The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-07
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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The banks were closed at noon yes
terday.
It's all over now. even most of the
shouting.
The century ball committee is in ses-
sion this afternoon.
Those contingent post-election i'm
! proyements are now due.
| Washburn meets K. U. on the home
| grounds next Saturday.
Mrs. T. J. Anderson is critically Ill at
her home, 215 Clay street.
The usual number of election dT1unks
were on the streets last night.
The paving of Woodlawn avenue, Pot
win, will soon be completed.
Many people received and discussed
the election returns in their homes last
night.
a seven-hour farewell on Sixth avenue
| yesterday.
The iron Orders for the roof Of the ad-
dition to the federal building are being
put in place.
1t is. peculiar how many out of the
way places may be found to convert into
voting places.
The movement for trap shooters
club at Lake View seems to have al
most died out.
The Auditorium anti-smoIxing rule
was broken as grievously as the Ten
| Commandments last night.
Query from the election booth:
Whereabouts do I make a mark for
Mckinley and Roosevelt?"
The shouts of the crowd watching
State Journal bulletins were heard in
Potwin and LoWman Hill.
Everyone was allowed to smoke and
| eXpectorate just as they chose in the
Auditorium last night, and the dirt was
! deep.
The church building being erected by
CT
of the Potwin Place station is nearly
completed.
Election day was clear in nearly every
state in the union. No rain fell in the
morning, but snow began to fall in Wis
consin at about $50.
Vim. Howerton, Republican, was elect
ed trustee of Rossville, though the POpu-
lists carried the township for the ma
tional and state ticket.
The janitors will probably have four
days work to clean the Auditorium if it
takes two days to clean it after an or
binary entertainment.
Hunters may be seen in numbers al
most every day starting out for duck or
anything else but seldom are they seen
to bring anything back with them.
Mr.. Chas. F. Farrer. a successful
miner of Dawson, N. w. T., on his way
to New York, is stopping in Topeka a
few days visiting Miss Emma L. Kelly.
Kansas avenue was well strewn with
papers and coated with dirt after cleo
ton night was over The Whitewings
It is expected that the game Satur-
day between the K. u. team and the
WashbuIsn eleven will be about as ex-
citing q game as will be seen in To-
peka this season.
A Second ward Mckinley, Curtis, Ha-
zen and Nichols voter, marked the first
Republican elector the three county
candidates and didn't trouble to vote for
any other officers.
At 10 o'clock last night Capt ]. G.
Waters posted the following bulletin
surmounted by a skull and cross bones:
ct am ready to take my medicine. Good
night. G. w.
Some of the judges of the election
were so puffed up with the Importance
Of their position that they acted as
though they might be judges of the su-
preme court of the United States.
The Auditorium floor this morning
looked like an election returns place
might be expected to-thick with dirt,
cigar-stumps and tobacco juice in the
portions that had been occupied.
The police have a fanciful notion that
it is wrong to sing, and refused to al
low a quartette to serenade last night
at about 1890 If the quartette was as
bad as some which essay to sing the
police were justified.
A dog fight on East Eighth avenue
The under-dog's proprietor stabbed the
conquering bull pup in the flank, and,
though an old man, was knocked down
by the latter'S owner.
Gen. J. K. Hudson voted in the Third
ward. The judges found his ticket this
morning. 1t was straight Republican
and his name was written at the top
in bold letters. He wanted the board to
know how he had voted.
People often wonder who are the girls
VINO march around the streets in double
file in the western part of the city each
morning. They are the Bethany col
lege girls, and they are taking their
regular morning exercise
The city council will meet tonight. 1t
is hardly likely that they can attend to
all of the business that will come be-
fore them, so it is thought that another
meeting will be called for next Monday
night. The question of the confrma ton
of Chief Stahl may come up tonight
Football was played on the lime kiln
grounds Monday between the Lime Kiln
and the Harrison school teams, the re-
suit of which has probably not yet been
settled. The Lime Kiln people say that
the score was to in their favor, while
the Harrison school boys claim that the
1,,,,r,ira called if tie game