The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Circus next Friday.

A. w. Smith of Mcpherson, is in the
city.
Next Friday will be circus day in To-
pela.
DR.. L. M. Powell is in Ludington,
| Mich.
| Winona and Chicago.
Two DRINKS were the only registers on
| the police book yesterday.
DR.. L. H. Mum will arrive from the
| east the first of next week.
S. J. Bear has returned from a bust
| ness trip to western Kansas.
General Passenger Agent Black of the
Santa Fe has returned from Chicago
MarshaI's band will give a concert at
! Turner garden next Thursday night.
| The Eagles held a social session last
| night at the hall at 41S Kansas avenue.
Secretary F. D. Coburn of the state
| board of agriculture, is in Hutchinson.
| Topeka people who bet on Rubin have
ceased to call him THE Akron Giant"
The Cherokee Supply company of
Cherokee, Kansas, has been incorpor-
ated.
The peanut man had a big business
with the crowds on the street last
| night.
Work has commenced on the second
| story of the addition to the federal
| building.
Dean r. Low has been selected as one
| horse show.
Sergeant Sorenson of the United States
recruiting station, says that recruits are
slow to enlist.
Mrs. c. E. Caswell will lead the gospel
meeting at the Y w. c. A. rooms Sun
| day afternoon.
Governor Stanley will make a speech
| at the opening of the Shiloh Baptist
| church in Topeka
Cider" Smiths prophecy for rain to-
| morrow has been renewed, this time by
| the weather man.
Fred L. Diggs. mayor of Perry, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Annie L.
Diggs, in this city.
Governor Stanley closes weeks
campaigning with a speech at Sharon
Springs this afternoon.
The Mckinley and Roosevelt cam
paign club of old soldiers is holding
meeting this afternoon.
Major A. M. Harvey, who was billed
to speak at Norton today, was unable to
go on account of Illness in his family.
John F. McManus will move his tailor
shop to the east side of Kansas avenue,
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
w. v. Church. superintendent of in
Surance, has returned to Topeka after
an absence of two months in the east
The first page of this weeks issue of
the Dramatic News is devoted to an ex-
cellent likeness of Miss Ethyln Palmer.
Chairman Ridgley of the Populist
state committee. made a speech at the
Populist convention in Emporia today.
w. w. Martin. department command
er of the G. A. R., attended the reunion
at Corning, returning to Topeka yeSter-
day.
A snap shot of the companies from fire
department headquarters leaving the
station in answer to an alarm was taken
Thursday.
The residence being constructed by
w. I. Miller at Fourteenth and Topeka
avenue will contain an elevator for
passengers and freight.
John Bannerman. who lives at Sew
enteenth and Union avenue, has a fine
lot of collie puppies which he is ex-
hibiting down town today.
Rev. Canon Bywater arrived from Col
orado Friday evening and will preach
at Grace Cathedral Sunday morning and
at St Simon's in the evening.
An ambulance has been engaged to
bring the "Has-Beens'' base ball club
to town after the asylum team gets
through with them this afternoon
The summer tourists will soon return
to find that the weather has been cool
while they were gone, but that it is now
hotter than at any previous time this
summer.
Daniel Rogers was found not guilty
of selling liquor by the police court yes
terday. Five witnesses swore that the
keg captured at his home was common
property so the old man was discharged
Horses owned by DR.. J. P. Kastef
and w. I. Miller, in charge of John
Zimmerman, will be started in races
next week on the Nebraska circuit. The
horses were shipped out of Topeka to-
day.
1.-THE Prisoner Of Zenda" company.
with which Will Wadsworth has signed
for next season, will commence rehear-
sails the last week in August. Mr.. Wads-
worth will leave for the east in about
ten days.
When straw hats appear in the spring
men are very particular about wearing
old ones. to avoid the suspicion of hav
ing the last years hat in service. Tnere
are at least 1000 straw hats on Kansas
avenue today that need Akin"
Special Agent H. C. Rising returned
yesterday from a trip in the Fifth and
Sixth districts. He established free ru-
raj delivery routes at MankatO, Morgan
vile, Clay Center. two at Smith Center
and three at Jewell.
A few days ago BARLEY Coyne. OF
Shawnee county, having made enough
money to retire from the farm, held a
sale. Among the horses sold was a lit
tie sorrel horse which brought SEQ -Four
years ago the same auctioneer sold this
same horse at a public sale to Mr.. Coyne
for 81. so.
This is what Ed Howe thinks of the
question and SO expresses himself in the
Atchison Globe: I'VE would hate to live
in Topeka. BY a new order of the coun-
Gill; the fire bells no longer ring out an
alarm. One of the consultations of living
in a western town is the excitement
when the fire bells ring, and the women
the streets, almost keeping time with
the engine. Atchison has no auditorium
like Topeka, but the thrilling sound of
a fire bell still moves the town to excite
ment-