The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-03
sNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The city council will meet tonight
Only a month before the beginning of
/ the new century.
The invitations for the Century ball
| have been printed.
Church reform movements are still on
| the carpet in the city.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon will return to
| Topeka before Christmas.
The Thanksgiving visitors out of the
city are returning home.
The Burton managers held a confer
ence in Kansas City yesterday.
Bowlers and basket ball players hold
the center of the stage now.
The night and day forces of the po-
lice changed shifts Saturday.
Saturday half-holidays drag since
football is over for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs F. w. Booth are the par
ents of daughter born on Friday.
The fines in the police court for the
month of November amounted to $780,
Marshall's band members wore their
new uniforms at the Elks Memorial ser
vices yesterday.
Governor Leedy says the coming ses-
sion of the legislature will make a rec
ord for boodling.
The Rock Island depot, in North To
peka, is completed after undergoing ex-
tension and remodelling.
]. NJ Meade has been elected a trustee
Of Bethany college to take the place of
Avery Turner who resigned
There are only three cases of diphthe-
ria in the city. There was but one case
reported in the past week.
The Rough Rider ideas still permeate
Topeka high school youths in their Sun
day afternoon horseback rides
New track is being laid by the Street
Railway company on the Oakland line in
the vicinity of the Santa Fe shops.
Sheriff Thomas O'Connor, Of Lyon
county, was in the city Sunday. He
brought an insane man to the asylum.
The Topeka high school football team
will meet the high school alumni team
at Washburn ball park tomorrow after
noon.
the land. now that football bowls are
silenced and the campaign spellbinders
stilled.
The man who says that the first three
days OF December govern the weather
for the remainder of the month, has
struck town
Mr. Hoyt, who is superintendent of
construction for the government of the
federal building, has been appointed
custodian Of the building.
Hardly a month remains in which to
prepare for the elaborate Twentieth Cen
tury Inaugural fete which will be at the
Auditorium New Years eve.
The Kaw river Is very low. Youngsters
who looked it over in Sunday ramble
decided there would not be a tit skating
place, If it should freeze now.
There are more horses and buggies Of
fered for sale in Topeka than ever be-
fore at this season OF year. The princi-
pal reason is the high price of feed.
It was with reluctance that the high
school students brought themselves to
return to school this morning after their
half week vacation for Thanksgiving
The Westminster Presbyterian church
programme was rendered
last night, having been postponed from
last week on account of the weather.
J. Bookwalter, of Kansas City, mas
been appointed commercial agent Of the
Kansas NIillers' association as a result
of the recent meeting held at Wichita
The Municipal league, which COM
prises the officers in cities of the first
class, will meet in the council chambers
December 3, at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing.
chance to enlarge their collections from
the Autograph paper of the theatrical
companies visiting Topeka so far this
season.
The masons are at work on a large
vault in the building on the northeast
corner of Eighth and Kansas avenues.
The building will be occupied by the
Southwestern Fuel company.
The HiaWatha World says: Topeka
smells a $4,000 reamery-that is, she
will smell it if it really locates there"
Topeka already has the creamery, and
the smell is not unWelccne
The fact that railroads have ruled that
automobiles are not baggage, because a
popular actress demanded to have her
checked with her wardrobe, will
Lot worry Topekans any at present
The Topeka high school football team
has run up a score of 1OS points during
this season to IL against them Six or
these went to Kansas City and six to
Campbell university. The team met
with only one defeat during the season.
The Kansas City Manuals claim the
academic football championship of Kan |
sas and Missouri since they defeated
Fort Scott. Topeka high school contests
the claim and is willing to settle the
question with the Manuals on neutral
grounds.
Five more Of the men who were
caught in Mike Thompson's place No
vember II have appeared at the police |
station and have given bond to appear |
for trial December z. They were H |
Kennedy, Joe Handy. Fred Simmons, |
Nels Richinson and J. c. Gleason.