The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Catholic parochial school opened
for the fall term this week
Some slot machines have gotten down
to a penny. The fun lasts longer.
The interior of the Railroad Y. NJ c. A
rooms has been papered and painted.
The Ralston Health club held a picnic
at Garfield park yesterday afternoon.
The Homeopathic night school will open
Monday following the Fall Festival
Several young ladies are making para
soils of the Karnival Knights colors.
The Epworth league concluded its con-
vention at the Parkdale NJ. E. church last
night.
The Karnival Knights co1ors wave ma
jestically from the pole on the roof of the
Knights hall.
John Carter, the well known street car
conductor, has gone to Chicago on a two
weeks vacation.
A steam heating plant will be put in the
Central Congregational church on West
Huntoon street.
Frank Beck has resigned his position as
assistant to Clerk Farnsworth of the
board of education.
One woman with an open parasol can do
more towards keeping the sidewalks clear
than can two policemen.
The Amphion Mandolin club will play
tonight at the cinderella cafe and there
will be Puritan tableaux.
The Nid-Continent band will probably
play at the Santa Fe ball game at Ath-
letic park next Saturday afternoon.
Rev. DR.. a. P. Graves of New York
City will speak to the Santa Fe shopmen
at the coach shop tomorrow at noon.
Miss Mary W. Barkley returned today
from the east. She has been attending
the summer school at the Harvard annex.
One of the ''horseshow notes. in Kan
sas City paper says: Cicero Updegran
of Topeka is the administration orator.
City Engineer Barnes will soon have the
Chesney square plans ready for inspec-
ton. He planted the trees, on paper, yes
terday.
Lowman Hill chapel had a lamp explo-
sion Sunday night which set fire to the
woodwork, but the blaze was quickly
tinguished.
Misses Mary Walker. Kittie Dolman and
Susan Reeves, teachers in the city schools.
have been granted leave of absence for
one year by the board of education.
Laura Sullivan has filed suit for di-
vorce in the district court in which she
states that her husband. Jas. Sullivan, is
a habitua1 drunkard. She also charges
gross neglect.
Carl S. Kiene, who recently was ap-
pointed night watchman at the Reform
school, has resigned and will take a posi-
ton as locomotive fireman for the Santa
Fe railroad.
A vaudeville company will be at the
Grand for the first four nights of Festi-
val week instead of the Paris Gaiety girls.
The girls will finish the week.
A large force of men commenced tear
g
opera house yesterday. 1t will be newly
papered and two new boxes built before
Festival week.
There was no kinetoscope exhibition at
the Grand opera house last night. The
company cancelled it's engagement yes
terday in order to go to Burlingame for
the Usage county fair.
William Hawkins of Topeka. and w. E.
Bray of Lawrence. both graduates of the
state university law school, have located
in practice at Atchison. They are the
only colored lawyers in that place.
Dr. ]. P. Kaster chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe, has returned to Topeka with
his family from Albuquerque, New Mex.
They will live on Harrison street. be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets.
The southern department of the court
of appeals is overwhelmed with new bus
mess and when a case is filed it will take
nearly two years to get decision. The
court authority will expire in 1901 unless
new appropriation is made.
Wilmer Glassock, for several years a
clerk in the land department of the Santa
Fe, has resigned to accept a position in
the office of superintendent of Machin-
cry John Player. Gerald Glassock will
succeed him in the land department.
Pupils of the city Schools, who have
been making natural history collections
for the Topeka Philosophical society dur
ing the summer, are requested to hand in
their specimens this week. The collec-
tions will be placed in the academy of sci
ence rooms in the state house.
trolley car was running west on Twelfth
street the wheels jumped the track and
the car plunged to the south side at Tay-
lor street. 1t ran seven feet from the
roadbed and it was necessary to call the
'wrecking car
He is ready to speak on the slightest pro-
vocation, and as he has a fine voice and
pleasing appearance, the public is usually
glad to hear him. One characteristic of
Mr.. Updegraff's eloquence is that it can
not be drowned out by anything less than
brass band and battery of guns.
]. w. Beede, who has been employed in
the office of the Academy of Science has
gone to Lawrence where he will take a
four years course in geology and paleon-
to1ogy. He will assist in editing a book
on the subject during his schooling. He
is a graduate from the scientific course at
Washburn<