The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-18
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

webb NcNan has gone home TO Gay
lord.
The Grand will be dark al of next
week.
". A s Bird has returned from bust
ness trip to Atchison-
John Waters attended a social function
at Lawrence last night
The new county. officers will take their
places early next month
There are 90 men working in the county
stone yard at the fair grounds.
a Topeka man who has learned to play
whist is no longer good-natured.
". E. Bush, secretary of state. is trans
acting business in northwest Kansas.
Mayor Fellows has declined to serve an
other year on the Committee of Fifteen
The excursionists yesterday did not
come to Topeka to shop They came to
buy.
MI George J. August of New York city
viii spend the holidays with his parents
in this city.
Monte LeCrofte. the female imperson-
ator. who is held at the city jail. is j
ventriloquist.
G. W. Melville of the Melville-Pankey
Cattle company has returned from bust
ness trip TO Texas.
Mr. Dean Low will be the guest of Miss
Eva Brown during the holdays.-Kansas
University Weekly
The transfer from the old to the new
switchboards at the telephone central
station viii be made tomorrow
Another new irrigation company has
been Incorporated for western Kansas en-
terprise. with headquarters at Coolidge.
Governor Leedy will return from Kan
sas City TO his home in Lawrence today
and viii not be in Topeka until next week
Poor Commissioner Hale says that there
has been an increased demand for county
provisions since the cold weather
a crowd of Topeka young men walked
up and down Kansas avenue yesterday
With badges bearing the words ~Emporia''
or Usage City
Manager Crawford has booked The
Brownies for early in January. This
with Rice's 1892" viii make Two big ex-
travaganzas during that month
Secretary F. D. Coburn of the state
board of agriculture is sending out the
programs for the twenty-seventh annual
meeting of the board in this city January
I2-I4
The Foster Humane society is fnvesti-
eating the death of 140 head of cattle a I
the fair grounds. II is supposed that
their death was due to exposure on the
trains.
The Black Trilby'' company will not
play in Topeka Manager Crawford per
suaded the manager into the belief that
Topeka was a poor theatrical town. and
could not stand such an aggregation
Two men yesterday entered the dry
goods store of Warren NJ. Crosby and one
of them slipped a fine cloak under his
coat. He was apprehended, and when
accused of the theft he dropped the cloak |
and ran out of the store.
Miss Ellen Vail, daughter of the late
Bishop Vail, yesterday transferred to
Christ hospital a tract of several acres /
west of the hospital. The nominal price |
was 81, which was the formal transfer !
The property Will probably be sold.
Dean Hayden of the Church of the As |
sumption is making elaborate prepara- !
tions for the Christmas services. The /
church will probably be more handsomely |
decorated than ever before in its history /
the decorations including a large floral /
arch with electrical effects over the cen
traI altar
The American Volunteers of this city /
have been imposed upon. well as the |
people. by people who have gone about 1
soliciting funds. claiming 10 be commits |
stoned by the Volunteers The ereden- !
tials should be signed by either Chas. L |
Shannon or F. RoetzeI.