The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The river was black with skaters yes
What a delightful winter we are having
Sloan lodge will hold reception De
Bob-sled parties seem to be growing in
The matinee Saturday was not over IN
The people who are adopts at sharpen
| ing skates are kept busy now.
If we are to have winter now, spring
! ought to set in about January 1.
w. G. Dickey of the state printing office
| is visiting at his home at Beloit.
After the K. K. ball John Waters will
announce the date of his doll party.
evening from visit to Colorado Springs.
The corridors at the state house feel like
a cold storage plant this kind of weather.
Five snowstorms before the end of No
vember certainly breaks the record for
People are offering to bet that John Col
Inns viii not be convicted Few takers
west Sixth street is becoming quite a
J. A. Paul, chief clerk in the secretary
of states office, spent Sunday at his home
Eight days continuous sleighing in No
vember is certainly an unheard of thing
The ''old citizen says that there has
been better sleightng this month than for
many a winter.
The washburn glee- club rendered sew
church last night.
Since the foot ball game last Thursday
is largely increased.
The dentists report dun Rgsin 1s ana ma, are
made during the holidays.
H0w b that t the Tbhia399sgiyinEg vacation is
thing by the Christmas holidays.
The Beloit Call printed Jim Morphy's
picture in its last issue and gave his boom
for secretary OF the senate another shove.
H. H. Artz, who was adjutant general
under IeWelling, has been visiting his
friends in Topeka for a day or two.
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day be observed as Christmas and New
Years. The regular dates fall on Sunday
STANLEY has the 515 FACULTY Of stimulating the
hotel business wherever he happens to so.
Major Anderson says that the place
hunters must think he has great deal Of
influence because so many have been to
Strangers at the state house sometimes
ring and ring for the elevator, but it never
basement floor.
James Troutman has been placed in the
tendent Of insurance but he saws he is
simply Saving wood"
There are thousand feet of cold water
it would be for the plumbers if they would
all freeze up some night
The man who ShOvels the snow from his
walk the first morning after it falls de-
such an unusual performance
divorce from George sheck BY Judge Ha-
stated that her husband abandoned her.
Did you ever notice how easy it is for
cIeaning the snow of his walk aIthough
his own walk may be worse than any
The Republican headquarters will be va
Gated after this week The state central
committee intends to settle up in a few
days and go out of business for the pres
ent.
postoffce needs another mail wagon to
run between the postoffice and the trains,
and he has asked the department to fur
nish another.
party of old folks were out the other
evening and had as much fun as if they
had been younger
A Topeka man who had something to do
with the recent campaign has been hound
ed almost to death by ofhceseekerS. he
says that if he were rich he would go to
Europe to recuperate.
Secretary of State Bush had to procure
coal from a local coal dealer Saturday in
house owing to the neglect Of the peni-
tertiary authorities in sending a car load
a man who will leave his horse I'M
blanketed out in the cold a winter
night does not deserve. to have a horse.
chine will say that it loses him money,
whether it does or not.
Possibly the reason why 20 parrots were
that the owners We're afraid that the Wis
things they might hear.
Someone left the water running in the
Sunday evening and as a TesIIit the cell
ing in the outside rooms of the governors |
Offices was water-soaked.
Mike McKenna of the secretary of states J
office is another person who sets up a
roar when he gets a communication re-
quiring an answer, and containing a stamp
stuck fast to the letter.
One of the amusing sights on Quincy !
street today was little girl on sled tied /
to a wagon, and in front of her on the /
sled was a good sized dog And the dog |
seemed to, be enjoying the ride as much |
The state house people who dislike the |
odor of burning tar which comes from the |
boilers and engine of the new electric i
light plant may find comfort in the re- /
Election that it is an excellent thing for |
Miss Lizzie Z. Wooster. who is living in |
Topeka temporarily, experimenting the |
she is the author, is mentioned as a posi- |
bic successor to Mrs. Annie l. Diggs as |
state librarian, providing a change is to |
John Fritts was the candidate for SUI |
per1nIendent of Riley county on the |
straight Democratic ticket in 1894, and |
was candidate for district Judge. Mr. Kim |
bic made the speeches and Mr. Fritts |
Pi1S 81 INC < uLteH anu sang comic songs
Nearly all the boys in the Twentieth |
Kansas regiment had a lot of new ex- |
periences to relate by the time they reach |
ed Honolulu. Like all KansanS, they |
wanted to relate their adventures to some
one. and that is reason why a large per |
cent of the country newspapers of Kansas |
had letters from Honolulu in their last |
G. c. Clemens is aggrieved because he !
is never put onto any of the snaps |
berry occurred he did not know that there |
were any safety deposit boxes in the state |
treasury where the state officers might !
put their money and lose it He saws
he never had any money to put in a box
but he might have ofnamented one with |
his name Just the same If he had known 1
about them.