The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The assessors will soon start on their
| annual rounds.
A new style of mail boxes is being used
| in replacing some of the old ones
/ The Topeka mills have trouble in Sc
| curing all the freight cars they need.
| There are some board sidewalks in To-
| pelza that are menace to public safety.
| The Klondike party that left Topeka last
month sailed from Portland on February
The Shawnee County Teachers associa-
| high school.
| Don Willis. deputy United States mar
/ family to Topeka.
| The telephone line to Emporia is near
| ing completion. Work is now being done
west of Burlingame.
a Topeka druggist says the sales of co
came came IN n 4 46 iS snow an alarming IN
This is the time when public officers
are afraid to do anything for fear of in
| Juring their chances of reelection.
John F. Strfckrott of this city sent 25
photographs to Wichita to be used in the
annual exhibition of the Wichita Camera
The qufetest place in Topeka is the
Santa Fe depot between trains. It beats
| a store whose proprietor doesn't adver-
The rule about children being kept in
after school if they ask to be, excused
during school hours is still being enforced
at Euclid school.
Mrs. E. b Meredith has been request
ed by MarshalPs band to arrange for
some summer amateur entertainments for
Garfield park next summer.
Paul Torrington of the city engineers
office says that in case of war he will go
to the front and make sketches for some
newspapers. He is clever with a pencil.
Some people try to avoid the ordinance
ing their old board walks through re-
placing all the old boards with new ones.
Police Matron Thorpe says that if any
capable family wishes to adopt twin
mulatto boys of years she will be glad
to furnish the information necessary to
find them.
Dog Tax Collector Mcconnell is maxi
ing daily raids on the West side He has
which the owners consider worthy of
preservation.
Topeka woman, is now at BelOit, where
she is trying to force the authorities to re-
lease her girl Jennie from the Industrial
school located there.
Miss Annie Braun, the German woman
who was found in her room near the
cred enough to leave Christ hospital and
has gone into the country to recuperate.
The sweet girl bicycle riders are now
dOnning their short skirts and boomers
seem to have shrunk during the winter.
The new woman is getting newer and
newer.
A mulatto woman who left her address
name was Mrs. Chany King Chany- This
is quite superior to the name Of the arts.
tOcratic Mr.. Chatheld Chatheld Taylor OF
Chicago.
Police Matron Thorpe says that pa
rents SnOuId give JnGlE Cn1lQf6n d little
spending money occasionally, no matter
if it was but trifie, in order to prevent
their wanting to steal money from their
parents.
Colonel J. w. F. Hughes shipped two
dozen eggs to HermosiIlo, Mex. Yea,
verify, the Kansas hen is known through
out the world. And Colonel Hughes came
near being similarly known in the Lew
cling war.
William Hodson has been proposed as
a leader for the Kansas division OF the
J.. A w in case of war. The Kansas
division has always been small enough.
but with staring them in the face
that settles it.
Mrs. John Carter of South Topeka, up
on hearing that brother whom the fam
lily had mourned 10 years as dead. had re-
turned to his fathers house in Iowa, start
ed with her two children for Iowa to at
tend family reunion.
A man who was moving his household
goods, consisting of bed and a table,
requested a car exclusively for his use:
The first road he went to refused, and
with his head in the air he went to the
other three. All refused and he will now
go by wagon
People living in the vicinity of Firth and
Van Buren, streets are talking OF petition
ing the city council to require the Two
laundries and the planning mill on Van
Buren, street to build their smokestacks
higher so that the smoke viii not be so
ANNOYING to the residents.