The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The city council will meet in adjourned
session tonight.
Ex-Secretary of State w. z. Bush is
here from Fort Scott
The ladies of the Seabrook church will
give a social this evening.
Tennis is beginning to come to the front
once more as a popular game.
James H. Reeder, the Hays City attor-
ney, was in the city last night.
The Washburn ball team plays Ottawa
Saturday on the Topeka grounds.
The city office wing of the new city
building is almost ready for the roof.
Mr.. Jennings guessed right. He an
nounced Monday that it would rain
There have been liz building permits is
sued since the beginning of the year.
The tinkle of the ice cream wagon bell
is once more a familiar sound on the
street.
J. D. NJ Hamilton of the Santa Fe will
deliver the Memorial address at Newton
this year.
The district court room is filled by col
ored people interested in the Johanna Du-
pree murder trial.
Strawberries have got down to price
where shortcake now has a place on the
menu of church Socials.
The ice trust has done away with the
three horse ice wagon that was seen last
year. The trust is only two horse af-
A garden party will be given on Friday
evening by the Epworth league at the
residence of Frank Cope on Harrison
street.
Another state meeting to be held in
Topeka soon is the Kansas State Letter
Carriers association, which will meet
on May so.
Sheriff Cook has a standing offer with
several of his friends to take them fish
ing and to furnish all the things neces-
sary to the trip.
Postmaster Guthrie has received notice
that money orders for Porto Rico will be
issued as domestic orders in the future
instead of foreign.
The grand lodges of the knights of
Pythias and the Rathbone sisters are in
sessions this week at lola, and a number
OF Topeka people are in attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Zimmerman are
the parents of a daughter. Mr.. thinner
man is stenographer in the general pas
senger department of the Santa Fe.
H. b. Hogeboom has been appointed
first lieutenant and assistant surgeon of
the artillery of the Kansas National
Guard and he is now ready to sew up
wounds.
The Republican F1ambeau club meets
Wednesday night. After the meeting the
members me. viii parade on Kansas avenue
the state convention.
The Elks have received a part of the
e poo IS f Or their new i15rary The books
bers are not expected to bury themselves
behind yellow back.
There will be two state meetings held
in Topeka during the street fair. One will
be the state federation of Commercial
clubs and the other will be the state
meeting of the letter carriers.
Stewart st. John who was arrested for
breaking into the Union Pacific depot at
Rossville last week yesterday pleaded
guilty to the charge in the Justice court
at Rossville and was fined 500 and costs.
John a. Bright, the present grand mas
ter of the Odd Fellows, does double duty
in his travels over the state He delivers
lectures to local lodges through the week
and on Sundays he breaches in the
churches.
The Brotherhood of St. Paul of the
First NJ E. church held a meeting last
evening and considered the insurance fea-
4 ture of the brotherhood. This feature is
in force in some of the eastern churches
and is similar to the plan proposed in
the Central Congregational church.
When doctors fail try Burdock Blood
Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, constipation;