The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


closed today.
Nearly every man in Topeka is wearing
a new tie today.
This is the week that the schoolma' ANS
take possession of Topeka.
1t will be several years before there will
again be two Christina ses in one year
Representative Ed Hackney spent Christ
mas visiting friends at Lawrence.
A Topeka man who believes it is impos-.
sible to suppress joints has named them
necessary evils"
The postoffce department has been do
ing a rushing business during the past
A Topeka man says, that buying Christ
mas presents is the most delightful occu-
patton in the world.
sermon at the First Methodist Episcopal
church yesterday morning.
The reunion of the students of the -agri-
cultural college will. be held at the Cope
land Wednesday evening.
The cruiser Topeka in the rotunda Of
the state house has been reprinted by the
Santa Fe shopment and new sea put
around it.
The $500 reward offered by the govern,
ment for the arrest of B. H. Macke has
been paid to Marshal MCMILLAN OF Albu-
querque-
at restaurants and hotels is on the in
crease, and those institutions did a -four
ishing business yesterday.
The officeseeker who expected to wake
up yesterday morning and find that Santa
Claus Stanley had left big, fat Office in
his stocking was disappointed.
A Topeka man is patching up the reso-
lutions he broke last year so as to have
them ready for next week. He expects
to make them last a week at least.
It is now in order for someone to start
story ~ onS SLl So tdlal me - {a,g
wanted to spend Christmas at home.
Senator Tom Anderson occupies one Of
the front seats in the senate, and he looks
as if he had always been accustomed to
sitting in the supposedly august body.
Notwithstanding the fact that Christ
mas is the season of peace and good viii
there were a good many scraps today.
They were left over from yesterdays din
ner.
There are a great many colds among
the Juvenile portion of the population,
caused by running around in the cold yes
terday morning to see what santa Claus
had brought"
J. w. sutcliffe the new member of the
elected to fill a vacancy, was nomina ted
by the Republicans, but he goes into the
The boy who had the merriest Christ
mas in Topeka was the newsboy who sold
tras inside of half an hour on Saturday
night.
People always develop feeling of hatred
towards the man who gets in barber
chair on Saturday night. and asks for.
hair cut. He ought to be ostracized by
his fellow-beings for his swinishness.
R. S. Gabbey of Rossville has returned
tervfew with the war department He
thinks that the government win bui.d a
model of his machine to give it a test.
One Topeka boy got miniature patrol
neighboring boys. spent all day yesterday
in rushing up and down Quincy. threaten
ing to arrest all the little girls they knew.
A Topeka woman. who received n SO
fountain pen as Christmas present says
that she has not been able to enjoy it be-
cause she cannot Danish the thoughts of
how many nice things could have been
bought with that $40
Charles Holcraft was arrested Saturday
night for impersonating an officer. Hol,
craft was wearing a pOliceman'S badge
and paradfng Kansas avenue threatening
to arrest people. Officers Bernard and
was allowed to go on bond.
Senator Hart, who was known the
PETER of the senate two years ago, has
shaved off his beard. He was introduced
with whom he served two years ago. and
the other senator did not recognize him
until he told of his identity.
The library of the State Historical so
bert Bigelow Paine, that authors latest
works. They are The Hollow Tree
THE Arkansaw Bear and "Dumplcs."
The books have just been published sim I'LL
Nothing attracts so much attention to a
lady's hat at the theater as to take it
off. If a lady with a handsome hat wishes
everybody to notice it she should occupy
Everybody in the house will closely watch
the operation and more people will see the
hat than if she left it on.
Charles NJ. Ross assistant secretary Of
state. has just received from the comm f.
tee on awards of the Omaha exposition an
elaborate bronze medal for a display of
Jewell county corn which his firm, Horner
& Ross of Burr Oak made at the exposi-
and one side has the regulation Omaha
exposition e1nblems. On the other side of
it is engraved, Bronze Medal for Corn,
Awarded to Horner & Ross"