The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Fifty men are now at work at the new
bridge.
Lieutenant Governor Harvey is a dog
fancier.
The new state library rooms are nearing
completion.
The annual raid of portrait artists is In
progress in Topeka.
Miss Florence Rossington is quite i'll at
the Stormont hospital.
Miss Iden Campbell. matron of the Stor-
mont hospital, is quite i'll.
County Treasurer Pattison of Dickinson
county is a Topeka visitor.
New 1898 bicycles are appearing here
and there among the Topeka riders.
The Arion society will give a concert
and ball on the evening of January 10.
What has become of the diagonal walks
the executive council was going to build?
The Kansas Medical college has an en-
rollment of IS students. Last year it was
50.
Judge Hazen has ordered the bond of L.
H. HoItwick, accused of running a joint,
forfeited.
The subject of a base ball club in the
T. A. A. is being talked up among the
members.
There are now dozen men employed
by Poor Commissioner Hale breaking rock
for the county.
Hardware stores continue to display
skates and sleds in the hope of unloading
them this season.
Miss Lizzie Grain of the attorney gen.
erals office has returned from a holiday
visit at Fort Scott
The Saturday Night club will meet in
regular session this evening at the office
of Waters & Waters.
State Superintendent Stryker delivers an
address before the Harvey County Teach
ers' association this week.
A supply firm is making an effort to
induce the people of Topeka to put up
mail boxes on their residences.
Harmon Ryus has returned to the Went
worth Military academy at Lexington,
Mo, after a visit with his parents in this
city.
Judge L. s. Ferry is collecting material
for his paper to be given before the Sat
urday Night club on the subject 'Prohi-
bition."
A trial of the sectional boat to be used
by the Topeka party to go to Alaska has
been made and it hoated with $500
pounds.
Frank Stevens is familiarizing himself
with the work of the office of register of
deeds and incidentally treating his friends
to cigars.
The ice put up this winter from the river
is not we'll adapted to use in small refrig-
orators. 1t will serve the purpose of
large ice boxes.
Colonel J. w. F. Hughes says that the
first annual poultry show which closed at
fancy stock raising.
Of
railway conductors seven conductors on
various lines were given different runs in
the line of promotion.
Frank Hobart is again talking of NOV
ing his drug store downtown. It is re
ported it is to go into the store now oc-
cupied by Chas. S. Eagle
Carl Vrooman of Parsons, who has been
in the city in conference with the fusion
committees is now writing for eastern
newspapers and magazines.
With the changing of location Of sew
eraI business houses downtown the NOV
ing of the goods makes Kansas avenue
look like a wholesaIing street.
When Eugene Wolfe leaves the postothce
he will devote considerable time to the
work of building up the newly plated
addition to the city in the Douthitt tract.
General Auditor H. c. Whitehead of the
-F7e hospital this week, is considerably i'm
proved and will probably leave for his
home in Chicago tomorrow
Friday afternoon three little children
rode up Kansas avenue in a cart pulled
by a Shetland pony. On the pony's back
stood a small pet dog around whose ears
a handkerchief had been tied as bon
net.
Firemen were called to 1904 Monroe street
yesterday, where the residence of Mr.. A
S. HuIing had caught fire. The blaze,
which had caught from an unused fire
place, was extinguished with but tr1fing
damage.
The Topeka Turn Verein has decided to
postpone the biennial funniest to next
September 1t had been declded to hold
it in Topeka. in June but on account OF
a German celebration to be held at Oma-
ha in June it was thought best to hold the
funniest later.
A batch of designations of justices of the
peace come to the governors office every
dav If the city justices of the
neace would all resign the state
would be better off. The legislature would
then have to provide new kind of court
with salaried judges.
Residents on Topeka avenue between
Tenth and Fourteenth streets have been
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of asking the
council to order the old horse car tracks
between Tenth and Fourteenth streets re-
moved. They have not been used since
the consolidation of the two companies
several years ago.