The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Sunday night.
Harry. Rigby will edit the High School
World this winter.
The franchise of the Phoenix Telephone
company has expired.
The restaurants had a great run on hot
| coffee Saturday night.
If this weather keeps on the football
season will be fastened.
The. Ice man had a frown this morning
and the coal man smiled.
The West Tenth street line of the city
railway is being repaired.
Guilford Dudley, jr: will soon leave for
a. trip through Michigan.
Judge Guy was once q. banker. He was
cashier of a bank at Solomon
Topeka people know more about tennis
The talk of a sewer district east of the
Santa F7e tracks has been revived.
There are several business fronts on
Kansas avenue that need painting.
MarshaH's band played AT a Georgia
Campmeeting" as an encore Sunday.
The dancing clubs are beginning to look
forward to the winters campaign.
Archie r. Williams has returned from
Manitou where he visited his parents.
Wednesday to join an opera company
George Clark, secretary of state. will
move his family to Topeka September l.
w. Y Morgan has been interviewed on
the crop outlook by a Kansas City paper.
Fresh oysters are advertised. The oyster
men must spell the present month with
an ''r."
The chimney on the Santa Fe general
offices is being retopped and made several
feet higher.
w. v. Church, superintendent of fnsur-
home in Marion.
The weather clerk deserves the COM
mendatiOn of all the people for furnish
ing cool Sundays.
Observer Jennings must have aye EetggTne.d
Peak temperature.
Theriver roads east of town on the north
and south sides are the favorite drives
during the summer.
WIZ 9RPes a6aF 9ay hes @ T6 meters Be IN hes
times that number.
Major Anderson went to, Jefferson, In.
the speakers there.
.Labette county has more apple trees
than any county in the state, 224, 764.
Shawnee has 200, 531
When Topeka has cheaper gas and
cheaper water, the people will have little
reason to complain.
A prominent Topeka minister chews to-
bacco and expectorates behind the pulpit
during his sermons.
The most popular man at the tennis
ried the water bucket
last two days has been great relief after
the heat of last week.
A Topeka man says he enjoys. a tennis
match because there is no kicking over
the umpire's decisions.
A Topeka man who can lot. afford one
himself wonders why every rich man does
not buy an automobile.
The absorbing question of the day is,
ordinance amount top
William Baird, a returned missionary
from Korea, spoke at the Y. NJ. G. A.
rooms Sunday afternoon.
Rev. J; T. Mcfarland of the First NJ.
z. church is attending the Epworth league
convention at Bonner Springs.
W. E. Sterne, United States marshal,
has gone to Washington to take an insane
prisoner to the federal asylum.
Mrs. Emma Maude Ogden has sued her
husband, Samuel Harry ogden for a d.
vorce. They were married in 1894.
The horticultural society will save
samples of fruits to be used in making an
exhibit this fall in the state house
Topeka is stu without a baseball team
while many of the little Kansas towns
are supporting excellent ball clubs.
The Topeka young men who played ten
mis- now wear several shades of tan. 1t
has suddenly become quite popular.
The Shawnee county horticultural So
ciety had all day picnic at A. +. Ents-
minger's near Silver Lake Thursday.
The Powhattan Post says that mothers
are naming glll1g their babies after Congress-
Frank Eberhardt, state tennis champion
returned to his home in salina sunday.
Ills brother, Fred, went Saturday night
President W. G. Purdy of the Rock Is
land passed through Topeka Sunday in
private car No. 800, on his way to Denver.
Watermelons by the wagon load are q
they do not excite the envy they once did.
Housewives complain that for several
weeks wash day has been made unpleas-
ant by Sunday or Monday morning rains.
When 100 names have been secured on
be built. There are Is names on the list
now
The new search and seizure ordinance
degree of CONSERVATION among the Joint
The name Of the Topeka Savings and
Loan association has been changed to
The. Capitol Building and Loan associa-
Justice w. r Smith of the supreme
and Harrison streets for a term of two
years.
Good home grown watermelons have
reached the local markets, although the
oklahoma melon seems to have the best
flavor
SAT Topeka man says man nan who j. sailed LED
has the advantage in race for political
favors.
Arthur s. Kane of the Kansas City Star
came to Topeka to report the finals in the
tennis tournament. He is himself a fast
player.
Topeka photographers are preparing to
make exhibits at the meeting of the State
PHOTOGRAPHERS association to be held here
this fall.
NJ. E. Stoker has fled claim Of 81 JOG
in the probate court against the Gage
estate for the funeral expenses of the late
c. G. Gage
There is a parrot in the vicinity of the
court house that entertafns the Officers by
repertoire
The Santa Fe Denver train Sunday en-
rout east, was crowded to the guards and
there were nine coaches and sleepers in
/ the equipment.
preached at the First Methodist Episco-
| pal church yesterday in the absence of
The people who lived in the neighbor-
hood of the tennis grounds and could stay
under their own vine and fig tree and see
1 the play were envled.
A roster of the G. A. R. and ladies'
[ auxialiary organization of Topeka has been