The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

General Passenger Agent Black OF
the Santa Fe is in Chicago.
This is the kind Of weather that gives
the street cars use for sand.
The school children are looking for
ward now to the holiday vacation.
Kansas is furnishing her share of the
mules being shipped to South Africa.
The man riding a bicycle came down
town through the snow this morning.
A brother of the noted Grant Giuett
/ has been in Topeka this week on BUSH
ness.
Work will soon begin on putting up
the small supply of ice now on the
river.
The Modern Woodmen of Shawnee
camp viii give a ball at their hall this
evening.
The railroads are getting their snow
plows out and in readiness for immedi-
ate use.
The Christmas vacation at Wash
burn college will begin on Thursday of
next week.
A few bicyclists were brave enough
! to venture down town this morning on
their wheels.
The boy with the sled was in his eIe-
ment today. It might be remarked that
his element is snow.
The livery men are smiling now as
they think of renting out cutters at
from 81 to SO an hour.
The Grand Lodge committee of the
A. o. L. W. meets tonight at the hall
of Capital lodge No. 3.
The boy with the shovel contributed
his share to the general welfare of the
community this morning.
At the annual meeting of the Com
mercial club in January officers and di-
| rectors are to be elected.
Barely an inch of snow and dry goods
box sleighs and homemade sleds are
already skidding round.
The case against H. o. Jackson for
| assaulting his wife was continued in
7 police court until the 23d.
These are getting to be the kind of
mornings when the men hate to get up
and build the kitchen fires.
This was a good day for rabbit hunt
ing There was just about snow enough
to track the rabbits readily.
Some Topeka man has cruelty nick
named the w. G. T. L. the "Woman'S
/ Continuous Talking Union"
The Topeka Athletic association will
give an athletic entertainment Satur-
day night the first of a series.
This is the season of the year when
the frost gets on the whiskers and the
breath has turned to steam
F. P. Long was up from Kansas City
yesterday on business connected with
the Ancient Order of Pyramids.
A great many people took a little
needed exercise this morning shoveHng
off the snow from their sidewalks.
Charles Samson came down town this
morning in his cutter. He was the first
one to take advantage of the snow.
The street cars are having some trou-
Bile in running on time on account of
the slippery condition of the track.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ritchie are the
parents of a daughter. Mr.. Richie is
an employe Of the state treasurer's Of
flee.
Judge Hazen has given notice that
contested motions in the district court
viii be taken up for hearing next Mon
day.
This is the season of the year when
the lodges are unusually active and the
goats are kept busy initiating new
members.
This is the time of year when a num-
Der of men and boys earn a living by
carrying coal from the sidewalks to up
stair rooms.
After running over half a block this
morning in attempting to stop an ice
wagon, a man found that the ice man
had no ice.
The Topeka lodge of Red Men will
hold special exercises tonight in COM
memoration of the death of George
Washington.
Henry E. Brill has brought divorce
proceedings in the district court against
his wife, Margaret Brill. He charges
abandonment.
Mr.. Charles S. Gleed returned from
the east Wednesday afternoon to be
present at the Santa Fe stockholders
meeting today
c. F. Goodrich, of Atchison, aged 50,
and Victoria La Fountain, of Valley
Falls, aged IS. were married by Judge
DOlman yesterday.
The Crawford theater has now a mas
cot in the shape of a small black kit
ten. The mascot occasionally appears
informally on the stage.
The Santa Fe officials came very near
being greeted with a walkout at the
shops here, when they arrived in Tope-
ka to hold their annual meeting.
The pavement layers on Tenth ave-
nue. We're compelled to suspend opera
lions by the snow. They worked We'd
nesday forenoon through the cold.
Some of the excuses and reasons
which convicts give as an inducement
that they ought to be pardOned, are ri
diculOus to sane minded people.
One of the cells in the county jail is
called the ''parlOr'' cell. because it is
where prisoners are placed when they
have visitors to see them privately.
DR.. J. T Mcfarland of the First NJ
E. church, will deliver a lecture tomor-
row at the English Lutheran church
on the subject, Dollars and Sense"
The new order to the effect that con-
ductOrs on the street cars are required
to call out the names of the streets as
they are passed, applies only after
dark.
A Topeka girl whose young man is
bashful about coming to the proposing
point is thinking of making him a
Christmas present of a marriage Ii
cense.
Captain Lumby. of the Salvation army
of Topeka, has gone to Kansas City
to take charge of the Christmas dinner
to be given to the poor there by the
army.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council Will meet tomorrow
evening to consider the proposed Ordi-
nance changing the boundaries Of the
wards of the city.
When library hall is turned into a
reading room, the west reading room
of the library will be exclusively for the
use of children. All juvenile books will
then be kept there.