The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

! Lieutenant Governor Harvey is at Ian
] sing visiting his brother.
Seth Chase. son of George W. Chase.
| IS now proprietor of the news stand at
/ the Santa Fe depot
DR.. A Rupin has a letter from Lon
( don scientist who prophesies that the
| world will come to an end on Easter
The New York Male quartette. assisted
by Miss Nellie Nichols, will give a con-
cert at Washburn college March Is.
Rev. VIM; s COwdry, the colored evan
gelist, has left Topeka. He did not meet
with much financial support in Topeka
Z. W. Benedict is receiving requests to
push the project of a brick pavement west
on Thirteenth street
The mayor should remind the Barber
Asphalt company that it has a contract
for keeping the asphalt pavements in re-
pair.
Curfew now rings at Is minutes before
9 o'clock and the boys may stay on the
street an hour longer than they could
Mrs. Addie Jewen-Newton will be in To-
peka about March Is and it is expected
entertainment.
2. NJ. Sheldon of the Turst Company. of
America will go to Kansas City this
week to visit his son, Frank E: Sheldon,
who is attending dental college there.
Pick" Smith has heard 50 much about
fish since his famous catch of two years
ago that when anyone speaks of fishing
he assumes a wearied air that commands
sympathy.
Unity club will have an Evening With
James Lane Allen this evening Miss
Ada Fulcher will discuss "A Kentucky
Choir Invisible"
The new balls and pins have arrived for
the Y. M c. A. bowling alleys. The al
leys were recently repaired A contest
in ducks, cooked hat, hve-back and ten
pins will be arranged.
Lee Jones says that he has received a
large number OF applications for posi-
lions since 1t was reported that he was
missiOners from Kansas.
G. G. Gage, who is one of the public
spirited citizens of Topeka, says that there
will be trouble about raising the bal
ance necessary to build the Auditorium on
the south bank of the river.
Chas. w. Barnes has been appointed as
Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
J. F. OIlinger of Salina received the ap-
pointment as official Handicapped.
Chief Steele has had printed a new lot
of descriptions of Rev. g. E. Morrison
and he will send them out in the hopes
of capturing the Texas preacher, who is
A committee of Tennesseetown resi-
dents consisting of George w. Jackson,
John Patterson and Steven Pascal will
try to get consent OF owners OF vacant
lots in that vicinity for gardening pur-
poses.
A gang of bad boys headed by the son
of a well known citizen of Martin &
Dennis addition has been making life
miserable for a few residents of that ad-
dition. They have appealed to the police
to stop the nuisance.
w. w. Kitchell of the firm of Kitchell
&, Marburg goes to Lawrence every morn
ing and returns in the afternoon He at
tends the classes of the law school at the
state university. This is his second year
of attendance.
E. S. Tucker, who is an agent of the
Omaha Transmississippi exposition, says
that Republic county has pledged to give
the proportionate sum of $204 for the state
exhibit. Kansas cannot now obtain foor
sas building will have to be erected. In
all it will cost about 100000