The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWs.

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The city council meets tonight.
It has rained two Sundays Of the
seven.
The air in the country is filed with
the odOr of plum blossoms.
New quarterly records are being
made at the T. A A. bowling alleys.
George Harrison viii graduate from
the Ann ArbOr law school this spring
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Constant of 1867
Van Buren, street are the parents of a
boy.
viii hold its regular monthly meeting
tonight.
Work on the walks and drives at the
state house grounds was commenced
this morning.
Osceola Bey, who won first in the
Great Dane class, at the bench show,
is valued at $1,000
Work was commenced this morning
in Potwin on the Auburndale and Asy-
Ium extension of the City railway
People who had been wise enough to
leave their heating stoves up shook
hands with themselves this morning
The elevator at the court house was
as overlooking Saturday during the re-
ception as a merry gO-rOund at
county fair.
The only policeman on the force
that was let out by the commissioners
Saturday night was "COOnsI1in" Cros-
by who has just married.
I'm q lightning shot" said a mem
Der of the gun club yesterday Yes.
said his rival. land you never strike
twice in the same place.
J. c. Wood and John L. Guy are send
ing circular letters to voters in the
county telling why they should be
nominated for probate judge.
A man who lives near Ninth and
Kansas avenue remarks Georgia for
GeOrgians, America for Americans, but
the Copeland for politicians"
Athletic park was not left in such
skating pond standing on it, but that
skating pond standing on it. but what
i could be readily put in first class
condition
The new elevator in the state house
is used but very little as yet. People
have been walking up steps so lOng
they do not realize the fact there is an
elevator
Executive clerk Hill. in Governor
MOrrills office, has an ash receiver in
the form OF a slipper which a peniten-
tiary convict Whitfield out of hard pine
and sent him.
Bruce Wallace Of East Tenth lost $40
worth of fine pigeons Saturday night.
They were stolen. This is the third loss
of pigeons by theft Mr.. Wallace has
had in a few months.
The offices of the state treasurer
when completed viii be among the
to the present quarters there viii be
two new rooms added to the suite
The office of the state c.. A. r. has
about been deserted the last few weeks
while Col. Jack Harris and AdjUtant
General Curly Harrison have been
watching Second district politics
Ed N. Smith. clerk in Auditor Coles
office and baritone singer, attended the
WyandOtte convention Saturday. Mr.
Smith is secretary Of the Republican
county committee of Wyandotte cOun-
ty.
One of the Topeka old NIossbacks is
going to enjoin the sun from rising
because it shines i'm at his east window
and wakes him UP too early Nothing
the MossbacN likes to handle so well
as an injunction.
There was a good deal of dissatis-
faction at the court house reception
Saturday because the doors to the
dome were not open. The stairways
are very steep and high and the doors
We're locked to keep out children that
might have fallen.
Some one dug hole near the Luther
Woodford residence one night last week
and now Administrator BOlmar has Of
fered a reward of 500 for the arrest of
the tresspasSers- He does not suspect
that they found any of the buried
treasure.
Ed Howe of Atchison was in St
Louis last week to attend the grand
opera and told a Republic reporter the
process his paragraphs go through
before they appear in the Globe. The
result was two columns and a picture
in yesterdays Republic
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank s. Thomas are
the parents of a son born at 3 O'Clock
this morning His weight is eleven
and three-quarters pounds and he shas
been named Chester HOLSTER Thomas.
after his great grandfather. Chester
Thomas and the family name of Mrs.
Thomas.