The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11
SNAP SHOTSAT HOME NEWS

bananas are down TO D cents a dozen.
The letter carriers are donning spring
caps.
The fire department horses are being
clipped.
The railroad men will have a ball
March II.
L. G. Bea1 is interested in a gold mine
in Arizona
The bee keepers are getting ready for
a sweet summer.
House painters are preparing to sue
ceed the plumbers.
J. L. Guy will probably be a candi-
date for police judge.
The shoe stores are doing a big busi-
ness in rubberS today.
The weather bulletins are displayed
at the transfer station.
DR.. w. s. Lindsay has gone to Nc
Pherson duck hunting.
The running gear of the patrol wagon
is being painted a Mohawk red.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Prescott left
yesterday for ottawa and Emporia.
Judge Hazen is credited with 33 ducks
and one goose on his hunting trip.
The Topeka milliners are returning
from the east with their Easter stocks
The Parkhurst-D Mercantile COM
pany keeps nineteen travelling men out
on the road.
Topeka Commandery No. 5, Knights
Templar, will confer the Red Cross de-
gree Tuesday night.
The Topeka Paper company will erect
a large addition to it's building as soon
as the weather permits.
The Topeka lodge of Elks will soon
initiate another class and then retire
from the class business.
The robins that have already come
north will probably wish they hadn't
when that blizzard strikes them.
Eggs are once more approaching the
point where one does not have to be a
millionaire in order to afford them.
The semi annual struggle for suprem-
acy between the oyster and the ice
cream freezer will soon commence.
Col J. w. F. Hughes, mayor of Pot
win, is enthusiastically in favor of the
consolidation of Topeka and Potwin.
California hock'' is the latest drink.
1t is good, at least those who have
tasted it say so. Something like apple
jack.
A crying need of the hour is an insur-
ance company which will insure against
a folding bed shutting up at the wrong
time.
There will be a meeting of the Potwin
city council at the Potwin school house
to discuss the proposed consolidation
with Topeka
Rev. NJ. E. Harlan of the First Chris
tan church lectured at White Cloud
last night on THAT Young Man and
His Dreams"
The rain today is interfering with the
removal of the debris of the late fire.
be cleared away.
Atchison is trying to attract attention
just now by discovering that cider
vinegar is better than vaccination to
scare of smallpox.
During the recent session of the 1egis-
1ature the house paid out $1,000 for
pages and the senate paid out 81, 900, a
waste of at least 81, 800.
A runaway yesterday stopped in front
of a carriage repair shop and work of
W. i'm
mediately commenced.
Many people who ran several blocks
to see the fire at Fourth and Polk last
night ran right past the scene of the
fire without knowing it.
Atchison's cider vinegar cure for
smallpox will develop into something
like the snakebite cure which has long
been popular in some portions of the
state.
The mud is tough on the coal dealers.
They have to double up their teams
and put four horses on each wagon, and
as consequence can not keep up with
their orders.
1t is a bad thing for Topeka florists
that the murderer Gilbert was taken
back to Clay Center. Topeka women
won't have a chance to send him any
flowers now.
While the roads have been so bad
here for the past few days, out in the
central part of the state wheelmen
have been taking ten and twenty mile
runs into the country.
The ruts are so deep on roads leading
into Topeka that milkmen say they
have to get out of their wagons and lift
them out of the ruts so that the aXles
won't Scrape the mud.
The milk and grocery wagons have
been having an especially hard time of
1t recently. They get into the deep rutS
made by larger wagons and it is almost
impossible to get them out.
Topeka business men are well pleased
over the appropriations made for the
state institutions by the legislature.
They expect to do a good share of the
business of the institutions.
The fire department was called last
night to 335 Polk street, where a small
fire caused by a lamp exploding was
put out without damage. The second
fire at 10 o'clock was at the corner of
Klein and Second streets and resulted
in no loss.
1t gives one a peculiar sensation to
wade across a narrow crossing
unpaved street and know that the mud
is from six to fifteen inches deep on
either side. 1t is generally stiff mud,
though, and a person on foot would not
sink very far.
A Topeka mother who has a boy in
the Twentieth Kansas is anxiously
awaiting the next batch of letters from
Manila She is sure her boy did some
thing in the battle to entitle him to be
a colonel at least, if it were only known
to the proper officials.
1t was almost impossible for the fire
department to reach the scene of the
fire at Polk and Fourth last night, and
when they found they were not needed
the heavier wagons did not attempt to
get entirely there, but stopped on the
Sixth avenue pavement.
IAN attempt was made to hold up W.
J. Baldwin last night in the rear of the
Bank of Topeka on West Sixth street,
but he gave the would-be Dick Turpin
such thrashing that he probably will
not try to hold up anyone else for
a while. The footpad escaped.
1t is hard to realize this kind of