The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-10
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

The Topeka Turn verein anniversary
will be celebrated this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. WATSON of 3O9 West
Fifth street are parents of a girl.
County Surveyor Rodgers has filed his
office with rare house plants and curios.
Webb McNan has added a bull pup to
his collection of domesticated animals
J. c. Dolman is building a feed rail- at
800 West Gordon street which will cost
$500.
The flushing of the streets might be ex-
tended to the car tracks with eminent
success.
John Macdonald will read his paper on
Thomas Carlyle before Unity club this
evening.
E. H. Anderson is being detained in vir-
ginia by the protracted illness of his
mother.
D. P. Paxton left Wednesday for six
weeks trip to New York and the eastern
markets.
February 16 a concert and ball will be
given to members and invited guests at
Arion hall.
DR.. U. B. McCurdy has filed his appeal
in his suit against Mrs. c. s. Sutton for
carriage hire.
c. D. Newly is building an addition to
his dwelling at 1136 North Kansas avenue,
to cost $50.
Mrs. Sandy Short is improving at Bed
wells asylum. When deprived of NOR
phine she becomes violent.
Captain R. NJ. Curtis registered today
and gave his occupation as "manufac-
turer of kicking machines
1t is limited that the county commits
sioners have a notion to improve the court
house grounds next summer.
Chairman Scott Kelsey of the board of
county commissioners uses a rubber
stamp to sign county warrants.
There were six different kinds of Grip
pied unfortunates begging or selling small
articles on the street yesterday.
T. H. Haskell is dangerously sick with
heart disease and little hope of his EecOv-
cry is entertained by his friends.
Frank JarrelTs son Archibald is suffer
ing with Group and it was necessary to
perform tracheotomy Wednesday.
Attorney L. S. Ferry will probably be a
candidate for the school board from the
Fourth ward at the coming election.
George Hughes is building a dwelling on
College avenue between Fourteenth and
Walnut street which will cost $3.50.
A chorus of $50 voices has been organ
lied at the high school and w. Won Dab
len has been engaged to train it.
w. S. Kale is building a large barn on
the rear of his residence lot on Taylor
street between Sixth and Seventh streets.
1t will cost $500.
There are two door mats at the new
court house. They were bought by the
commissioners in response to a letter
from o. K. Swayze.
A society composed of officers and ex-
officers of the Kansas national guard has
been formed and will hold a meeting at
the Commercial club rooms Friday even
ing.
Police Matron Thorpe says that she re-
ceives more requests for homeless chill
dren than she supply. People ask
for children between the ages of 2 and II |
years.
Dog Tax Collector Nels Mcconnell has !
collected tax on so CANNES since his ap- |
pointment January II. He says he has |
his eye on so more for the remainder Of |
this month.
A large delegation of Topeka Masons |
will go to Wichita next Monday to at 1
tend the grand chapter R. A. M. On !
Wednesday at Wichita the grand lodge |
A. F. & A NJ. will meet.
A call bell from the city library to po- |
lice station has been established, so that !
in case of emergency the police depart |
ment can be notified Immediately. There |
is not a telephone at the library.
So far the following are candidates for |
constable for the Republican primaries: /
]. P. Lucas, Fred Stonestreet, Chas. c. !
Price and Geo. w. Jackson. There may
be a few more inside OF two weeks.
Chief Steele has on his office floor a rag
carpet which was manufactured by wo- |
men prisoners at the city jail. There is |
also rag carpet on Police Matron
Thorpe's office floor made the same way.
voting contest for the location of the |
Auditorium is being held at the Carnival
of Nations. At present the vote is in
favor of the city park location. The whole /
vote will be announced Saturday evening.
The state board of health has been
moved to the basement Of the state house.
If some of the Topeka doctors have their
way at the next session of the Legislature
the board will be moved out of existence.
Mrs. Ellen Taylor. matron of the Cush-
ing hospital at Leavenworth, brought
three babies to Topeka Tuesday for the
Orphans home. They were girls, all I'M
der the age of six months. Their names
were Cora, Lucille and Frances, and PO-
lice Matron Thorpe says they were all
good-looking. They will be adopted by
families in the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Massey are the
parents of a daughter, born Wednesday,
J. w. Green, one of the attorneys for
the insurance companies in the Hillmon
cases, has selected two physicians to
make an examination of the condition of
Mrs. Hillmon and report to Judge VIII
liams whether she is able to be present
at the trial
Mrs. Julia Brown, a colored nurse living
at 40 Jackson street, has just returned
from Lawrence, where she participated
in the golden wedding of Andrew and
Agnes Gray. Mrs. Brown stood up
with the aged couple again, in the same
dress she wore in performing that func-
ton just so years before, at Pulaski, Tenn.
The dress which Mrs. Brown has pre-