The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

We are getting to have hold ups
Right in town.
Old Topeka's surely winning
Some renOwn
As a sort of Cofeyvillian
Border town among million
Where footpads by the billion
Do things brown.
Ex-Attorney General Ives rides a BIZ
cycle.
The haymarket is deserted only on
rainy days and Sundays.
The new dean of Grace cathedral will
be installed next Sunday.
The little folks have commenced to
talk about Santa Claus and Christmas.
A little child of Superintendent C. A.
Nelson of the T A. A. has scarlet fever.
The Topeka Salvation Army has IA
members at present, about half OF whom
are women.
The up to date expression among the
colored people to mean a disturbance Is
'raisin' sand"
A test of married mans devotion is
whether he will stay at home or not dur
ing houge cleaning.
Miss Minnie Blake of Branner school
is home sick and her place is being filed
by Miss Daisy Hunter.
Four hundred and sixty tickets at 20
cents apiece were sold for Jackson's
band concert last evening.
Miss Jessie Shellabarger takes fresh
roses to the prisoners of the city jail
three or four times week.
Mrs. Will Miller is seriously sick at
her home on Jefferson street.
Chief Wilkerson says that "a neigh
Dor" lives all over town and writes about
four letters day to the police.
The ostrich belonging to Will Sells
circus died in Denver. 1t is said it ate
iron bolts and they were hard to digest
The Gamma Sigma literary society is
going to settle the question tonight
whether Cromwell was patriot or not
K. U. is already making excuses for
the eleven which will be sent hero to-
morrow. They must be looking for
beating.
There is trouble among the equal suf-
fragists of Topeka regarding ages. Every
one of them claims to be the "baby" OF
the crowd.
The announcements at the colored
churches nowadays consist mainly of ''pie
socials" and "possum and sweet potato
evenings"
Ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborn is a
director in the Pittsburg Midland coal
company just organized, with capital
stock of $780, 900.
Henry Laptad, janitor of the old court
house, is to be retained as head janitor at
the new building.
Evangelist Boles is placed at a disad-
vantage. 1t is almost impossible for
stranger to find the church after dark in
which he holds meetings.
Cadet Will Cowan, of the Topeka Sal
walton Army, has been promoted to
lieutenancy, and has gone to Fort Smith,
Arkaneas, in that capacity.
Mrs. Mary c. West who used to be
principal of Liberty school, and left To-
peka some years ago to take position
in an Indian agency school in Nebraska,
is in Topeka visiting friends.
John r. Mulvane has offered to give
q beautiful screw pine to the public
library if the ladies of the First Baptist
church will raise $50 on it for the church.
The money is to be raised by subscrip-
ton.
The suffragists claim that Millionaire
Crittenton admitted when he was here
that suffrage was the only solution to the
fallen woman problem; but Mr.. Critten
ton could not be induced to talk on suf-
frage.
Some of the agents for crayon picture
companies are "doing" Topeka people.
Mrs. George Etzsl complained to the po-
lice of having been victimized by giving