The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
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Next Sunday will be Palm Sunday.
Superintendent Nelson is able to be out |
after several days illness.
This is the season of the year that mil
liners reap their harvest
VIII Fish has gone to California. for
the benefit of his health
The new office of the commissioner of
elections is in room Of the Office block.
Mayor Drew has his new list of stand
ing committees of the city council all pre-
pared
A number of Topeka people will. at
tend the Messiah concert at Lindsborg
this year.
A great many people tried to vote Tues
day and discovered that they were not
registered.
A picture of Charles Curtis will be pre-
sented to the Young Mems Colored Polit-
zeal club tonight.
O. E. Walker has purchased the Coville
farm west of the city. Mr.. Walker is at
present in Topeka
The choir of the Church of the Assump-
succeeding Easter.
An application for a charter has been
filed by the Interstate Mercantile COM
pany of Louisburg.
The. grading of Greenwood avenue In
Potwin, preparatory to paving, is sched-
uled to commence Friday.
General Freight Agent Embree of the
Rock Island attended a freight meeting
in Kansas City Wednesday.
The special Rock Island train to Mes
slah at IindsbOrg leaves Topeka $3.50 a.
M, Tuesday. instead of 10 a m.
The April term of the district court be-
gins next Wednesday, Both grand jury
and a petit jury will be summoned.
Now that the park proposition has been
defeated a great many people are sorry
they did not get out and vote for it.
Otto kuehne is delegate from Kansas
to the National funniest at Philadelphia.
Superintendent Frank Nelson is sick.
Governor Stanley spoke to several hun
dred Santa Fe shop men at the new cof-
fee room at the shops Wednesday noon.
George Rumble, former resident of
Topeka, who is now a contractor and
builder of Chicago, is visiting in the city.
Frank Forbes is a Topeka young man
who will visit the Paris Exposition. He
expects to sail from Baltimore about June
The fiscal year of the fire department
commenced April / and since then there
has been at least two alarms OF fire
day.
Engage a suite of those large. cool and
well Ventilated rooms at the National and
you will not need to go to the mountains
to spend the summer.
The most of the churches will not hold
prayer meetings tonight, but will partici-
pate in the India Relief mass meeting at
the First NJ. E. church instead
A Junction City paper says Mr.. and
Mrs. George A Clarke will return to that
city to reside IN May + MIS-; Clark has
Some of the candidates for county Of
fees have found a new way Of election
! eering. Their cards are placed in the en-
velope holders in the church pews-
Commissioner of Elections Yount be-
| Heves in voting by machines instead of
/ by ballot, and he proposes to get a sam
ated. '''~''-'0 .S'
The moving picture views, and views for
! illustrated songs shown between the acts
of the Myrkle-Harder performances at
the Crawford theater this week, are ex-
| cellent-
WIN Eeybold took his Turner minstrels
to his home town of Eudora last week
and the people turned out en- masse to
see his show. He treated the town to the
| luxury o a
Robert Smith appeared before Judge
| AIcCabe of the city court Wednesday and
| the shooting and killing of VIII Richard
son. He was taken to the county jail.
]. H. Lamberson won his case in the
police court Wednesday when Judge Ma
gaw decided that he had q right to fence
up to river sandbars adjacent to his lots
and charge the city toll for driving on
them.
The grand fourth anniversary sale. will
continue Friday and Saturday; millinery
opening Friday and Saturday with or
| chestra music at Kemper & PaxtOns' New
Model Supply store. Sixth and Quincy
streets.
A deed was filed Wednesday which was
executed by Colonel Holiday some time
before his death and transferred to his
wife, Mary D. Holiday. lots A. 46 and IS
Tyler street and lots 3e7 and S69 Kansas
avenue.
Mr. A H Aldrich of Dover, has return
son in St Johnsburg, Vermont; he was
accompanied home by H. S. Aldrich who
has been in attendance at a medical col
lege in the east.
A large audience heard Mr.; Fremont
Rockets lecture ION the Firing Line
With a Camera at the Grand Opera
! house last night. The lecture was Illus
! trated with geo excellent views, taken by
Mr.. Rocket while with the Twentieth
Kansas regiment in the Philippines.
The city council will meet tomorrow
night to canvass the vote of the city cleo
ton as provided by law. A called meet
ing of the new council will probably b'
held Immediately following the adjourn
ment of the old one, the new councilmeI
viii be shown in and the new committee:
appointed.