The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

FSODte VINO owned cutters, were out
early this morning.
VIM. Doyle of the Santa Fe paint
shop is sick with pneumonia.
AS tomorrow is a legal holiday the
county offices will not do business.
The sessions of the grand lodge A. F.
& A. NJ. are being held in Representa-
tive hall
guie of the Santa Fe is in Oklahoma on
business.
G. C. Clemens has a new hat which
makes him look more like Mark Twain
than ever.
G. V. Wolf, the candidate for county
commissioner. has been quite sick but
is improving.
H. NJ. Iadley is making plans for the
new Salina high school building, which
will cost $4,000.
When 1.-The Strip gets into the city
it will form another voting precinct In
the Fourth ward
F'estus Adams and Miss Carrie May
Gibbs, of Willard, have been granted
marriage license.
Tom Leftwich, of the Larned Eagle
Optic, is in Topeka attending the Ma
sonic grand lodge.
DR.. J. NJ. Hamme, of Cottonwood
Falls, is in Topeka attending the Ma
sonic meeting here.
The city railway did not have much
trouble in keeping the track clear of
snow this morning.
The George and Martha Washington
reception at the Y. W. c. A. rooms will
be given this evening.
Topeka decorated in white today for
the benefit of the visiting Masons, but
it wasn't Intentional.
A motion for a new trial has been
filed by the plaintiff in the suit of Mrs.
Mullin against the city.
Special exercises in honor of the
a Of IVY, mill Ha ho1d In
all Topeka schools Thursday.
The K. u. and Y. M. c. A. basket
ball teams will play Friday night at
the association gymnasium.
Henry E Dixey, formerly of "Adonis''
fame, plays David Garrick" in Stuart
RobsonS oliver Goldsmith
Policeman Frank Hendricks, who had
narrow escape from death by small
pox, is reported nearly we'll
w. S. McClintOck, who is collecting
delinquent taxes, will give the county
commissioners a bond for $500.
A marriage license has been granted
to r. B. Skinner, of Belvue, and Miss
Edith Steele, of North Topeka.
The postoffice will be closed Thurs
day from 10 to o'clock on account of
its being Washington's birthday.
The Twentieth Kansas Volunteer as
ISOLATION military ball will be given to-
morrow night at Hudson's hall.
The mid-winter recital of the music
department of Washburn COLLEGE will
be held in the college chapel tonight.
The Y. M. c. A. cooked hat team de-
feated the T. A. A. team on the lat
ter's alleys, by score of 367 to 344.
The book stores report that the Shell
don books are still having a greater
sale than those Of any other author.
A street car conductor says that the
Topeka street railway employees are
treated better than those of most towns.
A half-dozen street cars were waiting
in front of the opera house after the
concert last night. They were needed.
Ivah Thompson, a domestic, was ar
rested yesterday on the charge of
stealing clothes from the Dutton house.
The weather bureau sent just the
kind of weather it threatened to this
time. just to show people that it could.
Mrs. Lillian Snow will give a free
lecture on "Phreno- Magnetism" in her
hall at 422 Kansas avenue, on Thursday
evening.
jeff Davis, the colored exhorter. will
discuss his charitable association
scheme at st. Johns NJ. E. church
Thursday evening.
A. A. Hurd has awarded the contract
for handsome eight room residepce
at 14O6 Topeka avenue to E. C. Bard.
The cost will be $500.
Pick Smith is the artist who de-
signed the DeAubrey posters adver-
Using the Elks' show. He did so with
out the use of models.
Only two cars were used to push the
snow pillow on the city railway this
morning. Four cars were used at the
/ time of the last snow storm.
A prize has been offered for the per-
/ son who can discover the real name of
! the Serio- comic-melOdram farce
/ comedy that the Elks will give at the
/ Grand.
Architect H. M. Hadley has received
/ a contract for plans for a $4,000 build
! ing for the lola Wholesale Grocery
company at lola The building will be
of pressed brick.
The report comes from lola that
Gen. Fred Funston is now stationed at
San Isidro with three infantry regiments
and is in reality the military governor
of the province.
The Roger Brothers company of ma
rine acrobats will be at the Grand opera
house on the night of February 3d. The
company is said to provide a unique
acrobatic entertainment.
The girls teams of the senior and
junior classes of the high school played
a game Of basket ball last night at the
Y. w G. A. gymnasium. The junior
/ girls won by a score of to s.
The simplex tickets, which are being
put into general use on the Santa Fe
| road, have been used by the ROCK Is
land road for the past seven years, and
proved to be the best local ticket ever
| used.
The Topeka division of the Order of
| Railway Conductors is making elab-
crate preparations for their eleventh
annual ball. which is to be given at
Security hall, on Thursday evening OF
this week.
The friends of Miss Maud Shepard. who
| will be here Thursday with the "Black
Crook company, will be received by
her at the National hotel parlors from
| 3 to in the afternoon. Miss Shepard
formerly lived in Topeka. She is now
the wife of Mr.. Al Hagan.
For many weeks now, pieces of iron
which are found anywhere within sew
eral blocks of the Santa Fe round
house. will be said to be a part of the
compressed air locomotive which ex-
ploded on last Friday. Several pieces
| have already been found and attributed
to this cause.