The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka club building has been dec
grated with flags.
Jewell, is i'll with measles.
Mrs. John W. Leedy spent Sunday with
Governor Leedy in this city.
The L o. o. F. parade will be given
Tuesday Afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs J. P. Davis is seriously i'll at her
home, Eleventh and Topeka avenues.
Lieutenant Governor A. NJ. Harvey is
taking the higher degrees in Masonry
Dr. H. w. Roby wants to be one of the
surgeons of the first Kansas regiment
Clarence Skinner and family will move
to Highland Park this week for the sum-
mre.
The Modoc club is preparing to give an
Auditorium benefit concert of patriotic
P. G. Noel, who died Saturday. would
have been Sc years of age today had he
lived.
Mrs s. Barnes, who is seriously i'll at
Stormont hospital, is. reported somewhat
A runaway boy who was arrested by
the police was registered as ''uncontrolla-
bic Boy
given to members and invited guests at
Arion hall.
Wichita he had a hatful of badges pinned
on his coat.
DR.. Menninger. has just returned from
Hot Springs, Ark. He reports Mr. Green
much improved.
Samuel Hickox, an old soldier, is dam
gerously i'll at his home at Twelfth and
Kansas avenue.
DIR. U. B. McCurdy has returned from
the City of Mexico, where he went with
shipment of horses.
Prof J. P Grimsley of Washburn col
lege is worse. He now has scarlet fever
and his condition is serious.
The Daughters of the American Reyo-
luton will hold a meeting next Friday
and discuss the war situation.
Fred Popenoe's house is the show place
in Highland Park. Its immense port1co
is built of red sandstone boulders.
A Topeka man has made a bet that
there won't be 500 Americans killed in the
land fighting in the present war.
The war spirit is so high in Topeka that
crowds. of people follow man in army
Luther Nellis leaves today for New
York and from there will go to Berlin,
Germany to visit his mother and sisters
The annual meetings of the state medi-
cal societies will be held in Topeka May 4,
and 6. One evening joint session will
be held.
The father of Phil S. Creager, former
Topeka newspaper man., was dragged to
death by a colt on his farm In Repuohc
C. E. Gault has purchased of ]. w. Fer
guson two lots at the corner of Fourteenth
and Harrison streets upon which he will
There is no place in town where a flag
staff with flag on it would show or to
better advantage than the top OF the Cen
trail National bank.
= very tall extra conductor, who has
recently gone. to work for the. Topeka
High Pockets by the employees.
Mrs F. N Wood of this city was elect
ed as member of the council OF admins
tration for the Ladies of the G. A. r. at
the annual session held last week at Wlch-
ita.
George B. Turpin and Charles, Bird
whistle, two North Topeka colored men,
are organizing volunteer company,
which will be offered to Governor Leedy
j. F. Tufts of Atchison. who was in the
about to overflow the lowlands in that
vicinity. He thinks the water has reach
ed the highest point.
Mr.. W. H. Stfllwell, assistant general
SUPERINTENDENT of the Rock Island, has
returned from Chicago after arranging
the new spring time card for the lines
west of the Missouri river.
The Kansas Academy of Language and
Literature will hold its fifteenth annual
meeting in Topeka Thursday and Friday
of this week. The meetings will be held
at Washburn college chapel
Northern Lights the piece in which
Miss Ethelyn Palmer of this city took a
closed in Chicago last week and Miss
Palmer is expected home next Sunday.
Prof w A. Harshbarger, who is organ
izing a company of Washburn college stu
dents for the war, says that he has re-
ceived applica tons for membership from
out in the state, and even from Nebraska.
The North Topeka ffremen will place
flower gardens in the lot just north of the
station house, on the corner of Gordon
and Kansas avenue. The lot is being
filled in and small park will be made
Saturday evening at sos o'clock firemen }