The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-29
SNAP SHOTS An HOMEN NEWS.

move to avoid house cleaning.
Mrs. Charlton Edholrn viii lecture at
the Santa Fe coach shops tomorrow at
noon.
County clerk McCabe carries more
life insurance than any young man in
the city.
Mrs. N. c. Mcfarland is seriously i'll
at the Copeland She IS stricken with
paralysis.
THE Topeka state Journal March
by John Marshall improves on ac-
quaintance.
New officers are usually not suspic-
ious enough Of criminals until they
learn their ways.
AIatron Thorpe says she needs food
for a number of aged and sick people
who are in her care.
The county commissioners have made
the contract with Rex Kreipe, leasing
the fair grounds to him.
There will be countless schemes sub
mitted to the committee Of fifteen to
use the festival money.
Captain Henry Booth. chief clerk in
the secretary OF states Office freighted
across the plains in 1857.
At Fort Scott on Monday the odd
Fellows marched in their lodge room
costumes as they did here.
Col. DIaude Herren of the adjutant
generals office is one OF the most pop
ular Of the Grand Army officers.
A patent medicine almanac printed
last fall said there would be a cold
wave here last evening. 1t knew
An attempt is being made to have
the ordinance prohibiting the retailing
Of hay on the hay market repealed
The Golden Rod store has offered to
give ten per cent Of its gross receipts
next Friday to the cyclone sufferers
"A private subscription should be
taken up to improve the court house
grounds if it can be done in no other
way.
A Topeka man who now lives in New
Mexico has written to Matron Thorpe
to send him a -e-year-old girl for adoD-
ton.
George D. Hale devOtes his whole
timeth days to working upon the or
der Of the Sons Of the American Revo-
luton.
The fountain which has stood so long
in the east front Of the state house
grounds is being removed 1t viii be
taken to ''HuntOon park"
According to the weekly rainfall re-
port Of Weather Observer Jennings the
average rainfall in Kansas during the
past week was 1877 inches.
There isn't the slightest doubt that
Chancellor Snow viii say that this is
the windiest April in sixteen hundred
years.
The Parkdale NJ. z. church people
have begun work on the foundation OF
their new church at the corner Of Sew
enth and Lime streets
Judge Joe Reed says he has calls for
Reed buttons from all over the state.
He is expecting a new consignment Of
the buttons in day or two.
Clerk Claiming J. Brown OF the state
supreme court is expected back from
Texas within a few days He has been
absent from Topeka over a month.
Paul Battey OF the Edison Electric
Illuminating company has made sew
eral X ray photographs OF lead In lead
pencils and coins in a pocket book.
The work on the paving of Eleventh
street between Van Buren, and Harri-
son streets has been delayed because
the stone for the curbing is not here.
Kansas City thief who stole an
overcOat of A. c. Davis of Topeka. at
the union depot there Sunday was SEN
fenced yesterday to four months in
jail.
A Quaker church called the Society
of Friends has been organized in To-
peka by Mrs. NJ A. Fellow, wife of
the assistant superintendent Of public
instruction.
Bill West is starting after the record
Of Bill Dalton, Bill DOolin and the
other notorious Bills. Vests reputa-
ton in the Indian Territory is pretty
big already
Governor Morrill, is having consider
able difficulty in securing the portraits
Of the territorial governors Of Kansas.
He wants them to adorn the walls of
his new Offices.
Poverty amdavits filed with suits in
the district court cannot legally be
sworn to before a notary public Judge
Hazen has decided. 1t must be before
the clerk Of the court
A South Topeka woman has a pair OF
canaries ea9h of which has one leg with
three joints. Out Of town papers viii
please observe that Topeka has six
new joints and howl accordingly.
Mayor Fellows is wearing a Reed
button. He says it is not entirely be-
cause he is for the "czar'' but because
so few people in Topeka wear the like
ness Of the big man from Maine.
Good morning, have you used Vests
soap" viii be popular at the county
Jail since that gentleman was enabled |
to get out by the use Of a key made /
from an impression on a bar Of soap.
Curly Harrison. assistant adjutant
general Of the Kansas G. A. r. is in
the city preparing to turn over the
Office to his successor, J. Y Niles. as
soon as the latter is ready to quality.
John Hussey. the young boy arrested
for disturbing the services at the Cath
Ole church Sunday evening by doing
too much playing outside, was dis
missed by Judge Ferry with a repri-
mand.
Charles Blakesley. formerly Of the
State Journal has been made sporting
editor of the Kansas City Times Mr.
Blakesley is one Of the brightest young /
newspaper men from Kansas and viii
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