The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Governor Morrill, spent Sunday at his
home at Hiawatha.
There is to be an adjourned meeting
of the city council tonight.
The Christmas plum pudding has been
made and put away to ripen.
The bids for the bridge bonds are to
be opened a week from tomorrow.
Rev. A. E. Wagner addressed the Rail
road Y. N. C. A yesterday afternoon.
Stoves are now in nearly all the street
cars; next, let Us have fires in the stoves.
Chief clerk Doncyson of the Pension
office is seriously i'll at his home, $50
Tyler.
One of the big wells at the old water
works has been dismantled and the roof
taken off
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilton of 1918
North Harrison street are the parents OF
a daughter.
Prof. Eli G. Foster of Harrison school
has written a reference manual of United
States history.
There were one hundred people skat-
ing on the river above the Rock Island
bridge Sunday.
Edward Wilder is in favor of placing
the Associated Charities under the con-
troll of Ingleside.
A new stone coping has been put
around Mr.. Cages soldiers monument
in the Topeka cemetery.
Mayor c. A. Fellows is one of the
bondsmen of the contractors for the vault
doors at the state house.
There is young woman in Topeka
who is anxious to see ladies foot ball
team organized IN Topeka.
Bishop Vincent is having a serious
time with his Voice. He has taken
fresh cold and is worse again.
The Price family vault in the Topeka
cemetery, just completed. is one of the
finest of the new ones built there.
The Santa Fe lawyers and bondholders
will arrive in Topeka in train of special
! cars at o'clock tomorrow morning.
Hazel, the sevan-year-old daughter of
| Charles Nelson; has entirely recovered
from a severe attack of scarlet fever.
Warren the two year old son of T. B.
| McCauley Gied yesterday with Group and
was buried in the Topeka cemetery at 4
p m. today.
Chief Justice Martins decision in the
mortgage redemption case is the princi-
pal subject of conversation among To-
peka lawyers.
Rev. DR.. Bailey gave another lecture
on the book of Revelation this morning
before the Ministerial union at the Y. NJ.
c. A. rooms.
Superintendent Howell of the reform
school says most of the boys in that in
stitution are there because of their lack
of home training.
Forty-two patients were cared for at
Christ hospital during the mon h OF
November Fourteen of these were
charity patients.
Rev. J. A. Stavely says six persons
commuued at his church yesterday who
would not had it not been for the special
meetings he recently held.
The state board of charities will meet
at the Copeland tomorrow to let the
semi-annual contracts for furnishing
state institutions with supplies.
John JONES' white, was arrested yester-
day for speeding his horse across the
river bridge. He will be tried this after
noon, as he denies driving too fast.
James II. Young and Robert Steven
son who farmed together near Topeka
during the summer are now having a
law suit over a division of the profits.
In ordering the usual sheriff's sales
this morning Judge Hazen ordered that
official to give certificates for the prop
erty sold, instead of deeds. New mort
gage decision.
According to Anna Eva Fay all that the
Topeka boys can say is "Whose baby are
your" and the young ladies' answer is
invariably "Ise yours" Anna is quite a
chestnut herself.
The Topeka foot ball team would have
done better to have retired on the laurels
they won Thanksgiving. The legitimate
foot ball season ends on Thanksgiving
and that's time to stop.
A committee composed of Rev. S. E
Ferrand. Mr.. Martin Mohler and Mr. C.
w. Douglass has been appointed by the
Westminster Presbyterian church &c
take charge of the colored industrial in
stitute.
The people who want the old bridge
across the Kansas river moved to Ross
vile must bear in mind that the bridge
is the property of the city and that the
county commissioners have no power tc
dispose of it.
Rev ]. R Madison, pastor Of the Kan
sas Avenue Nj. E church was taken sud
denly i'll yesterday morning and was no
able to fill his pulpit Rev. c. Holman
preached for him in the morning anc
: Rev. W. j. Mitchell at night.
The New York Dramatic Mirror allow
its Topeka correspondent four times al
much space as any town of its size in thu
west. This is considered a representa-
tive show town. 1t used be. Now i
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