The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


torneys for Sheriff Porter Cook
The state house elevator is running dur
ing the session of the supreme court.
Mr.. W. A. L. Thompson has been elect
ed to membership in the Topeka club.
Sheriff-eIect Porter s. Cook has given
the order for the bound record books for
his office.
A. o. U. w lodge No. 244 will give
ball at Pythian hall the evening of
January IA.
This evening masquerade ball will be
given at Arion hall to members and in
vited guests
The Shawnee County Horticultural So
ciety will meet tomorrow afternoon at
the court house.
J. D. Sullivan. the new art store man.
is moving the TrumbuH stock into the
Hogeboom building.
The Topeka agents of Travellers Insur-
ance company are now working for an
other accident company.
Two young ladies 'swore off, drinking
tea New Years day, the prohibition to
extend through the year.
Mr. H. c. Whitehead, general auditor
of the Santa Fe, is still seriously ill at the
Santa Fe hospital in this city.
Mr.. T. R. Hyatt has returned to his
desk in the treasurer's office of the Santa
Fe after a three weeks illness.
Some of the state officers want to send
a search warrant for Webb McNall. He
is still sick at home with tonsilitis.
Mr.. George Coleman of the auditor of
freight receipts office of the Santa Fe
is corfned to his home by illness.
Mr.. John E. Frost, land commissioner of
the Santa Fe, has returned after visit
with hfs parents in Galesburg, Ill.
The clerk of the district court is busy
issuing the subpoenas for witnesses who
will testify at the next term of the court.
The Travellers Insurance company has
dismissed its suit in the federal court
against Insurance Commissioner McNan.
Preparations are being made at the Y.
NJ c. A. bowling alleys for contest in
cooked hat to be held with the T. A
A. soon.
DR.. W. N. West and Fred Cole are now
tied with John Mason and Louis Smith
for first place in the Topeka whist club
tournament.
Mr.. c. L. Short has gone to Chillicothe.
Ill, to assume his new duties as train
master for the Santa Fe. He will move his
family there.
Tim Murphy, formerly leading man in
Hoyt's "A Texas Steer company, will be
seen here the latter part of the month in
a new comedy piece.
Attractive calendars with pictures of
Miss Lottie Bowes as "Bossy'' in "A
Texas Steer are being distributed by a
Topeka photographer.
Some of the gambling houses are moving
from the third to the second stories of
downtown buildings. The oints are com
ing down to first floors
IF Noble Drao+is x4rI,O cold +bat +I,a
motto 'Ad Astra Per Aspera' means
Property will be higher in the spring
to every loyal Kansan.
President Priddy of the board of educa-
ton extracted promise from each of the
teachers committees that they would visit
the city schools regularly.
NJ L. Hankla took three-fourths of the
first prizes at the Kansas City pigeon
show for parIor tumblers. His birds out
classed those from the east.
James Scully. the Topeka entertainer,
will leave this month for a tour of the
state giving entertainments under the
auspices of lodges in the different towns.
Mr.. Edward Wilder will return Satur-
day from New York and Boston. where he
has been for the past three weeks attend
ing to business duties and visiting rela-
tives.
Charles A Taylor, assistant state audi
tor. is in Kansas City helping his old
friend S. H. Snider pack up preparatory
to moving to New Mexico to work that
million dollar gold mine.
At the Commercial club meeting last
night it was decided to refuse all applica-
lions for the use of the rooms by outside
organizations until the matter could be
acted on at an open meeting of the club.
People would like to see Palmer Cox,
who invented the Brownies. The press
notices sent the Journal by the genial and
mendacious press agent of the company
say that he is with the company, but is
he? Got to have proof.
Willard Cooper and Fred Spencer, two
Topeka boys who ran away from home
last week. taking with them horses be-
longing to their fathers. were arrested in
Emporia yesterday by the sheriff of Lyon
county and sent back to this city.
Mrs. c. A. Peck, mother of the late Ar
thur Peck, the artist who died in Paris,
left yesterday afternoon for Piqua. O., to
reside in the future. Mrs. Peck will
make her home with her son, celia Peck,
formerly of this city, but now physical
director of the Piqua Y. NJ. c. A
MarshalPs band is preparing for the
annual concert which will be given about
February 10. Two of the principal pieces
will be from SouSa' 5 opera Bride Elect
and "Reminiscences of the Operas" The
march from Bride Elect sounds some
what like lei Captain"
Since announcing her intention to go
on the stage Mrs. John P. Cole has receiv-
ed two offers of positions in repertoire
companies, and will probably accept one
or the other She believes that actual
experience on the stage until the close of
the season will be valuable 10 her, and after
the season closes will carry out her origi-
nal intention of entering a school of dra-
matte art.
Sunday afternoon ex-Detective Richard
Won Zeller attended Sunday school in the
school house in Pierce's addition. After
FH,s he inf N