The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

]. W. .NIorphy of the Smith Center Jour
nal, is in Topeka
The postoffice clerks are kept busy now
weighing the mails.
A famine in stove wood is predicted. It
is very scarce now.
Miss Daisy Lakin is one of the best
lady golfers in Topeka
taken in for the winter.
Have your fortune told for only zoe.
Camp 501 Kansas avenue
The state board of charities will meet
at the Topeka sylum tomorrow.
General Manager Frey OF the Santa Fe
has returned from western trip.
1.-TWO taylors wanted is the sign dis
played in up town tailor shop
About the heaviest loads the big trans
fer wagons have to handle is paper
Mr.. J. D, Hamilton. claim attorney OF
the Santa Fe, IS IN New York city
The registration books for the fall cleo
ton will close on Friday, October q.
Judge Peters of Newton, has been in at
tendance at supreme court this week
DR.. S. G. Stewart is at home after am
extended visit at his old home in Ohio.
The foliage in the court house grounds
is dying since the weather became cool
The Republican county central commit
tee met last night at the old court house.
VIII White will have another Kansas
story in the November number OF Serb
For the last quarter the .postoffice sold
~ sell.
A load of big apples passed down Kan
envious
F. H Holt, deputy clerk of the United
States circuit court, is taking his annual
vacation.
Local travel is lighter this week than
last The reunions and street fairs made
the difference.
Grading for the pavement on Tenth ave-
nue. between Harrison and Topeka avenue
is in progress.
The knights and Ladies of Security will
give an entertainment at their new hall
Friday evening
There will be a matinee performance
at the Crawford theater on every satur-
day in this month.
James H. May. has been appointed adj
mfnistrator of the estate of Page Boyd,
who died interstate.
Lieutenant Ralph ingalls,. son of ex-
Senator Ingalls,, is now enliSting recruits
down in Oklahoma
Homer Ray of the Wells-Fargo Express
company, IS taking his vacation and has
gone to Kansast City.
administrator of the estate of Jacob En-
ram, upon her petition.
Harry K; CIRCUIT. a Topeka boy is now
tour through the south.
The foundation for the new Wells-Far-
ing pushed right ahead.
Porto Ricos finest leaf is used in the
Lucke,s rolled cigar, 10 for Csc at Flad &
Grubb's, 607 Kansas avenue.
It is said that tWo-thirds of the tough
colored people who live in the lower part
of the city, have gone to Alma.
Ninety-nine students are now enrolled
in the Kansas Medical college. The next
graduating class will number 30.
Under the Red Robe" has been booked
for the Grand theater this season. 1t was
seen here for the first time last year.
The decorations in the postonice which
were put up for reunion week will be left
up until after the Twentieth gets home
There are a million black birds rroosting
~ otIe - f I1'A +JI, I4isS +I7ot1 ,oalr
Dealers say that shoes are now advanc-
ing in price. This means more work for
the shOemakerS IN patching up the old
ones.
,Glen. Hall, who has been employed with
the Thompson Hardware company, will
soon.
1t costs considerable for flags for the
federal building. The government sends
Postmaster Guthrie two new flags every
six months.
The papers, necessary to having the
name of John T CLANCY placed on the
ticket as candidate for senator, were filed
A billiard hall is being moved into the
basement of the building a the corner Of
Eighth and Kansas avenue, under the old
Epicurean restaurant.
Miss Frances Babcock who became well
~ y 49, II ~ J 1900 O. q -
at the state university.
The pOstoffice department has sent the
use in the carriers and clerks depart
ments. They cost $40.
The American Radiator company has
brought suit in the district court to col
lect $500 account from F. P. Edison
for goods sold to Prescott & Co.
If the contractors will remove the SAND
on the eastern end of the Tenth street
brick pavement the. residents in that vi
cinity will be grateful, so they say.
Hoyt's "A Black Sheep" will be the
Thanksgiving attraction at the Crawford
theater- This farce has never visited
! Topeka in the several years of its ex-
istence.
Harry Hobson, lamp and way car in
/ spector of the Santa Fe, has been around
! the world twice and at one time served
| field force.
Two flags of different sizes are kept to
| float over the federal building w men II
fG win a &
/ is still so that the flag will not be whip
ped too much, a large one is run up.
J. r. Harrison, a Kansas postoffice in
/ spector who is well known in Topeka, was
married a few days ago at Mount Pleas
! Salina girl, who was visiting relatives IN
J Utah.
The carrier on the Mission rural de-
| livery route handled 80 pieces of mail
! last Saturday The average will prob
ably be much or more than this when
abolished.
| at the high school will probably arrange
\ with the High School orchestra to fur
! nish music at each engagement A similar
! of the lecture course last year
John seaton ow .reI Of the A G On
| Dixie is the best colored show he has
| ever seen The performance IS not on the
/ order OF a minstrel performance, put -
a combination of farce comedy and bur
J lesque. The engagement of the Hottest
/ Coon IN T1peka opens tonight.
Manager Crawford is endeavoring to
book Lewis Morrison in his splendid new
/ production of Frederick the Great"
| Morrison received such a half hearted re
ception on his appearance here in The
| Master of Ceremonies that he announced
he would never visit Topeka again.
Great volumes Of black smoke continue
| to pour out of the chimneys of the state
house daily. But little smoke is ever seen
! to issue from the chimneys of the Santa
Fe general office building, and Santa Fe
! men say it is simply a question of know
/ ing how to properly fire The smoke is
! rapidly disfguring the capitol building.
This is another effect of employing poll
| ticians.
Lieut.. Gov. Harry Richter was in at
tendance at the Mystic Shrine meeting
at SaHna last week on the day of the