The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


worse and worse. Il
The street fair was closed to visitors
Saturday evening.
After the street fair comes the horse
show June 81, % and 20.
A new lodge of Elks will be instituted
at Lawrence in a few weeks.
There will be a rehearsal of the ladies'
auditorium chorus tonight.
The Sunday shower came just in time
to spoil the band concert.
The Kansas Bankers association will
meet at Abilene June and Z.
Governor Stanley addressed church
meeting at Salina last night.
The weather for the opening day of
the street fair was all that could be de-
sired.
The vacant lots at Eighth avenue and
Jackson street have been planted with
oats.
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
nights will be confetti nights at the
street fair.
There are more freaks in Topeka than
have been here since the days of the
state fair.
The annual banquet of the Saturday
| Night club will be held at the Throop
hotel on June 8.
Since the Afro-Turkish war on the
midway the Turks carry their cutlasses
with them when they go up town.
Many Topeka people were up earlier
| morning
eclipse of the sun.
| G. w. CIosson, Santa Fe ice and fuel
contractor, has been in New Mexico
| for the past few days
| c. w. Jones. Rock Island division
| superintendent, was a caller at the
| offices Saturday.
Topeka school teachers are so anxious
| to work all the time that a majority of
them are running summer schools.
Work on the improvement of the
street car line on Huntoon street has
been resumed.
One Of the principals in the Topeka
schools will be married the latter part
| of this month.
The street force is manifesting unus
ual activity in cleaning the streets in
| daylight.
Rev Francis NJ Hayden, of the
Church of the Assumption, will start
| next week for Europe.
DR.. c. E. Mum, who has been in Eur
Ope for the past two months, will return
| to Topeka in a few days.
Father Thomas Coffey has returned to
| Carbondale Pa, after visiting his par
| ents at Meriden.
Three games of ball, street fair and
midway, pictures at the opera house all
in one week is going it steep.
The Confetti Battle scheduled for
tomorrow evening means that people
will pelt each other with little paper
pellets supplied for the occasion.
Wilmer Glasscock. stenographer in
the office of assistant superintendent of
machinery of the Santa Fe, is in Chi
cago. He will return tomorrow.
A Topeka street car conductor owns
good farm north of town and has plenty
of money but he runs car for the ben
eft of the exercise which it affords.
a party of Topeka people spent yes
| terday at the Wakarusa with nets, lines
poles and every other arrangement con
| ceivable but caught no fish.
Bishop NIillspaugh opened the COM
mencement week exercises of st. Johns
Military academy at Salina Sunday by
preaching the baccalaureate sermon.
viii Wadsworth, the Topeka young
man who has made a success of TIE
stage, is now visiting his parents in this
city.
s. w. Zickefoose. who was employed
on the Topeka street car line for some
time, has been appointed city marshal
of La Junta.
Richard Shirk says that some one
stole his pair of Belgian hares last
night and If the thief will call at 1910
Tyler street he can get the pedigree.
, Maud, the 9-year-old daughter of L.
W. Bonewitz of Meriden broke her arm
Saturday while playing around a car
} riage.
} The state house lawn presents the
appearance of hay field while it is
: covered with the little shocks of hay
| which have been raked up after the
: lawn has been moved.
| Crops of people were seen on almost
every street corner this morning hold
ing bits of smoked glass and looking at
the eclipse of the sun. It lasted about
three hours.
: The state Republican committee gave
l Chairman Albaugh a week in which to
l select the executive committee of two
members from each congressional dis
trict
w. Q. Church, superintendent of the
Wichita street car line, has taken a
position in the freight department OF
the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad at Kan
: sas City. He formerly lived in Topeka
! W. L. Short has a booth on the Ave
nue. of Commerce where he exhibits
q and sells confetti Mr. Short was for
r merly employed at the state printing
office.
When the telephone bell rang at the
police station on Sunday the jailer said
DO as you have been doing" without
being asked a question. It was the
Sunday closing ordinance he was talk
ing about.
: P. J. Nundy, manager of the midway
Il and w. F. Lannan and Charles Azur.
man were arrested Saturday night By
the police on a warrant sworn out by
Walter Ransome charging them will
D. fighting.
l. The Topeka Elks who went to Con
: cordia to institute a new lodge have re
II turned. P. B. Pulsifer was elected ex
allied ruler and John Nelson, secretary
e a banquet was served after the cere
/ mony.
!. HUGGINS FOR SENATOR. r
e District Attorney Lambert's Law
y Partner Nominated by Republicans