The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-27
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

Corn is worth 30 cents.
Topeka now has four regular social
clubs.
Governor Stanley has returned from
Wichita.
The supreme court viii convene next
George F. sharitt has returned from
Fort Scott.
The Tenth avenue pavement is open to
Fillmore street.
Congressman W. J. Bailey left for
Washington today
Judge W. c. Hook came over from
LeaVenWOrth today.
But few turkeys have reached the city
for slaughter this week.
Vanity Fair closed the engagement
in Topeka Saturday night
These are Tom and Jerrv'' davs in the
calendar of the Topeka joints.
W. z. Sterne. United States marshal.
has returned from Fort Scott.
The Spider and the Fly is booked for
the Crawford theater Friday night.
Judge Hook. came, over from Leaven-
worth today to hold federal court.
Since the return of the Twentieth mil
itary balls" are becoming popular in To-
peka-
A large crowd of Topeka people will see
the football game in Kansas City Thurs
The new German Catholic church has
Topeka
Football players get their big turkey
dinner after the football game on Thanks
giving
The Haskell Indians play the Washburn
giving.
Major E. J. Dallas. who was operated
on for appendicitis last week, continues to
DR. William F. Anderson of New. York
preached at the First Methodist church
Sunday morning.
A runaway at Tenth and Tyler created
httIe excitement yesterday. The buggy
was badly broken.
State Superintendent Nelson delivered a
lecture at the Westminster Presbyterian
church last night
,f +T,c
Mexican Central road. will leave for the
City of Mexico this week.
O. T. Crawford will probably start a
circuit of western theaters.
Anybody who can sing a coon song with
the proper gyrauOns of the body is called
Il song artist nowadays.
Thanksgiving viii be more generally OBJ
served a holiday this year than ever
before, say the business men.
The sister OF the beef steer is doing a
big business now. Butter is worth Is cents
on the local markets and is going up.
There are some people in town who have
purchased new cutters for this winter,
firmly believing that there will be plenty
Of snow
Col. Ed Little has returned to Abilene
The second Uncle Toms Cabin show Of
Saturday.
H. NJ. Smith of Marshall county is in
Topeka attending United states court and
visiting his brother James Smith of Har-
riSOn street.
a great many people get interested in
football just as the season closes, and
then they are mad because there are no
more games.
Three things the doctors are at sea
about; the name of the present epidemic,
the use Of the, appendix and what the
r T9ppe5s tteeia .h will 60 in a body. to
lawrence Thursday to attend the annual
teachers association
Four weeks from today is Christmas.
enant Franks collection of iPhilippine cur
los in the Hub window.
This was one of those James WhitcOmb
Riley mornings when half the people NUT
tered frost is on the pumpkin and fOd-
der,s in the shock" as they stepped out
The work on the West Tenth pavement
south OF Bethany has been stopped owing
completed with the exception of those two
blocks to Clay street.
1t is said that there will be a rush of
marriages at Thanksgiving time. but it
Is thought that no extra force of clerks
viii be required in the probate judges Of
fee to issue the licenses.
One Topeka woman is in a very thank
IuI frame OF mind just now She has had
yesterday was the first Sunday that it
them off. But she is thankful for that.
This is the last week of brick sidewalk
puldIng IN. topeka this year Property
is not reached this week Will be taken
of the sidewalk tax roll until next spring.
Otto Kuehne OF Topeka. kan who owns
the largest pickle and vinegar works west
is visiting Governor Leedy today and
looking over Joplin.
The fire department was called out Sat
urday night TO the Sixth street viaduct
which had caught fire from a passing en-
glne- Ihe damage was trifiing. The street
lights We're not burning and the drivers
found it dangerous to drive fast
Deputy United States Marshal E A.
Prescott has arrested Frank Bennett. a
merchant of Cuba Republic county for
selling liquor without a government IL
cense- He viii have his hearing tomor-
row before United States Commissioner
Clark.
The police worked hard to capture two
negroes by the name of Hawkins and
Ashton who were wanted for stealing.
When they captured them the firm that
had been robbed failed TO prosecute. That
does not help to stop thieving.
The street commissioner might do some
missionary work near the LOwman Hill
car line on West street and west of that
point There are several places in that
vicinity where wire from fences is strung
across the road. one end being loose the
other attached to post.
A youth of only IS years was the groom
in a wedding in Probate Judge Dolman's
office Saturday afternoon. The bride was
also IS. They were David r. Gibbs and
Garrett F. Jackson of Elmont. The groom
had the written consent of his parents to
the marriage.