The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

been less than for many years previous
ly.
now benefit the roads by beating them
down
Mrs. A. A. Townsend was operated on
at Christ hospital and is reported do
ing well. -...
Several Topeka sportsmen are going
to attend the Newton Gun clubs Shoot
Tuesday.
TT. Doran, Porter Cook and Aaron
Jetmore were hunting at Silver Lake
yesterday.
Wichita where he attended the Masonic
grand lodge.
F. E. PirtIe will move to Council
Grove where he will engage in the jew
elry business.
Capt. Joseph G. Waters will address
the Ministerial Union Monday on Fun
era1 Reform
Several male choruses are practicing
with hopes of winning the prize at the
Hutchinson jubilee.
A union temperance meeting for Park
dale will be held Sunday evening at the
Third Presbyterian church.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings has
returned from an inspection of weather
observing stations in the state.
H. V. McNeely, the coal dealer, has
been confined to his bed for three
months and is yet unable to be up.
Fred Gordon had his hands severely
burned while manipulating the red fire
at the Crawford theater last night.
The judges of the butter contest at
oil Kansas avenue pass on the merits
of an exhibit by tasting the product.
Oscar Swayze says he wants to be a
member of the first regiment of Kansas
volunteers in case of a Spanish war.
The carriers and clerks at the post
office have been on the lookout since
the dismissal of Mailing Clerk Pryor.
Bailtff John Coyne of the district court
says that he is ready to head regi-
ment of Irish to fight the Spaniards.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs spends all her
leisure time at the state library in read
ing sociological works. There are lots
of them.
Ed McKeever says that in his recent
visit to the Gulf he saw an English yes
sci 400 feet long being loaded with KAN
Sas flour.
Lieutenant Governor A NJ. Harvey
will respond to toast at the banquet
at the new depot and eating house at
Dodge City.
Pink Pursley, the coIored man who
was convicted of selling liquor at the
last term of court, has not yet served
his sentence.
The improvements on the Inter- Ocean
mills in North Topeka will cost about
$4,000. The daily capacity will be 1000
barrels daily.
Twenty-Five boys in one crowd were
skating around the state house on the
this morning.
The new telephone line to Joplin, Mo,
has been formally opened. It is the
property of the Missouri & Kansas Tel
ephOne company.
w. E. Hodges, general purchasing
agent of the Santa Fe, was in the city
yesterday on business and returned last
night to Chicago.
Ed Little has returned to Topeka
from Abilene where he made the prin-
cipaI address at the annual banquet of
the knights of Pythias.
W. M. Shaver, W. E. Pagan, T. B.
Jennings and Frank INK Crane returned
We're attending the Masonic grand
lodge.
The lamp trimmers had great diff
Guilty this morning in getting their step
ladders to stand still on the slippery
pavement while they trimmed the
lamps.
Henry Beerman has returned from
Salina where he was violin sOloist in
the Salina band concert. E. c. Lewis
played a piano solo and was Mr.. Beer
mans accompanist.
Arrangements have been made where
by high school students receive half an
hour a day in vocal instruction from
w. Won Dahlen. The chorus of 150
voices meets once a week.
Col. Alexander Hoagland 1.-The news
boys friends is in Topeka and he will
stay over Sunday: He is president of
NaIlOnal
and Employment association"
The counters and shelving for the
new department store in the Curry
building have been finished. The ar
rangement of counters is somewhat diff
ferent from anything seen in Topeka.
Benjamin Neigbeger, a farmer living
southwest of Tecumseh, seriously injur-
ed himself by striking his foot with an
adze while trimming hedge fence this
week. He severed one of the arteries
of the foot.
George M Stone has just completed
a portrait of John Martin, eX-judge of
the Shawnee county district court to be
placed on the wall of the court room.
The portrait is one of the best Mr..
Stone has made.
One of the peculiar things seen at pO-
lice station Thursday was a white man
40 years old crying because he was re-
man whom he went to see, and to whom
he had taken cigarettes.
A distant cousin of Cyrus Leland was
instantly killed in a railroad wreck
near Seattle a few days ago. He was
en- route to K1Ondike. In the accident
one man was injured and two instantly
killed, all of whom were passengers.
A family living on East Second street
was broken up recently because the
husband thought a grocery bill of s12
indicated an extraVagant wife. He took
with him his two little boys and left
the two little girls with his wife.
The collection of pictures of the state
treasurers in the office of State Treas
urer Hef1eboWer is now complete. The
last likeness was finished this week and
the collection will now be placed in pc
sition on the walls of Treasurer Hefie-
bowers office.
Mrs. J. J. Frey has returned to AL
buquerque, N. NJ, to spend the remain
der of the winter, having come to To
peIza to see her son John depart for
KIondike. Mrs. Frey was accompanied
by Mrs. w. J. Black, Mrs. Arthur Mills
and Miss Glenna Cross.
Says Topeka man today: ut is a
great amusement for those who seem to
be lacking in patriotic spirit and
wouldn't fight if somebody spit in their
faces, to call other people jingoes. Well,