The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

| Dave Mulvane left Thursday for Chi
| cago.
| at the asylum.
Commissioner of Elections L. T. Yount
| was 49 years of age Thursday.
Eugene Hagan left Thursday for Wash
: fngton, D. C., to be gone two weeks
| Albert Hopkins who wanted to be coun-
| ty Jailer, is now on the district court jury.
Mrs w. A. Evans has been called to
Kansas City by the illness of her daugh-
! ter.
For the corresponding time last year it
Andrew Scott is building an addition to
ms residence at lZ25 jackson street to
The enrolment in the city schools is
now 5000. OF this number $50 attend the
high school.
Quinton & Quinton have been appointed
official attorneys for United States Mar
shall Sterne.
Wade Watts is now one of the instruct
ors in the business Mems Athletic club
at Toledo, O.
The city prison is now fitted with two
bathtubs- The one in the basement is for
the of tramps.
Tom Doran has constructed a snow pillow
this week, with which he keeps clean the
walks at his residence.
Paul Morton. third vice president %, Of the
Santa F'e, passed through Topeka Thurs
day on his way to Denver
An important question among the peo-
pie of this city is: viii this mud dry up
before another rain or SnoW?'
Mrs. E. S. Carr has been granted per-
nit to build an addition to her residence
on North Monroe street to cost $50,
Topeka commandery No. ), A. F. & A.
NJ, which has a membership of 273, is
said to be the best drilled commandery in
Judge Guthrie's bond has at last arriv
ed and he is now securing sigma he he
will be ready to take possession of the
pOstOfhce on February 1.
The force in the city engineers office is
busy getting back work up. New side
walks are being measured ana the eX-
penSe charge to the property.
William F. Knappenberger. of Jewell
called on Governor Leedy today.
Albert Watkins will read a paper be
evening. entitled Muscle VS.. Machinery
The club will meet in the office of Waters
& Waters.
The state law will allow of the Topeka
Railway company removing the Vestl7
bules from cars March / but they VIII
probably be kept on until about April
for stray storms.
Professional jurymen hover about the
court house TO obtain a summons, but they
fight shy of the justice courts, for the rea-
son that the jury fee in the latter places
is but 30 cents a day.
Major T. J. Anderson has added the fol-
lowing names to the membership list OF
the Commercial club: M e; Holman;
Henderson & Wood, Bell & McCurdy and
Eugene Wolfe.
Major A. P. shreye of the .gg oGvernor,s
office is responsible for this: The man
ufacturers of steel pens are respQnIs3atpls3
for the increase of crime in the United
States 1heN make peOple SASSi Pens e1-iSt
then declare that they do write" Such
puns as these are enough TO drive peo-
pie to drink
The state military board has adjourned.
A kodak fiend took picture Of Major
Inrnan few days ago and the MAJOR wa, was
Photographed for thirty ,yy, years. and dn it's
he doesn't look as pretty as he did thirty
Miss Martha P. Spencer, who was for
merly a teacher of elocution at the state
normal school in Emporia and later SUI
Derintendent of the industrial school Tor
tgirIs AT Feloit is now in West Virginia
doing missionary work for. the Christian
church among the mountain whites me
deDrayed white people who live IN the
solitudes of that state