The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-09
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

The Cremerie restaurant needs a few
more hat racks.
Mrs. II. A. Warner is slowly improving
after "a long illness.
Miss Belle Egan is quite seriously i'll at
the Stormont hospital
DR.. II. W Roby is able to be at his Of
flee after a ten days illness.
A contest in duck-pins is being started
at the Y. N. c. A bowling alleys.
Mr.. J. S. Collins left yesterday for
Kansas city and St. Joe on business.
Assistant United States Attorney H. J.
Bone has gone to his home in Ashland.
Sherman Williams has remodeled his
residence on Lafayette and Fifth streets.
The Cook-KepIey contest is attracting
sa much Of a crowd as the Johns murder
trial.
All cars were started on regular sched-
ule time today on the Topeka railway
lines.
Rev. DR.. Beatty of the Episcopal church
of Newton is visiting Bishop MnIspaugh
in this city.
Major Inman's new book is meeting
with a marvellous sale. 1t has a beauti-
ful cover.
The Informal club viii dance Friday
night at Hudson's han. The music with
begin at S:15.
Exhibits of Christmas goods are making
their appearance in the windows of To-
peka merchants.
Miss Lutte Lytle. Topeka's colored wo-
man lawyer, lectured in Kansas City yes,
terday afternoon.
Under the law authorizing the compila>
tion of the new statutes the two volumes
are to be sold for s..
Justice AIcCIintock is doing no justice
business now He is official stenographer
in the Cook-Kepley contest.
The Kansas Hotel Mems association
viii meet in annual session at Emporia
at the Whitley hotel December p.
A H. Mooney has gone to Leavenworth
county, where he has the exclusive
agency of Major Inman's new book.
The State Alliance convention will be
held at Lincoln Post hail. beginning JAM
uary 5 and continuing three days.
The reunion of Sloan lodge of NIasons
takes place tonight and large number
Of Out-of-town visitors Will be present.
The Pearson stock company will come
to the Grand Opera House next Monday
night for the entire week at popular
prices.
A Santa Fe shop man who makes $3.50
a day al his work is one of the witnesses
in the Cook-Kepley contest. where he re-
ceives $50.
AR r A Speicher has returned to his
place in the telegraph office of the Rock
Island in this city after a three months
illness with typhoid fever.
Clerk Sharritt says that the docket in
the United States court will be cleaned VI,
this week with the exception of the Hill
mon cases, which will be tried next Feb
ruary.
An ordinance will be prepared to be
submitted to the city council requiring
butcher shops to close Sundays. and i'm
posing a fine of SO for violation. The
representative butchers are behind tho
movement.
Topekas youngest composer is Ray
mond Conner. son of Conductor Conner
of the Topeka railway. The boy is but
13 years of age and has composed two
pieces of music. entitled. "klOndike
March and "Wintery Glide"
The state house has plenty of coal now.
judging from the high temperature which
is maintained during the day. The Of
ncers and employees are compelled to get
out in the corridors to cool off Cant
the engineer regulate the heat?'' is the
burning question.
Rev J. G. Dougherty. who was one of
the Morrill, police commissioners in Kan
sas city who allowed joints to run, was
in Topeka yesterday and said that the
joints must be stamped out. The Rev.
Mr.. Dougherty is an "amoosin cuss" in
the language of ArtemUs Ward.
A letter has been received by the secre>
tary of the Commercial club from G. C.
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