The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Tavsne brick for the College avenue
pavement commenced this morning
Rev. John A. Bright is in Halstead
today to deliver an L o. o. F. memorial
address.
The Jury in the district court expects
to clean I'D the trial oocAel ~ INC 1
of this month.
lack sharitt and Louis and Ray
BANTER will spend next week camping
at Maple Hill.
The II. A A and the insane asylum
ball teams are booked to play TINS al
ternoon on the asylum grounds
G. B. Payne, who spent three weeks
visiting around Memphis, Tenn, ana
other southern cities has returned to
Topeka.
state house offices will be open from
II to 1 o'clock tomorrow morning to
show off the capitol building to the
excursionists from Kansas city.
L. NJ. Greenwood is acting as judge
pro tenn of the city court during the
absence of Judge Arthur McCabe VINO
has gone to St Louis
The mems meeting of the z. NJ. c. A.
ON Sunday afternoon at o'clock will
be conducted by Major Sully, who has
returned to Topeka to live
The state tax revision commission au-
iourned for the week last night ana
went home having completed all out
about nine-tenthS of the bill.
Susie Drake secured q judgment IN
tha district court yesterday afternoon
against the Ancient Order OF the Fyra-
mids for 81, 80 life insurance due her.
The Comic Carnival at the Crawford
last night suffered in the way of an
audience on account of the weather.
The opera house was rather warm
The semi-annua1 inspection Of light
battery K N. G.. will be held Monday
night at the armory. Col. Metcalf will
conduct the inspection
The band concert by the Twenty-third
sx,1. r1r1f f7ff or
account of rain, will be given next
Wednesday night at Garfield park
Bergen and Dana have filed a motion
in the probate court for rehearlng OF
the Barbara Tauer claim for $4,000
against the Sells estate which was
awarded her by jury
Mayor Hughes is making out a list of
the special policemen whom he has
sworn in since he took his place as
rnavor There are more special police
in Topeka. than regulars.
CITY Engineer McCabe is trying to
make the water company stop laying
its mains at the time the pavement IS
being laid 1t causes the pavement to
sink to have newly laid water mains
Prof. A. D. Wilcox, secretary of the
state Temperance union, will give
short address at the Epworth League
meeting at the First M. E. church Sun
day evening.
There will be a Fourth of July cele-
bration at the insane asylum and the
officials of that institution are looking
for a crack, not cracked. orator. ANY
one who would like to crate to the ac-
compartment of a few crackers on the
Fourth might apply
A French expert has discovered that
absinthe is an excellent liquid to use IN
running an automobile. Too bad that
all the beer spilled by the Topeka police
could not be used in running an auto
mobile patrol wagon
The local Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity will attend the Chatauqua at
Beatrice in a body Sunday, June 80. A
special train will leave Topeka at 1850,
arriving at Beatrice at noon. Returning
the train leaves Beatrice at $50.
The Union League, a. colored organi-
zation, will hold a meeting Sunday al
ternoon at Asbury chapel in North To-
peka- The meeting will begin at 2.30
O'Clock. A chorus from the Kansas
Avenue Methodist church will assist
with the programme.
The last copy of the Kansas CONNER
cial News. the official paper of the Fed
Grated Commercial Clubs of Kansas, is
devoted almost exclusively to a write
up of Emporia. Each of the principal
cities of the state viii be "wrote-up'' in
succeeding issues.
Mayor Hughes u1timatum to the ef-
feet that the alley bounded by Eighth
avenue and Ninth street and Kansas
avenue and Jackson street should be
ESpdiIGOs HAChC CACdsdt4OuS were AdaCc
for steam pipes has not been needed.
He should call out the militia
The credentia1 committee of the new
military organization, the s A. W. V.
A, will sit at the office of DR. r. c.
Biddle next Wednesday evening to ex-
anime the credentials of the several ex-
soldiers who have applied for member
ship in Frank c. Armstrong Camp
No 1.
Major sully. formerly of the Saliva