The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HUME NEWS
". ". eavite has returned from the
rhe Chesterfield hotel was closed
today.
The gas company is laying new pipe
on Clay street.
The PAYERS are working on Buchanan
street north OF Fifth.
Mayor Hughes win build $275 addi-
ton to his house in Potwin.
Dean Low, the Topeka Chesterfield,
was in Kansas City yesterday.
Ed Mckeever is attending to some
business affairs in Valley Falls
Mrs Nora Frey and children left to-
day for her home in Victor, Colo
DR. A. @. Sloan was overcome by the
beat Saturday He is improving
Ex-Governor John P. St John is
again lecturing on temperance
". Littleheld. former Topeka attor-
ney, was up from Kansas City Monday.
Dean J. ". sykes was registered at
the Blossom house, Kansas City yes
terday.
Hay touched the high water mark
Of $50 q ton on the local hay market
yesterday
iced cold picked pigs feet are the
latest hot weather food to be furnished
by the butchers
There Will be a ball game at Wash
burn athletic field Saturday between
the pension Office team and the z N
c A.
People now commence TO figure on
rain. When appointments are to be
made the reply is. TN be there II II
don't rain"
John Benson. foreman of Huntoon's
livery barn of Jackson street, had a leg
broken by kick from a vicious horse
Monday afternoon
Norman Ramsey has returned from
St John, Kas-- where he has been
working in a wheat field He viii start
soon for West Point
1t has been suggested that the Kar-
nivaI Knights and the TWenty-tn1rd
regiment band parade Kansas avenue
during the first rain
National Bank Examiner c. s Jobes
and wife were the guests Of Warden
JeWett at the Denitentiary at Lansing
Sunday. just for the day
Patrons of the street car company
are making complaints because closed
cars without window shades are being
used during the hot weather
The long pile OF burning coal at the
east end of the Santa F'e yards IS stlA
smoking away and filing the neighbor-
hood with obnoxious gases
The Sons OF the American Revolution
will hold their summer quarterly meet
ing at the State Historical rooms We'd
nesday afternoon at ESQ o'clock
About nine tons Of state school laws
are being sent out to the school Off
GERS Of the state. Tt requires $4,000
copies Of the book to supply them all
William F. Higgins. of Gaiena, ex-
secretary of state and now of the
Dawes commission in the Cherokee Ma !
family.
Baby Lund, who played here with a
1-2-3 show last season. is at St Joe I
where she will play in vaudeville she I
she has been playing
DIT. w 3. Swan sees good in the l
drought for he says Kansas is healthy 1
and wet weather might bring fevers-
Dry weather seems to make some peo-
PIE sort of feverish-
Albert D. Cronk. editor of the Stat
ford County Republican, an influential
Kansas newspaper, died Sunday night
at Stormont hospital where he had
been taken for an operation
Ottawa is figuring on having re-
union of the First regiment. Kansas
National Guard. some tine this coming
fall A reunion OF the Twentieth Kan
sas NAV be held at the same time
Harry Bone contemplates forming a
law partnership with Judge Frank
Price Of Ashland. following his retire
attorney Mr. Bone was formerly from
Alex Spencer. son OF City Attorney
Spencer. and Frank Clancy. son OF
Senator John r Clancy, have set up
g business of their own in front of
their homes on Clay street. and they
dispense lemonade and ice cream to
their playmates.
William c. spriggs. Of Topeka was in
Wa shington. d. G.. few days ago and
in an interview in the Washington Post
said he was going to return to his old
home. Scotland. on the largest ship
adoat, the Celtic. He came to this
country on the City OF Rome. then one
Of the largest craft afiOat
The Blue Jays" OF Sloan lodge No
2z5 A. F. & A. NJ. viii hold their an
nual reunion Friday evening The in
vitations say. Second annual long feet
in Captain W. G.. #. Reichenbach's
yard. northwest corner Second and
Western avenue Friday. July 10. 1900
a little after dark 50 that the lanterns
win look bigger"
The Street Railway company win run
two extra trains on The Oakland run
Sunday II the traffic is sufficient to war
rant them Nov two cars are run 50
minutes apart Sunday evening trail
ars were put on each motor car but the
people who wished to ride around the
loop could not al and room with four
cars; SO III necessary the company will
put on four trains of two cars each
next Sunday.
An ali day Grange picnic VIII be given
at Oak Grange hail. seven miles south
west Of Topeka. next Friday. July r.
Speeches viii be made by D. J. West