The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-19
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

/ the year.
christmas trees are prominent in the
NJ. A. Low left for Chicago this morn
! ing on business.
II The stores are filled with Christmas
Men who haul hay to town over bad
| roads, put up the price.
| The holiday rates for college students
| will commence Thursday.
Quarantine guards have about the cold
! est jobs in town these days.
| The jury in the plumbers suit went out
| at 4:3O yesterday afternoon.
/ The express business is already increas-
| ing on account of Christmas.
The state university students are ex-
/ pected home in a day or two.
J County Clerk Wright has gone to .Salina
/ for d few days on a hunting expedition.
| The stores are open nights now. to
! give opportunity for the Christmas shop
Harry Bone announces that he is not a
candidate for judge to succeed Charley
Book sellers have cut the price on I'm
( cents.
( There will be a large number of state
/ weeks
The boy who wears his military clothes
away from school will soon be seen on
! The Kansas farmer seems to be hanging
( on to his corn. Corn is going up slightly
! a result.
/ A year ago now Topeka was making
the legislature.
| Judge Hook returned yesterday after
noon from spending Sunday at his home
/ in LeaVenWorth.
| People who like to be accurate had bet
| ter be practtcing writing 1900 in the
The date for the state oratorical contest
! has been set for February g. 1t will be
! held at EmpOria.
Inc balance of this week in the district
I court viii be devoted largely to arguing
| contested motions.
An observant Topeka man says that
I Wn1le city women DO shopping country
! folks do trading
The Ducklets defeated the Sunfowers
last night in their duck pin contest on
the 7. A. A. alleys.
Mrs J. F. FARRELL who has been unable
signs OF Improvement.
A Topeka p,ei12 boys idea Of lard luck is to
He is afflicted that way.
w. R. Bigham, of White City, who rep
resented Norris county in the legislature
last winter is in the city.
Transferman Harry WhitIow IS again
PACK PACK IN his his place at the transfer station
A Topeka man has put off getting shaw
cd for several days hoping to obtain
premium stamps on the job.
This would be a good time to begin
practicing on New Years resolutions, just
to see how they would work.
Oscar Swayze refuses to be vaccinated.
He says the vaccination is liable to turn
out worse than the smallpox.
Christmas ''dOin's'' this year will be
held on Monday evening, Christmas night
instead of on Christmas Eve.
MT A IA w llSOn mas returned from
Washington. He was present at the
Washington memorial exercises.
Mr.. W. P. stubbs, a prominent railroad
contractor, was in Topeka Monday con-
ferring with Santa Fe officials
MI Nj F. G. N Maegley td assztant tsd general
ed after a western business trip.
The travelling men are making hurried
trips this week, there being little buying
going on, to get home for Christmas.
There are still some people supposed to
be Intelligent, who Write stun Tor the
newspapers on both sides of the paper.
Christmas week, judging from the num-
Der ct parties, receptions and dances be-
ing planned, viii be busy one. socially.
Mr.. F. G. Gay, late general freight
week to spend the holidays with his fam
Fifteen thousand dollars in cash was
the approximate amount of business done
( by the county treasurer's office yester-
The disagreeabIe task of engineering the
kitchen fire about $50 in the morning is
causing trouble in some Topeka families
just now.
o. K. Swayze, deputy county clerk, re-
fused to succumb to spinal meningitis,
yesterday.
The Br9therhood Of St. Paul is a new
church A chapter has just been organiz-
ed in Topeka.
Dave Leahy is making q. success out of
his new weekly paper, the Wichita Regis
ter. He secured $500 subscribers during
the first month.
Edward Wilder for the city library, has
arrived from Chicago 1t was decidedly
pleasing painting.
The merchants are hoping for good
weather this week to allow farmers to
Chris tma45 trading.
The scientists may talk about the ex-
change of bacilli in kissing, but it is no
ticeable that there is no falling off in the
demand for mistletOe.
It makes a merchant envious to go
down to the court house and see the
rushing business County Treasurer Phil
lips is doing just now
Tomorrow will be the last day of the
taXpaying rush. After that the penalty
will be added, and people will not be SO
anxious to pay their taxes.
a number Of Topeka Republicans are
already hurrahing for Root for vice pres
were hurrahing for Roosevelt.
The government has chosen the school
text books. prepared by, Miss Lizzie E.
Wooster of Topeka, and published by
Crane & Co. for use in the Indian schools.
A Topeka man says that the thing he
ties that he knows his wife will give him
He shudders whenever he thinks about
them.
Fred Ross, H. E. Clark. c. P Brown.
Tom Johnson, James Kline and G. Smith
We're arrested by the police at the Riblet
house early this morning while playing
poker.
The Republican hambeau club has re-
rental for the clubs room in the old court
house, which were used as recruiting
station.
"Charley's Aunt" It will be put on about
January Is, 26 and 9th. Miss Georgia
Brown Of Lawrence will have charge of
the play.
The Kansas City. Kan. politicians are
in Topeka, pushing the Campaign for
judge of the local court to succeed E. L.
Fisher, Populist. elected judge of the dis
trict court.
V. G. Kropf of Washburn has returned
from Emporia where he went to assist
in the selection of judges for the state
oratorical contest He is president of the
state association.
See how anxious those people are to get
rid of their money remarked a Topeka