The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

| P. G. NoeTs condition is gradually get
| ting better.
! Judge John T. Morton is not yet able to
leave his home.
| VIM. Corners of Crosby Bros. has gone
! to New York on business.
Tomorrow evening at Arion hall a dance
| will be given to members only.
MarshaIs band is practicing the music
for the annual concert to be given soon.
E. W. Benedict says that the plan is to
pave Thirteenth street q feet in width.
Harry Golmis, the Greek fruit merchant
has purchased State Journal carrier
J. G. Wood will deliver his lecture on
Mexico before the A. o. U. w. lodges to-
night.
lott reform school by Judge Dolman at
the request of her father.
There err was a deman d.. for the street
minded one of the month of March.
Kansas does furnish queer, conditions
days.
| The number Of prisoners at the city Jail
now is IL Most of the little boys whom
| the police arrested have been sent to the
reform school.
Topeka avenue has needed repairs for two
weeks There is a dangerous hole at
the street corner.
Sam D. Bishop, the Lawrence Demo
crat who wants to run for congress in the
Second district, transacted business in the
district court today.
F. D. Coburn. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has returned from
Allen county, where he delivered an ad-
dress before the Farmers institute.
A visitor in Topeka spent nearly week
in the city before he discovered that Kan
sas avenue was paved with asphalt.
Clean the streets. Wash them with hose.
Three-fourths of the people who attend
ed the state Temperance union convention
owing to the lack of heat in Hamilton
hall.
The state house coal celler put in by
the last administration is failure. It
is necessary to pile the coal in the yard,
which now resembles the rear of an iron
foundry.
Lew Tincher, who has been a clerk in
Weiss grocery, has gone to Chicago to
tive for a Chicago wholesale grocery
house.
Justice of the Peace ]. L. Guy says that
one advantage he sees in the fee law
passed by the legislature is that in case
the costs are not paid, the justice loses
less than formerly.
Hopkins Flynn of Kansas City. who has
been putting in the new switchboard in
the central telephone office; is a composer
tied If Dreams Were True"
Andy Jordan says that he is looking for
the man who put his name down one
of the participants in the coming cake
walk. He says that he does not propose
to have anything to do with it.
Real estate agents are now making long
speeches in the morning paper on the i'm
certain pieces of property that they have
for sale. This is what the Capital calls
public sentiment.
Frank Patterson is riding the first chain
less Columbia bicycle of the season in To-
peka- You may be sure he would have it
first. Mr.; Patterson always has strictly
the handsOmest and most up-to-date
wheel in the market
MY, but that tastes good" remarked a
man at police station, he took a glass
ing. Il wouldn't drink water last night
because it was too thin, but it's the best
thing on earth now"
Ten men are at work tearing down the
old street ear barn on Tenth street be-
tween Kansas avenue and Jackson. Most
of the material will be used in building
the new addition to the car barn at
Twelfth and Jackson streets.
The Del Conte italian Grand Opera
company, which is now under the man 13I3-
city, will be in Topeka for one night dur
ing. the week of March 81. La Boheme"
will probably be the opera presented.
Topeka got a good share of the Offices
at the convention of the Triple Tie Bene-
fit association held at Clay Center. R.
ident Mrs. w. B. Ramsey supreme chap
lain, Messrs James Ramsey and J. NJ.
Miller on the executive committee.
The police matron elected at Leaven-
worth, after working two months resign
ed. giving as her reason that she could
that Leavenworth is so good and pros
porous that a police matron fails to ma
failed to grasp the situation They need
a tireIess worker like Mrs. Thorpe in
Leavenworth.
about the Auditorium. One of the oh
jections to the City park site is that a
charity ball couldn't be held there. No
body would ever hold a charity ball in a
building like the Auditorium. How would
400 or coo people look in a vast amphithea-
ter capable of holding 5000 people. The
Auditorium is for great public meetings
horse shows, expositiOns, bicycle races,
etc. 1t will be entirely too large for
dances, amateur performances, etc. Some
people seem to be unable to grasp what
an auditorium is like.