The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

painters.
The arrival of the robin is looked for
every day now.
The city railway track on Kansas ave-
nue. is being repaired.
The buds on some of the trees are be-
ginning to swell perceptibly.
People are not taking much interest In
the approaching city election.
H. T. Tatum, of Saltville, is in Topeka,
to have an injured eye treated.
The street force cleaned the CROSSINGS
west of Kansas avenue yesterday.
The Scottish clans will meet at Judge
Guthrie's office Monday evening.
Judge J. G: sloneeeker will lecture to-
There are still 10 smallpox patients at
the detention hospital at the fair grounds.
Repairs in the street railway tracks are
nue..
Mr.. Edward Wilder. treasurer of the
Santa Fe, left this week for New York
There are q divorce cases set for hear
ing in the district court within the next
been booked for the Crawford theater
next season.
Governor Stanley gees to Arkansas City
morrow night.
a Topeka minister who never attends
theatrical performances, never misses
band concerts.
The children in the country schools are
beginning to look forward to the last
Qay OF ScnOOl.
Carol johnson, who is with Vests
MINISTRIES, is classed with the handsome
men of the age.
Bishop Vincent is at Chanute this week
presiding over the South Kansas Method
iSt Episcopal conference.
Sherman W. Reed and Miss Dollie E;
Moffet; both of Berryton, were married
Thursday by Judge Dolman-
No one has yet started the report that
the fruit crop is injured, and it is already
nearly the middle of March.
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dered by the choir of Grace Cathedral at
the evening service on Sunday.
Charles Kleinhans win take a position
in the new dry goods store of Pegues,
Robey & Co, in Junction City.
The weather during the past two days
to commence blowing for corn.
Superintendent Nelson will deliver an
address before the State University Y. NJ.
c. A. at Lawrence next Sunday.
The practice of printing the orchestral
selections in the programmes of the
Crawford theater has been resumed.
People from the country say the mud
be after the rains and heavy SHOWS.
The High school has. Joined the Missouri
Valley Inter-ScholaStic Athletic aSSocia-
ton. The first field day will be April Z.
Governor Stanley will act as toast mas
ter at the annual banquet of the state
Frank Shellabarger, the Guthrie, Ok. T.,
correspondent of the Kansas City Jour
nal. viii spend Sunday with his friends
in Topeka
Judge Buck and John and Dennis Mad
den den, Of Emporia, are IN Topeka today;
supreme court this afternoon.
Seven wagons loaded with coal from
one of the leading Topeka companies at
tracted attention on Kansas avenue yes
south
The Epworth League of the First Meth
gress' at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. to-
night The subject Of Expansion viii
be discussed.
J. P Smith, who was arrested for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses by
circulating a subscription paper, will now
have to answer to the charge of passing
worthless money.
Captain Adna G. Clarke. well known
aamong the Topeka Twentieth Il, Kansas s,
State University to do special work in
European history.
1t is said that not a flag will float from
the state house on the Fourth of July, be-
cause the Democratic convention will be
held in Kansas City that day. but of
"A Hard Row of Stumps for Young
Men and How to Get Through Them" is
A. c. Rankin at the First Presbyterian
church next Sunday afternoon.
Now that the state convention is COM
others backs. They do not want any
thing but peace, at least until after the
ton.
The thaw and the running off of the
water during the past week has under
mined the foundation to the brick pave
ment on West street, north of Sixth ave-
nue.. and part of it has settled several
inches
Major Anderson says that he intends to
buy small farm and settle down on it
some OF Of, these e; days He believes therg Is
else and he has had some actual expert
ence, too.
| giving Mrs. Flora A. Knight of Topeka,
the widow of civil war veteran, pen
sion of $12 per month. The bill was in
troduced through the efforts of Captain
| B. T. Bevelle.
The Commercial club committee on
4 o clock Saturday afternoon at the club
rooms to consider the endorsement OF the
| national irrigation association.
A series of basket ball games are now
| being played, between the Santa Fe,
Crackerjack teams in the Y. NJ c. A.
! gymnasium A game will be played to-
night between Washburn and the High
| school teams.
| The people living along Sixth avenue
| west of the city are beginning to be
| to the city limites and then macadam-
lied further west in which case it would
become the principal road into the city
tie used.
The finest mandolins and guitars ever
now on exhibition in the show window of
the w. F. Roehr Music Co.'S store These
instruments nave been IN course OF con-
struction for three months and were es-
pecially made for Mr.. ]. Scott Turney
and his mandolin club.
Ink for the different federal court Off
Gals is furnished by the government,
through. the United States marshal's Of
| fee. The force in the marshal's office
claim that United States Commissioner
| George w. Clark uses more than his
| share and runs the balance short, because
| he makes such a big flourish on the bot
tom of the ''G'' in his signature.
Several. weeks ago the police found a
crowd of small boys in possession of a
| copper wash boiler The officers knew
that the boys. had stolen it and captured
owner was found and he telephoned to
the station to know if the police depart
| ment would deliver the boiler to his
| house. He was told there was no delivery
| department in connection with the force.
SHOT HIS SWEETHEART.
After Following Her Across the Con-