The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
The government thermometer got up
to 20 Friday.
The weather forecast said warmer
weather today.
The county institute at the highschool
closed yesterday.
It's about time for another rain-the
roads are smooth
This bids fair to be the noisiest Fourth
of July on record.
Kansas may become a summer resort
If this weather continues
The Vinewood people have torn up
the Ninth street track at last.
The old rails of the vinewood line
We're sold to an eastern man for s20,-
900.
Judge Hazen has granted Winifred
Pickering divorce from H. H. Picker
ing.
Bowling has almost become a fad in
Topeka and this in face Of the ping
pong craze.
Observer Jennings said the cold spell
was over. All over the country he prob
ably means.
Another block of the East Fourth
street pavement has been completed and
opened to the public
The T. A. A. will soon have a fine
ping pong table in use and the next
thing viii be tournament.
The indians We're q little slow but
they got to Topeka for the evening per-
Torrance of the Gentry show
The government weather bureau has
failed in its prediction for the past few
days, but this isn't the first time.
A Topeka man has concluded that the
only way he can get even with the
doctors VINO insist that he isn't sick is
to die.
Prof. J. W Dinsmore, dean of Berea
college, Berea, KY, is visiting his sis
ter. Mrs A. c. Maxwell, S21 Monroe
street.
Romeo and Juliet. the two ponies with
the Gentry show, were the first two
trained by Gentry. Romeo is now 30
years old.
John Charleston, government recruit
ing officer at Kansas City. is still hold
ing meetings at the Presbyterian church
in Oakland.
About 20 men We're sent to the wheat
fields yesterday. 1t was probably the
last shipment Of men for this season
The harvest is nearly over
Mrs. J. P. Harris, mother Of Mrs. 5.
F. Pankey, fell down stairs and broke
her leg Friday, at the home of her son,
W. W. Harris. in Oakland.
One Of the cars of the city railway
and a garbage wagon cOllided this morn
ing at Sixth and Jefferson. There We're
no casualties, but the dray was upset
A meeting will be held Tuesday night
at Trades Assembly hall 420 Kansas
avenue, to choose delegates to the
socialist state convention at En- poria
July 4.
A row Of big cottonwoods on West
Seventh. between Buchanan and Lin
coin streets has been condemned. This
is proba bly, the first result of Dean
KayS work.
Men are at work digging the dirt out
of the abandoned car track of the Vine
wood line on Ninth street between
Quincy and Monroe. This strip will
have to be paved.
The government weather bureau, after
careful and due elaboration. decided on
June p that the preceding May was
warm and wet. "Cider" Smith knew
that four weeks ago.
The man whom most people think is
Gentry at the Gentry shows is really
Harry Weaver, the ringmaster. Gentry
doesn't show himself, though he is real
" good looking man
The Shawnee Cooperative association
operative grocery in the Vea1e block
on July Is. A general meeting of the
stockholders is to be held at 420 Kan
sas avenue on July g.
The Kansas City & Topeka electric
line, backed by Winner and others, has
| accepted the franchise offered by the
county commissioners of Wyandotte
county. The work of grading for the
road will begin on Monday.
Prohibitionists living in the vicinity
3
erson club Monday evening at ga Nor
ris avenue. Rev. F. w Emerson, can
didate for governor on that ticket will
speak and the Tralion quartette will
sing.
DR. Eva Harding says that she will
| try to get the next legislature to pass
a law providing that parents of bad
| boys and girls shall be put into some
! penal institution instead of sending the
| bad boys and girls themselves to the
reform schools.
Mrs. Matte Heath and daughter
| Camille of Denver are guests of Elmer
Miller, 1886 Chandler street, and they
| were entertained informally Thursday
! evening at a gathering of a dozen
| friends They will remain in Topeka
several days longer.
w. w. Fisher purchased of Bennett
! r. Wheeler. receiver of the Investment
6S4 and all of lot $50, on Harrison
! street, in Walnut Grove additiOn-S850
| There IS a twO-stOry and a five-stOry
! house on the property.
Nels Mcconnell, the official dog
/ catcher. killed a mad dog yesterday at
4 712 Chandler street. The dog went mad
Thursday, but was not caught until
/ Friday. 1t was then shut UP in a shed.
and Mcconnell shot the animal through
a knot hole 1t is not known whether
the dog bit any other dogs during its
travels.
The Christian Endeavor societies of
the city viii hold union echo meeting
/ tomorrow evening in te First Presby-
terrain church at 6:45 p. m, to hear re-
/ ports from delegates who attended the
| recent Christian Endeavor convention at
Leavenworth. over 80 delegates from
I Topeka attended the convention, which
/ has been the best, in point of attend
ance and character Of programme, held
for years. E. r. Simon. president Of
/ the local c. Z. union, viii preside, and
| Prof. Samuel Tracy will have charge OF
/ the singing.
The following is from the New York
Dramatic Mirror from the topeka cor
respondent, Thomas r. Hyatt: THE
only 8ns thing at either r. Of our regular lar
past week has been the generous COB
Of mortar in my own optic which I