The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

When ye wish yed heid yer money; left yer
oyercoat in hook
When ye get streak O. summer in the autumn
OF the year,
An We wish yer winter clothin' wasn't fttin'
quite near;
Thehs the time ye want the windows open as
they can be got
For the risky office urchn keeps the Office stove
red hot.
Yesterday was an ideal autumn Sun
day,
The county commissioners will be in
session tomorrow.
Speaking of attempted hold-ups-still
the dance goes on.
The elevator in the National hotel is
the swiftest one in the city.
Mayor Fellows has gone to Chicago
and Des Moines OF business trip.
Sherwood, the pianist, is to assist Miss
Celeste Nellis with a concert in jan
uary.
Many farmers have stored large guam
titles of apples in the hope that prices
will advance
Miss Halle HOLMAN, assistant city
clerk, has gone to Chicago to attend her
brothers wedding.
No judge has yet been found who will
try the Hillmon case, and it may not
come up this year
There were but $50 paid admissions at
like a larger crowd.
The grand sand at Athletic park is
favorite crap resort for the colored boys
on Sunday afternoons.
The "Spinning Spinsters" enjoyed their
first club ride yesterday. The Spinning
Spinsters" are bicyclists.
Rev. A. Wyman and Tom McNeal
have been admitted to membership in
the Saturday Night club
a Washburn student who filed tbs
pulpit of Topeka church last night
preached fifty-tivs minutes.
"Cooper's suits are too Clean" sci a
man at the foot ball game Saturday.
''They don't practice enough.
The little daughter of ]. f. Mitchell of
1921 Gay street, who has been seriously
i'll with diphtheria, is recovering.
There is to be an educational meeting
at Rossville in January. The teachers
of st. Mary's are expected to attend.
Among the plants in John R. Null
vane's yard is stalk of cotton of d
larger growth than usually seen in the
south.
Postmaster Arnold will require $4,000
bond of his next chief clerk of the money
order department. Milehan's bond was
$4,000.
Sloan lodge of Masons will hold
special meeting next Monday evening to
confer the Fellow craft degree upon Dr.
Egelston.
Tho Cooper College quartette forgot
foot ball long enough to sing at the SER
vices of the United Presbyterian church
yesterday.
A Topeka lawyer who used to play foot
ball, says that not half the players who
retire from the game do SO because of
real injuries.
The crowd at the foot ball game en-
croached on the field, as usual They do
this in Topeka and Kansas City, but not
in college towns. y
The Ladies' Chorus of Emporia is to
furnish part of the music at the meet
ing of the State Teachers association
during the holidays
President Baker, of the street railway
company, has bought a lot adjoining his
place on West Sixth street, and will en-
large his handsome lawn.
AS soon as Francis Schlatter goes to
Chicago, blind Jesse Brooks will be sent
to him fer treatment by the Rock Island
Office employees in this City.
A Topeka foot ball enthusiast has
collection of photographs of the cap
tains Of the different foot ball elevens
throughout the United States.
Thad Hopkins in the confectionery bus
| mess, has leased hotel at Blue Rapids
and moved his family to that place today.
A colored church is a very satisfactory
church to go to. If you don't like the
sermon you can get up and go out with
out offending anybody. It's the custom.
DR.. Menninger was elected chairman
of the bureau of materia medica ct the
meeting of the Southern Homeopathic
Medical association, at St Louis last
week.
| Secretary of State Edwards, Assistant
| Treasurer George NJ. Seward and w. c.
Ferguson, Judge Atherton's stenog-
rapher, attended the funeral of Carl Ath-
erton at Russell yesterday.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
| Third Presby terrain church has changed
their meeting time on Sunday evening so
as to allow fifteen minutes for handshak-
ing and general sooiability
Secretary of State VIM. Edwards will
| deliver the address of welcome at the
ton here next month. The convention
will open on Christmas day.
A Topeka man says the building of a
new bridge will give the county commits
sioners an opportunity to let some
| politician n axe several hundred dollar
commission in selling the bonds.
Captain of Police John Gardiner says
| since talking with j. L. Howard he ia
satisfied that Howard was really held up
just as he said he was; and nobody has
done thing to apprehend the horseback
robbers.
New accession tickets have been re-
ceived at the city library for the books
bought by the incoms of the Barney
Lantry book fund. The tickets bear a
likeness of Mr. Lantry and the date aud
place of his birth.
At Mr. Olden's colored church the con-