The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
The Topeka schools close tomorrow.
Topeka at last has a winning baseball

The Topeka schools close tomorrow.
Topeka at last has a winning baseball
team.
Next Wednesday viii Be Decoration
day.
A. G. Davis is in Chicago on grain
business.
The state house grounds become more
attractive each year.
Arnin FassIer has gone to Springfield,
o., to visit his old home.
The Y NJ. c. A. rooms have been en-
tireIy renovated.
Excursions into the country have
commenced
The graduating exercises at the high
school will be held Friday night.
The new military company will meet
tomorrow evening for organization
The rose season is here, and every
bush in Topeka is a fragrant bower.
A Topeka man says more bluegrass
is killed by water than by want of it
Bishop Millspaugh confirmed a class
of young ladies at Bethany college this
morning.
T. R. Hawks addressed the Populist
League last night on the financial sys-
TEN.
One of the latest sentimental ballads
bears the name of Shore Acres" after
the Herne play.
The professors and midway bar
hair and silk hats.
Congressman Miller of Kansas will
deliver the alumni address at Dickinson
college, Williamsport, Pa
It is reported that the extension of
the Tenth avenue pavement will be
| completed within a year.
E. c. Zeirung, of Lincoln, Neb., will
| do the booking for the Crawford the
alter in this city this year.
With all candy and cigar stores
closed on Sunday, Topeka viii be
veritable haven of rest"
The paving of Fillmore street, it is
said. will be completed some time" at
the pleasure of the brick men.
Mrs. F. A. Jett has the first new po-
| tatoes of the season raised in her own
| garden. The first pick was on May 20.
The pupils in the district school west
! of Washburn college held a picnic yes
| terday. 1t was the last day of school.
Sweaters so loud that they can al
! most be heard a block away have be-
| come more violently fashionable than
| ever
What has become of the croaker who
| money to secure the Santa F'e shop ex-
tension?
Many nice things have been said
about Topeka by the charities delegates.
They were especially pleased with the
| hotels.
J. l. Bristow. who has been sent to
Cuba, to straighten out the postal tan
gle. has written to a friend that he ex-
poets to be back in a month
In the Jewell building on Kansas av-
enue G. G. Clemens, candidate for gov
ernor. has established Socialist head
quarters.
There are half a dozen low and very
bad joints in the street car track west
of Clay on Eleventh street. They need
the attention of the track force.
/ Ta1ylar- boS hHas7 ennofnta1 al
ministrator of the estate of his father,
the late Henry Taylor. His bond was
placed at $500.
A long time ago an ordinance was
passed providing for the closing of all
places of business on Sunday. No one
ever thought of enforcing all its provi-
sions till recently.
The Masonic memorial services ir
memory of the late George NJ. LeScheI
will be held tonight at the Masonic
building by Topeka lodge No. II A. y
& A. NJ, assisted by the Scottish Rite
bodies and Knights Templar
The last viii and testament of Geo
M. .Lescfer, who died in Costa Rica, wa:
opened for probate in the probate cour
Thursday afternoon. His mother i:
named as executrix without bond AND
all his effects are left to her.
{ DR. r. S. Magee left this Afternoon
for Atlantic City, N. J., to attend tht
; meeting of the American Medical asso-
citation and the American College asso
) citation. From there he will go to New
: York to spend several weeks in tbs
; Vanderbilt pathological Laboratories.
t Mrs. Bertha Finnie has sued Sheriff
| Cook in the district court for 1869 dam
| ages Last summer the sheriff raideC
a place kept by her husband and eon
| tscated the billiard tables. She nov
claims the property and asks damages
! | and 81 a day for every day the proper
4 | ty has been kept from her.