The Topeka state journal., 1901-08-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

B. G. Horton is here from Hutchin-
son.
Dean Low was in Kansas City yester-
J. s Pursol. of Paola, is in the city
today.
f. B. Henderson was in from Alma
yesterday.
Dr. L. Y. Grubbs went to Newm an
this morning.
H. q. Nudge has returned from his
trip to Chicago
William Butler. jr.. has returned
from Colorado.
The coal war in Topeka is showing
signs Of abatement.
Thos. Bowles SIG Harrison street, re-
turned last night from Fort Scott.
H. H. Russell. of Blue Rapids, was
here yesterday on a business trip.
w. H. Herbig. commercial agent at
Wichita, was in the city last night.
The business block at Alb Kansas ave-
nue. is undergoing much needed repairs.
Big corn stories are already here. The
drouth did not affect them in the least.
Some excellent examples of Kansas
watermelons are appearing in the mar
ket-
0. f. Hungate entertained a few
friends at a prairie chicken supper last
evening.
a.
are trying a lawsuit at Cottonwood
Falls today.
City Attorney Charles F. Spencer is
expected home from Colorado Springs
next Friday.
The Kansas river has resumed its old
level and boy can easily throw a stone
across the channel.
@. L. Wood of the National hotel has
charge Of the privileges at Garfield
park on Labor day
The Republican Flambeau club will
be in at the death at the Clyde water
melon feast tomorrow
David Overmyer spent his boyhood
days on a farm and he says it was the
happiest time of his life.
That old-time song. ",rhe Mystery of
the Hanson Cab might be apprOpr1-
ately revived in Topeka just now
F. 2. Maegly. assistant general
today from a trip to Kansas City.
B. r. Bevelle, the bicycle detainer, has
been hors de combat for several days
and the riders of cinder paths made
hay"
The annual conference of the mission
aries of the American Sunday School
union will meet on August 80 at Y. NJ
c. A. hall.
Forty members of the Topeka Flam-
beau club are off today for a big water
melon feast at Clyde. They left on the
ROCK Island.
City License Collector Forbes collect
ed s46s-25 in licenses during the month
of August This is a gain Of S9505 over
August, 1900.
About the best advertisement Topeka
has for people passing through on the
Rock Island is the new Parkhurst-
Davis building.
The camp meeting which the United
Brethren people have been holding at
fha "a ST fan la
been concluded.
A north bound Washburn car slipped
the trolley and knocked down some tel
ephOne wires just below the transfer
station Tuesday evening
Mr. G. N. S. Thompson Of New York
city, stopped over in Topeka today
among relatives and friends. He will
leave for Salina tomorrow.
It turns out that it was Harvey
Tincher and not Conductor J. H. Tin
cher who drew claim in Oklahoma.
Their initials are the same.
Lee Jones famous family Of pointer
puppies has been broken. One of them
got his head through a fence and when
he was found he was dead.
The prisoners in the city prison or
ganized a quartet lately. and last night
favored that section of the city with
some very interesting music.
Mayor Hughes says that he is in
favor OF having all the banks and
business houses close up for the day
that the Banda Rosa is in Topeka
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon will read
his latest pulpit story, The Wheels of
the Machine" at the Fort Scott Sun
day school convention, Septem Der 20.
Frank L. Guy, a graduate of the To-
peka high school, has gone to Fort
Madison, Ia, to work in the civil engi-
neering department of the Santa Fe.
A wild rumor that the west side road
house had been raided started Tuesday
evening was a. mistake. of course The |
officers wouldn't do anything like
that.
Mayor ]. w. f. Hughes secured the
contract from the county commission
ers yesterday to supply the coal to the |
county for the coming year for $3.50 a |
ton.
R F. Hayden. who has been repre- |
senting Kansas in the national council |
of the. Knights of Columbus, held re-
Gently at New Haven, Conn, has re-
turned
Mr.. A. W. Majors. state agent for the |
Tontine Savings association, has re- |
turned from Minneapolis, Mimi, where /
he attended the annual meeting of the |
association
Mrs. Clara Jordan and daughter. Miss |
Helen Jordan of st. Joe. returned home |
yesterday, after a pleasant visit with /