The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-18
SNAP sHOTs AT HOME news


Illinois, yesterday.
The state board Of railroad assessors
begin work tomorrow.
The Populist Flambeau club viii meet /
tonight at Weber's hall.
General Manager Nudge OF the Santa |
Fe is in Kansas City.
Peter Peterson left for Walla Walla, |
Washington. Wednesday
General Passenger Agent Black of the |
Santa Fe is in Chicago.
William Martindaie Of Emporia re- |
turned home yesterday
Marshalrs band will give a concert at |
the Turner gardens tonight.
The Washburn seniors are preparing
to issue an annual this year.
John Madden of Emporia was doing
business in Topeka yesterday.
Fred Robbins is in Kansas City to see
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
The new beer wagon. as well as the
old ones, is making regular trips.
F. E Paugh of the Topeka asvIurn
force is visiting his home at Sedgwick.
R G. Mckinney. a reporter on the
Capital, has gone to Kansas City to
work.
The new uniforms for 8Iarshalfs band
may be here in time for Decoration
Day.
his home in Ottawa. has returned to the
city.
Lafe r. Allen. general manager of the
Las Vegas Daily Optic. is visiting in To-
pelSa.
The flower beds in the state house
grounds are being carefully tended
now.
Mrs. Small and Mrs. Norton made the
high scores at the Ladies' Whist club
last night.
J. B. Reese, travelling passenger agent
for the Union Pacific, was in the city
yesterday.
The bad weather Of yesterday was
probably the shadow of that Colorado
snow storm
A street scraper is at work on the
block between First and Second streets
on Madison.
the Rock Island en- route to Spokane.
Washington
A petition is being circulated to pave
Tyler street from Sixth avenue to
Fourth street.
Carter Wilder Of Kansas City viii at
tend the Informal clubs last party Fri
day evening.
The enlarged Elks' quarters will be
formally opened next month A recep-
ton will be given.
The Owl club, Topeka's colored 400
organization, gave a ball at MetropOli-
tan hall last night
A large number of Washburn boys
will go to the mountains this summer
and sell stereoscopic views.
VIII Jackson, a co1ored boy, broke his
wrist by falling from a horse near the
reform school yesterday.
DR.. J. T. Mcfarland will deliver the
annual address this year before the high
/ school graduating class
A marriage license was granted yes
/ terday by Judge Dolman TO Francis w.
/ Manley and Pearl N. Skinner.
/ Harry Stafford will probably be the
] s+NfraaEffF in he Of
! resentatives if he is elected.
The city library is closed on account
/ Of the force of .worknen who are max
ing the Improvements in the building.
Charles Patrick left Tuesday after
1 noon for the east He intends to visit
the Paris exposition before returning.
Commissioner of Elections Yount has
ordered his sample voting machines and
expects to have them here in a short
| time.
Katie NJ Teat. colored. was convicted
Of arson in the city court Tuesday and
bound over for trial in the district
court.
Chaplain SchIieman, Of the Twentieth
Kansas. will deliver his lecture on the
Philippines in the First Baptist church
on April %.
The annual defamation contest at
WashbuTn college will be held on May
y, and the spring oratoricaI contest will
follow on May rs.
Fred Colver had a part in the Los
Angeles production of La Fiesta. de
san Xavier" He will take the same
part in the production here.
The Geological Story of Kansas" is
the latest number of the Twentieth
Century classes. L. c. Wooster of the
state normal is the author.
Mrs. A. L. Thorpe. who has beer
spending the winter in southern Cali
fornia and New Mexico. returned to hel
home in this city MOnday
L. E. Wehe has a hens egg upon tn,
ehd OF which there is a perfect &C,
beautifully embossed upon the shell H,
owns the hen which laid the egg.
Cherry trees are beginning to blossom
: Feople We're glad to see the sprins
weather again today, although they haC
been wanting rain for week before.
The street car company might. to
goou advantage. repair a switch a
I Tenth and Topeka avenue the condf
ton which deraiIs cars almost daily.
Al Hulett, who has been clerzing 70
u. j. Greenwald for a number Of years
Will engage in business for himself a
SAVer city, New Mexico, in the nea
future
J. B. Marshall has received a fine sill
yer-mounted cane from George Allen
formerly member of MarshalIs band
put now IN Cuba The cane is made from
Cuban wood
Father Francis Lee. chaplain at ST
Johns hospital in IeavenVorth VIII
died Monday, was at one time assist
ant pastor Of the Church Of the As
sumption in this city.
large pile of dead grass which wa
Iahed OF the state house grounds som
time ago still continues to ornamen
the walk directly in front Of the mort
entrance to the capitol building
The city of Washington, D C., vii
ask for the 1901 meeting. of the Nationa
conference of Charities and Correction
n at the meeting rT0rsnI~n
It is said that So 600 has been subscribe
oy that city for the conference in cas-
II goes there.
Ed B. Jones Of HOIton was in Topek
/ Wednesday Mr. Jones is a candidat
for the position of department com
mander of the G. A. r. While in To
peka ne was making arrangements 70
the annual G. A. r. encampment whic
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