The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


TOmOrrOW-tne unSpeakabie turk
Christmas is just month Off today.
/ Ex-Secretary of State BIZ Higgins is in
/ Topeka
The sun was out for very few mo-
ments this morning
Mrs. Geo w Jackson Of 1918 buchanan
/ street. is seriously i'll
There is young ladies' literary So
4 ciety at Washburn college
Ralph Mulvane has left the Salvation
/ Army and Joined the Volunteers.
The Arion society viii give a. dancing
matinee Thanksgiving afternoon
The Swedish Social society viii cele-
4 brate Thanksgiving this evening.
G. w Ogee has gone to Kansas City to
I live He has secured work there
Rev. C. NJ Sheldon talked about Lon
/ don before the Y w. c. A. last night
The Arion society enjoyed a splendid
4 concert and dance at their hall last night.
There IS a case of scarlet fever in the
family of George ellis at Us North Klein
/ street.
Sowing the Wind viii play at Atchi-
/ son tonight where its moral is more
/ needed.
Bob semple says that the Populists win
/ try to rent the fourth floor of the Cope
/ land this winter.
Leroy Twaddle decided to w. M. Forbes
/ for $3.50, lots sos and 500 Polk street,
I Gould's addition.
Henry Watterson has promised to give
| his lecture on Abraham lincoln in To-
peka. December 80.
p D. Russell of MarshalI's band has
just bought a new cornet which is a
particularly fine one.
Ex-warden Dick Chase was not among
the politicians this week for the first
time in several years
Thomas ". Keene has been booked to
appear at the Grand Opera House on
January % in "Richeheu.'
w. A Murray has sold to Talcott
brothers, Of Texas. lots 233, 235 and 237
Fillmore street, Young's addition.
Superintendent Naylor of the state
will become better as time goes on.
Rev. J. D. Botkin, who viii represent
the whole state in the next congress is
visiting his brother on Van Buren, street.
Degree of Honor. No. 81, viii give a
dance at the Odd Fellows temple tonight
instead Of tomorrow night as previously
stated.
Congressman Mccormick of the sixth
district viii be much the largest man on
the delegation. Almost all the rest are
under size
Major T. J. Anderson and DR.. A. A.
Raub have been appointed aides on the
staff Of Commander in Chief Clarkson
Of the G. A. r.
Detective teller recently took a large
dog into the city jail yard to shoot it.
but he had to FIRE five times before he
gave the animal its death shot.
The dance which was to have been
given last night by. the ladies' Of the Fra
terna1 Aid was postponed. 1t viii be prob
ably occur in about two weeks.
Captain Sommers of Omaha. has come
to Topeka to assist in the work Of the
American Volunteers He will make his
first address in this city at tonight's
meeting.
The man who played Brabazon with the
Sowing the Wind company last night
looked very much like Dan Mccoy. one
of Topeka's actors, and he was almost
as good an actor
Get Smith a Iineman in the employ
OF the w estern Union Telegraph com
pany, was badly bruised by falling from
q telegraph pole at the corner of Fourth
and Jefferson streets, last week.
Capt. Joe Waters has returned from
Perry, o. T., where he has been on legal
business 1t was his brother, Louis OF
Kansas City that was in the Smith in
vestigation case at LeaVenWOrth.
IN hae
been elected appellate Judge in the south
ern department does not appear TO be
more than % years old but he has the
reputation of being a good lawyer.
Several of the policemen thought to
ing a e1NlSl0n OI the reward rellef
fund but Chief Gardner didn wait for
that and purchased 14-pound gobbler.
Some OF the petitions which are filed IN
the district court clerks Office are 50
poorly spelled and the grammatical con
hard to interpret the meaning intended.
The performance at the Grand Opera
House last night is the same one W ].
night. p. S. and N. B.-Mr Bryan left
and went to his hotel after the second
Jerry NIerryweather who on Novem-
Der IS stole pair Of shoes from FL. Arm
raigned before Justice Guy and found
guilty. The fine and costs amount in all
John r. Mulvane, president Of the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Telephone company.
yesterday afternoon presented each Of
the young ladies at the central station
with silver dollar as a Thanksgiving
remembrance
Major Stillwen of Kansas City who
succeeded Major. now BFigadier Sully
in charge of Salvation Army work in
Kansas. Nebraska and Oklahoma is in
the city and VIII speak at the meeting
of the army tonight.
P. G. Lowry of Eureka. said to be the
finest colOred cOrnetlst in the state, has
recently located at Topeka and he win
probably join Jaekson,s Military band
He won the cornet solo prize at the
Hutchinson festival some years ago
In Topeka it is the husbands that de-
sert the wives. In Atchison and north Of
US it is the wives that desert the hus-
papers contain an account Of anan in
that town who is looking for a runaway
wife.
What do A J. Arnold and Dan wyatt
know about coon hunting2 1t takes a
81 wins and oscar Sanderson Went out
on Moons place on Mission creek last
three 'possums.
Whiffen of the Sowing the wind''
company was as good an "old man as
much his fault for the reason that he
is over 20. His wife, who is almost as
old. is stil employed by Mr.. Frohman in
his New York company.
Mrs. Luella Russell Of Lecompton, SAYS
that her grandma Their. Mrs w A Card
we'll. who came TO Topeka in search OF
sem vas IN At the time of leaving lie
compton Mrs CardWeH claimed that her
granddaughter was deranged-
Vim. Miller, the young man who with
John Grubbs took two overcpats at the
K. & L. of S. dance at Alb Kansas ave-
/ nue. Wednesday night last, pleaded guilty
before Justice Furry and was fined s25
and the costs in the case. He was some
what intoxicated at the time he took the
coats.
Last night after the American volaln-
teers had given a concert in front of the
National hotel for an hour the hat was
passed around as usual. There was
large crowd of politicians there but no
one person gave a cent excepting Chief
Justce-elect Frank Doster, who threw
in quarter.
Speaking of deserted wives, Mrs. Katie
Peterson came to Topeka from Ieaven-
worth this week with her four children.