The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

A. w. Dana spoke at Silver Lake
Tuesday
House painting is the order of the day
in Topeka.
s. ]. Bear has gone to Chicago on teIe-
phone business
DR.. L. H. Mum has purchased a team
of thoroughbred roadsters.
The country roads are very rough
Tor bicycles and buggies.
Work will soon begin on the Garfield
park bicycle track repairs.
People sat up last night watching the
storm clouds, fearing a cyclone.
The newsboys were entertained at the
Y. M. c. A. rooms Tuesday night.
Senator PETER marched in the parade
Tuesday with the other old soldiers.
Judge Foster will leave soon for the
northern lakes to spend the summer
Worn and weary Memorial day ora
tors are returning to Topeka today
Syl Dixon has given up corn trains
and IS selling bathtubS. He is in town.
The Colored Western Star wheelrnen
ave.
There were some picnic parties which
did not get il last night until after IL
o'clock.
A number of special attractions will
Garfield park
Rev. Francis Henry, of the German
Catholic church, who has been seriously
Ill, is improving.
Many people were disappointed be-
cause the Modocs did not sing at the
Memorial day exercises.
Large crowds go to Garfield park to
spend the evening during the enter
tainments now being given there
The Woodman band received many
compliments for the way in which it
played during the parade Tuesday
Sunf1ower camp of Topeka is the
IL
Kansas. 1t has a membership of 800.
The Andrews Opera company will
probably be secured for an engagement
of light opera at Garfield park this sum-
mer.
Major Boyd's girl cadets carried fans
Tuesday as well as guns. a girl couldn't
get along without a fan, even in bat
tie.
Although the weather may not be ia
vorabIe the Sim Drug company will
continue to dispense their delicious soda
water.
General Manager Frey of the Santa
Fe left for Denver Tuesday. He will
visit his family in Albuquerque before
returning.
All the flags in the city were flying at
half mast Tuesday. There were
dozen flying over the Santa Fe shops
and yards.
A meeting will be held Thursday, June
/, at the St. Johns A. M. E. church, at
7:30, in the interests of Advanced State
Charitable institution.
The dust was about the only disa-
greeable feature of Memorial day
Otherwise it could not have been bet
ter for a Memorial day.
The Godfrey band concert will be
given Monday night, rain or shine. If
shine, at Garfield park. and If rain, at
the Grand Opera House.
These are the days when every boy
wants his hair shingled close to his
head so that his mother cannot tell
when he has been in swimming.
The Topeka insane asylum contrib
utes about 200 letters a day to the To-
peka postoffce, and a large proportion
of them are written by inmates.
A boy always likes to applaud He
may not always know just what he is
applauding, but he is always ready to
make as much noise as possible upon
the least provocatfon.
The bunting factories are working
overtime nowadays getting ready to
supply the demand there will be for
their product in Kansas when the
Twentieth gets home
Mr.. Harry Richmond, the veteran
actor who was last seen here with the
Paises, is in the city. He will Join the
Forest Hubner company which will be
at Garfield park on June 8, and 10.
SunfiOwer camp No. $50 of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America was present.
ed with a banner by President North
colt of the grand lodge for being the
largest lodge in the state. The MEM
bership is 800.
freight agent of the Santa Fee has
paper weight which represents $1.1OO.
1t is the only piece Of ore secured from
a mine in New Mexico tn which he lost
that amount of money.
"Old Innocence" the comedy in which
Tim Murphy was seen here the season
before last, will be one of the pieces put
on by the Hubner company a Garfield
PARK next week. 1t has been renamed
The Innocent Mr.. Smith,
Some people who couldn't go to anv
regular picnics Tuesday held impromp-
tn picnicS under the trees in their back
yards The ants are generally as nu-
merous in back yards as they are in the
woods, but one misses the delights of
gathering chiggers.
A Topeka woman got up a surprise
supper for her husband last evening and
invited in a few friends He usually
comes home a little after O'Clock, and
she planned to have the supper at that
hour But Tuesday was a holiday and
her husband didn't come home until
$50, when the guests had nearly all the
supper eaten up.
Arkansas City Traveller: Charles
Curtis arrived in the city Saturday
evening from Topeka, and remained
here until yesterday. He was met by
General Fred Harvey of the Kaw
agency, who escorted him to the realms
of the red man. Mr.. Curtis will prob
ably return to the city Friday morning
and assist Chilocco Indian schools
There is a large mulberry tree on
the parking near the corner of Fifth
street and Topeka avenue, but the
limbs are trimmed so high above the
gre und that it is impossible to get any
Of the berries without ladder, to the
great displeaSure of the boys and some
of the older people living in the vicin-
ity. The berries are getting ripe now.