The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-02
SNAP SHOTS HOMENEWs

The telephone lists are being distributed
]. S. Collins has returned from a trip
to New York and Washington
The Topeka Colored Silver Flambeau
club is now a chartered organization.
Nearly every member of the old Popu-
list police force is anxious to be taken
back.
The Festival chorus meets tonight in
Harmony hall in the Masonic building on
Jackson street.
The city jail. will need a thorough clean
ing as the old board would not allow mon
ely for an overhauling-
The Shawnee horticultural society
meets in the horticultural rooms at the
state house on Thursday at 2 D. m.
The journal has received a letter which
says that the family of the late ]. F.
Cummings now lives at Cripple Creek.
About half the divorce cases commenced
in the district court are dismissed before
they come 10 trial The parties make up.
Probate Judge Dolman yesterday mar
ried e. c. Wilson, aged % years, and
Florence Richards, aged 20 years, both of
Elm Grove, Mo.
Sheriff Kepley has made new rule
Hereafter there will be but one visiting
day, Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
CONGREGATIONAL church will meet tomor-
row afternoon with Mrs. John L. Sergent
at 225 Clay street
Paul Bundy, a brother of NJ Bundy
who has driven the patrol wagon for two
years, was an applicant for patrol driver
under the Populists
Herman.
house was dismissed before it came to
trial in police court.
Rev. D. D. Boyle of the First Christian
church will preach at the North Topeka
Christian church tonight on the subject
"A Ruined Home. Who Did It?"
John Fritz, of Englewood, one of the
directors of the Garfield Park Trottins
association of Chicago, is visiting the
family of c. c. Trimmer at III East Tenth
street.
Many people who saw the crowd around
the police station yesterday thought that
there has been murder. but they were
only the applicants for places on the po-
lice force.
Another suit against the Topeka Com
mercial Security company filed in
the district court by Francello C. Jillson,
of Providence, R. L, on paper guaranteed
by the company to the amount OF S7,l59 r.
"A little two-days-old baby was brought
to me by yelled lady in a hack who said
she lived in Atchison,'' said Police Mat
ron Thorpe. but l told her 1 could not
place a child under four months old, in a
family
Police Matron Thorpe is in correspond
ence with authorities in California in re-
gard to a little girl who used to live in
Topeka, and who is now upon the public
charities. An effort will be made to
bring her back here.
old Richard Boyd, the faithful guard
of the city stone pile win hold his job,
years ago he was injured in a sewer
ditch while in the employ of the city. and
the job was given him on this account.
No more faithful guard could be found
than he.
The Washburn college paper fight which
had assumed alarming proportions, has
been settled with the organization of q
new weekly publication to be known as
the ''Washburn Weekly Review" in
which both Reporter and Mid-Continent
factions have united. The college author
tiles are thus relieved of the senseless
fighting of two Sheets
Edna Oleson has filed a suit in the dis
trict court asking a divorce from her hus-
band, Victor Oleson. whom she claims is
guilty of cruelty toward her. The two
live on Liberty street and gained con-
siderable nOtoriety by a free-for-an fight
a few months ago, and for which they
were arrested. Previous to that the huS-
band had pleaded guilty to wife beating
and was fined in police court.
It may be news to many Topeka people
to learn that there is a school in Topeka
for the training of BARRIERS. In a large
store room Fourth street between
Kansas avenue and Quincy street, chairs
have been placed. and here youths are
taught the tonsorial art There clinics
are supplied with ma terial by the eager
public which desires to get something for
nothing A sign the windows announce
that hair cutting and shaving are done
there free of charge. In this way there
are plenty of subjects for the young bar
bers to practice upon.