The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
MarshaITs band concert will probably be
Lieutenant Governor Harvey once taught
school at Auburn.
The State Farmers alliance will meet
in Topeka January 5:
The EIiilmon case may be tried in Febru-
airy and 1t may not be tried al all.
The First Christian church will have an
old fashioned Christmas tree tonight.
County Treasurer Phillips and his Office
force are busy checking up the tax rolls
Otto Kuehne says that his business has
been $4,000 larger this year than ever be-
The price of turkeys ranges from 10 to -
cents per pound in different parts of
town.
Major T. ]. Anderson has made a dona-
post.
Detective Dell Harbaugh left Friday for
st. Louis to spend Christmas with his
i is to be. hoped that the legislature win
house dome.
The letter carriers will make one de-
livery only on Monday, and that will be
early in the morning
John E. Lord is achieving a reputation
bOwlers in the city.
of giving houses as Christmas presents
would come into style.
Frank Grimes has appointed Roy Richie
to be bond clerk in the state treasury dur
ing the next two years.
There has been but one Santa Claus on
the streets of Topeka this season and his
makeup is sadly out of joint.
Colonel A. B. Jetmore has gone to Wash
ington and it is limited that he has his
eye on the federal judgeship-
Commissioner of Elections Yount says
that he has no fears that his office will be
abolished by this legislature.
Young men in natty military uniforms
are now a common sight on the streets.
They are at home from school.
A lunch stand sign in the west corridor
Representative hall reads "'Lunh.''
Lieutenant Governor-eIect H. E. Richter
is watching the proceedings in the senate.
He once served as a member of that body
Oscar SWayze is growing a Pefferian
beard and he says that it is to protect his
face from premature discharge of fire.
works.
Simon Greenspan is still kept confined at
the county Jail He will be removed to
the asylum as soon as room can be made
for him.
''Nethersole' bracelets and .'Nethersole''
kisses were the fashion The bracelets
ceeded.
A young, man who sent a five pound boz
of candy by express spent an hour tying
it with string to keep the express mes
senger out of it.
The aroma of coffee and of the ham
sandwich permeates the corridors of the
state house a good share of the time. They
come from the lunch stands
Major VIM Sims, president of the First
National bank. keeps up his membership
in the farmers societies to which he be-
Governor Leedy went to LAWRENCE last
night to spend Christmas with his family.
one whom he saw "a merry Christmas"
The Kansas Academy of Science will
meet in Topeka on December % The meet
Horticultural society at the state house.
A Topeka man was called to the pOstCf-
He refused. His wife Went to the office,
paid the charges and kept the package.
1t was a box of cigars.
a
KIondliixe5'' He went to the Alaskan gold
regions a year ago last summer and re-
turned to Kansas last August.
Mike McKenna, who has made out
several thousand nOtarial commissions
during the past two years for other peo-
pie has just issued one to himself for use
in his home county, Rocks county
If Dave Leahy looked like his little boy
when he was the same age it is no wonder
i-iSsad him little Dan who is q page
will soon be the pet of the house.
Capital lodge No. SIS, Order of Select
Friends, has elected the following officers:
Chief protector, Mrs Theresa Shultz; Eice
Flora Sherry; treasurer, Miss Lydia c.
De Long.
Representatives Irwin, Honenbeak and
Johnson of Nemaha, on the RepubIlcan
side, voted with the Populists on the emer.
gency proposition to apP 9It ate S3l g0O
of the legislature.
Assistant Secretary of State Ross has
clerk of the ways and means committee of
the senate The latter had to have
roller-tOp desk, even if the governor him
self had to give it up.
The Salvation Army authorities have not
made up their minds to submit to the or
der of the city council and move their hos
pitaI. The Salvation Army should not
get the reputation of stubbOrnly Opposing
every order of the city government if it
intends to solicit support from the city
John Macdonald. president of the State
Teachers association, says the evil effectS
of the special session are already notice
able. Our association has to give up
Representative hall this year to the spe-
cial session. he says, land the hotels are
so crowded that we cannot engage rooms
for the teachers who are writing for them,
all because this legislature is in session.
houses"
AS 500 mas Dave Leahy's little son Dan
had been elected as one of the pages in the
house Wednesday, Dave teleSraphed MRS.
Leahy to send the boy up from Wichita.
On the same train he came on was ~
man NaugleS boy, Roy, who had also been
elected as a page in the house. Although
the two boys had never seen nor hearI Of
one another before they had not been on
some intuitive manner known only to boy
hood. each knew the others destination
and purposes and they had become fast
chumS.
Philadelphia to Borrow Millions
Philadelphia, Dec. z4.-Judges Sulz-
berger and Pennypacl1er today dismiss
ed the bill in equity brought by Messrs.
Barr and Yocum to restrain the issue of