The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-13
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

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The country roads are in a very bad
condition.
Hay is going up to the neighborhood Of
The Salvation Army will give Christ
mas dinner.
The wheat shipments to Topeka at this
The present cold snap promises to raise
the price of coal.
The cold weather has driven out some
of the book agents.
Thursday of next week will be the short
est day in the year.
New calendars are being distributed by
the insurance agents
The annual reunion of Sloan lodge of
MasOns occurs tonight
The fires in the street cars are very &C
ceptable these cold days
Judge NJ. B. Nicholson of Council Grove
was in Topeka last night
Some of the small boys have already got
out their skates and sleds-
The coal wagons have been kept busy
during the past two days
The Salvation Army hospital is now free
from contagious diseases.
The ice men are getting ready to put
up their winter crop of ice.
ing the name Topeka House.
The fans are talking baseball again but
simply talking, that is all
Daniel Warren has been elected com
mander of Topeka post No. Il.
OFFICER Lucas who was injured by being
kicked by horse, is improving.
The meeting of the Commercial club this
evening will be an important one
The Sixth avenue viaduct is being re-
paired and put in shape for traffic.
What shall get for Christmas. is an all
absorbing question just at present
This is the last week for the payment
of the first half of the taxes of 1899
We're busy today said coal
man this morning rubbing his hands.
An open street car is used as a Wrecker
when any of the cars get off the track
The fire department horses are general
y ridden out for exercise in cold weather
The grocers and butchers of the city are
working UP the pure food show enterprise
The southern department court of ap-
pcals, is in session at Garden City this
a Topeka joker perpetrates the follow
ing: among other things, smoke is go
The second Tor" show to visit Topeka
this season will be at the Crawford thea
published a waltz under the name Of
only q Dream
Library hall will be turned into IL
brary reading room Immediately after the
first of the year
The next meeting Of the city council
viii be on the evening of December p. one
week from tomorrow
The state teachers association mem
bers viii take possession Of Topeka two
weeks from today
Some of the physicians of the city, claim
once in his life
Bishop John H. Vincent is now coItduct-
Ing a series of services at the Trinity NJ
i. church in Denver.
A.W. Smith of Mcpherson is in the, city.
Harry I. Pestana of Russell IS in the
city on legal business.
Charley Blal1esley- says the mounds pic
tured on the Crawford opera house cur
tain are all bluff"
Those who take ice this kind of wea Their
90 not nave to be IN a hurry about taking
II In for fear that 1t Will melt
Rubber coats are said to be the best
coats for keeping out the. cold. They are
What Happened to Smith is the bill
OF the Dalrymple Comedy company at
the Crawford theater tonight
The Topekas as usual won the game of
ouck pins BOWED last night on the T A
A alleys against the Ducklets.
some Of the best poker players among
the politicians are piOuS looking farmers
from the short grass country.
The Christmas rush is. not felt by the
express companies and the poston ice IN
Ill a few days before the holidays.
~, The principal subject Of discussion at
be Topeka's celebrate for next Iear.
John T. Porter. one of the mail carriers
cred 1913 pounds Of mail last satui day "
Topeka is not the only town having
y every town in Kansas has a case or
The Red men will observe the Tooth an
thursday night with appropriate cere-
o l. Mcintosh, one of the white wings.
VINO got hit on the head short ime ago
to work '1--S mall - az Ia DsleA
An alleged weather prophet sa vs. that
there Will be no ice crop until lat in the
WlIJer. along about February or the first
The holiday vacation in the city. schools
commencing Friday. December 20. and
school begins again Wednesday morning,
The money. order department of. the To-
peka postoffice has just recetv we'd a new
cash register from the dep artment at
A car load of Topeka ard sha vince
county mules have been ship ped to Kan
African war
The postofice employees ara looking for
a blg increase IN the nails during the
4ltAl Two or three weeks. c aUuSed by the
holiday rush
I'll The druggists and Physicie ms of the city
city is Obeyed.
been haf9 If sa me Tqss y n5 Rbig egg has has
EeIulc5 was reached the Aeople disagreed
instead or the jury.
The railway mail clerk : will earn their
saIarieS during the next m onth. There IS
easily about Christmas time
The production of Monte, Cristo'' which
vas 5 booked for the 6 rand Opera house
Crawford theater inste ad an December IS.
Two members of the Ka- qsas City police
Cd with the Topeka police and told them
= y 5ias W9ln9derTuI catches they made in
The The state board Of health has been no
IlIleo mat IN the town Of Lori1g, Leav-
enworth county. there are thirteen cases
of smallpox confin ed to thj .ee families of
colored people.
The Introduction of the. % iece work svs-
tenn OF working at the Ssz uta Fe shops
mas stirred up the WOr- Srnt n there more
than they have been st5.rTes up since the
a scare was started in the neighbor-
porf mar T CoCnies Ter ce meteiy by the re-
Deen buried there Sc cretly at night of
course II was a fax.
Harmon Ryus we'll known rToDelxs
young man is now n charge Of an excllr-
s stoh -oQaSL plying be tween Sun Pedro and
fornia- OiA 1i1e ooSlS1 u AL
an Inf99 q OF t he whereabouts of Ian