The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

/ typhoid nalarial fever.
Mr.. J. E. Roudebush has gone to No
| blesville, Ind, on a visit.
Bananas are being unIoaded by the
! car in Topeka nowadays
Bicycles that sold a, year go for 800
| are now on the market at $50
The Topeka players are practicing
| steadily for the tennis tournament.
Mr.. G. S. Gordon will leave in a few
! days for Colorado on a business trip.
Virden Link, a colored boy, was ar
| rested Thursday afternoon for stealing.
Mr.. Otis Allen has returned after
| trip through Colorado and New Mexico.
Every man thinks there is a. cool spot
! in every other mans Office but his own.
| Governor Stanley has invitations to
| make 100 speeches in the next sixty
| days.
Deputy Sheriff viii Stewart has been
| quite i'll, but is able to be around again
! now
The Primary union is holding a meet
! ing at the Y. w. c. A. rooms this after
/ noon.
The Topeka City railway has now 125
| employees, the greatest number in Its
| history
Despite the hot weather the travel on
! the railroads continues without inter
| ruption.
County Surveyor Rogers has return
| ed from a. trip down through the Indian
! Territory.
Dr. II. G. Miner will occupy offices in
| the new Arnold building on North kan
sas avenue
The north and east steps Of the state
house are favorite loafng places on hot
| afternoons.
Major H. N. Boyd, assistant adjutant
general under the last administration,
| is in the city.
A large number Of pigeons have their
| state house.
A number of new and popular rag
| time two-step have appeared In the
music stores.
A complaint of insanity has been filed
against Miss Media Weinberger, Of
| North Topeka.
Seats for spectators will be provided
| by the tennis association for the tourn-
/ a-nent next week.
The home grown watermelon is on
| the market and it is superior to the
| imported product
The grading of Tenth avenue for the
| first block of pavement $S going ahead
| in earnest today.
J The Topeka Paper company will es-
tablish a. branch at Emporia. in charge
| of George Cope.
There has not been a suit fled in the
/ court Of appeals for a month. The last
one was on July g.
| Mr.. D. c. NeIlis of the Kansas Farmer
has returned after a five weeks stay
| IL New York state
MarshalTs band will give a concert in
| Atchison next Sunday
| Now that Kansas has a fine crop as
| sured, the people Of the east are wor-
/ rying about grasshoppers.
MarshaIPs band will give a concert in
Atchison on Sunday. A special excur-
sion will be run from Topeka
The people on Tenth avenue will get
ten feet additional parking when the
! new pavement is completed.
Dransfield & Dick. grocers, and I. w.
McGiIl, are new applicants for member
ship in the Commercial club.
Colonel G. J. Bell of the Santa Fe
treasury department has returned after
| a visit at his old home in Ohio.
The court house is one Of the coolest
| buildings in Topeka. 1t is always pleas
ant, especially in the lower halls.
The roads adjacent to Topeka need
| improving The supervisors seem to
| have forgotten their official duties.
It is estimated that 500 people are
| served with mail facilities through sta
ton c, the new POtwin pOstofice.
It is the time of year when people
| should NOW the weeds their resi-
| dence property and along the street.
Governor Stanley has received for
NAL invitation to attend the national
G. A. r. encampment at Philadelphia.
Mr.. James L. King will probably con-
| tinue the management of the Grand
/ Opera House during the coming season
Rev. G. A. Engstrand, pastor of the
| Swedish Lutheran church, will return to
/ Topeka after a vacation trip, in a few
! days.
| Some Of the smaller holes in the pave
| ment on Kansas avenue south Of
Eighth street, are being repaired to-
day.
F. ]. Fritch, assistant clerk on the SUI
| preme court, is taking a, short vacation
and is spending it at Independence, his
home.
There was a good attendance at the
rand concert Thursday night. The
programme was one Of the best of the
| season.
The state house corridors are the
| coolest places in Topeka and lots Of
/ people spend the greater part of the
day therein.
! The Topeka wheeImen are making ex-
| tensive plans for the state race meet
| which will be held here the latter part
of this month.
Governor Stanley has been invited to
| participate in the ceremonies of the
| corner stone laying Of the new federal
| building at Chicago.
Mr.. D. w. Little, assistant state SUI
| periEtendent of instruction, gave a, pic
| mic for his Sunday school class at Vine
| wood park Tuesday.
Mr.. W. B. Album. special deputy for
| the southwest for the Improved Order
| of Red Men, will deliver an address at
| K. of P. hall tonight.
The new Arnold block in North To-
| peka is nearing completion. 1t has been
! leased for a term of five years for a
| new department store.
Jailer Carl Lawson is serving papers
| and doing other outside work connected
| with the sheriff's office during the ill
| ness of Deputy Stewart
Boston has 100000 population and has
! spent SIS 900, 900 on public parks At the
| same ratio Topeka ought to have 81
| OS0 900 invested in parks.
| Governor Stanley IS being complI-
mented for his wisdom in the appoint
| ment Of a non-partisan committee to
1 receive the Twentieth Kansas.