The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-29
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

R. B. Welch is moving his law office.
The city schools will reopen Monday.
Prices on Christmas goods are down.
Judge Hazen is wearing a beautiful new
diamond stud.
George stansfeId spent Tuesday hunting
in the country.
Deputy County Attorney Galen Nichols
IS on the sick list.
Miss Jessie Taylor of Emporia is visit
ing Topeka friends.
Dr. MabeHe True of Parsons is wishing
her sister in this city.
Phn Knowlton editor of the New ton
Kansan is in the city.
The witness fees in the Cook -Kepley
contest amount to $12T.
The Santa Fe dining cars will have
electric fans next summer.
County Auditor Pagan is working on
the fee bills for this quarter.
Eugene Hagan can tell more thrilling
stories than anyone in Topeka
A. f. Williams says he is the easiest
mark for u book agent in Topeka.
Miss Nanon Heron will be deputy reg
tster of deeds under Frank Stevens.
Assistant General Freight Agent c. R.
Hudson of the Santa Fe is in Chicago
The Hahnemann Homeopathic night
school will reopen next Monday evening.
Dr. Charles Cahin of Lawrence has
returned to his home after a visit in this
city.
Sheriff KepIey's bondsmen in the con-
test case are L. Blackman and John
Schmidt.
Dr. c. a. Mcguire has returned after
spending Christmas with his parents in
Kewanee. III.
The duck-pin contest between the teams
of the T. A. A. and the Y. NJ. C. A viii
be finished tonight.
Clerk Sharitt of the federal court has
the reputation of being one of the most
punctual men in Topeka
Frank Edison and Martin Wikidal were
winners in the rattle in which two Italian
greyhounds were disposed of.
Charles Hugo of this city is attending
the 81. Louis Dental college. He is spend
ing the holidays in Topeka.
Representative Ed Hackney of yelling
ton is in the city. He seems to be inter
ested in the teachers meeting.
Mr. S. A. Mccoy. employed in the office
of the resident engineer of the Santa Fe
in Pueblo, is visiting in the city.
Assistant United States Attorney H. J.
Bone is said to be hypnotist. A culprit
he prosecutes always pleads guilty.
Police Judge Atchison always carries
with him u book. usually some treatise
on philosophy or political economy.
Judge Botkin, department commander
of the Kansas G. A R. has returned
from business trip to Washington.
Colonel J. W. F. Hughes viii take sew
eraI chickens to Manhattan this week to
enter them in the state poultry show.
Attorney General Boyle studied to be
tragedian He can quote more Shake
speare correctly than any man in Kansas.
The county commissioners have reduced
the assessment of Bank Commissioner
Breidenthal in accordance with his re-
quest.
Eugene F. Ware has written Police
Judge VIM. Henderson of Potwin letter
asking to be admitted to practice in his
court.
Prof Waldemar Won Dahlen, assisted
by the Modoc club, will give a concert at
the Soldiers home on the evening OF jan
uary T.
H G. Larimer, a member of the Com
mfttee of Seventeen. presented J. G.
Slonecker with a handsome beer mug on
Christmas.
stenographers dislike the first of the
year. They spoil several dozen letters by
writing the old year instead of the new
the first week.
There are but four cases of contagious
disease in the city, and all are scarlet
fever The last case of diphtheria has
been fumigated-
NJ A. Bailey, professor of mathematics
at the state normal in Emporia, is the
fattest man attending the Teachers as
sociation meeting.
s J. Bear says that he does not expect
to be made superintendent of the govern
ment rural delivery system as reported,
for it is not to be tried.
Police Aatron Thorpe's office at police
headquarters has nothing in 1t yet but
stove. Furniture for it was promised,
but it is slow in arriving.
George A. Clark. editor of the Junction