The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-20
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS


cago.
1t is only short while until Lent
begins.
Herbert Armstrong is quite i'll with
appendicitis.
Atchison is organizing ball club for
this season.
Judge Horton was down in Kansas
City yesterday.
F. B. Dawes was over from Leayen-
worth last evening.
Oscar Swayze celebrated his fortieth
birthday yesterday.
Samuel Banks, city marshal Of Beloit,
Kan, is in the CITY,
A Topeka woman sleeps with a rat
trap in her room
The first crop of book agents for this
year has struck town.
W. F. Evans, of the Rock Island, has
returned from Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Colville are the
parents of a girl baby.
Shawnee county cared for 60 insane
persons during the year 1899.
De Pachmann, the celebrated pianist,
carries his own instrument with him.
The farmers are taking advantage of
the good roads to haul hay into town.
If this weather keeps up lawn tennis
playing will have an early start this
year.
Topeka still has a few fakirs in town
which could be very easily dispensed
with.
1t is announced that Marshalls band
will give it's annual concert on Feb
ruary 20.
Albert Watkins has been called to Ar
lington, Kansas, by the serious illness
of his mother.
About twenty members of theTwenti-
eth Kansas are employed at the Topeka
shops and Offices
The state charter board is declining
to issue charters to so-called magnetic
healing institutions.
B. B. Clary and Samuel Clary were
called to Wamego today by the serious
illness of their father.
Abe Fulford and Willie Sells are
talking of taking the road again next
spring with wagon circus.
1t is about time for some one to
raise an objection to the locating of the
pest house in the fair grounds.
Major Anderson is threatening to
learn typewriting since the Commercial
club has purchased a typewriter.
! The street car company is saving on
fuel. The fires in the stoves in the cars
| these days do not have to be built.
The Commercial club has issued a
folder giving the standing committees
for 1900 and also a list Of all members.
This is good weather to plant shade
trees and there are some people in To-
| people who are taking advantage of it.
Now people fear the fine weather will
! bring out the fruit tree buds in time
for a freeze and then there will be no
! fruit.
Charles NJ Sheldon. ex-editor of the
Missouri Valley Farmer, is in the city,
/ The Missouri Valley Farmer has sus-
pended.
The question with many OF the east
! side residents is. when will the Sixth
avenue viaduct be finished and opened
| to traffic.
| Many Of the Kansas Democratic poll
| ticians are hopeful that the national
Democratic convention will be brought
| to Kansas City.
There is one physician in Topeka who
| Will not vaccinate on the leg. He claims
| that vaccination there sometimes re-
suits in lameness forsHfe.
Travel on the railroads TO California
| is heavy, Notwithstanding the fine
weather which is at present being ex-
| perienced all over Kansas.
A religious meeting will be held
Thursday afternoon from 3 to $50
O'Clock at the home of Mrs. l.. ]. Stan
| ton, 1905 North Monroe street.
! a woman with a dog and bundles in
! her arms stopped a street car at Sew
/ enth street and Kansas avenue yes
! terday by waving the dog, which she
I held by the neck.
| There will be a public initiation of a
! candidate into the mysteries of the
Royal Neighbors of America by Shaw
| nee Camp N. 1874 at Lincoln Post hall,
J Monday evening.
| Topeka young men are making en-
! gagements to go buggy riding to-mor-
! row. Half the horses and buggies in
( livery stables in the town were engaged
/ to-day for that purpose
! The dispositions in the pancake -four
! suit continue to pour in to the district
! court. Two big installments have been
! filed in the past two days and one of
| them required go cents in postage.
! A Curtis club was organized by the
evening with the following officers: ].
| H. B. Taylor, president; W. J. Sharp,
secretary; G. Thompson, treasurer.
The second game of the duck pin
| tournament on the Y. NJ. c. A. alleys
/ was played last night between the In
| vincibles and Kerr's Indians. The for
| mer won by the score of 1, 1s2 to Lac.
! The first and second basket ball
! teams at the Y. NJ. c. A. played a prac-
! tice game last night preparatory to
| the contest with the K. u. team. The
| first team won by the score of 81 to 10
J Mrs. Abbie Chilson has filed a suit
| for divorce in the district court against
| her husband, George ChilSOn, alleging
| cruelty and drunkenness She wants
J to be restored to her maiden name,
| Abbie Bennett.
! E. W. Thompson, assistant general
! passenger and ticket agent of the Rock
! Island road is expected home to-day
| from st. Louis, where he has been in
| attendance at the meeting CT the West
! ern Passenger Association.
The Family Affair." is to be given at
| Turner hall Sunday night. r. H. Sem
pie is in the caste, but he has been
/ called to Leavenworth by the death of
| his sister, and may not be able to re-
| turn in time to participate.
| Four horse teams are hauling lumber
| to the country. Southwest of town,
| some distance, there is much improv-
| ing being done in the way of barns
| and additions to houses. The farmers
| are spending their money.
/ The county printing for the coming
| year has been awarded to the Mail and
! Breeze. Full legal rates will be paid
for delinquent tax list and notice of
lands and lots for deed, and Is per cent
| of LEGAL rates for other legal pubhca-