The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Mayor Fellows has gone to Port Ar
thur.
The country roads are almost impass-
able.
Willie Sells is in Topeka visiting his
mother, Mrs. Sells Greenspan.
There is a shortage of corn among the
farmers who are feeding cattle.
Ex-County Clerk McCabe has given
up politics and has become a drummer
Knowles and Mowers carried off the
hOnors at the whist tournament last
night.
Senator John Martin is spending the
Christmas holidays with friends at EN-
pOria.
Christmas goods have fallen off won
derfully in price during the last As
hours.
Charles S. Gleed is the latest applicant
for membership in the Topeka CONNER
cial club.
County Attorney Jetmore refuses to
be congratulated for his prosecution Of
John Collins.
George D. Hall, who has been quite
i'll for over a month is now able to be
around once more.
The Benjamin Banneker Republican
club gave a banquet last night to prom
inent cOlOred men.
VIM. Sheppard, assistant engineer Of
the state house, is suffering with
felon on his left hand.
Unity society presented Rev. A. Wy
man, pastor of the church, with a hand
some gold watch for Christmas.
City Clerk McFadden is working on
his annual report. It will show how
the city funds have been spent
Ensign Olson will visit Topeka soon
in the interest of the Children's Junior
meetings of the Salvation Army.
Petitions are being circulated asking
the legislature to print the Republican
protest in the house and senate journal.
G T7o 10 i'm
provement in Thomas A Edison 5
gramaphone and he will have it
patented.
Captain N. D. Mckinley, who is in
business at Guthrie, Oklahoma, is sick
at his home, 912 Morris avenue, with
pneumonia
The officers at the court house pre-
scented Lee Woodall and Mrs. Henry
Laptad each with IS as a Christmas
remembrance.
the office of the clerk of the supreme
court, has returned from a visit with
friends in Lawrence.
Turkish and Russian baths at Topeka
Mineral Wells bath house, 316 Harrison
street. New equipments and building,
and new management.
The young ladies of the Epworth
league will entertain the president of
Baker university at the First NJ. E.
church this evening from 7:30 to $50.
Frank Grimes is a good politician.
He made the appointments in the treas
urer's office before his political friends
had time to get to quarreling over them
The Commercial club would do a
good thing by requesting Governor-elect
Stanley to appoint a professional
gardener as superintendent Of the state
house grounds.
A picture by Mrs. Walter J. veale,
who is member of the Art association
of the City of Mexico, entitled "a Span
ish Senorita,' is on exhibition in a KAN
sas avenue window.
The city engineer who is an enthusiast
on landscape gardening has just bought
a $15 text book to assist him in the
study. Now let all the street parkings
be put in charge of a landscape gar
dener.
The new carpet for Representative
hall has arrived It has a green body
of it, and it retails at $2.10 per yard. 1t
is being seWed in sections in the new
library room
DR. H. w Roby says he isn't going to
talk about 1.-The Authentic Phase of
Landscape Gardening before the hOr-
ticulturists tonight as the newspapers
have it, but the Aesthetic Phase" The
doctor says he hardly knows what the
authentic phase is.
The finishing on the walls and ceiling
of the new state library room is said to
be the finest job of frescOing in the
state. The room is on the third floor of
the north wing of the state house and
extends across the entire wing. It is
the largest hall in the building.
The man who runs the state house
elevator let's it go so fast that when it
reaches the bottom the stop almost
throws the occupants off their feet.
That is the way everything is done at
the state house. John Smith of Bung-
town must have a job because he has a
political pull.
Yesterday one of the clerks at the
state house was bothered every few
minutes by an agent down town tele-
phoning him to hunt up some man for
him. At length the patience of the
clerk. who is usually a long-suffering
mortal, was exhausted and he excIaim-
ed through the phone, Did you ever
hear of a hot place beginning with
'h?'" "Why?" asked the tormentor
Because you had better go there -
went the answer back, and the tele-
phone was closed with a click.