The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

! SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
The od2r of burning leaves is in the
Charles N. Nelson was somewhat bet
ter Sunday.
A meeting of the county assessors will
| be held March Z.
The livery stables did the best business
| Sunday of the year.
Mrs. George L. Epps is seriously sick at
Mrs. J. W. Day is slowly recovering
| from a serious sickness.
| Lawns are being fertilized The grass
| is already showing green.
:, Mrs, W. 3. Davis of Burlingame is Wis
siting Mrs. ]. W. F. Hughes.
| Major T. J. Anderson will address the
Merchants Federation tonight.
General Manager J. J. Frey of the Santa
! F'e has gone to New Mexico.
Landlords are preparing to have their
! ing.
] A prairie schooner went through town
cover
| Assistant Postmaster A. K. Rodgers is
| club.
This is the time of the year when no
human skill can make a lawn look re-
| spectacle.
In choosing Auditorium buttons nearly
every purchaser selects his telephone or
house number.
The alI-absorbing question: What kind
of weather will we have next month";
March weather, probably.
The name Of Spanish vessel YizGaya is
pronounced 'Nith-kX6-ah.' with the
cent on the middle syllable.
The liverymen We're sorry yesterday
that they were unable to supply the de-
mand for buggies and carriages.
The sap is coming up on the trees and
buds are swelling. This in honor of to-
morrow, the first day of spring.
Judge Williams went to Fort Scott last
week to attend to some criminal cases
and returned to Topeka Sunday.
The Republican county central COM
mlttee VIII be called together soon to
arrange for the congressional primary.
The Republican primaries win be held
March 10 for the nomination of five cOun-
cilmen and members of the school board.
G. R. GOfOrth, who is charged with
forgery, was released Saturday on a $500
bond furnished by Horace White and Mr..
and Mrs. Wilcox.
Says the Kansas avenue kicker: There
is a restaurant in town where the cooks
burn everything they attempt to prepare
on short ORDERS
The temperance meetings under the
auspices OF the Christian Citizens league
will be continued this week at the Third
Christian church in Parkdale.
The meeting of the Current Literature
club which was to have been held Tues
day has been postponed on account of
The Shawnee County Horticultural So
Topeka. Papers will be read by E. B.
Cowgirl, Philip Lux and Mrs. Sara E.
The Republican city central committee
The committee will meet again Saturday
to meet the candidates.
Chas. Bradshaw has been arrested by
the police on the charge of selling intox-
icating liquors. Lon Townsend, king of
the jointists, and Harry Croft were each
arrested Saturday and deposited 500 each
The Kansas City Journal, which shrieEs
in red ink all over its first and second
pages about yellow journalism" should
stop talking about the La Champagne"
Ignorant persons should be seen and not
heard.
The Topeka Philosophical society viii
meet Wednesday evening at the high
school laboratory. J. e. Cooper VIII lee
ture on Oxygen and will illustrate his
remarks with mineral and crystal forms
in which oxygen is concerned.
An effort will be made this summer to
pave Tenth street west from Tyler. 1t
is high time for Topeka to resume paving
be made so wide and the expense will be
light.
Miss Maud Williams, daughter of Under
Sheriff Hall Williams, fell while walking
dence West Tenth street Her mead
struck against a pane of glass at the
foot of the stairs and her face was severe
The SPAIN brother. Jacob and John. who
had a bloody fight in Little RUSSIA
last Sunday, were each fined $40 today in
police court. The court room was full OF
Russians most of whom had black eyes
from the general free-fOr-a1 fight which
occurred after the rough house started.
The dust, as usual on Sunday. was al
mot uncomfortable yesterday The street
it. Is this possible? Have got to ad-
nit that haven't energy and gu1np
enough to stop the nuisance? We don
believe it. Let the city own the street
sprinkIers and run them on Sundays on
all the paved streets, and not merely on