The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

today.
A F. Hilton of Chicago was here
Tuesday.
Dr. S. A Johnson left for Colorado
yesterday.
P. P. Smith, of Wichita, spent Tues
day in this city.
Ralph E. Valentine has been visit
| ing at Severance
z. P. Johnson, postmaster of Seneca,
| is here visiting.
J. w. Going has returned from bus
| mess trip in the east.
John Beard, of PaoIa. was in Topeka
/ on business yesterday
A new blade for the city's street
grader has been ordered.
A. Swallow. postmaster at Meriden. is
reported to be very sick
The grocers and butchers will meet
again next Monday night
| The Barber Asphalt company is re-
pairing East Eighth avenue
The pavement back of the Edison
plant was finished yesterday.
Ray Smith, of Emporia, is a new at
| tendant at the Topeka asylum.
Linden Hazen went to PhilIipsburg
today to hunt prairie chickens.
Representative R. R. Rees. of Mime
| apolis, was in Topeka last night
J. A. Haas has returned from a visit
to his old home at Philadelphia.
A. B. Kimball, editor of the Scandal
Journal, was in the city yesterday.
]. M Brown of Guthrie, Oklahoma. is
here visiting friends and relatives.
S. c. Henshaw of Emporia was a
caller at the federal building today.
The Swedish Lutherans are to have a
reception at their church this evening.
Dean R. Low has some horses en-
tered in the Colorado Springs horse
show.
It's three degrees hotter next door to
where the asphalt repairers are at
work.
J. F. Hessin of Manhattan was a To-
peka visitor Tuesday. He refused to
talk politics.
Miss Maud Phillips, a teacher in the
local public schools,is visiting her sister
at Oskaloosa.
Mrs. E. l. Rehkopf of Topeka is at
Burlington visiting her mother, Mrs.
H. "A. Eador.
Receiver E. j. Dallas viii sell the
Clements clothing stock in bulk on
next Tuesday.
JIM. Rogers ofLas Vegas is here visit
ing friends in the superintendent office
of the Santa Fe.
William R. Carter of the Industrial
and Educational institute wild speak at
Hill City tonight.
A policeman chasing a. negro woman
on Kansas avenue last night attracted
a crowd of 200 people.
The Langford automobile, the latest
to be brought to Topeka, is a, double
seated trap with &. top.
The street railway tracks on Kansas
avenue between Seventh and Eighth
streets are being repaired.
Phillip Fox, who lives at Manhattan,
is here visiting his father. Adjutant
General Fox. of the G. A. r.
The T. A. A. and Y. M. c. A. teams
are trying to arrange a game for the
Washburn grounds Saturday.
The young people of the Cumberland
esbyterian church gave social
Tuesday evening at the church.
Rev Mr. Hale of Topeka will COM
mence a revival at the Christian church
at Oskaloosa- in about two weeks.
Herbert Chacey, editor of the Merid-
en- Ledger, and Miss Ida Smith, assist
ant. were Topeka visitors yesterday.
W. H. Davis of the Parkhurst-Davis
company has returned from a weeks
time spent at Excelsior Springs, No
A. M. Harvey, who has returned from
a fishing trip on the Wakarusal insists
that he helped catch 100 pounds of fish.
A colored man who has charge of one
of the surface heaters for the asphalt
company, is six feet eight inches high.
Mrs. P Walsh, who lives at Fifth and
Tyler street, was taken to Stormont
hospital today where she lies seriously
i'll.
DR.. Thompson. a returned missionary,
will deliver a free lecture at the First
ming.
Mrs. J. Bivens has returned to her
home here after a visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Slack, at
EmpOria.
It's about time for the Wyman auto
mobile to emerge from its retirement
1t has been in process of construction
two years.
The next regular meeting of the
Shawnee Agricultural society will be
* II T0r6an'S a
Wakarusa.
George KIauer is to be tried before
Justice Disney in Oakland today for
selling liquor. There are Is counts
against him.
George H. whiteomb has returned
from Colorado. His family will remain !
at Green Mountain Falls until the sum-
mer IS over
E. D. AcKeever is beginning to wear
an anxious look much like that on B. |
H. Tracy's face. He is slated for Mr..
Tracy's assistant.
Chas. H Trap, James NJ Padgett, |
n. H Loomis and E. Ham, are the |
latest applicants for membership in the |
Commercial club.
Residents along Topeka and Tenth |
avenues are complaining that they !
haven't been paid a visit by the street
sweeper in months
Representative W. c. Millar. of Medi-
cine Lodge, is at the Copeland. He |
says Barber county corn will go 20 |
bushels to the acre.
Conductor B. E. Snyder of the city /
railway is now the senior conductor on
the line. He has been in the employ |
of the company for IA years.
It is surprising the number of men
who are taking their meals at board |
ing houses while their wives are away !
at summer resorts. this summer.
Theodore Lescher is now in Chicago
on his way home after seven years in
Paris He is very much French now,
beard and all. He is expected home
this week.