The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

Frank Bennett has been commissioned
as a notary public
The cheese factories in the vicinity of
Topeka are now running full blast.
Most of the A. o. U. w. lodges of the
citv held election of officers last evening
p. C. Lyon of Leavenworth, travelling
agent of the Missouri Pacific, was in To-
peka today.
A majority of the visitors to the
Christian Endeavor convention visited the
state house.
r. D. Thomas. one of the substantial
citizens of Emporia, is transacting BUSH
ness in Topeka.
Captain Tanner of St. Johns military
school at Salina. has returned home after
visit in this city
w. R. Evans Of the Kansas City Star
was in Topeka last night to attend the
Saturday Night club banquet.
The Topeka Festival chorus concert
will be given next Tuesday evening at
the First Presbyterian church.
The lower corridors of the state house
are so dark that one can not see the
walks in the middle of the day.
The receipts of the Topeka postoffice
from the stamp department and the box
rents for the month of May were $50 4
a Topeka man is talking of bringing
the Pottawatomie Indians to Topeka to
give dance at the fair grounds July 4.
The city sanitary officers now have new
badges. They are shields on which the
words Sanitary Police. Topeka" appear.
a crowd of Endeavorers went to Wash
burn college yesterday afternoon ana
while en- route on a trolley car sang Cos
pei hymns.
VIII T. Reed, a son of George W. Reed
of this city, will be graduated from the
Kansas State university at Lawrence
next week.
Councilman Nettels, who has been taxi
ing evidence in the stock yards case will
not go to Boston with Special Master
George W. Clark
H H. Hensley. Santa Fe agent at
Fountain, Col. is in the city for the pur>
pose of having his eyes treated by the
company occulist.
c. E. Lobden of Lane county, was a
Topeka visitor yesterday. He is another
statesman who talks about the excellent
prospects for crops
NJ. L. Field, principal of Lincoln school.
viii be one of the instructors in the Pot
tawatomie county teachers institute.
which opens Monday.
]. N. Senter. clerk of the board of rail-
road commissioners will deliver a po-
liticaI speech before the judicial couven-
tion at Ness City. June II
Prof. B. F. Eyer of the Topeka high
school, will go to Atchison Monday to
act as instructor in the teachers in
stitute of Atchison county.
John Mcdonald editor of the Western
School Journal. will leave Monday on a
tour of the teachers Institutes in the Diff
ferent counties of the state.
W. F. Conklin has gone to Cripple
Greek, Col, to look after mining inter-
ests he owns at that point. He will prob
ably locate there permanently.
Mr.. John Tasker and Mr.. w. w. Bobby
of the auditor of passenger receipts office
of the Santa Fe. left this afternoon for
Chicago on visit of several days.
Pat O'Daugherty, the ex-printer, who
returned to Topeka from Nebraska sew,
eral weeks ago. left last night for the
Printers home in Colorado Springs.
Governor Leedy will visit the state PEN
itentiary next week to examine some ap-
pHcants for pardons, believing that the
sentence in some cases is too severe.
The conscience of Deputy Commissioner
Of Elections Wagner is troubling him be-
cause he is drawing salary from the
city and there is no work to do in the
Office.
Jos. W. Kraemer of this city, who at
tended the Kansas City School of Phar-
macy last winter, is now eIerIzing in a
drug store at Seventeenth and BELLEVUE
avenue, Kansas City
The officers of the State Republican
league are making an effort to secure the
presence of o. F. Berry of Carthage, Ill.
for the annual address before the con,
vention in this city June II.
The Topeka pOstohice will make out
the regular quarterly report this month
to be sent to Washington. About 10