The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS,


The soda water fountains are being
polished up.
Speaker Lobdeu expects to leave for
home Thursday.
The Republican primaries will be held
next Saturday.
The Rock Island shop employees at
Horton will be paid tomorrow.
Potwin has given more to charity this
winter than any other part of the city.
The Lake View club is holding its
annual election of officers this afternoon.
F. D. McCollum, proprietor of the Ma
tional, is mind reader, to some extent
1t showed Sunday night and rained
last night. What will it do tonight?
Dry up.
No one suspects that Mr.. Bird the new
labor commissioner, intends to Feather
his nest"
The name of the Amphion club is pro-
nounced Amph- eye-on with the accent on
the ''eye."
Capt. Joe Waters does not like osten-
tation. He will not even put out his
lawyers sign.
All efforts to make pipe-smoking the
proper thing in Topeka will fall fat
Topeka is not Atchison.
The district visitors of the Associated
Charities are holding a meeting this
afternoon at Library hall.
A Topeka grocer keeps a sign stuck in
the apple barrel in front of his store,
eve are watching you"
o. A Pier chief clerk at the Rock
Island offices, is at home sick. He is
threatened with pneumonia.
St Patrick's day comes on Sunday this
year. This makes a great opportunity
for the wearing of the green.
Lincoln post g. A. r. will give a re-
ception tonight for the new department
commander, ]. P. Harris and staff.
State Superintendent Stanley goes to
his home at Lawrence every night. All
state officers ride on railroad passes.
A few Topeka people may have pink
eye, but the chances are microscope
wouldn't show anything green there.
Secretary of State Billy Edwards, took
his wife and went to the Amphion con-
cert last night Wonder if he liked it?
The dog owners are anxious that Coun-
Gilman Burgess dog ordinance should
be resurrected and passed 1t reduces
the tax.
Mayor Harrison read a paper on "1he
Philosophy of Farming" befo1e the is
sion township farmers institute one day
last week.
The state board of public works has
employed Architect ]. G. Haskell to SUI
periutend the work on the Hutchinson
Reformatory.
Ex-Adjutant General Davis is talking
of moving his family from Stockton to
Lawrence. to send his children to the
state university.
DR.. Ida G. Barnes and DR.. Lindsey read
papers before the Topeka Academy of
Medicine and Surgery at its regular
meeting last night
Lee Jones owns the largest palm west
of the Mississippi river. 1t is said to be
over hundred years old. The plant has
not always belonged to Lee.
1t gives some of the fourteen candi-
dates-candidate for justice of the peace
the chills to think that only three of
their number can be nominated.
The question in the JOURNALS head
lines last night, "Has the Rock Island
Got It?" is answered by a Santa Fe
official, Yes, got it bad" These jealous
railroads!
When the new dam is completed the
people of Topeka will be greatly in
debted to Mr.. II. C. Corwin as the orig
inal dam boomer who never became dis
couraged.
1t is stated that the Leavenworth, To
p6ka q southwestern Eai1rOaQ IS not
earning actual expenses, even under the
present economical direction of Receiver
Mcclellan.
The Kansas Medical college will grad
uate eight new doctors this month. The
commencement exercises will he held
Thursday evening, March 20, in the high
school building.
Rev. Joseph Denison of Topeka is one
of the two surviving members of the
first Methodist conference held in Kan
sas. The first conference was held at
Lawrence in 1856.
There is one restaurant in Topeka
where the walters order 'sCoIlar- buttons"
"Shipwrecks for two" and ''White
wings. sunny side up" All the restaur-
ants are not so up to date.
The funeral of Frank Kamuf, the To-
peka barber who died at Ottawa, took
place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from
Hogan's undertaking rooms. The pail
bearers were members of the BARRIERS
union.
Only two counties, Morton and Grant,
have not received their share of the seed
wheat being distributed by the state
board Of railroad commissioners. The
commissioners of these counties have
not yet fled their applications.
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