The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

ONA4 OAAVA0 Al AVMA NE
S. J.. Bear is home from Arkansas.
The supreme court is in session this
Henry Allen is pending the week at
"sapho" to Topeka from juno
ton City.
Assistant.P Postmaster A. K. Rodgers left
yesterday for Washington.
The W. c. T. U. organization celebrated
Tuesday as Prohibition day.
County Clerk Wright operates a circu-
lating library in the court house.
Some pretty designs are being worked
into the state house flower beds.
Leavenworth has the golf fever and has
Just instituted a system of links.
There are seventy head of horses being
worked on the fair grounds track.
w. Y. Church, superintendent of insur-
ance, has gone to Marion on business
A large portion of the north wall of
the federal building has been torn out.
The regular May meeting of the city
council viii be on next Monday evening
The Lyndon band wishes to come to
Topeka and play during the street fair.
The state board of railroad assessors
will again meet next Monday afternoon
The Agricultural college at Manhattan
prints and issues a monthly weather re-
port.
Superintendent Frank Nelson will speak
at the Santa Fe coach shops Thursday
noon.
DR.. D. NJ. Fisk addressed an India Fa-
AAAHC mass ACGA416 at LdWGSnCC last
evening.
There will be special services at the
Church of the Assumption every night
Mr.. George H. Hancock, superintendent
of machinery of the Frisco road, was in
Topeka Tuesday.
Mrs. Keeler and Mrs. Small made the
high scores at the Topeka Whist club
rooms last night.
A marriage license has been granted to
s. s Ferguson and Winona E Bowers,
both of Topeka
At last the Madison street paving has
been completed. The street has been
torn up for months.
MI. H. NJ. Hadley is in lola looking af-
ter plans for a big wholesale grocery
house to be built there.
MarshalPs band puts in several hours
| every Tuesday evening rehearsing music
for the summer concerts.
The Primary Sunday School Teachers
union will meet at the Y. w. c. A gym
naStum Friday afternoon.
There is a lun in the payment of poll
taxes this week, pending the decision Of
Judge Hazen in the matter.
Will Eberle- is engaged in recruiting a
/ new company A to represent Topeka in
the First regiment K. N. G.
The police are all anxious that they
a with him to "Sapho."
Charles D. Baldwin. a federal prisoner
in the county Jail, warns all young men
to take his advice and be good
Captain Joe Waters is more in
demand to make addresses of welcome
than any other man in Topeka
Webb McNalI has gone home to Gaylord
stopped off on his way home from Yell
Vile
Dr.. D. NJ. Fisk spoke before the High
school graduating class Tuesday on "Edu-
cation as an Enrichment to Common
Life"
Just what sort of a condition the pc
culiar clouds this morning represented
has not been discovered by the weather
bureau.
Little or nc interest is manifested IL
the L. A w. has practically gone out OF
business.
The stone taken out of the enter OF
the Topeka avenue pavement is being
dumped at the south end OF the street
railway bridge.
There is a lull in Populist convention
doings in the various counties. Activity
will be renewed as the time for tht
state convention approaches.
The State Normal baseball team, which
will play Washburn on the coleg'
grounds Saturday, is one of the strong
est college teams in the state.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon's latest story
Edward Blake: College Student" which
is a story of Washburn life, is running a.
a serial in a Chicago daily
The Topeka fanciers' association vii
hold a meeting in the Commercial clul
rooms this evening at 8 o'clock, to which
all poultrymen have been invited.
Probate Judge Dolman has received no
tice that oliver Buskins, a Shawne'
county patient in the Osawatomie asy
lum, has been discharged as improved
Chief Surgeon Raster, of the SAINTS
Fe, went to C~offeyville yesterday to am
putate the foot of a brakeman, who at
tempted to make a coupling with tina
member.
Frank Cell, winner of the Kansas ora
torical contest, left Tuesday for Denve
to enter the Interstate contest Saturday
His subject is, THE Policy of A1exande
Hamilton"
The fence around the 'FRONT.' of the i'm
provements on the federal building .de
prives the professional loafers OF the1
inherent right to get inside and tell nov
the job ought to be done.
A mistake was made in the statemen
of ]. P. Butterfly, printed in the Stat
Journal Tuesday night. He says tn
maximum rate per ton received for Goa
was S425 instead of $4.50, and that thi
rate was continued in effect but fou
days.
Under Sheriff Williams and John WI
; kerson have received the reward or ~
offered by the street car company Tor IN
arrest and conviction of the thieves Wh
stole the electric wire on the Oakland I'M
Z several months ago. The thieves Wer
oliver Lynch and Sam Bayless, both C
/ whom have been convicted in the dlstrle
[ court
! WILLIAM, NOT JOHN.
$ Rockefeller Who Is to Be on the Mis-
e souri, Pacific Board.