The Topeka state journal., 1902-07-30
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS


For now the style is for hickory shirts.
For Ama Ian hands an & With Ils pipg,pong sailsns'
With a good, substantial ga1lus
The Topeka baseball team is at West
moreland today.
The walls of the addition to the Edi-
son plant are about half uD.
Neale & Shepherd, the sign painters,
have moved to Kansas City.
Col. Curly" Harrison of Ottawa and
Topeka has returned to Kansas after q
vacation in the east
Mrs. c. Murdz of 1923 North Jefferson
street was operated on for eye troubles
at Storm ont hospital yesterday.
DR.. c. r. Silverthorn, company sur
geon of the Rock Island road, stationed
at Mcfarland, was in the city yester-
day.
H. p. Miller, the Democratic nominee
for county clerk, better known as Pete"
office.
The mercury in the government ther-
mometer registered only SS Tuesday af-
ternoon. The suns rays felt 10 degrees
hotter than that.
The Northwestern Missionary Baptist
association has filed a request with the
city clerk for the use of the Auditorium
August Is to II.
The work of repairing the street rail-
way bridge will probably be completed
by Saturday in time for the Wo0dman
picnic at Garfield park
The Western Negro Press association
Will begin session in Topeka on Mon
day. The railroads expect to issue quite
a lot of passes for the occasion.
Captain j. G. Waters has been in
Goodland for week. During his alb
sence the chess tables at the T. A. A.
have been repaired and strengthened.
w. K. Etter, the new chief clerk for
General Superintendent Hurley of the
Santa Fe, assumed his position yester-
day. He takes the place of w. c. uette
There will be social at the home Of
the Misses BisseH on south Kansas ave
men of the Walnut Grove Methodist
church.
The Shawnee Building and Loan as
sociation's plan of making loans on a
definite contract is, very popular with
the borrower. Interest only on the un-
paid balances.
1t is said to be quite as fashionable
now to take the wrong Panama hat in
a restaurant or public place as it is to
take the best umbrella regardless of
who is its owner.
Ralph Cav, official stenographer in
for his vacation. There is now no ore
left in the district court room but the
two summer loafers.
A meeting will be held Friday evening
at the National hotel to make prelimi-
nary arrangements for the Kansas
Poultry show which will be held OF the
Topeka Auditorium next winter
Twelve hundred dollars have been
subscribed by Topeka business men as
guarantee fund for the state fair as
sociation-. The committee will secure
subscriptions to amount to $1,000.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team will, play the team from Valley
Falls on the Washburn grounds a week
from Saturday. Next Saturday the team
will play the nine from Scranton.
The tennis finals of the Y. M. c. A.
tournament will, be played tonight. The
Charles Croskey A, number of Topeka
players will enter the tournament at
Kansas City next month.
Wilson Humpbrfes, foreman of the
Santa Fe fuel department. at Arkansas
City was brought to the Topeka hospi-
tai this morningr with two fractured
ribs, the result Of a. coal chute pocket
falling upon him. Monday afternoon.
Under Sheriff Hal; Williams went to
Richland Tuesday afternoon to arrest
Mrs. Sally Zirkle who was released from,
the Topeka insane. asylum a short time
ago. She became violent again and will
have to be returned to the institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Lander, of Kan
sas City, are the parents of a baby girl.
Mr.. Lander was formerly a telegraph
operator in this place and for time
worked extra at the State Journal. He
is similarly employed in Kansas City.
DIR. ]. E. Minney is farming a little
on the side nowadays. Among other
things he has some fine looking corn.
He says he hopes the neighbors will
not be alarmed if they hear any noises
ing.
Anton Broda, the Slav who was found
wandering about the city last winter
with his feet frozen, was released from
Christ hospital Tuesday afternoon and
was sent to the poor farm by the eoun-
ty commissioners. Both his feet were
amputated.
At meeting of the board Of health
last night the plans for the new pest
house were inspected. The pest house
will consist of two stories and base
ment, and will probably cost $500, be-
sides the cost of the land, which was
$1,000. 1t will be made of brick or
stone.
Several members of the Topeka
Knights of Columbus council are PLAN
ming to attend the institution of a lodge
at Wichita, August "a. 1t will be an
important event in the annals of that
order, representatives from all over the
west having signified their intention of
attending.
+ The ping pong tournament match be-
tween the Elks and the Topeka club
5. The Topeka club men are now in
training for the event. One player was
eliminated from the Topeka club team
yesterday on account of heart trouble.
1t was thought that he might not sur
vive the contest.
Arthur Highley and Miss Maud Ham
mer of Pardee, came to Topeka the 9TH
er day to wed. After engaging minis
ter Highley went to get his bride and
was gone SO long that the preacher de-
cided his ATTEMPT to win her had been
futile, and left The couple was finally
married by another parson-
Topeka is being infested by feas.
Perhaps you have noticed it. The f1eas
are the small species commonly called
sand f1eas, but unfortunately they do
not confine themselves to the sand.
They bite like chiggers and are almost
as hard to catch. If you find some red
spots on your person which you can't
account for any other way, the chances
are that you have been serving as a
lunch counter for a sand flea
The ST. Joseph Elks will have some
August antics from August 25 to 30 In