The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Yesterday was pleasant.
But we knew twas only warm.
To get better ready
For another awful storm.
Corinne has cancelled her date.

Corinne has cancelled her date.
This is farmers week in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Seymour are the
parents of son.
Twenty-Five voters registered the first
day the books were open.
The regular January term of the SUI
preme court convened today.
Born Saturday, Jan a, to Mr.. and Mrs
C. w. Gilmore, 30l Jefferson street. a
son.
Harry Gilmore, who recently defeated
Jack King in a wrestling match, is in
town.
Miss Emma Frisbie, of Granville, we'll
known in this city, is dangerously i'll at
| her home.
]. c. Kyle, the dry goods man. who is
now at Christ hospital, is recovering from
his illness.
Some people are SO lazy that they don't
try to make their as meet at the top
when they write.
G. w. Click, Democrat, is to talk on
''Good Roads" before the Stock Breeders
| association tomorrow.
A. F. Barker, head janitor of the city
schools, will hereafter receive $50
| month, raise of So month.
Chief Wilkerson and the new Mr. Fos-
ter of the police board are agitating the
| dark cell project for the city Jail
Major T. J. Anderson is at Wichita,
and will install the officers of Garfield
post and Garfield relief corps tonight.
Athletic park is patiently waiting for
the next cold wave. At present it is bet
| ter adapted for swimming than skating.
A. n. Murdoch, the Dutton house
| clerk, has returned from his home at
| Marion. His broken ankle is slowly i'm
| proving.
George G. Beach of West Sixth street,
| grocer, is wearing mis- face and hands in
| cotton just now. He lighted fire with
| coal oil.
Lindsay S. Pegues has sold to Thomas
/ a. Hatfield lots 45o, 452 and the south
| half of lot 448, Polk street, Gould's addi-
ton, for 1925.
The State Bar association will hold its
annual meeting in Topeka January 10
/ and 16 The meeting will close with a
banquet at the Copeland.
| The members of the West Side Gun
/ club HAYS voted to reduce the number of
/ birds to be shot at by each contestant for
/ the Palmer cup from 30 to 10.
The North Topeka Needle Ten," a
/ charitable organization, has given Mrs.
! Thorpe two baskets full of clothing for
| distribution among the poor.
Mrs. NJ. c. West and Miss Dugan have
been elected to teach in the city schools.
| Mrs West will be assigned TO Lincoln
and Miss Dugan to Quincy school
The case of Eugene Rail, the Garfield
| county treasurer charged with abscond-
| ing with county funds, will not be tried
in the supreme court until February.
/ "Oh, do SO love poultry" said a wo
1 man in front of the poultry show today:
1 ''lets go in. l am particularly interested
! in the Berkshire and PolIed. Angus
| breeds"
On the back of the programmes fol
| the quarter centennial meeting of the
| Kansas state board of agriculture il
| printed in full Ellen P. Allerton's "Walll
| of Corn"
Mike Wagner, driver of the chemica
| engine at fire station No 2, is recovering
1 from the dislocation of his right arm OF
| Christmas day. He will be on duty In /
| few days.
l. Whenever burglars get in the rea
window of a store the merchant imme
| diately has iron bars put in the window
Nearly every store In town will soon b.
burglar proof.
The sheriff of Shawnee county is usual
] ly elected secretary of the State Sheriffs
association. Sheriff Elect KepIey di,
not attend the recent meeting, and Shaw
nee county has no officer.
On December Is, 1895, says Mrs. J
4 H. Behart, her husband struck her wit
| his fist with such force that the mark i
! still there. Therefore, she has askei
! Judge Hazen for divorce.
Governor Morrill, has received anothe