The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Republican state central commit
tee is in session today.
The new cases of smallpox have been
removed to the pest house.
The platform for the Bryan notifica.-
ton is nearing completion.
The laundries are making more money
than some people this summer.
The asphalt pavement makes very
heavy teaming this hot weather.
The wood and tin work of the Lincoln
school building is being reprinted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sim are the pa
rents of daughter, born Sunday.
The dressing rooms of the Crawford
theatre have been repapered and car
peted.
Governor Stanley will make an ad-
dress at the Allen county fair in Sep
TENDER.
The asylum base ball team declines
to give the Santa Fe Reds a chance at
them.
The advance guard of the Bryan no.
LITIGATION crowd is expected tomorrow
morning.
An excellent likeness of John Philip
Sousa now adorns the wall of the Craw-
ford theatre.
Congressman J. D. Bowersock has
been invited to make some campaign
speeches in Ohio.
The Bryan and Breidenthal club will
meet tonight at 706 Kansas avenue, the
new headquarters
Miss Niece of Usage City is visiting
with her grandmother, Mrs. Niece on
Hancock street.
The Twenty third regiment band will
give a concert on the veranda of the Ma
tional hotel this evening.
The Democrat f1ambeau headquarters
now has flag pole. 1t is two doors
south of Tammany Hall.
Mr.. A. K. Wilson, grand secretary of
the Masons in Kansas, is in Hill City
on Masonic business
The city scales are being moved from
the haymarket square to the vacant lot
north of the city prison.
Mr.. Charles Miller of 205 East Eighth
street, has just completed a new barn
and an addition to his residence.
s. B. Clapp, local manager of the
Cudahay Packing company, has gone to
Colorado Springs on his vacation.
The governor will address an Eman-
cipation day celebration at Kerr's park
in Wyandotte county September q.
Mr. G. G. Sholes, superintendent of
telegraph of the Santa Fe, has returned
after a visit with his family in Chicago.
Elmer Rhinehart of the Lee Electrical
company is spending his vacation with
his parents at White Mountain Springs,
Ill
The low frame buildings which have
occupied place near the corner of Fifth
and Jefferson streets, have been re-
moved.
The Fifteenth street bridge will be re-
fioOred next week and the repairs on
the Seventh street bridge will be COM
pleted today.
Rev. w. A. Caleb, the converted Mum
Gle Indian, will speak at the Salvation
army meeting, Fourth and Jackson
streets, tonight.
Sergeant H. c. Sorenson of the recruit
ing station has received orders to enlist
men in all branches of the service eX-
cepting the cavalry
Oscar Fichie of the Rock Island teie-
graph office has returned from his vaca-
ton, which he spent in Cincinnati and
other eastern cities.
Bob Ransom, co1ored, was arrested
yesterday for disturbing the peace Of
Mrs johnson, also colOred. The trial
will be this afternoon
J. c. Darling is in hot water because
a man who was arrested by the police
gave his name. The name of the man
arrested was Thomas Darling.
Aurel Rulings, the Topeka young man
who had one of his legs fractured dur
ing a game of base ball several weeks
ago, is now able to leave the hospital
The contractors have notified the city
officers that they could occupy their
respective quarters in the new city build
ing by September l. The city officials
seem to doubt it.
A well known employee of the Santa
F'e treasury department, whose wife is
just at present enjoying an cutting
several of his wife's lady friends last
Sunday morning. He cooked the break
fast himself, wholly unaided.
When the alarm was received at fire
department headquarters last evening
one of the firemen had left the station
for few moments to get some supplies
needed at the station. He heard the
large bell sound the alarm and he re-
ported Immediately at the fire
There is a great contrast between the
fI7a -
federal building and d1ngy appearance
dition is completed the entire building
will receive three coats of paint. 1t will
then be impossible to tell the new from
the old.
Somewhere in the archives of the city
is contract for the repairing of as
phalt pavements- 1t is said the provi-
sions are not faded by the lack of use
and that one of them might be employ
ed in the request to have those big
holes south of Eighth ON Kansas ave
nue. repaired.
The thirteenth annual catalogue of the
Kansas City Homeopathic Medical col
lege makes the announcement that
Henry w. Roby, NJ. D., of Topeka, will
give a series of lectures on the subject
of Abdominal Surgery. The catalogue |
says DR.. Roby may justly be called the |
"Helmuth of the West"
The uniforms for the members of Mar |
shall's band have been ordered of a Chi |
cago house. They will be delivered |
about the 1st of October. The coats will |
be of red material with black trimming |
nearly covering the coat The word Mar
shall will be sewed in gilt letters on the |
collar. The trousers will be blue-black |
with the regulation artillery stripes |
about one and one-half inch wide. Regu-
shall will be worn.