The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-14
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

What has become of the asphalt repairs?
Garfield park is now closed to vehicles
DIR. r. E. Hogeboom has left for Toluca,
The Auditorium association will hold
meeting tonight.
Senator W. H Ryan of Crawford coun-
ty is in the city.
The Potwin trolley station has been
painted bright green.
George Eagle is acting as bailim of the
federal grand jury
Bets are still being made in Topeka that
there will will not be war.
A. F. Williams says that he doesn't
want war. but he will go if there is one.
The soda fountains are being overhaul
ed to be in readiness for hot weather VIC
TINS
Labette county was in the city wednes-
day.
Peach trees are in bloom and the bios
frosts.
The Committee of Fifteen meeting to
have been held Wednesday evening was
postponed.
James B. Hayden and CLARENCE a &C. Smith smith
man bicycle.
For the first - days of April the rain in
April is 2.46 inches
The Topeka lodge of Elks will hereafter
hold its meetings on Wednesday evenings
instead of Friday evenings.
The Topeka commandery knights
Templar was presented with a handsome
silk United States flag by ]. B. Hayden.
Police Commissioner Wilson Keith is
most of the winter and may settle there.
Miss Edna NJ Steel: stenographer to
months vacation at her home in Parsons.
Several Topeka ladies will attend the
State Federation of Clubs meeting at OF
tawa this month.
The paper this week before the Saturday
Night club will be read by o. L. Clarke,
his subject being Postal Savings Banks"
There are 81 entered in the Y: NJ. c: A
preliminary contest in "duck-pins.'' The
final contest will be played with the t.
a. A.
The ladies of the Orphans home will
give a social Friday from until 6 to
raise funds to buy furniture for the
home.
gerously ill for several weeks at her home
on West Sixth street, is somewhat i'm
proved.
oliver Simonds of Lawrence, brother
in-law of ]. Leeford Brady, has taken a
position as travelling salesman for the To-
peka Paper company.
Fletcher Helm. who went to Horton to
attend the convention after t he had been
will be tried for contempt.
John NJ. Terrence. chief clerk in the car
service department of the Santa Fe, has
at 1925 Van Buren, street.
Mr.. d. E. Merwin, formerly with the
now in business in Kansas City, is WIS.,
iting his daughter in this city.
George A Clark of Junction City arriv
convention He was asked to make
speech and for that reason left.
Some excellent photographs were taken
of the Knights Templar parade Sunday
by a Topeka photographer. The pictures
were taken on the Melan bridge.
Patrolmen Jacob and Carlson of the po-
lice force are now reduced to the rank of
Specials working simply when an Of
College avenue between Walnut and
Chestnut streets is in need of grading.
Every time there is a rain two large pools
of water form on either side with no OUT
let.
"Dicey'' Williams, the colored woman
who was found in an alley yesterday in
commissions. was taken late in the after
noon to the home of friend She will
probably recover.
yesterday regulating the clocks at the
state house. For the past year no two
kept the same time.
The police Tuesday evening arrested
cSsrge Of en th anor on H ms
place, near Tenth and Kansas avenue,
was also raided and goods seized.
Vincent Kaczynski, who had the con-
tract for furnishing the broken stone for
the Melan bridge, will start another
there is a growing demand for macadam
for roads.
A new city ordinance book is badly need
ed. There has been none issued since 1888.
At police court case often comes up in
which it is necessary to consult the ordi-
1dnceS. IN Sucn a case the city clerk
has to furnish certified copy of the or
dinance.
The foundation has been completed for
the Topeka railway car shed at Twelfth
and Jackson streets. The shed will be
50x165 feet. The storage capacity of the
sheds will be increased 60 per cent with
the new one.
The police arrested a little colored boy
named Johnny Porter, who stole a ride
on freight train from Bonner Springs
to Topeka. He is runaway and is be-
ing held until information can be received
from his folks.
w. NJ. Thompson, clerk of the court of
Hazen to defend VIM. Alexander against
the charge of burglary, devoted all his
time for a week to the preparation of the
case. He gets no pay, either.
Trolley car No. II, which was run into
and badly damaged by a Missouri Pacific
train Saturday night, is being repaired in
the Topeka railway car shops at Twelfth
and Jackson streets. 1t was the worst
Topeka street car.
Miss Franc Hamilton, the @ansas City
young lady who seen in the part of
Anita Casanova in For Liberty and
Sunday. She was recommended by Aus
tin Latshaw, the dramatic critic of the
Kansas City Journal, and is showing by
her work that Mr.. Latshaw is a good
judge of histrionic talent.
The fund for paving the roadway around
the soldiers burial plot at Topeka ceme-
terry is increasing. The committee which
has the raising of the money in charge
Kirahan, Elias Shul. A. K. Rodgers, G.
G.. Gage and F. NJ. Kfmball. Contribution
canteens have been placed in several of
the stores in which to receive money.
the city schools.