The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-27
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

President Herrick of Washburn college
is in Boston
Washburu college expects to have a
strong base ball team this year.
The price of potatoes is on the up grade.
1t has taken a jump in the past week
The First PRESBYTERIAN church celebrat-
ed its fortieth anniversary last night.
Topeka commandery No. 5, Knights
Femplar. viii hold its annual Easter serv-
A certain Topeka young man does not
claim to be a freak but he had two heads
Salvation Army is over in Atchison assist
ing in revival services there
When you plant trees this spring be
sure you set out some good variety. Steer
clear of soft maple and cottonwood
ia uaTo q,, ~4o T veg sreate n
by the police last night for being drunk
There is one woman in Topeka who is
hoping that it will be stormy next Sun
day. She doesn't expect to have a new
caught the cake walk fever. A G.. A r.
post is to have a walk in the near fu-
ture.
The country roads are showing signs of
improvement. but they are still too rough
TO get much enjoyment out of riding over
Cy Leland's enemies at Troy are now
blaming the smallpox epidemic there onto
at Troy
A barber does not like to. cut a very
small boys hair. His mother Is never
satisfied with it. no matter how well it
may be done
Two farmers living near HoIton have
reported that they had horses stolen and
that the thieves were tracked in the di-
rection of Topeka.
on schedule time two weeks ago are wish
ing now that they had stayed q little
longer in the south
We have a stone crusher. a home enter
prise. If you want macadam it would re-
would Be distributed in Topeka.
A new Kansas herd book is in course OF
sketehss Of about 800 prominent Kanssns.
The Hall Printing company will publish
backward this year it Will be remembered
that +d year re- t age tf all the a Poaoe tSem
were up
Many Topeka woman is silently hop
ing that next Sunday viii be warm and
sunshiny. It Is a great disappointment
to the majority of people if Easter is cold
and dreary.
A Topeka weather prophet says there
viii be no spring at al this yeaGe "a, soon
ner and the hot weather will commence
all 1t once
Apropos Of the boast of the Kansas City
a public bath, a Topeka man says he
Farmers say that the oats crop will be
short this year Very few nave been
the season that most Of the ground will
be put in to corn
J. IT, hague opens lCOeIy al Easter
sale on blooming plants. Among them
are pOtted carnations, cycIamenS, hibtS-
Gus. pelargOniuu1s- v1oletS, TuchS1aS, hya-
cinths and Easter lilies
The Joke about BARRIERS talking to their
customers so much is all a fable The
majority of BARRIERS viii shave man
without saying a dozen words to him IN
less he starts the converse ton
People who had been making calcuIa-
tons all the week to spend yesterday out
of doors enjoying the fresh spring air were
badly disappointed. The air was fresh,
all right. but it wasn't springlike-
The neighbors of Topeka woman claim
has them charged on her bill as hannels
other neceSsarieS- so that her huS5a nd
viii not object 10 paying for them
southern Kansas paper says that
Shawnee county ought not to complain
over the number Of appointments II has
Governor StaIey has given it four notar1es
public
A Topeka man intended to get up early
this morning. go out in his shirt sleeves
and start his garden but one look out OF
doors satisfied him that such a move
into bed again
John Speer ex-president of the State
Historical society. learned the printer :
trade alongside OF the late Joseph Medill
in Medina. O., about 50 years ago When
ever Mr. Speer went to Chica go he al
ways went to see Mr. MediII and they
talked over Old times together.
Clyde Mattox. who was pardoned by
President Mckinley about a year ago from
the federal prison. where he was sent for
life for murder. and who IS wei known
in Topeka. is now in the cattle business
in the Usage country in the Indian Terri
tory He lives with his mother at Ponca
City