The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Governor Stanley has returned from
Wichita
Representative L. Scott of Howard is
in the city on business.
The city railway tracks ouzKansas
avenue are being repaired.
Governor Stanley will deliver the
Fourth of July address at Girard.
DR.. H. B. Hogeboom is one of the best
amateur baseball umpires in town.
Congressman Curtis will deliver the
Fourth of July address at NortOnville.
The Presbyterian Sunday school will
picnic on the WaShburn campus June %.
Cantaloupes have arrived in the mar
ket. The little ones sell for a nickel
each.
Otto Bradford of Ardmore, I. T., an
old Topeka boy, is visiting relatives in
the city. J
J. Harrul, one of Atchison's under
takers, has been in Topeka this week
on business.
The choir at Grace Cathedral will re-
hearse the choruses from Gaurs Holy
City tonight.
The national council of the Ancient
Order of Pyramids will be held at Kan
sas City beginning June 81.
The Soldier creek fleet in Garfield
park Is kept busy now since the creek
has assumed its normal size
Imported peaches are on the market.
They are about the only kind that will
be sold in Kansas this year.
A Topeka woman says that as new
potatoes become cheaper the peckS
given by the grocerS grow in size
The wet weather has been blessing
in one way: 1t has kept the state house
lawn looking extraordinarily fine.
A Topeka man, ]. A. Ramsey, has
just been granted a patent on copy
book and cover, which he has invented.
The horsemen in town are spending
much of their time out at the fair
grounds in anticipation of the races.
The Catholic schools will close with
an entertainment at the Church of the
Assumption next Tuesday evening.
The heating apparatus on the upper
floors of the federal building is being
torn out, preparatory to repairing it.
The arrival of new horses at the fair
grounds takes many visitors to the
track during the afternoon and evening.
This weather is all that could be de-
sired and equal to that of the most
famous seaside resort in the United
States.
These cool evenings from supper time
until dark are good for the tennis play
ers, and they are making the most of
them.
There will be a tournament on the
Topeka tennis courts Saturday after
noon. The playing will begin at
o'clock.
A large oleander in a yard on Eighth
avenue west is in full bloom and is the
envy of nearly every one who passes
that way.
The Republic State Bank of Republic
has asked for a charter. Another bank
at Edna, Labette county, has asked for
d charter.
There was raspberry famine in To-
peka Thursday. Nearly everybody
wanted them just because none were
to be had.
The flower beds in the parking around
the Topeka club present fine appear
ance just now. The geran1ums are all
in bloom.
Kansas City has become more modest.
| to be permitted to entertain Funston
| and his men,"
R. A. Burch of Salina is attending the
! June term of the court of appeals in
| Topeka, before which he has several
cases to argue.
| Strawberries are beginning to get
| scarce and as a consequence people are
| beginning to want them more than they
| did week ago.
The Sunday school of the First Pres
| byterian church will hold picnic on
| the campus of Washburn college on Fri
| day of next week.
The Commercial club has granted the
| use of its rooms to the insurance agents
| when they meet to form a state associ-
alton on Thursday of next week.
Gage park will be the trysting place
| OF the next generation of Topeka lovers.
One Topeka man is sorry that he will
| be too old to take advantage of it.
A Topeka woman says that $1.9S
| sounds ever much less to her than
| 81, and that is the reason why she can
| not keep away from the bargain sales.
| Topeka orators are polishing up their
| Fourth of July speeches. The smaller
| towns over the state have begun to
| levy on Topeka's supply of oratory for
| that occasion.
A Topeka physician says that when