The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Farmers report that the recent rain
saved the corn crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Brown of Alma.
were in the city yesterday.
why don't you register now?" is the
campaign cry in Topeka.
The street railway company is re-
pairing it's Oakland track.
d. M. and c. M. Gardner of Alma,
were in the city yesterday.
c. L. Wood has returned from a bust
ness trip to Kansas City
o. L. Billings of Marion, transacted
| business in Topeka yesterday.
The Y NJ G. A. summer Bible camp
at Wakarusa opened yesterday.
A short session of the federal court
| was held at Leavenworth today.
Linen and crash suits have been stow
ed away until the cold snap ends.
w. S. Romigh, editor of the Cotton
wood Falls Reveille, is Topeka visitor.
Revival meetings are being held at
| the Free Methodist church in Parkda1e.
j.. B. Tomlinson. warden of the Kan
| saS penitentiary, is in the city on bust
| ness.
The railroad offices are besieged with
| applicants for low rate tickets for long
| trips.
choice of going to China or the Philip
| pines.
A hole in the asphalt south of Eighth
avenue let's buggies down nearly to the
| hub.
The peaches which are being shipped
| in for the local market lack flavor this
| year.
The Santa F'e Railway company uses
on an average 10000 revenue stamps a
| month.
reach Fort Scott tomorrow and Monday
morning.
G. c. Clemens attended the socialist
| congressional convention at Pittsburg
yesterday.
A stone building 25x5O is being erect
| Haymarket square.
| Anna M. Trap read a paper at the
meeting of the Kansas Belgian Hare
association last night
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
| been experimenting the opening of a
| new bank at Selden.
Uncle Sam wants recruits for the
| navy. People used to navigating prai-
| RE schooners may apply.
H. w. billiard, bailiff of the United
| States court, has gone to Colorado to
| spend part of his vacation.
Mr.. l. M. Jones, chief clerk in the
Santa Fe telegraph department. has re-
| turned after a vacation.
Charles Croskey has charge of the Y.
| NJ. c. A. gymnasium classes in the alb
| sence of TIE physical director.
But one plain drunk was arrested
yesterday. He was found in an alley
Harry Wood, who was serving a
twenty-five day sentence for whipping
his wife, was released yesterday.
A water stand is being placed at the
corner of Tenth and Topeka avenues
for the use of the street sprinkler.
The government has all the cavalry
recruits it needs The local station
wants men for artillery and infantry.
The promoters of the new Democratic
| paper for Topeka announce that they
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Topeka people who have already en-
| joyed their vacations envy those VINO
are now going away to summer resorts
Mr.. John Player. superintendent of
machinery of the Santa Fe, who has
been ILL., is again able to be at his office.
The secretary of the State Temperance
Union says that so far this year 100000
pages of literature have been distrib
uted.
Sam Alexander, sent to the peniten-
tiary from Shawnee county to serve
three years for grand larceny, escaped
Sunday.
Warden Tomlinson says that 900, 900
pounds of the 100000 pounds output of
Irvine at the Kansas penitentiary has
been sold.
An excellent likeness of Miss Ethelyn
Palmer, the Topeka actress, appears in
last Sundays issue of the New York
Telegraph.
lola lumbermen have joined the effort
on the part of the attorney general to
secure concessions in rates from the
railroads.
Johanna Bauer has sued Martin
Bauer for divorce on the grounds of i'll
treatment. She says her husband tried
to shoot her
Paul Carter of Cottonwood Falls, yes
terday enlisted in the Third infantry
and will leave to-day for China by way
of San Francisco.
Mr.. H. H. Arthur, formerly with the
Santa F'e accounting department in this
city, who has been visiting here, will
leave Monday for Montana
Councilman ]. B. Belts has the con-
tract for the building of the Coffey
county court house at Burlington, and
work was commenced to-day
Robert Pigg was tried yesterday on
the charge of selling liquor. No evil
dence was produced which would
establish the charge and he was re-
leased.
The Kansas Creamery company has
to be opened in Cottonwood Falls Sep
TENDER l, and the butter fat will be
shipped into Topeka.
Mr. James Dun, chief engineer of the
Santa F'e, who becomes consulting engi-
neer of the Santa F'e system on August
l, will leave for his new headquarters at
Chicago next week.
If the men who write to the governor
asking for chance to serve the coun-
try in the army will apply at the United
States recruiting station in Topeka they
will be accommodated.
A Topeka man who has raised seven
dozen spring chickens which are now
Just big enough for the pan, sits up at
night to watch the coops because cats
have been slaughtering the "frys.''
The people of Lowman Hill are with
out water service and the last three
fires in that neighbOrhoOd have burned
to the ground the buildings in which
they originated. They are now MAX
ing demands for water plugs
The sidewalk on West Tenth be-
tween Lincoln and Lane streets has
been torn up preparatory to its being
relaid with brick. Nothing further