The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Arion hall.
The liquor injunction suits are down
for hearing Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Downing are
the parents of a daughter
Geo. E. Kyner, county superintend-
ent of Geary county, is in the city on
business.
Matt Witt has taken a position as
clerk in E. T. Sims drug store at SOL
Kansas avenue.
L.W. Keplinger of Kansas City trans
acted business in the court of appeals
Friday afternoon.
G. H. Pattison, vice president of the
Kansas Creamery company, is in the
city from Abilene.
Tom Clements is in St. Louis, where
he is employed as an ''ad'' writer for
several large firms.
Albert Hopkins, ex-city jailer. is now
foreman of a city grader crew for Com
missioner Ramsey.
Insurance Commissioner Webb Nc
Nall left last night for Gaylord to spend
Sunday with his family.
A. H. Lehman. prominent business
man in Usage City, has returned home
after a business visit in Topeka.
A new frame store room has been
erected on Sixth street between West
ern avenue and Fillmore streets.
H. S. Douglas has been granted a
building permit to erect a barn at lot
No. 3S9 Spruce street, to cost $25-
A stairway from the first floor to the
basement has been put in the front of
the store room in the Curry building.
Examinations are now in progress at
the Kansas Medical college. Commence
ment exercises will be held next month.
Andrew Downing. who is a pension
examiner in Washington, D. c., has
been dangerously sick, but is recover
ing
There is a weather prophet at Ro-
chester who says that crops will be a
total failure this season. OF course he
knows.
A few slot machines have appeared in
the city which pay money occasionally
instead of the lucky number with
checks in trade.
w. F. Knappenberger of Jewell City
was in Topeka yesterday on his way to
attend meeting of the board of re-
gents of the state normal school.
DR.. E. L. Thorpe will. not arrive in
Topeka until early next week. The pull
pit of the First NJ. E. church will be
occupied by a supply tomorrow.
Mr.. w. H. StillweIl, assistant general
superintendent of the Rock Island. will
return tomorrow from Chicago, where
he was called on time card matters.
With the new envelope printing press
which was recently purchased by To-
peka firm, it is possible to print $500
cards the size of an envelope, an hour.
Clyde and Ernest Stuck who have
been in the county Jail for a year for
robbing the Dunlap postOffice, have
been released, having served out their
sentences.
Whenever Rough Ready or John
Dahlgren are arrested by the police
they are put in as trustys, because they
have learned the business through past
experience.
A young farmer named Irwin created
considerable excitement on the first
floor of the capitol building yesterday
afternoon by falling in epileptic fit
He recovered in a few minutes.
westbound Raymond & Whitcomb
excursion will pass through Topeka
Friday, en- route to the Pacific coast
through here on the following Sunday
Chief WiImarth and Assistant Ed
Babcock of the fire department are busy
with the work of preparing the annual
report of the department for the city
council. The fiscal year ends March 81
This evening the members of the To-
peka Tennis club will meet at the office
of Dobbs & Stoker in the Central Ma
tional bank building to make arrange
rpents for the Improvement of the
courts.
D. W. Eastman of Emporia, while in
Topeka a few days ago, did some work
in his own interest as a candidate for
department commander of the Kansas
G. A r. He has a good following
among the old soldiers.
E J. Barrows, the Topeka railway
motorman who was running the Oak
land car which ran over and crushed
Ernest Erickson, has quit work and
will go to Colorado where he has been
offered a position in his trade of car
pentering.
May the collection for the fund to
complete the brick sidewalk around the
Gage monument in Topeka cemetery
will be taken in the city schools. That
is pension payment day and the date
was thought to be an appropriate one
for such purpose
c. w Douglass and family will leave
over the Santa Fe for San Francisco