The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

alarms.
The Populist primaries are being held
this afternoon
We must build that Auditorium, even if
the war does go on
There are now so men at work on the
street commissioners force.
DR.. J. P. Grimsley is recovering from a
severe attack of tOnSilitiS.
Down town there is a sign: "Please
don't sit on this beehive"
Topeka has the state Christian En-
deavor convention, June 9-12.
The most timid people in Topeka are be-
ginning to feel like fighting.
Topeka chapter instituted a new chap
ter at Lawrence last night.
DR.. and Mrs: C.. s. McClintock are the
parents of a girl, born April a.
Councilman Drew served in the United
States navy during the rebellion.
Several Topeka musicians will partici-
pate in the Hutchinson jubilee in May.
Judge John W. Day was a paymaster in
the United States navy during the last
war.
F. A Wilson is building an addition to
his residence at 1924 Lincoln street to cost
A K. Wilson and w. c. Chaffee left
yesterday for Lawrence on Masonic bust
ness.
w. G. Holloway is making improve
ments on his residence on lot No. 297 Clay
It is singulaarly aPpGopEiate that the last
The Topeka Elks go to Kansas City,
Kan, to institute a new lodge of Elks
april oU
Harry steinberg's orchestra played for
the Kappa Gamma party at Lawrence
last night.
NJ. F. Rigby's new addition to his store
will be 25x25 feet, two stories, and will
cost $1,000.
DR.. E. L. Thorpe of the First Methodist
church and family are residing at the Ma
Willis Norton & Co. improvements on
the Inter,oeean mills in North Topeka
Frank G. Willard is considered one
of the most scientific fishermen in the
Lake View club.
of the Rock Island, escorted the regulars
through Kansas.
The stores that handle United States
flags have had steady sale for them
since yesterday noon
Book publishers seem to be trying to
excel all previous efforts in the line of
binding and printing.
Captain J. G. Waters claims that he con-
sumes less time in addressing a jury than
any lawyer in Topeka.
The annual convention of the State
Sunday School association will be held al
Abilene May 10 and II.
Tom King and Pat Sherman are at
work organizing a company of volunteers,
and they mean business.
The high school chorus is preparing to
give a chorus Friday evening of next a
the high school assembly hall.
The city engineer has filed his estimate
for the cost of the new Auditorium. 1t
will be presented to the city council.
Topeka looks like the Fourth of July
had arrived. There is hardly a business
flag.
A. J. Paramore has been issued a per-
init to bq1ld an addition to his residence
cost $500.
Corporal Wright. who went through To-
peka with H troop of the First cavalry, is
at salina.
There are now three lodges of Elks in
Kansas, at Topeka, Wichita and Pitts
sas City, Kan -'--
Word has been received that Miss Ida
Smart, formerly of Topeka, was severely
burned in a store where she was work
ing in Los Angeles. Co.,.
The Epworth league of the Methodist
It was a Goose Creek Spellin' " and an
'fHintellectual Skule.''
The timbers which are to be used as
supports in the new w. A. L. Thompson
warehouse are am1ng the largest in use
All the refuse which is cleared from the
paved pa streets is hauled to the river bank
fill at the south side.
Kemper & Paxtons have asked Street
Commissioner Ramsey to have the ex-
building on Quincy near Sixth street.
In the city street commissioners office
there is a small book labeled Complaint
BOOK. In it all complaints about streets
or walks or sewers in the city written.
1t is said that the city railway men who
of milk with them on the car and that it
is churned into butter after a round trip.
Tennesseetown turned out 800 strong
yesterday to see the Twenty-fourth regi-
ment of cOlQred infantry go through. The
colored soldiers looked every inch the
fighters that the government wants.
A Topeka woman called up her husband
in great excitement, yesterday afternoon,
and exclaimed: What's that cannonading
for?" They're shootfn' fish down at the
bridge" was the rejoinder.
Half-tone pictures of Herbert Hackney,
A. K. Rodgers, o. d. Skinner DR.. Eva
Harding and Mrs. Thomas S. Lyon ap-
pear in the current number of the Ralston
Magazine, published at Washington.
Eugene Hagan was called up 100 times
by telephone Friday by people who want
ed to inquire whether he would communi-
cate with R. l.. Zeller's recruiting office
next door. Some of his friends were per-
petrating a practical joke.
John Waidlich. the young man who
froze his feet in walking back from Leav-
enwOrth last January, was discharged
from the Salvation Army hospital today.
Part of both feet was amputated and the
process of healing was very slow.
The aluminium Identification medal
which the government is talking of adopt
ing for the soldiers who enlist in the
Cuban war, was the idea of William Hold
son, paymaster of the Rock Island in To-
pel1a. He wrote to Charles Curtis soon
after the blowing up of the Maine and
made the suggestion, which will prob
ably be adopted. 1t should be called the
HodSon medal.