The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

today.
The demand for fans has greatly fallen
off recently.
=, Very few places of business were open
this morning.
Donations are needed at the Salvation
Army hospital
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Smith of
North Topeka girl
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Q. r. ONeil1 of
1lOI western avenue, a girl.
a "tom-tom'' orchestra. has been limited
at for John Waters doll party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Squire, SOS Branner
street, are the parents of a son.
The dogs in the pet stock show are
taken out for exercise every day.
1T, This is the sort Of a day the formerly of
Superintendent STRIKERS biennial report
is In the hands of the state printer.
Gasoline stoves are not as popular as
they were three or four months ago.
Down in Dixie" comes to the Craw-
ford theater one week from Saturday.
dachshund pups" at the pet stock show
Assistant Auditor c. a Taylor has gone
home to Pratt to eat Thanksgiving turkey.
It makes one shudder to think of going
out to Garfield park now to spend an
T. 6, J. is quite popular today. Those
had it.
All questions about the doll contest are
now referred to the war editor Of the
Journal
The pet stock show is open at night.
The pie market was cornered early this
morning.
Private Secretary Lewis has followed
the example Of Major Shreve and is wear
ing a cap.
The dispatches say that Havana is wide
would not be.
Railroad Commissioner Campbell has re-
turned from trip to his home out in
Miss Hays, Governor Leedy's stenogra-
pher, went home to Kansas City to spend
Thanksgiving.
Some money. was lost on Corbett in To-
peka but not as much as was lost about
two weeks ago.
Next to the Hverymen who have sleighs
to rent, the coal dealers are the most
thankful today.
The witnesses for the defense in the Col
Inns trial will not be subpoenaed until after
the trial commences.
Secretary Coburn and his daughter, Miss
to spend Thanksgiving.
Etienne, Girardot in Miss Francis of
Yale is booked for the Crawford theater
on Friday evening of next week.
John CLANCY is the most worrit'' look
ing man in Topeka, with a dozen Shawnee
applicants for every political job.
A Topeka woman who has never been
inside of a court room is teasing her nus
band to take her to the Collins trial
a number Of pigeons have taken up their
ABODE around the tops OF the pillars at
1t sounds rather out of date to hear
man whistling "A Hot Time" when the
thermometer is lingering around zero.
The enthusiasts would shoot today at the
tournament if it was so cold that the trig-
gers Of the guns had to be thawed out
Inc SIOCGIy WdSOuS were KEPT DuSy yes
their orders filled till or 10 o'clock at
night.
The date of the appearance of Matthews
& Bulger in by the Sad Sea Waves at
tonight.
The recruiting office for the Twentieth
regular infantry in the postoffce build-
| ing is doing good business for a return
engagement.
A small Topeka boy who does not like
to go to school anyway, says that it is
too hot to go to school in summer and too
cold in winter
Mrs. H. B. EI1cam or ATacke, wife of the
abscOnder, her mother and three little
Children are living in one room at the
Fifth Avenue hotel. fa
Jim Morphy has let up on his boom for
| secretary of the senate long enough to
take another whirl at compiling the cleo
i ton returns by precincts
E. L. Kane, son of William Kane, a
well known Meriden farmer, had his left
| leg fractured by falling on the ice near
| his home yesterday afternoon
Clarence Bush, a son Of Secretary of
| regiment at Leavenworth to eat Thanks
| giving turkey with his parents.
A man who holds a third grade certifi-
| cate and who is teaching school for $50 a
month has asked the state board of edu-
| cation to grant him state certificate.
| a large share of the lumber which has
! been piled up in the basement of the state
down from the dome has been removed.
Grant Gillett, the well known stockman
/ of Dickinson county and proprietor of the
! large ranch and cowboy band at Wood
| bine, lost rs head of cattle in the blizzard
| of Monday.
| A union Thanksgiving service was held
| North Topeka Congregational church.
| preached a, sermon.
| The school children, who have a vaca-
! there We're more Thankseivings; but the
| mother with a boy on &. foot ball team is
sorry there is any.
/ for divorce against Albert Neiswender in
! the district court. Mrs; Neiswender says
/ were married year.
| Engineer E. T. Barstow of the Rock ISL
making a coupling in the Topeka yards
| up his engine for some time.
! The oldest inhabitant" cannot recall
| the time when the sleighing was as good
f fh f co 1y IN ansaS as Il IS
! has happened this year has been ''unprece-
| Gertrude MagiH wants a divorce from
James E. Magill and has filed suit in the
| tody of their. minor child. and asks that
/ her husband be enjoined from interfering
with her or the little one.
| A. Newman & Co., boot and shoe deal
! eTs OF AtSehIsoni have failed for So, 100
! was supposed the firm doing a good
! business A branch store at Hfawatha is
| said to be responsible for the failure.
The jury in the suit of Durkin & Leahy
/ against the Master Plumbers Mutual Ben
| ett association was out from clock IN
! til II o'clock last night without agreeing
on a verdict The members were then
! excused from further consideration of the
! case until tomorrow morning.
! 1t is not necessary for everybody to
| have a fine cutter, a fast horse, sleigh
! bells and an abundance of buffalo robes to
I enjoy sleighriding. The persons who had
I the most fun today We're a number of
| small boys who had an old horse hitched
! to a bob-sled and a cow-beH tied around
! his neck.
| one Topeka man is feeling the expense
| of fuel during the cold weather more than
/ in former years. His Oldest daughter has
| arrived at that stage in her love affairs
| where her young man comes to see her
| every evening, and the parlor has to be
| kept warm most of the time.
| Assistant At+Or17a x- Cen eraI Smelling and