The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-06
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

court.
Con Van Malta of the salina Journal is
A mock trial was held at the R. R. Y.
N. c. A last night.
General Manager J. J. Frey of the Santa
Fe left yesterday for Kansas City.
There will be a rehearsal of Romeo and
Juliet at the Elks rooms tonight.
The Gospel Mission at 603 East Fourth
street is open for services every night.
Now that Lent is past, social festvi-
ties have again begun with renewed vigor.
trees are inclined to be ''skeery'' about it.
]. B. Belts. the new councilman from
since 1873.
Lawns continue to grow green Just as
though they supposed spring might come
Now let Petwtn and .'I-he Strip. become
progress moving.
A horse stuck in the mud at Polk and
Seventh streets last night, and still some
people oppose paving.
The county commissioners have ordered
a road opened between the fair grounds
and the Douthitt tract.
Bucket shops are still doing business
in some parts of the state, notwithstand-
ing the anti-bucket shop law.
The base ball season opens Saturday.
Bets are being made that the teams will
have to play in a snow storm.
The Sim Drug Co. have placed in their
NJ. Depew and Lucke Rolled cigars.
The city c our will II meet STday plight
This meeting is provided for by law
Those who have tried to have Mayor
have nicknamed him "The sphynS.'' ''o-'
Mud has almost become the ruling power
any street block from the pavements.
Congressman Curtis maternal grand
father was a Frenchman and his grand
mother on the same side was half-blood
Indian.
A Topeka man wants to know whether
the prevailing color some of the new
hats should be called reddish pink or
pinkinSh red.
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passable a week ago, but now they are
worse than ever.
NJ. w. Pratt, the reformed drunkard and
gambler, lectured last night at the Third
Presbyterian church on From the Gut
About the only bets that were made in
the recent election We're on the propositl3299
have the most votes.
1t will only. be a few weeks until people
are are cG Pad Of the heat and W5sfng
we have been enjoying"
People n9 csw prophesy that the number
according to the officiai count.
faith in be Ia Re0P pr saxe s5 nd re
beginning to think that the sun does not
mean to come north any more.
Miss Rena Roshin and Charles Robin
son. members of the Topeka corps of the
City yesterday in 'halleiujah' style.
Willis stephens, colored, was arrested
XesteTdda DAY. by sSrgeabnf Donovan fer steal a
He was turned over to the county COM
mssioners.
ever about getting in their crops. They
didn't get their oats sown, very few pota-
ing for corn.
People. with no influence whatever are
Tuesday, While the people whose influence
and work, did count for something are
Before people patronize another ''Uncle
Toms Cabin show they want to be as
hounds With hit it. They INSIST on Seeing
Eliza cross the ice.
The Kansas avenue pavement ought to be
washed and every other pavement in the
session Of the Waferworks V we eit Gould wash
the streets every night
The members of the police force are
wv 1b fnEc no her ISdg 6 tney VII De
Our police department should be composed
of as expert men as the fire department.
A Topeka man estimates that. at least Is
about Virginia Fairs wedding gown and
fore they would let anybody else see the
paper.
Phil Creager. telegraph editor of the
judgment of $525 in the district court
against the Topeka Capital company company, for for
the Capital.
A Topeka man who was perfectlyhealthy
him recently. After going through a lot
of ineantiati.o;ns the doctor announced
was suffering from bunions and brain
fever.
One Topeka woman either forgot how to
vote when she got in the booth Tuesday
or else did not know for whom she want
ed to Vote-the judges. found one ballot
without a mark of any kind on it. There
We're a great many ballots with only one
candidate marked.
Judge McCabe of the city court yester-
day decided the first criminal case that
has come before his court. Albert Brown
was bound over on a bond of $500 to stand
trial in the, district court on the charge of
assault with intent to kill. Brown struck
at his landlady in Smoky Row with a re-
Volver during fight.
There are two classes of people who are
saying that the wheat has all been killed
by the cold weather-people who never
raised a spear of wheat in their lives, and
those who have a large quantity of old
wheat on hand to sell. 1t seems to be a
coincidence that when farmers have lot
of wheat on hand in the spring the report
always starts in the spring that the new
crop has been winter killed.