The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-24

that was popular % years ago.
Coal wagons are being repaired and
the ice wagons will have to finish the
season without being patched up.
Candidates for the position of trusty
at the police station have to know how
to black shoes or stay in the cell.
The police would arrest some of the
reckless bicycle riders if they could
catch them. Get the police bicycles.
Charles Joslin has taken a position
with B. F. Sim in his new drug store
at Ninth street and Kansas avenue.
At 1880 this morning people remarked
how fresh and cool the air and at $3.50
they were complaining about the heat.
There is a kind of corn grown in
Shawnee county called bloody butcher
because the grains are specked with
red.
The old fashioned springs to be worn
under the coat collar and keep the coat
snug around the neck are coming into
use.
A Kansas avenue merchant has two
dogs who go to his store a half hour
before he does and wait for him to
open it.
Bethany college will open September
10. This is circus day and there will
probably be a small attendance at the
college.
The most dusty place in the city is
between Gordon street and Garfield
park in North Topeka. This ought to
be paved.
Letters from Manila say that the
rains there have flooded the streets I'M
til those who can not swim have to use
row boats.
1t will take ninety days to build the
new chemical engine for Fire Station
No. 1. The order was sent to Chicago
August 10.
The boot blacks are complaining be-
cause some of the shoe stores give free
shines to their customers. The custom
ers do not.
Several Topeka fans went to Kansas
City Wednesday to see the double
header game between Kansas City and
Indianapolis.
Chief Ramsey returned from Kansas
City today. He went down on Wednes-
day. Looking into the BertillOn sys-
tenn, perhaps.
A great many watermelons We're
brought to town yesterday. Most of
them were home grown and are of ex-
ira large variety.
The man with the bible under his arm
sees only the Sunday side of the slums,
the policeman with the billy under his
arm sees the other.
A Topeka mother who had a son in
the bugle corps, now uses his old bugle
to hold burnt matches. The bugle
hangs on the gas jet.
The city railway is spending a great
deal of money on the improving of
their tracks and it will probably be APP
preciated by the people.
The big plate glass front in Abe J.
Augustus store has been ruined by some
one firing a rifle bullet through it. 1t
will have to be replaced.
Several Topeka photographers are
keeping some particularly fine pictures
hidden away ready to exhibit at the
photographers convention.
Arthur Massey has the only real
buckng broncho in town and more than
once Massey has had to pick himself
up and try to stay on again.
On an average 100 books and maya
zines are left each week at the police
station and they are eagerly read by
prisoners and officers alike.
Photographers say the hardest thing
yet is to get twenty-five young men
to pose for a picture. 1t is worse than
taking a picture of the baby.
The first layer of brick in the new
pavements is put down with the bricks
laid on their sides. The second layer is
laid with the bricks on edge.
From 8 to 4 o'clock Wednesday after
noon the government thermometer on
the Columbian building registered 100.
That is high mark for this year.
When you hear people on the street
say: Let's go to the well and get a
drink they are speaking metaphoric-
ally and mean bar instead of well.
A Topeka real estate dealer remarked
Wednesday evening, as he drove
against the wind, that there was con-
siderable real estate being transferred.
Kansas avenue about o'clock in the
morning, when the sidewalks are being
swept, for the sWeepers wait for no one.
Visitors from distant parts of the
state now ask for the Collins home
and Rev. Sheldon's residence. Topeka
is adding to her attractions year by
year.
Police Matron Thorpe wishes the
names of ladies who wish to take lit
tie girls to work in the morning and
ho
day.
There is a secret order in the city
known as The Kaw River Ramblers.
They have a gasoline launch and use
an island up the river as their head
quarters.
A Topeka man who has been in the
habit of lending his city directory to all
his neighbors did not buy one this time
and consequently all his neighbors did
buy them.
An eastern souvenir company recent,
ly got out a souvenir of Topeka with
pictures several years behind the times.
Among other things was picture of
the old bridge.
The hay market is not crowded these
days. The hay is so much better than
usual that the loads are bought nearly
as soon as they arrive A good deal of
hay is being stored
A woman who knows, saws a gen
erous sprinkling of industrial schools
and a revival of mothers sense will
change conditions SO there will be no
need in Topeka for a rescue home.
A good cigar is as satisfying to the
smoker as square meal is to a hun
cry man. Always buy the La Bautana
five cent cigar at Rosser's, corner of
Tenth and Topeka avenue and be salts
fed
Many women want to know if they
will have a chance to vote at the COM
ing bond election. They will not which
is unfortunate for the city. Women are
always in favor of any measure which
will help the city.
A woman who lately moved here
from Leavenworth, left her order at a
grocery a few days ago and among