The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-22
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


The registration books close August
Governor Stanley speaks at Seneca
( today.
Pomegranates are raised all over
| Kansas.
Col w H. Rossington is away on a
vacation.
Large watermelons are down to 8
cents apiece.
The Fortune Teller music is still
very popular.
Judge t. s. Carver is in salina, which
Beer advertisements now appear in
Atchison papers.
Judge Henry Keller has returned
from Atchison.
Senator w. A. Harris speaks at
Seneca Thursday.
a. B. Woolverton has sold his drug
store to F. B. Sim.
S B. Brett has decided to open a
book store at lola
Copies of a new telephone directory
have been distributed.
The last two evenings have been
more than delightful.
". A. Pierce and Frank Evans have
returned from Leavenworth.
One 1iveryman in town says that rub
Der tired vehicles are a failure.
The bowlers are anxiously awaiting
the coming of the Brooklyn team.
Dan Markham will probably be the
Democratic candidate for sheriff.
Nine people out of ten always look
guilty when a policeman is around.
Galen Nichols has gone to Colorado
and New Mexico on a vacation trip.
Dr. I. NJ. Powell is in the north
spending a vacation with his family.
MarshalIs band his decided to attend
the Emporia street fair in September.
The Topeka wheelmen will have a
good card of races September 1 and 2
Cameras rented and sold. Gibraltar
Drug Co., S23 Kansas avenue, Topeka,
Kan.
Several policemen who patrol large
territories are talking of buying bicy-
cles.
1t seems to be quite the fashion just
now for girls to wear cowboy looking
hats.
neering department is in Des Moines,
Iowa.
n. B. Campbell has Joined his wife
in a visit at the Colorado summer re-
sorts.
The session of the Kansas River Bap-
fist association opens today at Silver
Lake.
The clerks in the court of appeals are
preparing the docket for the November
term.
Mr.. w. c. symser. office engineer Of
the Santa Fe, has returned after va
cation.
Interest in tennis is reviving. The
players have recovered from the tourn-
ament.
Those squatty, double boilered look
ing switch engines are called turtle
backs"
The man who picks his teeth with his
pocket knife a la David Harum is still
in town.
Henry Allen delivered an address be-
fore the Y. NJ. c. A. at Lawrence on
Sunday.
Several new styles for fall and~winter
photographs are promised by the pho
tOgraphers.
The Western Star wheeImen, col
Ored bicycle club. made a ''run"to Law
renee Sunday.
Francis Nelson has sued for divorce
from his wife, Elizabeth Nelson, in the
district court.
The Democratic caucus will be held
tonight at the different precincts, to
elect delegates.
Mr. c. c. Baker, president of the city
railway, will leave in a few days for
New York city
Deputy Sheriff Hollis Williams has
to sit up night to protect his tube roses
and his grapes
The florists are preparing for the
winter trade and moving their flowers
to the green houses.
If the rescue home is established the
society in charge will be known as THE
Christian Alliance"
Mr.. S. C. Gordon will leave this week !
for Colorado to look over some proper
ty he owns there.
A Topeka man says feas are worse |
than chiggers this summer, which is |
saying great deal.
Many of the roads are packed down
hard and are almost as nice to ride |
over as the pavement.
These pleasant evenings are condu- !
Give to car rides There are several |
parties out last evening
Kansas avenue between Seventh and |
Eighth street might be called 1.-The |
great dry goods district
The soda water fountains do a great |
business with ginger ale. 1t has sud /
denly became quite popular.
J. s. Dawson of the state rreasurer's |
office will address the Topeka Flam- |
beau club Wednesday night.
D. W. Little, assistant state superin- |
tendent has returned from a visit at |
his home in Wallace county.
There is a good crop of weeds and |
grass growing along the street car
tracks on West Tenth avenue.
The days are getting so much shorter !
now than they were a month ago that /
the difference is very noticeable.
Four hundred dollars will be expend- |
ed in providing entertainment for the |
old soldiers at the state reunion here.
If the superintendent of the paving |
repairs would ride a bicycle he would |
find places which need repairing.
The Shawnee county w. c. T. U. |
will meet in annual convention at the |
Baptist church Friday morning.
Miss Fay Shreve has returned from a |
visit with the family of ex-State Treas
urer HefebOwer in Miami county.
r.. NJ. Ruggles and Jesse Leach, To-