The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

! street.
The Apollo club will meet at the Modoc
| rooms tonight.
R. H. Cav has had his commission as
notary public renewed.
The receipts at the Topeka postoffice
for October We're s9,O15.5l.
The Washburn college foot ball team is
| playing in Manhattan today.
Matt Weightman contemplates build
| ing a new home this winter.
| Hazel nuts are reported scarce. Wal
nuts are nearly all gathered.
Pension Agent Leland may now be
I found in the Columbian building
Mrs. George Home conducted the Y. w.
! c. A. meeting yesterday afternoon.
A daughter has been born to Mr. and
Mrs. H. c. Dustin of 229 Chandler
| Troutman & Stone have moved their
! law office to the Columbian building.
| Leavenworth has paid into the state
treasury $2,661 on delinquent state taxes.
Lee Jones is suffering with rheuna tism,
| the result Of too much 'possum hunting.
The Third Christian church choir will
give a free concert next Wednesday even
ing.
The vicinity of Chandler and Fourth
streets has been graded and drain pipes
laid.
The Topeka whist club has decided to
admit lady players and a tournament is
being arranged for that purpose.
A chorus of thirty voices furnishes
music for the protracted meetings at the
Baptist church in North Topeka.
Hauling a 80 foot counter on on foot
wagon is an art known only to few
expressmen who drive small wagons.
There is talk of forming 'Paresis
club" in Topeka. A paresis club is one
where even the poorest jokes are ad-
missible.
The executive council has installed Cap
tain w. F. Hendry as assistant adjutant
general and quartermaster of the Kansas
G. A. r.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Congregational church will give a recep-
tion to the Y. NJ. c. A. members tomor-
row evening.
DR.. Thomas Kirkpatrick has been ap-
pointed assistant surgeon with the rank
of captain in the first infantry of the K.
n. G. in this city.
George A. Bryant of Kansas City, Kan,
who sent to the county Jail last
March for petty larceny, has been par
doned by Governor Leedy.
The family of Congressman w. D. Vim
cent of Clay Center will accompany him
to Washington. where they will remain
until the expiration of his term of office |
S. A. johnson, whose case was reversed |
by the court of appeals, was not accused |
of robbing graves, but of receiving bodies |
while acting as janitor of the Medical |
college.
The enthusiasts who have never missed /
a Thanksgiving game at Kansas City be- |
tween the Kansas and Missouri varsity |
teams are wondering if it will be worth /
seeing this year.
Private Secretary Ed Little is down on |
the programme of the state irrigation
meeting for a paper on ''Shadoof and !
This is a description of how /
irrigation is done in Egypt.
At the meeting Saturday the ex-
ecutive council did not discuss the re-
movaI of r. w. Turner as secretary of
the state board of railroad commission
ers. This talk of removal seems to be
mostly thin air.
The Topeka Camera club may occupy
rooms with the Topeka Athletic associa-
ton. The plan is being talked over
among the members of the club. This
would be a great combination. The kodak
naturally goes with the wheel.
jackson Lewis, a well known young
farmer of Auburn, had one of his fin
gers amputated Saturday. While thresh-
ng in Iowa several weeks ago the finger
was injured and recently blood poisoning
set in. The loss of the finger probably
saved his life.
"On the Banks of the Wabash Far
Away is the latest song that immortal
ze" a river. Why can't somebody com
oine pathos and the Kaw in the same
-erse? The KaW is just as pretty a | I
liver as the Wabash and everybody along
IS banks doesn't have the yellow jaun- I
lice either.
Residents living on the Quinton Heights
md Washburn college trolley lines are
becoming uneasy lest the car service on
hose lines will be reduced to the half l
lour schedule permanently. Last winter
he half hour service was inaugurated on
hese lines on Sundays, which caused con- :
iderable dissatisfaction
The Shawnee County Teachers asso-
ia ton met Saturday at the high school :
auditorium. Saturday, November 13 the
ssocfation will hold a banquet in Lin
oln Post hall. The meeting viii be '
allied at 10 a. m. and at noon the feast S
will be spread and there will be toasts
nd responses c. H. Martin will be =
Oastma ster.
Frank Bruce Gee, the man arrested by I
he Topeka police on orders from Serb =
er's Sons. the publishers and taken to q
,maha bv Nebraska authorities, has been
ound over to the county court at Omaha
?, two charges. The amount of property a
lafmed to have been taken by Gee is
los. Three charges of forgery and one a
f larceny were filed against him. e
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