The Topeka state journal., 1904-10-01
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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This must be the fall rainy season.
The rain seems to have routed the
elm tree worms.
The trial of city cases begins in the
district court October 10.
The Nissley Boys club will begin
the winter meetings tonight.
There are now eight Independent
telephones in the court house.
Halloween and Thanksgiving are the
next two holidays to be celebrated.
F. o. Popenoe is now regular COM
muter on the Highland Park limited
John Strickrott. the view photog-
City
County Attorney Hungate returned
yesterday from a very short visit to
Richland.
From now on the overcoat will pro-
bably occupy peg permanently in the
hall hatrack.
Car No. 93 on the city railway is so
small that it looks like toy beside
the big Vinewood cars.
The style in dogs is changing. The
fox terriers are giving way to the
little woolly poodle dogs.
Mrs. Howe of 171S Buchanan street
has gone to Clay Center for a short
visit with Mrs. John Jackson.
'The price of cordwood is up again.
Some farmers are Offering cordwood
at 81, and in ricks at Sc and 81.
Sheriff Lucas will take the prisoners
in the county jail under sentence to
the penitentiary to Lansing during
October.
Charles Moreau Harger has an
article in the October Woman's Home
Companion on Kansas corn and corn
carnivalS.
Howard Carruth, at washburn col
lege, is organizing a college band. Its
chief business will be to play "Boola''
at the football games.
County Clerk Newman offers to bet
$500 against SIS that Charles Curtis will
be elected. No one knows what the
color of the money is.
From the bungling manner in
which small burglaries are being COM
mitted one might think that Robert
Romaine II is at large.
Mrs. Belle De Rossiet, past grand
matron of the o. E. S. of Tennessee, is
visiting at the home of her uncle, E. C.
Webb, 522 Monroe street.
The Sons of Ichabod will try to play
football away from home if they can't
get a game on their own gridiron.
They are in Emporia today.
The Republican campaign in Shaw
nee county is running itself while
Chairman Philips of the county CEN
trail committee is in st. Louis.
1t is an i'll wind that blows no one
good. If the cold weather does put an
official Quietus on baseball it makes
football comfortable and possible.
Capital Ark No. 60, K. P. A, will give
a literary and musical entertainment
on Tuesday evening, October 4, at K
P. hall, corner Sixth avenue and
Quincy street.
The street sweepers have been work.
ed right along during the heavy rains
of the past few days, with the result
that the business thoroughfares look
cleaner now then at any time during
the summer.
On Sunday, October 9, the Woodmen
of the World will unveil a monument
Rochester cemetery. The regular cere-
money will be performed Patrick Co
ney will make the address.
Miss Ruby Beems, the 16-year-old
daughter of Mrs. ]. Beems. and Harry
Weaver, aged 19, ran away to Law
renee on September g and were mar
ried. They now are living with the
parents of the groom at III Madison
street
Now comes the season of the "big
minstrel carnivals with 40 black-face
artists count them, 4O," who double
in brass and cook and take tickets
and distribute bills or anything else.
Topeka always gets good share of
them every winter.
There is a Mason can famine in To-
peka. Quart cans are selling at 81
dozen and are practically unobtain-
able at any price. The manufacturers
are unable to supply the demand for
cans. The reason is said to be the un-
usually heavy fruit crop this year, and
the heavy demand for cans all over the
country.
The Rev. T. ]. Pierson will address
the City Y. M. c. A., III East Eighth
street, Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
His subject will be, why Stand Ye
All the Day Idle.' There will be good
music and a pleasant and profitable
hour is promised.
The lola Missouri Valley league team
and an aggregation known as All Pro-
fessionals have baseball game soho
duled at League park Sunday after
noon. Snowshoes, mittens, arctic socks, |
and a gas burner over each sack will
probably be necessary if the present
pace of weather continues.
The Vinewood Park company will
construct an artificial lake next spring
just southeast of the Vinewood railway
loop. At this point there is a ravine,
about one block in area. 1t is planned
to wall UP the ends, and make an even
on both sides, and then
pump the impression full of water from
the pumping station at the park. The
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