The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-28
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


This is good reception weather.
The frost is about ready to be on the
pumpkin.
It will require $4,000 ballots for the
coming election.
The Funston sword is on exhibition
IN Crosby Bros. window.
Dr. Menninger's nephew. Mr.. VIII
Kercher, is greatly improved.
The whole state of Kansas is hoping
Tor day like this next Thursday.
The pumpkin pie is now ripe and the
demand for it is growing every day.
The Santa Fe annual meeting in this
city VIII be held on December IA, this
year.
There is an oId-fashioned stiIe west
of town which is a favorite trysttng
place.
Banks, the washburn end, will play
IN the Denver and Emporia football
games.
''The Old Plantation Bell" a new
song by l. NJ. Wood of this city, has
been published.
Or. Mum was called to Eszridge Fri
DAY evening on professional business.
He returned today.
The registration books closed last
nlghC with S,0O3 names. A year ago g.
1f5 were registered.
Miss Sadie Coe, of Kansas City, grad
uated this week from the Storrnont hos
pltaI training school,
window decorators will vie with one
another in getting up novel windows
Tor the reception crowd.
The Topeka whist club tournament
opens Monday night and it is expected
that at least 20 teams will enter
A small audience saw the second per-
IorInance OF Uncle Joshua Simpkins''
at the crawford theater Friday night.
The Central high school football team
OF Kansas City will play the Topeka
hlgh school football team next Wednes-
day.
The Topekas and Boomerangs have
arranged for another duck pin contest
alleys "a a.
Mr- and Mrs. l. L. Perine, formerly
OF Topeka, but now located at Horton.
Friday.
- It will take good cigars to satisfy the
twentieth Kansas boys when they get
nome Ihey got good ones over in
;, People who own vacant lots along the
Hne OF march will erect bleachers and
sell seats to view the parade next
Thursday.
When the Twentieth sailed out of the
Golden Gate, nearly 1900 names were
on the rolls. The shattered ranks bring
back but 789.
In the window Of a Kansas avenue
store IS a grinning skull, but it is harm
less. 1t IS manufactured of COMPOST
uon, and IS meant for a cigar receiver
People who eat at home regularly al
ways enjoy a good meal somewhere else
occasionally. Give your hired grip a
rest and take your Sunday dinners at
the National.
If the, music arrives in time, Mar
shalPs band will play John Philip
Sousa's new march, 1.-The Man Behind
the Gun" the day of the Twentieth
Kansas reception.
Atchison Globe: Topeka is making, a
mistake in failing to advertise that if it
rains on Thursday next, Gen. Funston
and a band of his brave men will give
an exhibition of swimming in the Kaw
Twenty-Five tourist sleepers, two
standard sleepers and four baggage
cars viii make up the equipment of the
three trains bearing the Twentieth
Kansas soldiers from San Francisco to
Topeka.
Cautious people are pausing long
enough in their preparations for the
reception to chain down their gates and
other movable property, so that it will
not tempt the Halloween fiend on Mon
day evening.
One of the young men who was prac-
t1c1ng IN the state house grounds Fri
day in hopes of preparing himself for
the Topeka troop, was left sitting on
the ground. The horse went out from
under him.
Lawrence Journal: It is said that the
orchestra at the Topeka reception will
play nothing but "A Hot Time" There
is no need to play that at ALL The
folks who are there will have it, wheth-
er invited by the orchestra or not
The court officials will transact no
business next Thursday, and the offices
will be closed. It is understood that
every one shall have a holiday on that
day. The national guards will be in
possession of the court house as bar
racks.
Mr.. E. S. Brigham arrived this week
for stay of several weeks. He now
controls the EIroy Stock company, one
of the better class of repertoire COM
panies touring the east, and also is in
terested in the management of the
theater at Hot Springs, Ark. Mr.. Brig
ham, formerly managed the Crawford
theater in st. Joe.
General Solicitor Alexander G. Coch-
ran of the Missouri Pacific railroad, was
in Topeka Friday comforting with