The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


H S. Montgomery has gone to Chicago
on business.
The patrol wagon has been called out
once in two weeks.
The older members of the police force
are keeping out of politics"
Major Inman is at work on another
book dealing with frontier life.
D. j. Greenwald made another donation
of clothing to Mrs. Thorpe yesterday.
The Elks will initiate a class of 80 on
the afternoon of the 22nd of February.
The ice cream wagons are being repaint-
ed and gotten in shape for the summer
campaign.
The policemen are adopting the same
style of revolver as used by the New
York police.
The members of the Lake View club are
preparing for ducks to go north within the
next ten days.
The newsboys are struggling to start
the marble season again since the cold
weather is over.
The poor who have applied at the police
station for help have received sack OF
flour and a liver.
Dyche, Kansas is pretty well supplied
with Arctic explorers
Postmaster Guthrie remembered me- Der the
flee flag at half-mast-
Representative LOOMS of Crawford
county takes nap in his seat in the
house every afternoon at 2:S0 O'Clock.
A coal wagon broke down on the street
street and delayed traffic for hour.
A handsome embossed, photograph Of
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and will be hung in the general offices.
The habitual T. A. A. bowlers were re-
of their love for the sport in unhattering
terms.
Ex-Governor Lewelling is growing a new
head of hair. He has a good crop now,
compared with what he had when he was
governor.
Charles Samson has four promising
Manus,'' Charley Holiday and Edna
Whitney"
The nurses at Christ hospital receive
lectures from the members of the Kansas
Medical college faculty on how to care
for the sick.
Joint note: An express wagon went down
Kansas avenue yesterday with six new
a new restaurant"
Since hostilities began at Manila. sew
entteSS QUIZ fbei hn1es and 4ortiIre heir
neighbors with them
Representative Scott of Elk county: when
when Lincoln was a country lawyer prac-
ticing law in Illinois.
riders throughout the war; now wears
badge OF three RS" standing for "Roose-
Velt'S Rough Riders
The brewery agents in Topeka had great
trouble in keeping their car load ship
ing in the yards here.
Captain Seaton of Atchison is very proud
is the eighth term that he has represent
ed Atchison county in the legislature.
The ladder wagon of the city railway.
down, makes as fast time and has a gong
as loud as the fire department apparatus.
Police Matron Thorpe found a home for
the boy she has been caring for at the
station He goes to the home of a farmer
near Granville, who promises to send him
to school.
Representative Harris of Lyon county
is an old time printer. He has worked
in a newspaper office for over 81 years,
and has held every sort OF position, from
''devil' to editor.
There are two ex-ministers in the Kan
saS house, both from the short grass cOun-
try One is Representa- tive Elder of Stat
ford county and the other is Representa-
tive Reser of Kiowa county.
There are said to be more expert poker
players in this legislature than in any
previous one that has ever convened in
Topeka, although some of the former ones
have been well up in this line.
Several members of the legtsla ture, es-
pecially "Reminiscences, received valen-
tines from prohibitionists representing a
drunken man abusing his family. Under
meath the picture was: This man is in
favor of resubmission-"
The members of the legislative commit
last week, claim that the weather was not
very cold on Sunday The thermometer
was down to 35 degrees below while the
+ cOnpmittee was in Minnesota, and they
pretend to have become used to it.