The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Eggs are up in price.
Topeka is nearly free of tramps.
The Kansas university opens today.
These are fairly good nights to sleep.
The leaves are already beginning to
fall.
The Bethany students win soon be
back.
There are two Smiths on the police
Good pears are selling at 50 cents a
dozen.
Kansas will soon be full of Twentieth
Kansans.
The real estate men have done well
this year.
The singing Ioeusts have been thick
this year
This has been a good building year
for Topeka
The electric fans will soon give way
to furnaces.
Not much is heard Of the o. NJ. B.
lodges lately.
Mrs. a. R. Lingafelt is i'll with re-
intent fever.
A man in town has a thimble for a
watch charm.
The mosquitoes have not been very
bad this year.
The passenger traffic on the railroads
is very heavy.
Ex-Police Detective Dick cellar is an
authority on dogs.
MarshaH's band is a drawing card
wherever they go.
The heavy wagons ought to all he
fitted with brakes.
A great many houses have been
moved this summer.
Mrs. Fannie Sutherland is very i'll
with malariaI fever.
The next meeting Of the city council
will be September Is.
The accident insurance agents are
numerous in Topeka.
These are cool mornings but the sun
soon warm things up.
Washburn expects to have a strong
football team this year.
The Topeka Trunk factory was estab-
lIshed in Topeka in 1880.
Jack King, the Topeka wrestler. is a
guard in the penitentiary.
The Gentlemen's Driving club already
has two hundred members.
The railroads are all short on cars
owing to the heavy traffic.
The bill distributor is almost as per-
sistent as the bill collector
Some of the people are already put
ting up their winter stoves.
There were two beer advertisements
in the Labor day programme.
One firm in town advertises soda wa
ter for three cents a glass.
Desirable small houses are scarce and
have been scarce all summer.
Not many white duck trousers were
worn in Topeka this summer.
A A. Hurd's new store building will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Some people are still asking the city
railway to run all night cars.
What has become of the skeleton of
the old Kansas avenue bridge?
What has become of the dog muzzling
q
Watermelons are cheap. Good large
ones can be bought for a nickel.
Dan Lane of the Santa Fe is quite
in demand as a baseball umpire.
It is about time for the indiscriminate
song composer to get in his work.
The curfew is becoming more and
more a joke to the Topeka urchin.
1t is expected that the poultry show
next year viii eclipse any yet given.
The children are getting their books
together. School begins pretty soon.
Repairs are being made on the city
track on West Eighth street
There are already several small pieces
of cement Clipped of the new bridge
Don't praise a mans singing Ten
chances to one, he won't believe you.
The postoffice is one of the most
popular places in Topeka on Sunday.
The roads are packed down well but
there are several inches of dust on top.
up preparatory to the opening of schooI
There are several dogs in every 10
cality in Topeka which bark all night
long.
Many of the signs on the street cor
ners ought to be replaced with new
ones.
Athletic park is now a pasture. The
fence is all down and the weeds are
high.
Twice as much paving ought to be
done next year as has been done this
year.
The seven O'Clock evening drill Of
the fire department attracts many spec
tators.
The older an old soldier gets, the more
anxious he becomes to attend every re-
union.
Some of the striped sweaters this