The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Ed Mcbride will spend the Fourth in
Iowa
George Bible of the Rock Island is vis- |
iting in Chicago
8 Gh2rles !f Il bOT5YY EgYifo1ns Left today for
Topeka post G. A. R. and the w R. C. !
vii picnic at Garfield park tomorrow
Ed Flul1e of Payne's shoe. store. has gone |
to Kansas City for a months vacation
CIrOcerS say that more homemade butter [
IS used now than ever known before IN |
Topeka.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Beard have gone east |
Mrs Beard to Terre Haute, Mr. Beard 10
The dust on lower Quincy and Crane |
streets the past few days has been almost
unbearable.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Meade will give A lawn
picnic tomorrOw- J. B. McAfee will de-
liver address.
park at the corner Of H1ntoon and To- |
peka avenue needs repairing.
The foliage in the flower beds around |
the Topeka club house always looks well. /
Plenty of water and care does it.
The travelling men are going to build
home somewhere in Kansas or Missouri
for injured or retired travelling men.
Dean Sykes will read the Declaration of
J. NJ. 0Ieade's home Tuesday night.
Mrs. 5. A. Garvin has brought suit for
vim, on the ground of habituaI drunken
ness.
Frank Thomas. coIored. has been bound
of shooting with intent to kill VIII An
dersOn.
The Ohio settlers association Of Frank
lin county will picnic in August and Gov
ernor Stanley is to be the principal
A B. Howard's class in the Congresa-
tfOnal Sunday school has returned from
Lake
Major Boyd's cadets are to attend the
| tomorrow Bellevilie is Major Boyd's
! President Brigham of the Commercial
| club has appointed Geo W Crane to rep
! resent the club at the Chicago antitrust
congress.
Marshalrs band, assisted by the Modocs.
EdIs5 E size contiguous T5R Bg5f9FminGe 3 10
| o'clock in the morning.
There will be basket dinner and al
| day meeting At the city park t4oeTnacie
| conducting the meetings.
! The first of the month, Saturday, Sun
| day and Fourth Of July, coming 50 close
son for the bookkeepers.
According to the boys some men are
| too mean to live. They put sharp nails,
/ keep the boys from riding.
! State Printer Morgan left today for
/ Strong City and Hutech3lnson. He He speaks
| to Topeka about Thursday.
Miss Madge Evans, an eemploye at the
/ to her home at Mankato A Job in a
/ state institution is not what it is cracked
/ Topeka extends its sympathies to Den
| YER which IS stiH struggling with the
| The sites offered range in price from S27,-
| 600 to $165OOO.
| Ed NIcKeever has been down in Mis-
| souri, looking at his land down there,
| which it is said there is lead. He says
/ the lead is there all right, but how much
| he does not know. Investigations will be
! r A WilIde. superintendent of the
/ boxes in the Topeka pOstoffice, has pre-
pared bicycle ordinance which he will
| wheelmen under certain conditions to ride
on the sidewalks.
| AS visions of broken and burned fingers
damaged eyes and anticipationS OF a ter
| of a Topeka man today, he said; Il hope
| it will rain an day tomorrow and far into
/ Tuesday night"
! Arkansas City Traveller: Colonel A; ).
/ Johnson Of Topeka was the first white
! event occurred at Shawnee Mission. John
! son county, in 1882. He has resided in
| ftEThfs is the kind Of an item that makes
/ Colonel Johnson very weary.
! The young man who told a boy that the
| new gas reservoir at First and Monroe
| streets was a big cheese might be eX-
! fellow who told an nnsl1sDecfi1e country
| boy that it was a big balloon and caused
! to go up is beyond being forgiven.
Miss Lizzie Wooster, author of the
Nashville. Tenn. but is now convaiescing
/ She went down there a month ego to at
4 i'll before she could get home again. She
! will be brought back to Topeka as soon
| as she is strong enough to stand the trip.
! Harry Bone is able TO be at his desk
| in the federal building once more, after a
| TWO weeks struggle WITH IldidElal l6NeT
| After he had been sick for five days he
/ thought he had overcome the disease and
| came down to his office to go to work,
/ but after he had been there only fifteen
! minutes he found out he was not
so strong as ne thought, and he had to
| go back to bed and stay there another
| week
| ed a suspicious looking man who was
/ slowly picking his way across the ties of
] being brought to the station and question
ed as to where he was going and why he
/ did not use the Kansas avenue bridge,
/ he said that he was his way to the
| Injunction factory in North Topeka and
! that the Kansas avenue bridge was too
} modern and up-tO-date. He was released
/ as he was known to be harmless.
! Yesterday was an important day in the
! history Of the First Presbyterian church.
( The services were marked by a number
/ of impressive features Mr.. Nelson H.
! LOOMS was ordained acting elder. The
! duties. functions and responsibilities of
/ the office were clearly set forth, and Rev.
] Mr.. Baird and Rev. Mr.. Lawrence assist
/ ed the pastor in laying on of hands.
( Thirty-seven new members were publicly
eg1ra-,rr nod 4 7l af ion