The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

Bryan IS American
D. C. Tillotson is in HoIton this week
trying an Indian land case.
a Topeka woman is now wearing her
daughters dresses cut down
l.. NJ. Crawford is in Chicago on some
kind Of an opera house deal
Foot Ball Coach Grifhths has ceased
his labors at Washburn college
The court house grounds should have
been seeded with blue grass this fall.
District Judge Hazen occasionally gets
down TO the court house before S clock
The Kansas State Teachers association
IS to meet in Topeka December 29 so and
Ferrys2 Doran are moving their office
to the third floor of the Columbian build
ing
P. J. Hindmarsh is pushing the manu-
faeture OF his new bicycle seat in Chi
"a Kansas avenue firm has given the po-
lice matron 70 pairs Of children's mittens
The CONGREGATIONAL Sunday school has
arranged to take care of twelve families
on Thanksgiving
WIN Neale has this week taken % de-
the Scottosh Riters.
Chancellor Snow of the state university
is to lecture in Topeka on evolution next
Wednesday evening.
DR.. NJ B. Ward Of this city. lectures one
day each month at the Woman's Medical
college in Kansas City.
The Comm ercial club rooms are to be
heated with not water as soon as the APP
paratus can be put in.
Every woman in town who has a spare
room and wants TO rent it is putting it in
shape for a legislator this winter.
The teachers of the First Presbyterian
church held an Interesting meeting in the
church parlors Monday evening
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Presbyterian church viii give a social at
the church next Friday evening.
BY the recent advance in freight rates
coal is higher. Hard coal is 81 more and
soft coal is SO cents more per ton.
The faculty of Bethany college have
arranged for a reception and recital at
the college Thanksgiving evening
The Washburn college foot BAN team
Thanksgiving day at Athletic park
W w. Mills viii entertain his Sunday
school class of the First Presbyterian
church at his residence Friday evening.
Miss lie Riddick and Edward Stephens,
founders of the Industrial institute of
this city, are to be married November a
Bessie Wooden a 1O-year-Old North To-
peka girl supports her invalid father and
mother by selling paper flowers on the
streets.
News comes from the east that a clock
company viii start UP and run day and
night This is done in order to make bet
ter times.
a. R. Lingafelt. superintendent of teIe-
graph of the Rock Island, left yesterday
inspection trip.
A good many of the business men and
others who subscribed to the Fail Ees-
tival fund have not yet paid up and col
lectOr is after them.
A state house clerk always puts on his
cuffs if he has to step out of his office
across the hallway He doesn't think to
put on his coat though
Forty-hve people from eastern points
passed through Topeka yesterday after
noon over the Rock Island for points in
southern California
Conductor George Fiery of the Santa
Fe has been discharged from the Santa
Fe hospital in this city. and returned to
his home in LeavenwOrth-
A Topeka man who has been wanting
to buy a churn for some time and has
been waiting to see how the election went
before buying it, has bought it.
A f61nrfr will
ana their friends at the association rooms
on the evening OF November is.
VIII Curtis, who has been employed in
the headquarters Of the Republican state
central committee has gone to St. Joseph
to rustic advertising on the Herald
A physician in Topeka says that If peo-
PIE had no cats there would be less spread
of contagious disease Cats do too much
visiting and are almost unnOticed in it.
The thing that is worrying the poor Of
Topeka just now is, VIII Mrs Thorpe be
retained as police matrOn3 If she is not
she viii have to give UP charity work
our Messenger, the w. c. T. o. organ
has been changed from a monthly to a
Mrs. S. Al Thurston Of Topeka edits it.
DR.. j. IL vanderpool who was former
~ in the office of Dr. S. u. Sheldon in this
where he was married a short time ago.
There is a school teacher in the city who
carries her S-year-old daughter with her
her bicycle. The child sits over the
front wheel an especially construct
ed seat
The furnace at the Harrison school
broke down yesterday afternoon and
school had to be dismissed Tt was re-
sumed today; the furnace having been re-
paired
r. G. Noel and wife left yesterday for
the north and west. They viii stop at
Ellensburg. Portland, San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and viii be back in about
sixty days
A boy rode down Kansas avenue today
on a bicycle with his feet on the handle
bars. The wheel was propelled by a dog
which ran in front and pulled it by
string which the boy held
There is a Topeka woman who is so
Letting funds for the support of the
home of the friendless at Leavenworth.
poor people than she can We'll attend to.
Yesterday was quotation day. at Clay
school. One little tot who was called upon
for a quotation gave the following: Tell
your troubles to q policeman and he
laughed
DR. I Fitzpatrick of this city. secretary
of the state board of health. is after the
scalp OF doctor at CaidWeil, Whc. IL IS
medical knowledge under made-to-or-
der-S35-a- piece-diploma-
The trial of Maggie AcDabit, the North
Topeka demented girl whom the W C. T.
Z. is trying to have adJudged insane to
get her taken care Of, was postponed UNI
til next Wednesday by the probate judge
witnesses.
"a Topeka man who has occasion to fire.
quent the state house considerably says
that something ought to be done to pre-
vent the young boys and girls from hang
ing around in the halls and steps Young
girls from 10 years up meet their ''fel-
lows there
Mr.. A. F. Robinson of this city, has
gone to Albuquerque N NJ where ne
viii meet Engineer Lewis Kingman of
the Mexican Central road and with him
make an inspection Of the Atlantic & Pa
cifc railroad in the interest of the Santa
Fe company.
The ladies of the Foreign Missionary
society of tine First M. q. church yester-
day elected the following officers for 1897.
Mrs IT. B. Sweet, president Mrs Thomas