The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-31
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS
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The police are commencing to talk about
winter uniforms.
A dozen men were wishing today that
they had registered.
DR.. Mcfarland of Usage City was in
Topeka Wednesday.
DR.. s. G. Stewart is visiting at his old
home in Xenia, Ohio.
The employment agencies are still ad-
vertising for harvest hands.
Howard Patten left this noon for a
three weeks trip in Colorado.
Mr.. James Hayes, the florist, left We'd
nesday afternoon for New York.
c. w. Fort, state agent for the Home
Insurance company is in the city
The height of the colored boys glory
at present j. to cut watermelon"
Tenth street pavement is no longer
amyth. Actual work has commenced.
Tom Clements of the Clements Clothing
company goes to St Louis tomorrow
Charley Gault has an arnlful OF golf
clubs now and he is looking for a caddie.
A man who knows says there are IL
different brands of beer sold in Topeka.
The East Fourth street car line to the
Santa Fe depot is now undergoing repairs.
Next Monday will be Labor Day, which
means that most people will labor as US
Governor Stanley is down in Bourbon
county today speaking at a Woodman'S
Edward Carver who lives just west of
Topeka is the father of a son, born We'd
nesday.
A marriage license has been issued to
Olof Ahlgren and Mary Nelson, both of
Topeka.
court the larger the crowd to hear the
evidence.
gone to Colorado Springs to join his wife
and family.
Mort AIbaugh. receiver of the First Nat
ional bank of EmpOria, is up from EN-
poria today.
The laying of new rails on the Twelfth
completed.
Since the joints, or some of them, have
closed bo@tlegging has sprung into exts-
Twenty people in Topeka are liable to
pronounce "Epicurean' in as many diff
ferent ways
The newspaper correspondents leave to-
day to attend the Democratic conference
at Hutchinson.
The alley paving between Jackson and
Kansas avenue and Eighth and Ninth has
been completed
Judge Hook returned to Leavenworth
Wednesday after hearing a few motions
in the federal court.
Charles. NJ. Sheldon. editor of the Mis-
souri, Valley Farmer at Kansas City spent
yesterday in Topeka
The next union meeting of the A. o. U.
W., viii be held at the hall of lodge No.
20, in North Topeka.
The semi-mOnthly travelling photograph
ers are in town taking views with the in
tentiOn of selling them.
The weeds on First avenue ought to be
cut. They are at least two feet high
along the railroad tracks.
There will not be a civil service exami-
nation for positions in the Topeka post
office for about two months.
MOQOCS meeting
of the Flambeau club and American La
Dor union tomorrow evening
George F. Sharitt, clerk of the United
Leavenworth for few days.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Eighth Kansas infantry will be held in
Topeka during reunion week
- Coppgressman RidgIey passed II, through
from a sojourn in the mountains.
This is the time of the year that the
baseball. football, thea trical and band
Lee Johnson, secretary of the state So
ciety of mines and mining, will speak at
Wichita, next Monday, Labor Day
The annual convention of the Christian
churches of Kansas Will be held in To
peka during the last week in September.
The ice famine which was fOrecasted
ably Will not while we have ice factories
Rev. NJ. S. Rice of Ottawa. was in the
city yesterday Oh his way to Americas
where he goes to visit his mother who is
.sava 1oB gees of an He saws Pins
croquet, baseball, tennis, golf, horse,
finis.''
The completion of the addition to Clay
school has been delayed because the con-
tractors have had trouble in securing ma
terial.
The cheapest bread in Topeka is three
loaVes for five cents. They are small
loaves and the offer does not hold good
always.
Mrs. VIM. Hayes, who lives y miles
southwest of town was thrown from her
buggy Wednesday and her thigh was
A Topeka woman bought a dozen chick
ems to have killed but they looked SO nice
she kept them alive and now has plenty
of eggs.
The Democratic state central committee
has passed resolutions requesting the
Democratic convention to be held in Kan
sas City
The Topeka contingent of state univer-
Sity students is making preparations to go
to Lawrence. The university opens next
Wednesday.
a young Topeka author, has collection
of printed notices used by publishers to
state that the enclosed manuscript is
not available
Work the towers of the German
Catholic church has commenced. When
completed the ediice will be one of the
finest in the city.
A Topeka man went to the depot to
meet some friends coming on train due
at II o'clock last night The train came
at in the morning.
Mr.. Shimbei Kunisawa, the Japanese en-
gfneer, went to Kansas City today. but
Fe shops in this city.
Rev. G. J. Jaiser, pastor of the German
attend the annual conference Of his de-
nomination at Enterprise.
Captain John Seaton of Atchison has
been spending nearly all of his time in
Topeka this summer while he has been
busy at the reform school.
Charles Phillips and Roy Smith of the
Rock Island offices will go cunning for
bear and elk in southwestern Colorado
The fire department was called to
Longs restaurant Wednesday where a
small blaze was started by a gasoline
stove leaking. The damage was trialng.
About the first thing that people think
of buying after they are married is
piano. even though they have to go with
out the necessaries of life to pay for it.
The Democratic Flambeau club has at
tended every National Democratic con-
vention since 1884 and is making prepare
uons to attend the convention next year.
When the prize fighters returned from
Oakland and met Sheriff Cook going out
just too late to stop the fight last night
they gave three cheers for the next
sheriff
Engineer Andy Smith of the Santa Fe
and wife have returned from trip to
kinsley. They were there to attend the
funeral of their brother-in-law, N. F.
Carlson.
If Major Anderson ACCOMPANIES the