The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The bonded debt of the city of Topeka
is now 1886 500.
The salaries of Topeka teachers per ans
mum are $685. 900.
Thirty men are employed in the Topeka
fire department.
Lawrence Chamberlain is now attend
ing the state university.
1.-The Colored 400 is arranging for a
cake walk in Topeka on February %.
Dave Norton of this city, son of Jona-
than D. Norton, will enter West Point in
June.
Miss Francis of Yale" has been booked
by Manager Crawford for the evening of
April 2.
Miss Gibbony of the district clerks Of
fee has fine collection of potted plants
in her office.
Adams street north of Fourth street is
being improved by the laying of a maca>
dam roadway.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs is able to be at her
work again in the state library after sew
era1 days illness.
The St. Ananias club now has $500 in the
treasury. 1t is the richest club in ready
money in Topeka.
The team from Sloan lodge No. %
will go to Wichita February Is to exem>
plffy the work of the order.
Mr.. James Moore of this city sang two
solos at the dedication of the new post
chapel at Fort Riley Sunday.
Harry L. Head, the Topeka attorney,
teaches a class of ten little colored boys
every Sunday afternoon in Tennessee
town.
A Raymond & whitcomb excursion
train will pass through this city Friday
over the Santa Fe en- route to the Pacific
coast.
City Engineer Barnes is now prepared
to tell anyone the location of every case
of disease in Topeka during the past two
years
Henry E. Dfxey, of "Adonis'' fame, win
be in Leavenworth on February 16, and
Manager Crawford is trying to book him
for Topeka. Dixey is now magician.
Dr. and Mrs. Countermine of the First
Presbyterian church have returned from
trip to Kansas City, where they heard
the English evangelist, DR.. F. B. Myer.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings will
display weather signals on the Columbian
building as soon as a pole is erected for
the purpose. At present signals are dis
played every day by Colonel J. W. r.
Hughes at his office on lower Fifth street.
Chas. c. Price and (Prof.) Geo. W. jack
son, both colored deputy constables, have
announced themselves as candidates for
the Republican nomination as cOnstables.
G. A Schumacher will address the Sat-
urday Night club this week on the sub
ject of 'Mammon.'
A rate of one fare for the round trip has
been agreed upon by the Kansas roads for
the state oratorical contest at Lawrence
on February %. The rate will be good
only from towns where colleges included
in the state association are located, name
~, Topeka, Ottawa, OIathe, Winfield and
Baldwin.
Jennie Dale, aged IL years, daughter or
John Dale of Alb Railroad street, We'd
nesday boarded a westbound Rock Island
train and rode as far as Alma. She re-
turned in the evening and was returned
to her parents by the police. She said
she wanted a ride and thought the train
would go east and she could leave it at
the Union Pacific depot.
There is a wealthy man living on Har>
rison street between Sixth and Eighth
streets who won't have snow and ice
cleaned off his walks. His sidewalk is
now covered with ice an inch thick, and
the neighbors say they will take up a
collection to have it removed. There is a
city ordinance prohibiting the leaving of
snow and ice on city sidewalks, but the
city ought to remove snow from side
walks. This leaving of it to property
owners is a lamentable hzzle.
Killarney and the Rhine" as present.