The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-07
LOCAL MENTION.

The latest, name for picnic is to call it
a ttchigger hunt"
Topeka is said to have 10 news publica-
tions. They do not all contain news
Floyd Baker has returned to Pueblo
after a visit with his family in this city.
Rev. F. A. Powell of Oregon spoke at
the Y. NJ. c. A rooms Sunday afternoon.
Nearly all of the country, school
districts have employed their teachers for
The Topeka pension agency has one pen
sioner on it's rolls who lives in the Ha-
Fred and Frank .Eberhardt. the crack
tennis players of Salina, will enter the
state tournament again this year.
A Topeka man offers a prize for a let
ter from one woman to another that does
not tell how some dress is made.
Rev. p. ?; Bliss. president Of the Ma
an address in Topeka on August 10.
The Shawnee County horticultural So
Lake.
writing home says that. the FInpinos think
America
A Topeka young man claims to be
good substitute for kissing bug and he
is looking for an opportunity to prove his
Miss Lucia Wyatt who is now soprano
soloist of the Catholic cathedral in Leav-
enworth, sang at Grace cathedral in this
city Sunday.
Rev. o. L. Cook, state superintendent
OF missions for the Christian church, who
has his headquarters in Topeka, preached
yesterday at Erie.
There are three kinds of melons OH the
Rocky Ford Most peopie cannot tell
one kind from another.
Thermometers differ as much in their
estimate Of the weather as people do.
Some of them you are willing to believe.
and some you are not.
The Topeka Masons who are going to
aad;{1end the cryptic ceremonies on top of
Of it-over 1900 feet high.
A Topeka woman wants her husband
TO rest by going out camping with her.
keeping on with his daily duties.
&, In commenting 1iI in g on the fact that Topeka
News says that in most families a broom
stick or a hat-iron would answer the pur-
pose.
At this season in most years the farm
ers are complaining because the pastures
are drying up, but it is not SO this year
c can eat r It Of flows raster 'hah the cattle
This is the college catalogue season
away to school are. making a COLLECTION
Of the catalogues Of the various colleges
they have under consideration.
Prof. W. H. Hall Of the state agricul-
tural college will address the county hor-
56bsc Of s9eety next " i1i on the
reference to the political variety.
A rural delivery route will be establish
ed over in jefferson county in a short
time, starting from Meriden. Postmaster
swallow OF that place and Judge Guthrie
have been working for it for some time
The per capiter'' has been increased
considerably in Topeka in the past few
tlement of many bills, not only by old SOL
diers, but by other people TO whom they
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is wear
ing ing a new button labeled a. T." 1t is
sprung on the state two years ago, which
button means Antitrust"
Mrs. Sandy Short and AUNT Sallie"
Raliford have been transferred from Bed
Wells asylum to the county poor farm.
We a h11z At 2 h.
asylum and that they were no longer sub
jects for an asylum anyway.
A Topeka man says "aut'' ought to be
the proper abbreviation for the automo-
bile. Then, he says, he would read items
sidewalks when they are auting in their
It is time that. people were cutting their
weeds There is a place on West Fifth
street where the weeds and grass are so
luxuriant that there is not room for two
without brushing against them.
A Topeka small boy has had a strong
denly gotten over it. 10 make the game
realistic he got a lot of his mothers old
love letters out of the bureau drawer. and
distributed them among the neighbors.
His mother and slipper cured him of
all further desire to continue the game.
It is said that the list of examination
education for the July examination last
week. gave more satisfaction than any list
time. All "catch" questions and those
which were not practical for teachers in
common schools were eliminated by the
board.
This is what VIII White says about
Topeka's proposed Family club: A fam
is anything to get out Of housework that
bothers Topeka a family club would
zen who loves his home as a Jail would be-
After all, there is really no place nor in
sftitutiOn scheme like horne-DIain old
fashioned American home-where a man
can have his steak as rare as he likes it,
and. a woman can have what She wants
for breakfast without being called a crank.