The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Hughes donned his reginentdls,
In Don Qufxote style.
And rode to meet the soldiers
Just out of town a mile.
The captain heard him coming
And spied him trough his glass;
he saw his gold lace trimmings
And spurs of hammered brass
Then like We famous king of Spafns
The captain, and his men,
Turned around right where they were
And then marched home again.
H. A. Perry and wife have gone to
Boston.
Mrs. James Rankin and daughter
have gone to Buffalo, N Z.
People will play ping pong no matter
Row hot the weather becomes.
Mrs. e. H Fosdick and children left
Thursday for Benton Harbor, Mich
Pat Coney and r. B. WEIGH viii be
the Fourth Of July speakers at Holton.
The highest point reached by the gov
eminent thermometer Thursday was 80.
Bananas have slun0ed in price The
best can be bought for Is cents a dozen
now.
Tom Potter of Peabody. the man who
would be governor, was in Topeka
Glen Davis has returned to his home
in Topeka after several weeks visit in
Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Graves and MRS.
Homer Ray went to St. Joseph. Mo.
this evening.
Street Commissioner Griggs has fixed
up a place to tie horses in the rear of
the Auditorium.
Della NJ. Beck was granted a divorce
from her husband, Edward Fl. Beck, by
Judge Hazcn Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Schmuelzer Of
Wichita and formerly residents of To-
peka are the parents of a boy.
Two Of IronquilTs s'1Joblemen Of italy
OF attenuated rank" were in Topeka.
Thursday grinding street organ.
The Fort Riley regulars did not enter
Topeka They came as far as the re-
form school and then went back.
A case of eiaickenpox has been re-
ported today in the family of H c.
Campbell, 1903 Washington street.
A street piano doing business in the
city last night played Albert Reeds
Guardians of Liberty march. Such is
fame.
Irene Kettle. the Topeka girl who was
hurt at Emporia Tuesday by being
thrown from horse, is improving
rapidly
The n. c. B. team is making a rec
ord in baseball games of few errors
In the game Thursday they made but
one error.
Notwithstanding the fact that the long
looked for CRASHED cattle are coming
into the market the prices Of meat con-
l4uuC III SOdEs
Topeka is enjoying another building
boom. Eight new business blocks from
two to four stories high are to be COM
pleted this year.
Earl Mcfarland left Thursday for
West Point, N. Y where he VIII ma
circulate as a cadet at the United States
Military academy
Whether the library given by Car
negie was named for one Anderson or
another makes little difference to the
Emporians. They have the library.
The Topeka Scottish. society will meet
at Judge G414hriefs office Saturday night
to make arrangements for a picnic to
celebrate the battle of Bannoekburn.a
L. Reaser who was arrested in city
court for assault and battery, was fined
81 and costs this morning. He slapped a.
man as the result Of an election squa.b-
BILE. f.s
Frank Thomas is building two houses
on the east side Of Van Buren, street
between Fifth street and Sixth avenue
Harry Steinberg is 10 occupy one of
them.
The work of tearing out the small
building next to the Central National
bank has commenced. The site will be
occupied by Chas. J. Devlin's new three
story block.
The work Of moving the state house
lawn commenced today. The grass has
been allowed to go to seed for the pur-
/ pose of making a thicker turf and
starting new grass.
Superintendent G. w. Jones Of the
Rock Island. whose headquarters were
moved here from Horton recently, has
| gone to Horton to move his family and
household goods here.
A mustang hitched I'D to a grocer
delivery wagon created some excitement
in front of the Y NJ c. A building this
morning. The mustang tried to buck
himself loose from the wagon.
Thursday evenings band concert at
Garfield park had to be called off be-
cause there was weather to beat the