The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Guy Adams will soon move to New
York and open paper house.
Ed Epps is now travelling as salesman
for a Chicago commercial house.
A new sidewalk is being laid between
Sixth and Seventh streets on Lake
No cases are being heard in the justice
courts today. Election is the reason.
License Collector Luther c. Bailey is the
father of a boy, born early Sunday morn
ing.
Eugene Hagan. the Democratic leader.
says that the Republicans Will carry
Ohio.
Miss Anna Williams, formerly matron
at the stormont hospital, is visiting in
this city.
Chairman George Clark of the Populist
committee says that he is through man
aging campaigns.
A Topeka politician says that the num-
Der of political beggars this year has
never been exceeded.
The Greenwood divorce case will come
up tomorrow at Alma, where it was taken
on change of venue.
Judge Horton had his decree IN the
stockyards case signed by Judge Thayer
at St. Louis yesterday.
C. c. Clemens has applications for the
organization of Social Democracy clubs
at a number of Kansas towns.
The Ladies' society of the First NJ. e.
church win meet tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock at the church parlors
George f. Hall of Illinois will lecture
tonight at the Third Christian church on
America in the Twentieth Century"
George Burghart offered last night to
bet SO to $1,000 that no populists would be
elected to office in Shawnee county to-
day.
DR.. F. A. Peak has given up his dental
business in this city and returned to Hot
Springs, Ark, where he was formerly To-
Gated.
Large crowds viewed the KIondike ex-
hibit of gold and furs in the jewelry store
window on Kansas avenue yesterday aft
ernoon.
One of the first official acts of the gov
ernor when he returns to the city tomor-
row will be the issuance of a Thanksgiv-
ing proclamation.
The new dancing club of which Horace
Hall is president has been successfully
organized. The first party will be given
one week from next Friday.
V. H. Waite. an employee of the Santa
Fe shops, had two fingers of his left
hand badly mangled yesterday by having
them caught in a brake staff.
The Topeka Shoe Company will move to
the north room of S. Barnum & Co.'S on
January 1. The stock of clothing now in
the room will be disposed of.
The feature of the annual meeting of
the Kansas Editorial association meeting
at Kansas City in February will be an
excursion to Port Arthur, Tex.
The state treasurer's office was closed
in
to attend to business. The officials and
employees have gone home to vote
Commissioner Yount says that the Com
mittee of Fifteen borrowed some of the
city ballot boxes and failed to return the
keys. He had to buy new padlocks.
Emma Horner, the servant girl who
went insane at the home of Mr.. H. L.
Nudge in Potwin Friday, is recovering
from her arrangement at the StOrmont
hospital.
The twenty-first anniversary of the Mo-
doc club was held last night at the home
of Major T. J. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson
served a bountiful supper to the members
of the club
After missing the train Sunday morning
and again yesterday morning. T. w. CAT
fey of the state auditors office left this
morning for Pittsburg with the expecta-
ton of voting today.
Chas. N. Nelson, president of the Mid
Continent band, wishes to correct the
statement that Irving Strickland left the
band without paying them. He did not
owe the band in any way.
Rev. DR.. John Hood of Beatrice, Neb.,
who occupied the pulpit of the First
Presbyterian church Sunday, has return
ed to his home. He was the guest of
Land Commissioner John E. Frost of the
Santa Fe while in the city.
Mr.. T. A HeaIy, auditor of the South
Carolina & Georgia railway, with head
quarters at Charleston, s. c., stopped Off
in Topeka Sunday to visit his brother,
Mr.. W. J. Healy. Mr.. Healy was formerly
with the Santa Fe in Topeka.
Justice S. H. Allen had a fine surrey
demolished in a runaway Sunday even
ing. The horse tore loose from a hitch
ing post while no one was in the carriage
and ran into telegraph pole several
blocks away. The animal was not in
jured.
Eph Kepley, who is now with the Ar
mour Packing company in Kansas City,
is visiting his brother, Sheriff r. B. KEEP
ley. in this city. AS soon as the quaran-
tine is raised he will go to New Orleans
as manager of the Swift branch packing
house at that place.
According to Weather Observer Jennings
the past month was the hottest October
of which he has any record The aver
age temperature for the month was 631z
degrees. This is about degrees above
any former October and is degrees above
the average temperature for that month.
At the Crawford theater last evening
there was scarcely a lady's hat visible.
In the center of the house not one was to
be seen. It is remarkable that there are
stiu a few women who will wear hats if
they know that they cut off the view of
those sitting behind them. An audience
where the ladies take their hats off looks
many times more stylish and good look
ing than otherwise. Nowadays theater
a1,aiarca srrinlzIed with 1Enrnen-s hats has