The Topeka state journal., 1900-09-29
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

a short row of footlights now adorns
the auditorium stage.
The football people were pleased to see
the sun come out this morning.
The beer wagon still continues to be
one OF Topeka's busiest vehicles
There were two arrests for drunken
ness FRIDAY. 1t cost them each s.
There will be a free for every one
picnic at Martins Hill next Saturday.
Torch light parades will have to leave
their hambeaus outside of the auditor
ium.
The new policemen seem to be made of
the right kind of stuff. The toughs can
not have fun with them.
Work will be resumed on the expert
mental road on Euclid avenue as soon
as the weather will permit
Postmaster Guthrie has returned from
Peoria, ILL.,, where he attended the Ma
tional Postmasters' convention
DR.. N. B. PHILIPPE, of Norton, called
upon a number of his friends of the
medical fraternity in Topeka yesterday.
The lights in the new council chamber
are insufficient More lights will have
to be put in to properly light the room.
The first football game of the season
is being played this afternoon between
the Haskell Indians and Washburn col
lege-
the fire chiefs office. The floor of the
public office will be covered with lin
oleum.
The Standard School of Shorthand has
initiated a. new and rapid method of in
struction. 1t saves at least one months
time.
How will the Commercial club pay for
the seats in the auditorium is a Ques-
tion causing considerable worry just
now.
Harry Donaldson, assistant ticket
agent to Tom King of the Santa Fe, has
returned from a vacation spent in In
dianapolis, Ind.
A greater number of incandescent
lamps were put in the auditorium than
the original specification contemplated,
yet there are not enough.
John Leaser, the stonemason who was
injured in the fight in Kiley's joint
Thursday night, is improving. The doc
tors think he will recover.
Jerry Hayden has been appointed
local inspector for Topeka by H. s.
Montgomery, general watch and clock
inspector of the Santa Fe road.
The Topeka Rebekah degree team,
about forty strong, gave an exhibition to
Lawrence lodge No. at a gathering OF
Rebekahs in that city yesterday.
]. T. Price was arrested Friday after
noon charged with assault with intent
to kill. Price is one of the men who
We're in the fight in KiIey's joint
The city council will meet in the new
chamber Monday night. Only routine
business will be transacted as there is
nothing special to come before the coun-
Gill;
The police have been so busy on extra
duty at the auditorium this week that
the joint-keepers escaped customary at
tention and there We're no arrests to in
terrupt their business.
Major Tom Anderson went to Manhat-
tan last evening where he met the Spe-
clal Roosevelt train and went with it to
Hutchinson. Mr.. Anderson was in
charge Of the meeting last night.
The sewers are caving in on account of
the heavy rains. In North Topeka, where
the sewers were recently put in, they are
in very bad shape. The street depart
ment will be kept busy for some time re-
pairing them.
Mrs Johnnie Baker. wife of the crack
rifle shot of the Buffalo Bill show, is
stopping at the National, awaiting the
arrival of her husband with the Wild
West next week. They were married
only last week.
Rev. George E. Lerrigo breaches at
the Walnut Grove NJ. E. church at IL
o'clock tomorrow. The evening service
will be in charge of the Epworth league,
beginning at with a song service, fol-
lowed by an Epworth league talk by
George E. Dougherty and a symposium
on league work.