The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Ia TIE city
Deputy County Clerk Swayze is on
the sick list
This morning was the coolest Of the
year thus far.
Tom and Jerry viii be here till after
New Years Day.
This is the time Of year that the
photographers reap a harvest
S. E. Yoeman's sentence TO the county
Jail viii expire June IA, 1900
Another "1-2-3'' show will be at the
Crawford theater next week
Merchants are getting their holiday
window displays in readiness
The Santa Fe shop boys are already
talking Of baseball for next year
The Dalrymple Comedy company will
close its Topeka engagement tonight
Mr. Frank Lewis will have charge Of
the Union Pacific trade excursion train
The telegraph messengers would ride
their bicycles through six inches OF
snow
Some Topeka people are boycotting
the doctors and are vaccinat1ng them
selves
The uptown ticket Office of the Union
Pacific is decorated with Navajo blan-
kets.
Under Sheriff Williams is able to be
around again after several days sick
ness.
Kansas avenue windows are now
either dressed or dressing for Christ
mas.
The Royal Neighbors. Camp No 1874.
gave an enjoyable dance at their han
last evening
A few people attempted sleigh riding
yesterday, but they did not make much
Roadway at it.
A case fdiphtheria has been reported
in the family of w. w. Garvin, at 1923
Harrison street
General Hudson delivered an address
on George Washington" at the state
normal yesterday
The Rock Island depot is one Of the
cleanest kept buildings in the city. 1t
is scrubbed every day.
Fresh Vaccine" is the sign that
stares at one from nearly every drug
store window now
The patrol wagon team is pronounced
by those who know, to be one Of the
best teams in town.
Pictures are taken of some Of the
exceptionally fine window displays by
the photographers
The Kansas Tract Society has moved
its office from 81 West Fifth street to
lis East Fifth street.
The insurance lodges are recruiting
new members. This is the recruiting
and expansion season
Superintendent Davidson went to
Emp0ria last night to attend the Tay-
1or-NeWman wedding.
The latest report concerning Crook
Wright is that ne has gone to Okla I
hoHa to start a saloon
Pictures of VIII White are exhibited
in the book store windows now along /
side of those Of Kipling.
The ice men smiled a big broad smile /
when they noted the state of the Their I
mOmeter this morning.
Each of the Santa Fe directors in at |
tendance at the annual meeting Thurs |
day received a $50 gold piece
Some people have come to realize that J
when they get premium stamps that I
they are paying for them themselves.
Shawnee Tribe. Improved Order of |
Red Men, held appropriate Washington /
anniversary exercises Thursday night. /
Some of the children of Topeka are /
mystihed because santa Claus has so /
many headquarters in the city
Some of the new calendars which are I
being distributed free this year are |
things Of beauty. Others are-not.
The pOstOffice people are expecting |
the public to demand trading stamps /
with money orders and postal supplies
next.
S. H. Dodge. editor of the Beloit Ca
zette, is in the city. Mr.. Dodge is one
Of the regents of the state normal
school.
1t requires seven men to take in the
money in the county treasurer's Office
now. The taxpaying season is at its
height.
Win Whites BoyviIe stories rival
Kipling's works in the amount of room
they take up in the book store dis
plays.
The DaIrympIe Comedy company
presented some excellent moving pic
lures Of the New York Dewey parade,
last night
The A o. U. w lodges Of Kansas
have a membership of over 80 900 in |
Kansas There are $500 members in the
city Of Topeka
The Modern WOOdmen lodge No. 2sOO
are arranging for dance for next |
Thursday evening, at their hall, No. 704
Kansas avenue.
J. Wright has been chosen assistant
superintendent of the Topeka Athletic
association to succeed George Bradley, |
who has resigned.
The country roads are said to be very
rough just now. They were muddy a |
Few days ago when the cold spell came
and frOze the mud.
The Kansas Academy Of Science will J
meet this year at Mcpherson during
holiday week. 1t will be the thirty
second annual meeting.
. The young ladies of the First Baptist
church have Indefinitely postponed the
oyster supper which was to have been
given Saturday night
Miss Rose COhn went to Leavenworth
today to take part in the Smoky
Moke" Ministries. which will be given
there Monday evening.
The grand lodge meeting Of the A. o.
o. W. will be held in Topeka during
February Of 1900, The session win be-
gin on Tuesday, the 9th.
The dance given by Irwin lodge No.
go A. O. u w last night was a sue
cess. A large crowd of members and
their friends We're present.
The fourth lecture in the Y. NJ c. A
law course viii be delivered tonight It
will be given by H G. Lariner on
Consideration of Contract"
There are one or two grocery stores
IN town who do not give the premium I
stamps. but sell their goods a trihe
cheaper than those stores that do give
them.
People who pride themselves on being
lava biding citizens never think Of /
cLeanIng of their sicaEEa II-s altl,n,,c-h |