The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-11
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMEN NEWS

Joab Mulvane is in Mexico
cagO.
The street force is kept busy cleaning
crossings.
County Clerk John NJ. Wright has a
Jack Harris of Ottawa will a++an5 tho
Lotus party tonight
The payements were partially dry today
for the first time in four weeks
Frank JarreIFs little son Archibald is
danger.
Chairman Scott Kelsey of the hoard of
horseback. = %
East Fourth street is swamp. There
three inches.
F. D Coburn was the guest of honor at
Thursday evening. O. >''-'7''9 lily
Pension Agent Leland has reinstated
". c Campbell as clerk in the pension
office. He IS an old soldier.
Mr.. John Macdonald will deliver a lee
ture before the Unity club this evening,
his subject being Thomas Carlyle
The Street Railway company is laying
several tracks in its yards to Facilitate
the construction of the new car sheds.
p;snJ J; Bear ear: i; is visiting his daughter
Mr. Bear will spend Sunday in Topeka.
Jacob Stotler of Emporia, one of the
most vigorous newspaper writer's of the
state is in Topeka today for the first time
in number of years.
The Seventh Day Adventists, who are
holding a convention in Topeka have ar
ranged to visit the state insane asylum
next Tuesday afternoon.
One young man in Topeka wears heavy
soled shoes when he goes to dances where
the hall is crowded and he kicks back with
a will when anyone kicks him.
The stereopticon lectures for the Rail-
road Y. NJ. c. A. announced for tonight
will not be given until Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings of next week
Police Matron Thorpe says that almost
every mail brings a request from someone
for a young girl from to p years of age
aQODt The demand is than
the supply.
c. H. Nettels' aeolian concert will be
poned account of rain. The concert
win be given at the Central Congrega-
Mr.. f. J. shakeshaft. chief clerk in the
passenger department of the Santa Fe,
accompanied by Mrs, Shakeshaft3 has gone
will visit Galveston and other Texas
points.
A Topeka young man who is an anna
teur whist player has discovered that
when the whist playing habit becomes
confirmed it makes the subject think he
is the only man in the world who
play the game
Transfers hauling ice to the asylum
have followed the street car tracks in the
# impassabie for pedestrians President
Baker has ordered the men to be kept
off the tracks and the crossing is again
passable.
The Rotations by Miss virgfIfne Null
vane, Edna Carpenter and Daisy David
son are to be given this evening at Ham
iltOn hall in the Carnival OIL Nations en-
terta1nment II was announced Ihat Iney
would be given Thursday evening, which
was error
The janitors in the court house devote
a part of their spare time to revamping
and repairing the court house furniture
Postmaster John Guthrie has received
notice from Washington that 10 extra
pOstOffices will be directed to make their
deposits in the Topeka office. He has
not yet received the list.
The Lawrence Holmes company will
play a return engagement at the Craw-
ford theater tomorrow The StOwaWay''
will be presented at a matinee in the aft
ternoon and at night THE Streets of New
performance any lady accompanied by a
person holding 80 cent paid ticket will
be admitted free.
DR. Hamilton is unnecessarily alarmed
about the effect of the new Auditorium
on his hall. For nearly all purposes it is
now used, il will continue to be used.
Balls church and charitable fairs. and
most of the public speakers who come to
town will continue to go there It is only
for very large gatherings which cannot
now be accommodated anywhere in the
city that the Auditorium is needed. The
Auditorium viii bring a lot OF new bust
ness of this kind but will not take
much away from Hamilton hall.
Sloan lodge No. 225. A F. & A NJ
conferred the degree of Master Mason
upon Fellow Craft B. E Pitts Thursday
night The degree was conferred by the
past masters of the lodge in the follow
o. w. Blood, S. w; C J. Webb, J. w:
h F. Morris. S. D.; William Hodson. J.
D; A. Q. Wellman, s. s.; J. B. Furry. J.
S: c. w. Kouns tyler. This is the sec
ond past masters rite conferred by ST.
loan lodge. The first ever conferred in
the Jurisdiction of Kansas was conferred
a year ago. All the pastmasters except
Frank r. Cannon were present