The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

A week from next Tuesday is election
The Scottish Rite banquet is tomorrow
cap" Curtis has bet 500 on stanley's
cyrus. Leland drives the fastest horse
/ in Topeka
| Hand-painted miniatures are becoming
Councilman o. D. Skinner has sold his
pacing horse.
Mayor Fellows has gone to Florence on
a business trip.
The telephone lines on West Sixth street
are still out of order.
DR.. s. F. Nicely of IeavenWorth spent
| yesterday in the city.
NJ. F. Hanlla has received several tun-
/ bier pigeons from Sterling
General Passenger Agent W. J. Black of
the Santa Fe is in Chicago.
Assistant Adjutant General Boyd is hob
bling around with rheuma tism.
Mrs. A. c. Elder, who has been seri-
ously i'll, is slightly improved.
The ladies' tournament of the Topeka
whist club opens this evening.
party of Topeka men went to Lake
View last night to hunt ducks.
There will be a concert and ball at Arion
hall on next Friday evening.
Mr.. Frank Holt, deputy clerk of the fed
era1 court, is taking a vacation.
Mrs. Hall. mother of Willard N and
Horace L. Hall, is dangerously i'll.
The water works question will be dis
cussed by the Commercial club tonight.
H. A. Aosher of the state treasurer's Of
fee has returned from visit to Winfield.
Robert Downing in 1.-The Gladiator is
the latest booking for the Crawford thea
The city council will soon begin its an
nual seance with dead animal ordi-
nance.
Councilman Drew, who is president of
the city council, makes an excellent pre-
siding officer.
Paving can now be done without bank
rupung the people who own property on
the street to be paved.
A Topeka man says that the best card
PLAYERS ALWAYS lose in progressive
test at a card party.
The Populst county central committee
little work in this county.
Experience in Topeka proves that brick
attention that asphalt does.
Mr. w J. Healy. has moved into his
handsome new residence at the corner of
Twelfth and Harrison streets.
Glen F'airchild of Kfngman has gone
home to do some fine work to have him
self returned to the legislature.
Mr.. P. J. NIcA1oon of the auditor of
freight receipts office of the Santa Fe, is
confined to his home by illness.
Dixie Land the attraction booked for
of this week, has been Cancelled.
Mr.. w. c. Kellar of the office of the au-
ditor of freight receipts of the Santa Fe,
is spending a vacation in Chicago.
as organist at the First PresbYferian
church. Her home is in Usage City.
e, Exz-PI PEI Sheriff u. Larry Sheehan says
this year for the first time in his life.
The Kempton Comedy company will be
at the Crawford theater the I'VE last
nights of next week at popular prices.
The headquarters of the Republican
county committee are in a little room on
the second floor of the old court house.
A newspaper excursion is talked of
as a feature Of the reinauguration of the
Santa F1e limited train service next week.
Mr.. Will Macferran, formerly assistant
cashier of the Merchants National bank
is now cashier of the State Savings bank.
The commissioner of elections only has
to work two months in
weeks of that time he works mighty hard.
Frank S. Thomas has been appointed
state agent for the Phoenix Fire Insur-
Bailey.
a secret lodge, but he is so afraid of the
goat that he would rather stay out than
Contractors think City Engineer Barnes
estimates are always too low, but it saves
the taxpayers money, so what does it
When the improvements now under way
are completed, the court house grounds
in this city.
G. A. Magaw. has returned from Doni-
one thing, and that is that Cy Leland is
The board Of managers of the Kansas
Children's Home society has given a vote
OF confidence to the superintendent, Rev.
two political speakers who always pay
railroad fare on the railroads instead of
Mr.. A r, Lingafelt, assistant superin-
te1dent of telegraph of the Rock Island.
will leave shortly on hunting trip in the
Indian Territory.
The grocers report butter and egg
famine. They say that those staples are
scarcer than they have been at any time
before for five years.
Miss Emma Kelly has been to Klondike
and her brother Gilbert has been to war.
The family is well represented in all that
is quite the go these days.
Mr.. F. H Holiday has been elected
chairman of the executive committee of
the National Retail Druggist associat ton,
recently formed at st. Louis
Frank Grimes never loses his temper
Someone speaks to him every five min
he looks happy just the same.
The politicians are not devoting much
time to the employees of the Santa Fe
shops this year. They think the shopmen
We're given an overdose two years ago.
President Purdy and a party of officials
of the Rock Island road. passed through
Topeka last night in a special train on
trip Of inspection over the western lines.
Word has been received in this city that
Mrs A L. Spangberg and five children.
who left here some time ago, have reached