather.
The, county treasurer's office is the bust
est place around the court house at pres
ent. The June taxes are coming in.
The Topeka Woodmen of the World are
preparing TO attend the big log rolling
of the order at Fort Scott on August !.
Roland w. Nedlicott of the Merchants
National bank is quite i'll Fred Free
man is also off duty on account of sick
The rains during the past few days have
seriously interfered with haying through
out the country, especially with alfalfa
People who are in a hurry always won
der now 50 many olner people nave time
walks
The blackberry crop, is hanging on this
year. They came before the raspberries
and are lasting long after the raspberrie5
are gone
The walls Of the CommerciaaII, club room
resemble a picture gallery The pictures
all have hne frames and are arttsticaIIy
arranged
The combination Of flowers and foliage
around the court house presents pretty
appearance. but the grass on the lawn
needs cutting
Driftwood is going down the river again.
i IS mystery where all the drift WOOD 9.1
comes from and why the supply doesnE
give out sometime.
Every newsboy in Topeka is hoping for
good weather tomorrgT so that the picnic
be interfered with
The Shawnee county contingent Of the
almost innumerable Annecke JAMS heirs
viii meet tomorrow evening at the Adams
house in North Topeka.
a single firm has $500 bushels of shell
ed corn stored al RossTlle. It's future
value will depend on the. weather during
the next four or six weeks
More Topeka men are taking their meals
at lunch counters now than haze done 50
their wives on summer trips
Summer fiction is being displayed by the
am kind IF dep, reafiin- Mi he con- 5il
sidered hard work by most people.
The mud has stopped the grading for
some of the new paving. but the work Of
getting the curling ready IS kept up The
mud doesn't interfere with the stone
cutters.
It is 50 muddy that it made four horses
work hard to pull a pillow down hill in
grading for the Seventh street pavement
between Harrison and Van Buren, streets
today.
No one thing has caused so many long
time as Rev Charles NJ Sheldon's 81 000, 600
newspaper proposition to the Christian
EndeavOrers.
Deputy United States Marshal Pres
colt. who has just returned from a trip
to the southwestern part Of the state
Seventh district
Charles Samson has been appointed to
take the place of D J. Greenwald on the
country circus committee Of the Com
mercial club. Mr.. Greenwald found it
impossible to serve
The grading for the Seventh street paw
ing between Harrison street and Topeka
avenue has been completed and the grad
ers began work today on that between
Van Buren, and Harrison
People who got. mad at Kansas last week
on account of the hot weather and left
for Colorado went away just in time to
miss the summer resort weather that the
weather bureau has given US for the past
two days.
boys win take an outing to LAWRENCE next
Tuesday at the expense OF j. f. Nissley
Nissley is noted as one Of the most char
table Of TOpekais citizens.
The ChautauQua assembly at Ottawa be-
gan gan to1ay, MORE wore 1 ope>a Z, PeoPle nave nave
a good-sized delegation. Why cannot To
peka support such an assembly
nue. Just south Of the federal building that
are very classical birds. They talk Greek
Homer and Plato. Ana they do not look
like extraordinary birds either
A poultry fancier of Kansas City has
sent word that ne proposes 70 enter 100
birds in the state poultry show. here next
association, says the show viii be the
largest and best ever held in the state.
a Topeka man who attended one Of the
so-called vaudeville shows at Kansas
City park on Sunday says that the play
ing OF ankee Doo14e " the orchestra
was feebly applauded put me strains were
struck up Dixie"
It Is said that more new bicycles are be-
ing purchased this season than for sew
sral years previous Wheels have got
down TO the ps9in5 - nov wns zt II aon take
one. but they might be cheaper and not
Inconvenience the public
The report of the administrators of the