The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Sol Smith Russell will not come to
Topeka until some time in April.
Fred Gordon is seriously ill with
pneumonia at his home in Potwin..
Armstrong & Kassebaum have very
fine seed sweet potatoes at 10c busheL.
Mrs. J. W. Vincent is seriously i'll at
her home, lis Fairchild street, North
Topeka.
Topeka must be suffering with con-
sumption.
The Masons enjoyed banquet last
night at their rooms in the Masonic
building.
The old two horse street sweeper was
used on Kansas avenue last night for
the first time this winter.
President c. c. Baker of the City
railway learned the trade of book
binder when he was a boy.
b. F. Sim made a trip to the country
to buy a COW but he says that good
COWS are scarce even in the country.
Rev. A. E. Wagner will deliver the
address at Washburn college on the
day of prayer for colleges, January 26.
Miss Rebecca Stevenson has taken a
position as cashier at the Cremerie rest
aurant, succeeding Miss Blanche Mof-
fit.
Paul Torrington and Joe Morgan have
rented room in the J. S. Collins home
on van Buren street and now live
there.
The Topeka Equal Suffrage associa-
t1on Will try to induce as many women
as possible to register for the spring
election.
John L. Sullivan and his company
form the only attraction now booked
for the Crawford theater the week Of
January 80.
May Burnett who is held for perjury
in the Collins trial, has Withdrawn her
application for release on a writ of ha-
beaS corpus.
Sam Gardenhire, who served two
fdT- ole IL OF f1,a afxr
district court, is now booming acety-
line gas in New York.
The Kansas Medical college has now
an even hundred students in attend
ance, by far the largest enrolment in
the history of the college.
Henry billiard. who has been Judge
Fosters bailiff for 25 years, says that
congress forgot him when the bill to re-
tire Judge Foster was passed.
De Forest Jetmore, who has been trav-
cling extensively in the east, visiting
Chicago, New York and other points of
interest, has returned to Topeka.
S. Barnum and NJ. Snattinger will dis
solve partnership on the first day Of
February and they have not yet decided
which one is to succeed to the business.
The Sunday evening sermon at the
Third Christian church will be for the
benefit of ''inf1dels. skeptics. doubters
and religiousiy mystified'' persons, says
the pastor, F. E. Mallory.
The Sunf1owers defeated the Santa
Fes last night in a duck pin contest.
The Sunf1owers broke all records by av-
eraging over 80 to the man for three
successive games. Smith of that team
had an average of 102 2-3.
Miss Emma Kelly will tell of her ex-
periences in the Klondike territory at
the Crawford theater on the evening Of
February 3. She first appeared in the
role of lecturer at Lawrence last week.
George Henderson, a prominent grain
dealer of St. Marys, is said to greatly
resemble Senator Tom Anderson. The
grain dealer wears whiskers almost
identical in flowing qualities with those
of the senator.
People are beginning to talk about
the April city elections One of the prin-
cipal issues will be the water works
question. The friends of the water
works company are first in the field
with a. candidate for mayor. They are
pushing Frank Brooks, ex-register OF
deeds
The two societies at Harrison school
debated yesterday on: Resolved, That
the United States should construct and
operate the Nicaragua canal" For the
affirmative, and representing the "Cic-
eronian" society, Bennie Maroney and
Howard Carruth defeated Ada Campbell
and Carl Beazie of the 'Demosthene-
ans by eight points. J. w. Stout, D.
r. Hite and A. B. Jetmore acted as
judges.
An uncle of julius Calm, the man who
handles all of the Frohman road COM
panies, is manager of the Sowing the
Wind" company. The last thing he did
before leaving the theater last night
was to instruct the property man of the
company to recover 10 cents, which had
been paid by mistake as an overcharge
to a Topeka transfer man who hauls
theatrical baggage, in the afternoon.
The remains of Raymond Dawes, son
of Representative F. B. Dawes of Leav-
enworth county, ex-attorney general,
will be brought to this country from
Honolulu, where he died on November
%, and inferred in the Leavenworth
cemetery. The war department has is
sued an order for the removal of the
remains. Young Dawes was a member
of the Twentieth Kansas volunteer reg
im9nt.