The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Congressment-elect w. A. Calderhead
is in the city.
Ex-Governor Morrill, was in Topeka
for short time yesterday afternoon.
VIII Atchison has gone to Indian
apolis to take medical treatment.
A Topeka man says a baby buggy is
a good thing, but he does not like to
push it along.
Some of the bicycle enthusiasts say
that chainless wheels will sell for SIS
| in less than a year.
]. G. Johnson of Greenwood county,
| ex-member of the live stock sanitary
commission, is in the city.
| The Western School journal has Just
| started on it's fifteenth year. John Mac
| Donald has been editing it for the past
/ ten years.
The Kansas papers are commenting
| on the fact that Aguinaldo hasn't OPEN
! ed his head since Ed. Little made his
| appearance in the Philippines.
| A corn-fed philosopher observes that
! the way women crowd into the Collins
| trial sometimes is reprehensible, es-
pecially to those who cannot get in.
The Populists who expect to loaf
| around the state house during the next
| two years say that the bank commits
| sioner's office will be like an oasis in the
| desert.
The certificates of election for the
| members of the legislature are being
| made out today by NJ. McKenna, the
pen artist of the secretary Of states
| Office.
The woman most sought for at social
| functions at Wichita at present is one
! who visited in Topeka last week and
! saw both John Collins and Miss Bah
| cock.
Private Secretary Lewis no longer
| boards at the National since the cleo
| ton. He and Executive Clerk Elliott
! have rooms with a private family on
| Van Buren, street.
The National hotel is crowded with
| travelling men today. They are brought
| here by the fact that the board Of chart
| ties is purchasing supplies for the state
| charitable institutions.
People who intend to run for city Of
/ fees next spring should keep the snow
| Shoveled off their sidewalks if they eX-
! pect the support of pedestrians who
| have to use their walks.
| Secretary A. H. Greet of the Kansas
! commission to the Omaha exposition, is
| in the city today. He will turn the re-
| port of the commission over to the state
| printer tomorrow.
| Webb McNaH took a ten-cent chance
/ in church doll rattle today. He says
! he formed the habit of betting on the
election and he has to have something
| to keep up the excitement.
The man who has to break the ice in
| the water pitcher before he can wash
! these cold mornings doesn't see why
| he made so much fuss about a little
| warm weather last summer.
John Anderson, the janitor who fell
! twenty-five feet down the elevator shaft
! at the state house yesterday, is rather
! stiff today as a result of his fall, and
he has little use of his right arm.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal and
| Examiners Waterman and Osborne ex-
! pected to go to Marion today to testify
| in the criminal procedure against Harry
! Mason for wrecking the Marion bank,
but they have received a telegram that
| the case has been postponed.
Kansas teachers ought to get Jerry
| Black Christmas present. He sue
| ceeded in getting the railroads of Kan
| fare for the round trip to the state
association during the holidays, while
! the Nebraska teachers have to pay one
and One-third fares.
The extra session of the legislature
| and the State Teachers association are
| bound to conflict. The teachers always
meet during the holidays and they are
! used to having their sessions in Repre-
! sentatives' hall, and Superintendent
| Stryker says he thinks the legislature
will have to get out of the way.
! The Federation Of Clubs will ask the
legislature this winter to consolidate
| the travelling libraries with the state
| library and have both looked after by
| the state librarian. Mrs. Diggs says
! there will be plenty of room for the
| travelling library in the new state
| library room on the third floor of the
! state house.
A complete list of the medals and
| diplomas awarded Kansas exhibitors at
| the Omaha exposition has been COM
| piled. 1t shows that Otto Kuehne Sc
| tural exhibit for fruits, jellieS and pre-
! serves; the Mt. Carmel Coal company
| of this city, of which Mr.. G. J. Devlin
| is president, a bronze medal for btu
| minous coal in the mines and mining
exhibit, and the Capital City Vitrified