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


It is less than two weeks now till Christ
mas
-Four, weeks from today Governor Stan
ley will be inaugurated.
annual ii concert on Wednesday evening.
A Topeka dentist keeps in his. showcase
as sign skulls with false teeth IN their
mouths.
Rev. NJ. c. Long. pastor of the Third
Presbyterian church, is a candidate Tor
chaplain of the house.
The Epworth league of the First Meth
odist church will hold its annual election
on Wednesday evening.
Chief Strauss ordered roulette table
a aHS5Foys Wound d 5eW s dag5 s Inc
A Topeka meat shop hangs a 'possum in
front Of its shop to attract the colored
trade whenever 1t can get one.
The hinges on some Of the big doors at
the state house need oiing. They creak
in most ear-splitting manner.
The oldest member of the next legisla-
ture will be J. q. Rees Of Greeley, Ander-
son county. He is II years old.
June Moore spent Saturday in Atchison,
his first week day there for over a year, al
though he is nearly always there on Sun
day.
DR.. Countermine. pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, viii deliver an ao-
dress at the Y. W. G. A rooms this even
There will be two preachers. in the next
! Stafford county and E. F. Reser of Kiowa
county.
Ten years sgo F; $. sagaaxs Of the
employed in the Burlington offices in
AtchiSOu.
1t was a sort of joke on those women
who went to the court house Saturday
afternoon supposing that the Collins trial
was in session.
Business is slack in some of the state Of
fees at present and the StenOgrapherS are
putting in their spare time making Christ
mas presents.
Miss Fannie Burge, stenographer in the
office of the secretary of state, is in era
ham county looking after property Whlcn
she owns there.
When talking with Weather Observer
think that i'High'S and low refer to
game of seven-up.
+ A Topeka girl claims that she has look
ed through fourteen lists of presents for
men" and hasn't found anything suitable
for her young man yet.
The clerks in the stores and Offices have
a kick coming this year because CHRIST
day and they will get no holiday
The State Bar association will hold its
annual meeting. in Topeka. the middle Ct
Peck will deliver the principal address.
The brick floor is being laid in the dy-
namo room at the state house; A great
deal of dust accumulates on the machin
cry from the dirt floor as it is at pres
A state house stenographer lost FIVE
pounds of candy on the election, but she
has managed to pay it at such times as
Of it.
The housekeepers will have to get their
pected in order to accommodate the people
who will come to attend the special session
next week.
It will take a week to check up the state
treasurerS office when TREASURER Hehe-
bower turns it over to Treasurer-elect
Grimes. The process will commence
month from today.
Occasionally visitors to the state house
make remarks about the wall paper on
the walls of the rotunda.. The walls are
freScoed. and it is expensive frescoing al
that, but it has a wall paper effect on
first glance. Some day it can be repaint-
ed properly.
The Topeka Camera club will give a
series of free exhibitions the evenings
of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday a
their rooms in the Masonic building. Prints
will be exhibited made by members of the
club and all who are interested are tnv1t-
ed.
In the statement of the campaign ex-
penses of the Republican state central
committee John Madden is charged with
receiving s25. The Populists say that
there is but one John Madden, and they
are wondering how he came to be receiv-
ing money from a Republican committee.
The interest of the majority may lag
since the last star witness in the Collins
case has testified, but among the young
ladies the interest seems to be still at
fever heat, for blue uniformed messenger
boys are engaged in carrying neatly tied
packages of candy to Collins at the coun-
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