The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-22
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Mr.: and Mrs. W: Rose. Walnut Grove,
are the parents of boy.
Governor Leedy is out of the city and
will not return until the first of the
At a recent swell function guest asked
for a nut-cracker when the olives were
Why not wash off Kansas avenue with
hose? 1t gets into a horrible condition
WashingtOn's birthday will be celebrat-
ed by the Germans with a masquerade
ball at Turner hall.
ing to reduce his weight. He says he has
been getting too feshy of late
a Topeka man has invented a combined
tent and bed for Klondike travellers. It
is a folding affair and is light.
Mr.. E; 1. Palmer. travelling passenger
agent of the Santa Fe with headquarters
at Des Moines, Ia, is in the city.
Someone has started the dog-poisonine
been killed within the past Week. Ia
The first Raymond & Whitcomb excur-
sion to go west this year passed through
Topeka Friday afternoon over the Santa
The gallery IL, the district court room is
being used during the liquor trials. The
main floor will not accommodate the
Lon Townsend, the king of the jointists.
used to drive a hack in Topeka several
years ago. That was before he became
Miss Leona Foster. formerly in the Of
fee Of Babcock & Frost has taken po7
sition in the auditor of freight receipts
office of the Santa Fe.
Mr.. W. LittlefeId of the legal depart
ment of the Santa F'e has returned from
Sturgis. Mich where he was called by
the death of his mother.
The MiIls-Adams cloak saleroom at III
Kansas avenue is now vacant The firm ;
goods were removed into the regular store
room at 723 Kansas avenue
Three of the postofice burglars who
roster two years ago have escaped. None
of them lived in Topeka.
Forty members of Naomi Rebekah lodge
No. %, 1. O. O. F., attended the meeting
of the HOltOn lodge last night and eXem-
pHded the ritualistic work.
Miss Hattie Moore. formerly stenOgra-
pher in the office of 2. H. COney. has
taken position in the office Of auditor Of
freight receipts OF the Santa Fe
Howell Jones is the attorney for E b
Purcell who is president of the company
which proposes to build an electric road
between Topeka and Kansas City.
The Topeka Alaskan expedition is sched-
uled to leave on February T. Its boat IS
bring back $1,000 worth of nuggets
A drummer who is in Topeka has sam
pies of Fedora hats to be worn next sum
Every spring a freak" hat comes out.
All the steel Orders of the old Kansas
avenue bridge have been removed and the
old bridge is no more 1t viii require
three or four days to clear up the chan
mel under the old bridge site.
The Y NJ. G. A bowling alleys viii be
closed February for repairs. Both alleys
will take about ten days
Mrs. Frank Thomas, soprano; Mrs. F.
H. Foster. alto; Mr.; N. D. Henderson.
compose a quartette which will sing at
the Unity church in the future.
On a Topeka store window is a sign
reading: Put your hand here and feel
the pain - An old man stood in front
of it a long time expecting to receive
some benefit from an electric shock.
Marshal Sterne's recent reception to
friends of his family, in which he was as
sisted by Mrs. Sterne, Mr. and Mrs. Aus
tin Prescott and Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Howe,
has been styled 'Billy's coming out par
ty''
After dark Quincy street at Seventh
street is almost as tough as Clark street