The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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jail.
The last year straw hats have taken
vacation.
Potwin people are holding their city
election today.
The river is rising under the influence
of the late rains.
The police department cost the city
$1,000 lasC month.
There will be twelve extra policemen
on duty tomorrow.
County Jailer Burdge is well enough
to be at his desk again.
The Kelley league will have another
social tomorrow evening.
The regular meeting of the city coun-
Gil will be held tonight.
There is a girl in Topeka who has
birthday today, poor thing.
A handsome new docket book has
been opened at the city jail
The Ministerial union will meet tomor-
row evening at the First Baptist church.
Judge Hazen disposed of 225 cases
during the January term of the district
court
Albert Watkins has written an article
on Tammany and Parkhurst for the April
Agora.
Where is the man who advised people
to pawn their winter clothes? He is in
hiding.
A Democrat named Kennedy is the
latest addition to the police force as
special
April fool didn't prevent the bill col
lectors from getting an early start and
working late.
1t is predicted that Eastern Kansas
will have six inches of snow before to-
morrow night
A Topeka girl gave a penny party"
last week. That is some better than
Ehard times" social
A few people who donned their sum-
mer underclothes a few days ago, took
them off this morning.
Mr. Lorenzo Dow of New York, who
was the second mayor of Topeka, is Wis
iting old friends here.
Chief Wilmarth has condemned the
old house at 131 North Madison street
and it is being torn down.
The 81. w. Parker who is a candidate
on the "Municipal Socialism" ticket, is
the ex-Populist policeman.
The members of the Republican Flam-
| beau club will attend the meeting at
| Hamilton hall this evening"
! L. s. Ferry read paper on "'The Legal
Aspect of Strikes before the Saturday
| Night cluD at It's last meeting.
Mrs. Lou Mckenzie, who was called to
Holton "a week ago by the sudden death
Of her sister, returned yesterday.
Judge N. c. Mcfarland, who is now at
Deland, Fla, says the orange trees six
years old and younger are all dead.
Tom Verlin, who was badly hurt in
collision last September, began work to-
| day on the Santa Fe's Kansas City plug
run.
The police commissioners have given
Pete Gish an order for the $1O5 which
the district court said they must pay
him.
Answer to cores pondent-No, COX
ford" it is not in good form to wear your
new spring suit with a heavy overcoat
and rubber boots The effect is too vice
versa
Eli Grub, the Holton prisoner at the
county Jail, was Saturday convicte d of
serious offence in which a young girl is
interested, but has not yet been SEN
fenced.
The January term of the district court
was formally adjourned Saturday and the
April term begins tomorrow. This ID
motion day.
There will be big Republican meet
::2g at Hamilton hall tonight. The prin-
| cipaS speaker will be Congressman
Charles Cur >.
DR.. II. D. Fisher preached about the
three Hebrew children in the fiery fur
mace, at the Walnut Grove NJ. E church
last night.
Miss Nellie Wood daughter of Quak-
er preacher at Wichita, will represent
Indiana in the coming inter state orator
ical contest.
Rev. T. R Thoburn of the Walnut
Grove NJ. E. church, filed the pulpit of
the NJ E. church at his home at Pea
body yesterday.
A large number of Topeka young peo-
pie will attend the convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples union at Law
renee this week.
R B. Kepley, who is the Democratic
candidate for city clerk, is the most ac-
tive in his canvass of any of the Demo
cratic candidates.
At political meeting held at Stilley's
sail in Tennesseetown Saturday night,
speeches were made by both Republican
and Democratic candidates.
Rev. E B. Meredith. a Baptist minis
ter, has moved his family from Sioux
Falls, S. D., to Topeka, and will reside at
the Campbell property on West Tenth
street
DR.. G. Stanley Hall, president of the
Clark university at Worcester, Mass,
| lectured on "CnlI0 STUDY. at the nlgn
school building Saturday night to large
audience.
The sexton of one of the cemeteries
near Topeka burns off the dead leaves
and grass every spring and smokes up
the monuments. He is now getting
ready for this operation.
Hon. W. W. Thomas of Portland, Me-,
ex-minister to Sweden, will lecture
Hamilton hall Friday evening, April 10.
under the auspices of the Republican
Scandinavian Flambeau club.
Ed A. WAGNER is special master in
chancery to settle the claims of the cred
itors of E B. Purcell of Manhattan, and
all the creditors have been ordered to APP
.>.a- hofcro him ~ N ., hnttar III