The Topeka state journal., 1898-03-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Register
Arthur Mills is home from Arizona for
q brief visit.
Miss Kate Adams has returned from
The registration books close at O'Clock
Friday evening
G E. Tillson has purchased the Clark
residence at 615 Monroe street.
Fred Willard of Leavenworth was visit
ing among Topeka friends yesterday.
Major shreve is so patriotic that he
wears regulation army clothes every day.
J. h. Mills has purchased the Eagle &
Curry stock and will continue the busi-
ness.
There is new-fangled machine on the
market for capturing and killing ground
znoles-
James z: Larimer got one vote for con-
stable at the Populist convention Wednes-
day evening.
Rev. John K Ford of Chicago will speak
this evening.
W. I. Dutton has been issued a permit
to build dwelling to cost $500. on lots
Nos. sos and 81.
Topeka students at the state university
are at home. The burning of the power
house has resulted in a vacation.
The preliminaries in '-fve-back'' are be-
ing played on the Y. NJ c. A alleys for
the contest with the T. A. A. team to be
held soon
Topeka once had a bicycle club called
the Spinning Spinsters. Wellington now
has one which has been named the Spin
Judge J. F. Lee says that he will start
on a temperance lecture tour through the
state soon. He ought to be accompanied
by a guardian.
The manager of the Washington base
ball team, in the event Tom Brown fails
to come to terms, will put Jake Gettman,
the old Topeka player on first base
H. C. Streeter's fine Great Dane. OsceoIa
Bey, gnawed his way out of the box stall
in which he is kept Wednesday. and was
lost for several hours. He was found in
North Topeka and returned to his owner
MarshalTs band will give it's first open
a I
of the park should be made gala occa-
sion and at least 5000 people should be
present.
Harry Seaman's Extravaganza COM
pany. at the GilisS Opera House in Kan
sas City this week, will be seen at the
Crawford theater on next Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
A matinee performance of Miss Fran
els of Yale will be given at the Craw-
ford theater on the afternoon of April 2.
The prices for the matinee will be re-
duced to 80 and % cents.
The Matchmaking debate will be
held Friday evening at the Washburn
college chapel Washburn's debaters are
L. A. Habert and o. B. Irelan. Drury's
debaters are G. D. Caster and S. w. How
land.
Charley Perry has been sold by Man
to st. Joe. Perry was the shortstop on
last years Atchison team and has played
in Topeka many times, where he is quite
Bob semple, chief clerk in the, bank
commissioners office, has received word
ped off in Topeka two weeks ago on his
way to KIondike, is dangerously i'll in
hospital at Seattle.
The moving of a piano from the second
floor of a building on Kansas avenue at
tracted a large crowd yesterday after
noon. Some people who thought a fight
was in RrogTeSs on on fte tae stairway were
the street.
Ed Little is attending the State Cattle
mems association meeting at Abilene.
Assistant State Auditor Chas. A. Taylor
will return next week from his home in
Pratt, KAN where he has been for the
past two weeks for the benefit of his
health.
Rev. c. J. Swank of Oakland donated an
illustrated volume entitled Light of the
jail Others donated were ..Incidents- Of
Answered Prayer and "A Mothers Re
raptness Ella Bucl1ner and others will
devour this sort of reading.
The Central Missouri A. NJ E. confer
ence began its twelfth annual session at
Asbury chapel in North Topeka yester-
day morning. Chaplain G. c. McCabe,
over one hundred delegates. This even
ing Rev. F. L. F. DOnohoo of St. Joe will
make an address upon the subject of
A. ]. Paramore has agreed to sell his in
terest in Garfield park to Marshalps band
of the property. It is to be hoped the
band will make arrangements to have the
during the heated term from July to
September Is. The need of a cooling
off place" has been crying one for years
in Topeka.
The old fogy newspapers, which can't
see beyond the end of their noses, are now
headlining the Spanish news; LOOKS
always up to date. said that it meant war
the second day after tn the Maine atrocity; m
be the backdown of Spain. If you want
to know what's going on keep your eye
on the so-caIled yellow journals The
reason they are Sensational is because
the daily history of the. world is. sensa-
tional. The man who is impervious to
sensation ought to go to live in an oyster