The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The county rock pile has not yet been
opened
The pavements are being repaired in
North Topeka.
Governor Leedy returned from a visit
at Lawrence today.
The Cook-Kepley contest will be COM
menced December T.
Don Willis of Fredonia was a visitor
in Topeka on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs R. H Rollo are the pa
rents of an n-pound boy.
c. w. Henderson was badly injured in
a runaway on Saturday.
Major Inman's book, 1.-The Santa lie
Trail" will be published this week.
Sam c. Garrard has taken his place in
the office of Probate Judge Dolman.
W. A. Evans and wife have returned
from visit with his parents at Fair
view.
The Apollo club viii give the third act
of the opera of '"Tannhauser'' December
6 and Z.
The Beck family of colored singers as
sisted the Salvation Army yesterday in
their singing.
County Clerk McCabe has given up his
plans of starting a laundry when mis- term
of office expires.
The Daily Legal News is the best court
paper ever rdblshed in Topeka. 1t Ge-
serves support
A choir of girls trained by Anna NJ.
Davis sang at the Martin M E. church
Sunday morning.
The Van Amberg company did a fair
business with ''UncIe Toms Cabin" at
the Crawford Saturday.
Yesterday was the closing day of Rev.
NJ. c. Longs fifth year as pastor of the
Third PRESBYTERIAN church.
Washburn college has been defeated
twice in foot ball this season. Ottawa
ard Glasco We're the victors.
The new switchboard has been put in
position at the telephone exchange and
will be in use in a few days.
Miss Jessie Smith of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe is spending a
two weeks vacation in New York.
Rev. A. z. Wagner, pastor of the Eng
fish Lutheran church. is in Emporia,
where he is attending the synod.
Mrs J. E. Brown, who has been visit
ing in this city, returned last night to
her home in Turon, Reno county.
An administrator sale in a Topeka art
store has lowered the prices pictures
and frames in some of the other stores.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. King go to St Louis
tomorrow to attend the wedding of Mr..
Walter shreve has resigned his position
in the car service department of the
Santa Fe to take position in Kansas
City.
The Topeka railway power plant was
shut down this morning by a broken troll
ley wire just as the downtown traffic was
heaviest.
Every horse and buggy in town was in
use yesterday afternoon. which was an
ideal Kansas day, despite the clouds of
the forenoon.
Leslie Randolph, editor of the Norton
Vile News, is talked of as a candidate
for secretary of State on the Republican
ticket next year.
James Whitcomb Riley is going to be
given popular ovation in Topeka on the
occasion of his coming visit. He is the
poet of the people.
The members of the city council are
trying to devise some means OF heading
off the reckless expenditures of the po~
lice department
e. E. Cowman of BeIoit, formerly drug
gist of the asylum, was in town Saturday
on his way to St. Joe, where he will go
into the drug business
Judge ]. G. Wood will deliver his lecture
From Cortes to Diaz" before the stu
dents Of the Kansas Medical college next
Wednesday evening
Ed Little will tell the people a the
state irrigation meeting in Lawrence No
vember Is some of the things which he
knows about Egyptian irrigation
The new car wheel and upholstery
buildings at the Santa Fe shops in this
city have been completed and the ma
chinery will be put in place this week
At the First United Presbyterian chur5 h
Yesterday the following were ordained as
elders: DR. S. G. Stewart. David G.
Lowry. James A Ramsey and H. NJ. Saw
age.
A good likeness of Miss Blanche John
son, the Topeka girl who is now playing !
Sister Agnes in "A Ward of France" |
in a recent issue of the Phila- |
delphia Transcript.
The pulpit OF the English Lutheran |
church was filled yesterday morning and
evening by the Rev Frank D Altman. |
president Of the western Theological sem
mary at Atchison.
Two small boys named Hicks and VIII |
liams crawIed into the gallery of the |