The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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The Saturday Night club has had but
one meeting this year.
A. @. Lowe is now in charge of the Sal
walton Army hospital
The portrait artists are again making
their annual rounds.
Prescott & Co. are heating o. J. Woods
\ residence with hot water.
The condition of United States Judge
Foster continues to improve.
Cribbage is becoming the popular win
ter game in place of fan-tan.
Walter Burgess and Jack Frey are at
! tending the horse show in st. Louis.
Figure four traps are now being man
ufactured by the youthful hunters
The water works circular to be issued
by the council will be in print Saturday.
The State Temperance union is distrib-
uting tracts to all the houses in Topeka
F. G. Lagerstrom's Great Dane, Don
| time.
The Topeka sportsmen's association is
arranging for a shoot on Thanksgiving
If you want to have nice tulip bed
next spring, this is the time to plant your
]. T. Hopkins of Rossvine says. that
quails are abundant in the vicinity of
Private Secretary James Lewis went
home to Kinsley today to remain till after
the election
Chief Strauss is in favor of having two
town at night.
Judge McCIintock offciated at police
court yesterday.
AS the election draws near the number
of men who stand around and talk in un-
dertones increases.
Election Commissioner L. T. Yount says
that Stanley will not receive LOCO plurality
in Shawnee county.
There are men in Topeka who join Pc
litical organizations of both parties to
"bleed" the committees
There is a woman in Topeka who has
been married three years who is often
taken for a 14-year-old girl.
Senator Stone, who succeeded Senator
Harris as state senator from Leaven-
worth county, is in the city.
The Gflsonite company has another su-
perintendent in charge of relaying the
walks on the state house grounds.
There was a small fire in the machine
was extinguished without much loss.
All the state officers are getting. ready
for weeks rest as soon as the election
is over. Campaigning is hard work.
There are business men in Topeka who
out Fakirs find easy prey in Topeka.
The Republican Flambeau clubs are ar
ranging to attend Congressman Curtis
meeting in North Topeka Friday evening.
Charles K. Holiday is one of the best
election guessers IN Topeka, put no one
tons
Whooping cough is epidemic in Topeka
and there are few families on the west
side in which there are not one or more
cases.
Lee Jones has forgiven VIM. Moeser for
beating him in the horse race and the
two men are out on hunting trip to-
gether.
A Denver paper quotes part of Secre-
taIy COburn's Introduction to 1.-The Hog
in America and attributes it to jerry
Election Commissioner Yount has a fac
ulty for remembering names and when a
person has registered twice he remembers
his name.
Railroad men are. betting that the first
California l4mlted does not reach Los An
geles on time Santa Fe men are taking
all the bets.
A. E. Helm of Wichita, the man who
placed Governor Leedy in nomina ton at
the Abilene convention, is attending su-
preme court.
THE affidavit fend'' is the way G. c.
Clemens refers to the individual who has
been taking prominent part In the pres
ent campaign.
eye, which was injured in bicycle acct
dent. has adjusted itself so that it sees
things as they are.
1t will cost the state about $50 to replace
the big plate glass in the supreme court
fiends Monday night.
Rev. Charles Hunter, a ,colored man
who is visiting in Topeka. has been ap-
M E. church in Cuba.
General Passenger Agent w. J. Black
to ride on the first California Limited to
Topeka this morning.
There is. talk of giving ANOTHER "Food
Show this winter, but with Hamilton
the SHOW can be given.
There is considerable talk of betting
among the fellows who bet, but there is
very little money money put Put up as nearly every
The old soldiers that fight their battles
Per again in the parlf3r OF the g. A; r.
them of the lines of battle.
Street Commissioner Ramsey complains
because there are not enough prisoners |
keep the street force supplied.
Every visitor to the state house from
the big, comfortable leather chairs which !
are found in most of the offices.
Frank Brady. county attorney of La !
attending
brought against it by Marion Asbeii
1t is suggested that the society which |
was formed in Topeka to send aid to the |
eoI9red regiment at 81 Santiago anti send the
Blessed is ignorance. Some men can |
wear back number derby hat purchas ed |
pier. than the man that pays 81 for his.
Miss Fenella Dana will read a paper on |
John Brown" at the Unity Club Friday /
a paper His subject is Essays of Ella" |
A Topeka woman is miserable for a |
about about a another 9th Woman. Her husband, if
he is a kind-hearted man, won't say them. |
Representatives of Chicago firm are in |
Topeka organizing new collection agency |
paying membership fees in advance,
The Ladies' guild of the Church of the |
Good Shepherd in North Topeka will be /
reorganized this afternoon. Rev. Canon /
ByWater will deliver an address at the /
church this evening.
The city ordinances do not permit chick |
year, but people who keep chickens usu-
ally allow them to annoy their neighbors |
at all times of the year.
Somebody carried off State Architect |
Lescher's 5O-foot hose the other night. and |
he accuses the Republican state central 4
committee of taking it to make the clubs !
with which Hockey Jim is alleged to |
have been killed.
There is serious talk of organizing a |
club in Topeka to be called Bohemia" to /
which all men and women who write for |
and periodicals., actresses and |
smart girls who earn their own living |
shall be admitted.
The lawyers who congregate in the lob |
by Of the supreme court room to smoke /
while waiting for their cases to be called /