The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-20
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS
H. W. Farnsworth is seriously III.

H. w. Farnsworth is seriously III.
Work on the athletic field at Washburn
college Will commence soon.
The patch OF. pavement in front of the
state house Is being repaired.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Bonham, 200 Clay,
are the parents of a daughter.
Foot races will be given in connection
with the bicycle races August "a and 20
A lodge social Is never complete any
more without a cake walk of some kind
Word has been received in Topeka that
Dick Blue is going to move to Columbus
A team from Auburn will play the
Santa Fe shop team at Athletic park July
s. W. Wilder of the Santa Fe car. serv-
ice department has gone east on his va
Mr.. and Mrs E. d. Wilcox are the pa
rents of a daughter, born Wednesday aft
The FIremen's Insurance company of
Baltimore has been admitted to Kansas
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Graham of Auburn
dale are the parents of a daughter, born
Wednesday.
A marriage license has been issued to
Milton f. Shaver and Alberta V. Jones,
both of Topeka
The members of the Third Presbyterian
church held a picnic at the REFORM SchooI
grounds Wednesday.
The A. o. U. w. lodges in Kansas have
on an average 800 applications for mem
berShip every month.
The state. board of charities has ordered
fire exiting uisherS to be placed in the Var1-
Gus state institutions.
The Wathena people want the Modocs
to sing at their GhautauQua assembly one
day during the meeting
A small dog wearing a big muzzle was
one of the warm weather attractions on
Kansas avenue yesterday.
The hearing of Philip Mayer, charged
with ASSUMING SGe9rge P1eYto19S Will be
Pool Grinstead, editor of the Wathena
Star, was in Topeka last night in the in
terest of the Wathena Chautauqua.
General Passenger Agent w. J. Black
four days business trip in Colorado
mt +17rrvr acA
part of the state are said to be in better
condition than those in the southeastern
part
He laughs best who laughs last. and the
| Auditorium kickerS may as well prepare
for a relapse, for the Auditorium will be
The hay market is. crowded with alfalfa
| these days. The farmers are Just GET
| ting their crop cut and are rushing II TO
one Of. the things. that makes a bicycle
rider fighting mad is to have a little eur
snap at his heels half way around the
| Some joints in Topeka, look after the
health and comfort of their patrons to
| the extent of furnishing the places with
THE Funston Quickstep." General
Fred FunstOn,s March and ''Ihe IWen-
| tieth Kansas March are among the new
| publications.
County Attorney Jetmore has gone to
| New York to join his family He viii
spend a month at ThompSOn'S point, Fer
| risburg, N II.
! Police Matron Thorpe is caring for. a
| way from Chicago to California. He gives
| his name as Harry Martin.
| George Klauer was arrested Wednesday
/ afternoon for selling liquor in the rear of
/ Klauer,s cigar store on kan1sas avenue
( Practically 50 per cent of those who have
/ tried to enlist in the army in Topeka have
been rejected Thirteen nave been ac-
| cepted out of rs that offered themselves.
Spot Ellis, the colored man who
| ARRAY a few nights ago. has been reIeas7
| ed on a bond of $500. Merriweather will
/ recover.
| Mrs. S. c. Cook, who was severely in
| jured about two months ago by a fall
/ down the basement stairs at her home on
! Quincy street, is able to be around on
The railroads have granted a hall, fare
! rate for the meeting of the boys of the
] Twenty-second Kansas, to be held in To-
| ing an organization.
Judge Hazen will not adjourn the pres
| ent term of the district court until late
| a few days The fall term will begin the
first Tuesday in September.
| IF the. people of the Philippine islands
\ drink whisky and beer in proportion to the
| liquor advertisements in the Mania news
ated,'' says a Topeka man.
People who received free garden rf SEED
/ are requested to send back all the seed
| they can to the federation this fall to be
| given out to the poor next spring.
Rev. Chas. Parham is completing ar
engagements for the establishing of res
| cue home. He is DESTROYS of finding
/ eeived at Fourth and Jackson street.
The word Welcome which. has been
| made out of flowers in the state house
| grounds is upside down as one approaches
| the state house. 1t can only be read as
one is going away from the building.
| Police Matron Thorpe sent a little boy
1 to a family in the country to work for his
| board. In three days he returned and
asked her to find him another place be-
| cause them folks is too old fashioned
Governor Stanley and wife, George
| Clark and wife and George Cole and wife
/ left today in charge of the tax commits
! sioner of the Burlington railroad for a
! fishing trip into the Big Horn country in
1 Wyoming
Willard Ward, a Sedgwick county man
| in the penitentiary, recently rendered the
| state valuable service in queHing a dis
| turbance among the prisoners. for which
| the governor expects to cut down his term
| Of sentence.
The new SantasFe engine just received
| from the Baldwin Locomotive Works rep