The Topeka state journal., 1901-08-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Robert Thompson is sojourning in
1 New Mexico.
The state live stock sanitary commits
/ sion met today.
Jackson's band played at Garfield
/ park last night.
Why not have an automobile race in
! Topeka this fall?
c. S. Duncan was in Argentine and
Lawrence today.
Many Topeka sportsmen shoot tur-
1 tie doves in lieu of quails.
Talk about sizzling heat-Sunday was
a day long to be remembered
The executive mansion can now be
| reached by means of pavement
A large crowd said good-by to Mar
shall's band Saturday afternoon.
Ex-County superintendent John W.
Stout has returned from Wichita.
/ Topeka avenue people complain of the
smoke from the Moeser ice factory
With favorable rains the apple crop
in Shawnee county will be immense.
There are only three weeks more of
vacation for the pupils Of the city
schools.
The asphalt paving gang will do
most Of its work this week in North
! Topeka.
Senator Burton says he will be in
Topeka September 3 and and he was
not joking.
Cider Smiths shower predictions
are being fulhned but they are very
light indeed.
Conductor Tincher of the city railway
was the toll collector on the old Kansas
avenue bridge
McGreevy. who pitched for Topeka
in '9S, is the Bloomington clubs win
ming pitcher
John switzer is an expert squirrel
hunter. He learned to hunt in Prebble
county, Ohio.
The Topeka hotels are quiet now-an
occasional politician furnishing about
the only diversion.
The Smith one seated automobile has
been turned out of the paint shop. 1t
is much improved.
There is clerk in the state house
who is convinced that he knows all
about newspapers.
J. D. NJ Hamilton. claims attorney
for the Santa. Fe, has gone to Chicago
for few days visit.
MarshalTs band played three se1ec-
tions on the depot platform before their
train arrived Saturday.
Otto kreugler, who formerly played
ball in Topeka. is winning glory at
third base for st. Louis.
James NIozee and Eroie BiEley were
taken to the Hutchinson reformatory
Saturday by Sheriff Cook.
II. u Nudge, general manager of the
Santa Fe. went to Chicago Sunday
evening in his private car.
The horsewhipping of Thomas Archer
was the feature of Saturday nights
Kansas avenue happenings.
Myron White, the big guard on the
Washburn football team last season,
viii go to Ann Arbor this fall.
Wagon loads of home grown water
melons now appear on street corners.
They are not so large as formerly.
L. T. Yount is acting secretary of the
Commercial club during the absence Of
Major Tom Anderson in Louisville.
What has become of Chief Stahls in
tention of raiding the Turner's? Per
haps he was only joking after all
Dick Cooley. who is playing in left
field for the Boston ball team, is sec
ond in batting, with a percentage of
.304.
The Tenth avenue road west is
favorite drive for love lorn couples.
Ten were counted within two miles last
night.
Congressman Charles Curtis is home
from tour in southern Kansas where
he has been making speeches at reun-
ions.
J. s. Hand ard family are now oc-
cupyfng the residence at 70S Harrison
street, having moved from sos West
street.
B. H Tracy and Charles E. Sheldon
completed another sojourn at Excelsior |
Springs, and came on to Topeka last |
Sundays hot weather made the soda
water men think of bygone days when |
the mercury seemed stationary at 100 |
or a DOFe.
The bass drum and xylaphone artist |
in the Grand Opera house orchestra, /
Kansas City, looks like Senator J.
Ralph Burton.
The open cars to Oakland ran in |
trains of two Sunday, and were well |
patronized. 1t is really a pleasant trip /
around the loop.
Thursday. September 12 is the date
selected for the annual picnic of the /
Ohio association of Kansas. It will be
at Garfield park
Miss Eunice Lyman, a returned mis-
sionary from South Africa. will speak
Thursday evening at the First Congre-
gational church.
Senator Burton is announced to visit
Topeka Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week He went from Kansas City to
Ga1ena Saturday evening.
NJ. E. YOunl1in, the dog tax collector
turned into the city treasury $96 last
Saturday as a result of his weeks work
among the CANNES of the city
Col A. B. Jetmore has adopted the
prevailing fashion and has sacrificed his
beard SO that he, too. bears a resem-
blance to President Mckinley.
c. L. Hobart. of the Mail and Breeze.
has gone to Louisville to attend the
Knight Templars' conclave. Mr.. Hobart
lives in Topeka but is a member of the
Newton commandery.
Mr.. and Mrs. T F. Doran have re-
turned from trip to Morris county.
No one would think by taking a trip
into the country around Topeka that
there has been a drouth.
Globe-Democrat: Dick Cooley COW
cred himself with glory Friday He
cracked out three safeties one a
double, and pulled down eight flies
without skip in the left suburb.
Governor Stanley has honored areouf-
ton from the governor of Nebraska for
man named Edward Mile, who is un-
der arrest in Coffey county. He is
wanted in Nebraska for horse stealing.
Most Of the Christian Endeavor So
,ieties of the city elected delegates to
The Eighth district Endeavor conven-
ton to be held in WestnOreIand this
week. Abou+ fifteen delegates win so
from Topeka