The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

The city hall flag staff still rests in q
| SuP1ne position
/ The state medical societies meet in
| Topeka tomorrow.
| John D. Knox is an applicant for the
position of chaplain in the army.
The Topeka Commercial club is no
| longer an infant. 1t contains 40 mem
| bers.
| Topeka warriors are beginning to fear
| that they will not get a chance to go to
| the front.
Mr. Fred Frost, who is now employed
+ IN Galveston, Tex, is visiting relatives
in this city.
| double its membership during the war
| excitement.
Simon Greenspan is one of the latest
applicants for membership in the Com
mercial club.
Rev. J. B. Adkins, pastor of the Con-
gregationaI church at Ottawa is visit
ing in this city.
Farmers around Topeka have not
yet planted corn The spring has been
a bad one for them
Mr.. J. B. Bartholomew Is still con-
fined to his home as the result of an in
jury to his foot three weeks ago.
Gov. Leedy makes a short speech to
every company of volunteers that ar
rives while he is at the state house.
Frank P. MacLennan has been ap-
pointed member of the trades extern
sion committee of the Commercial club.
Board of education members furnish
ed for the city schools during the month
of April goods to the amount of $26 81.
Adna G. Clarke, captain of the Law
renee volunteer company, is a graduate
of the state university and is a good
tactician.
Mr. c. P. Adams will soon publish a
two step to be known as the Sloan
Two-Step,' dedicated to Sloan lodge
No. 225 A F. & A NJ.
Miss Lizzie Evans, who took the part
of Mrs. Lovejoy in the farce, "A Gay
Deceiver," Monday night, is a cousin of
Mr.. E. J. Dallas of this city.
Twelve more sewing machines have
been added to the manufacturing de-
partment of the Topeka wooden mill,
and it now has a capacity of % dozen
pairs of trousers per day.
The homeopathic physicians of this
city have arranged for a reception at
Library hall tomorrow night for the
out of town members of the Homoe-
pathic State Medical society.
The examinations for city school
teachers have been divided into three
dates. The first examination was held
April 80. The others will be held May
and May IA At the first examination
Is teachers took the examination
The number of bills presented to the
board of education at its regular meet
ing was less than usual and the
amounts cOnSlOefaCty less. 1t is the
ending up of the year when supplies are
allowed to get low.
Mrs. W. A. Johnston suggests that
the ladies of Topeka show their patriot
ism by preparing and sending to the
volunteer troops at the fair grounds, |
cake, gingerbread and other deIicacies
of a like nature which are not found on
the camp bill of fare.
The Topeka city schools are behind
those of other cities in the matter of
seating accommodations. Most of the
desks are of the pattern for two to sit
at, and they are old and rickety. When
new desks are purchased, which will
have to be soon, single desks will be the !
pattern adopted.
4 prominent Kansas avenue druggist |
locked up his store one night recently |
and started home, forgetting that his |
wife was reading behind the prescrip-
ton case. The fact that his wife was
IN the store did not occur to him until
he reached home, ten blocks away, and
then he started on a run back to the
store, imag ginning that she would be half |
dead with fright. He found her calm |
~ reading, totally unaware that the |
store had been locked and that he had |
made a trim home.