The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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Charles E. Gault is in Chicago on BUSH
ness.
Today the first floor of the city building
is deserted.
Superintendent Frank Nelson speaks at
Russell today
weather Observer Jennings has return
DR.. R. S. Magee has returned after a
stay at Eskridge.
Railroads all over the west send to To-
Representative Bradbury of Clay Cen
ter is in the city.
The side walls for the Crosby building
are nearly completed.
Frank L. Brown is enjoying a visit by
his sisters from Garnett-
Are you sure that your name is written
the registration books?
This is the time of year when the fruit
can market begins to get lively
The Walnut Grove Methodist church has
a chorus and male quartette.
Congressman Reeder of the Sixth dis
trict, was in Topeka last night
MarshalIs band will give a concert at
Garfield park Wednesday night.
The he moo99lig d will ia take large crowd
And finally the unsightiy sign on the
city building has been painted over.
The Montana silver statue is still stow
ed away in a Kansas avenue basement.
1t takes AZ BARRIERS to shave the men of
Topeka-at least there are that many in
town.
Four collar buttons for % cents is now
the ialluring sign and they are solid
gold"
Since the new ordinance passed iOintiStS
have been ordering keys by the great
Ex-Chief of Police Strauss is wearing
cheek.
]. H Lyons. western passenger agent
Of the Missouri Pacific was in town yes
There is a new profession. That of or
The jointists walked the streets Mon
day. Few had the nerve to open their
Mrs. w E. Stanley and daughter Hat
tie are enjoying an outing at Colorado
A good likeness of Colonel Wilder S.
Metcalf appears in the August number OF
Pat Coney was one of the speakers a
the Irish-American picnic ut Kansas City
Sunday.
It is reported that the street car tracks
this fail.
Topeka has IS drug stores. and it is
business.
Crane. & Co. are preparing a new edi-
ton of .IronQuill' especially for the hoi-
The majority of the horses which sum
mered at the fair grounds are now Oh the
J. d. Nelson of the Lindsborg News, has
been visiting his brother, Superintendent
There are more grocery stores in To-
peka than any other line of business
Musk melons and cantaloupes came to
town this morning in wagons with the
side boards on.
house of representatives, was down from
Salina last night.
The jewelry runners with the very lat
est for fall and Christmas trade are in
town occasionally.
Kirk Pinkston, fireman at fire station
No returned to work this morning after
a few days sickness
The Wichita Eagle demands an investi-
cation of the stories of cruelty at the To-
peka insane asylum
Elijah Hunter is holding services at 80
East Twelfth street this week and the
city park on Sundays
Chas. Styles, travelling passenger agent
of the Missouri Pacific Is in Topeka this
nOrning on business.
A Topeka man observes that politicians
called by their first names.
Herbert Robinson of Secretary Coburn's
office is recovering from a severe sickness
due to an liberated tooth.
Lfveryman. ice men and soda water
mixers are complaining about the wealth |
er. Everybody else is satisfied
Mr.. E. L. Copeland, cashier in the Santa |
F'e treasury department. leaves this week
for Illinois to be gone two weeks
Radges' city directories from the time |
they were started thirty years ago.
The ice trust has not yet advanced the |
be a record breaker in that line?
H. H. Hadley of Topeka is the architect |
of the new Masonic building at lndspen- |
dence. 1t will be four stories high.
A Topeka drayman ties a wet sponge !
between his horses ears during the hot /
weather in order to keep them cool.
Tommy Sears announces that he can |
knock out any two men in Topeka in |
eight rounds, Wade Watts excepted.
There are more parrots in the immediate |
neighborhood of the court house than in /
any other neighborhood in the city.
S. B. Herman, friend of the governor, |
is the new chairman of the Sedg wick |
county Republican central committee.
The state labor commissioner who has |