The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

state aSlunS.
County Clerk Wright was over at st.
Joseph yesterday.
Lincoln Post viii give an ice cream
social this evening.
City Clerk Squires started on fish
ing expedition yesterday.
Burton Vail has taken position with
the Rock Island at Horton
Mr.. W. E Dauchy, chief engineer of
the Rock Island, is in the city.
Mrs. Emma Foote. of the state audi
tors Office recently lost a 800 bill.
]. E. Junkin, the progressive Sterling
editor, was Topeka visitor Friday.
The days are growing so warm that
speople ride on the open cars to get cool /
There are AZ criminal cases on the
docket of the United States district
court.
The Topeka Scottish society will meet
in Postmaster Guthries office Monday |
evening.
Frank Newland, the ParkdaIe mer-
chant, viii leave for Alaska next |
Thursday.
Both the Republican and PopuIist |
county central committees are meeting
this afternoon.
The recent warm weather has
remaining up.
Next Thursday is the date of Father
Hayden's silver jubilee as a Roman
Catholic priest.
Glen Lyon was fined So in police
court last evening for fast driving on
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka Tennis association courts
| are being put in shape for the summer
season of playing.
A crowd of Topeka enthusiasts will
go to the state tennis tournament at
| Abilene this year.
The electric fans and the usual COM
/ plant about flies are now in full force
| at the restaurants.
There are now 113.7OO pensioners on
the rolls of the agency here. This is the
| record breaking number.
The Memorial day address at Roch-
| ester will be delivered this year by
Captain Clad Hamilton.
Sheriff Cock and Mrs. Cook have
gone out to Dover to spend a few days
with the sheriff's brother.
Frank Shellabarger, Guthrie cores
pondent of the Kansas City Journal, is
visiting his friends in Topeka.
The visiting members of the Homeo-
pathic and Eclectic medical societies
have returned to their homes.
Miss Lottie Kelley, who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at the Stor-
mont hospital is recovering.
Mrs Hollcraft will open a sale on
bedding plants of all kinds Tuesday
morning at 119 West Sixth avenue.
H. R. Hilton left yesterday to visit
his old home at Belfast, ireland, and
also to attend the Paris exposition.
The different chapters of the Epworth
league will observe Sunday as the an
niversary of the founding of the league
Nearly every day the police gather in
one or more victims VINO are caught
riding their bicycles on the sidewalks
George B. Palmer has filed a claim
for $745 against the estate of the late
Mrs. Laura Burns for funeral expenses
Probate Judge Dolman yesterday
married Henry Dougherty, of Manhat-
tan, and Miss Lena NJ. Padgett, of
Florence.
DR.. T. J. Mcfarland is expected to re-
| turn today from Chicago, where he has
been in attendance at the general con-
ference.
Chief Ramsey warmly commends Pa
trolman Golf for his conduct in his fight
with the Mullice brothers on Thursday
evening.
The fire department was called at
$40 Friday afternoon for a fire in
small shed at 617 Western avenue. The
loss was trihing.
VIM. Storms, who occasionally ap-
pears on the streets on an old-fashioned
high bicycle, attracts more attention
than a hand-organ man.
There is baseball game on nearly
every vacant lot in Topeka these Satur-
Gay afternoons. The players range
from 6 to so years of age.
Estelle, the escaped safe blower, has
been heard from. He stole a horse and
cart over in Wabaunsee county yester-
day to assist in his escape.
The Topeka Business college and the
Palace team played balr Friday after
2 noon, and the result was score of "a
to IS in favor Of the former.
c. c. NIitchener, an international Sec
retary Of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be in
Topeka next week and will deliver an
address before the local association.
The Oakland street cars did a large
business last night on account of the
meeting of the Topeka Union Epworth
League in the Oakland M. E. church.
Rev. A. w. Lindquist, of Kansas City,
will occupy the pulpit of the Swedish
Lutheran church, corner of Fourth and
Tyler streets, Sunday morning and
evening.
From the cheering of the crowd that
, heard the bulletins in front of the State
Journal office last night there is no
, doubt about Corbett being the favorfte
in Topeka
G. C. Clemens runs at the head of his
: paper the following sarcastic lines: For
president, w. ]. Bryan, Democrat; for
vice president, Charles A. Towne, Re
publican"
e Frank Stevens, a '99 graduate of the
Topeka high school, has bean awarded
a scholarship in Chicago University for
one year, and will enter that institution
2 the coming fall.
: The fence around the postoffice and
the signs being painted on it give that
locality really metropolitan look. 1t
is to be hoped that this imported look
will not last long.
Thomas r. Greed, a travelling man,
will speak at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms
tomorrow Afternoon. His subject will
be "A Drummer's Observations in
Twenty Years Travel"
All the local committees on prepara-
tions for the coming National Confer
ence OF Charities and Corrections viii
meet on Monday afternoon at p. m. at
the Commercial club hooms.
During Councilman VVaher'S recent
trip east he studied the waterworks pro-
blem in different cities and secured sta
tistics concerning various plants for the
guidance of the Topeka, council.