The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21
SNAP SHOTS AT, HOME NEWS.


The Topeka schools closed last even-
ing for two weeks.
This is the greatest day in the year for
the retail merchants.
The Oxford minstrel show has been
indefinitely postponed.
The kindergartens all had closing holt
day exercises yesterday.
The man or woman without q bundle
looks lonesome just now.
The man who sweeps out the city
building has but one arm.
The council will meet Monday night
to pass the Christmas pay rolls.
The new members of the order of the
Eastern Star Will be installed this even
ing.
The Y. N. C. A. educational classes
will be discontinued during the holt
days.
Shoes are not being given to Mrs.
Thorpe for the poor. There is great need
of them.
The picture of George Stansfeld in
the directory looks as big as that of John
E. Moon.
The city sanitary officers have not yet
ordered the alley back of the city build
ing cleaned.
R. 7. Herrick has gone to Phoenix.
/ Ariz, to remain a month on business and
for his health.
The teachers in the city scho OILS will
be paid today. so they will have money
over Christmas
There is one man in town who does
not like to be asked, even in joke, if he
will cash check.
-Four prisoners were today transferred
from the state penitentiary to the Hutch
insoD reformatory.
A prominent county official was Sc
verely roasted this week for saying some.
thing he did not say.
How many of the toys purchased this
week will be in working order by next
Wednesday evening?
Governor Morrill, went to his home at
Hiawatha today. His family will have a
reunion on Christmas.
man who never did any charity got
generous yesterday and gave 8 of his Z
pairs of shoes to the poor.
a Topeka man who is opposed to hir-
ing doctors don't say he would do with
out one if he should get sick,
The Crow Comedy company is sorry it
can't play "Trilbv" here. The members
say they are at their best in it.
There was excitement in the Topeka
bucket shop yesterday while stocks were
being ham mered in New York.
At special meeting of the colored Z.
P lodge last night, fifteen members of
Fields minstrels were initiated
A meeting of colored people in North
Topeka this week Endorsed Constable
Fred Stonestreet for deputy sheriff.
Half the lawyers in town are now
wishing that they had their pictures
printed in Sam Radges' new directory.
1t is rumored that Sam Radges has
wired the president to draw on him for
funds. Evidently directories bring di-
rect results.
Every map of Venezuela in Topeka
has been busted off this week and half
the people in town are studying South
America geography.
People are actually stealing the news
papers from the police station. Several
policemen are working on the case, but
there are mo clues"
A Topeka woman who made her
Christmas presents has found too late
that they cost her more than If she had
bought them ready made.
There are several persons in Topeka
who would be glad to receive tax re-
ceipt signed by County Treasurer Frank
Stahl as a Christmas present
Harry Wagner, formerly an employe
ct Crawford's opera house, was fined So
at police court last night for quarrsling
with the janitor of the house
A. Washburn has successfully passed
through a difficult cataract operation for
the restoration of his vision, and is now
able to attend to his business duties.
A Topeka Republican says if Wichita
is to have one of the state conventions
next year, she can have the second one
which is TO nominate the state ticket.
The defense in the Matson murder
case is hoping that Judge Hazen will set
the trial for as early in next term as pos
sible. Novels side is ready, they say,
Mrs c. B. Sampson, who has been
seriously i'll for several weeks past, has
undergone an operation for mastoid alb
scess, and is now reported TO be improv-'
ing.
There is a blind man who can find
house numbers more readily than many
people with their eyes. A stranger hired
him the other day to take him to several
houses.
The police beat from Fourth to Sixth
streets on Kansas avenue is known as the
wagon beat" because it is the duty of
the officer patroling it to go out with the
patrol wagon.
DIR. n. A. Letson, the funny man of
the Washburn Glee Climb. made a decided
hit at the entertainment given by the
club in Kansas City Thursday night, &C.
cording to the Star.
Abilene lodge A. o. .. W. has adopted
lengthy resolutions sympathizing with
the members of the order in Topeka
whose wives bodies were stolen from
Rochester cemetery.
Smoky Row is deserted for few days.
The cider vendors are having no trade,
aud all is quiet The police say the deni-
zens of the Row are out getting money
for Christmas drunks.
~ have received a great many dona-
tions," said Police Matron Thorpe today,
shut people are still suffering terribly.
There isn't enough to go around" The
poor are always with u.s.