The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
sNAP SHOTS AFHOME NEWS

The Santa Fe employees were paid yes
terday.
Wednesday is ladies' night at the To-
A great deal of cereal foods are being
sold by the grOcers.
Horses were bIanketed this morning by
the more humane people.
he fair grounds land is being ditched
to improve the drainage
There are several places in the pave
menL winch need repairing.
Fred c. Slater has moved his office to
room % Column bian building.
The historical society meetings are be-
ing held in representative hall.
The Arions are planning to give a ball
ana concert on Wednesday evening.
Captain Gunther and daughter Katie
have gone to Texas for the winter.
The North Kansas Poultry club VIII
give a show at Atchison, January Is.
The State Historical society will hold
meeting tonight which is open to the pub
The. seabrool. church advertises to give
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alleys.
The smoke hung low this morning and
made the early morning air very disa-
greeable.
Mr.. and Mrs. H ID. Crosby have moved
from 1OSI Western avenue, to 1o2s Van
The residence of E. H Anderson at
Eleventh and Tyler has been fumigated
Nearly all the posters advertising TOO
Much Money are put on the bill boards
upside down.
The ice men who depend on natural ice,
nave the prospects of not getting a big
crop this year.
The annual meeting of the. state. grain
dealers association will be held in To-
peka March and 7.
j E. Pottinger, the superintendent of
the fair grounds is succeeding in keeping
the property clean.
Albert Latham who died Yesterday was
ing statesmen in the west.
The boys are playing shiny after
school hours. This is the result of the
introduction of golf in Topeka.
A few new chickenpox signs have been
put up in the vicinity of the Santa Fe
shops, during the past few days.
The Curtis club will not meet at the
old court house tonight, but win meet
on the first Tuesday night in February.
Two more new stretches of telephone
cable are being put up on Kansas ave
street.
The premium stamps are still with US
despite the many assertions which have
been made that the merchants would soon
get rid of them.
There will be a dance at 7o4 Kansas
avenue, Wednesday evening, under the
auspices of A. O. P. Morgan's orchestra
Admission so cents.
The new marine tubular boiler locomo-
tive which is doing switching service in
by the shopmen, as the Sea Cow"
Quite number of Topeka chicken fan
cierS have taken their birds to Kansas
City this week. for, exhibition in the
poultry and pet stock show there, which
opens tomorrow morning.
There is one after effect of the chicken
and pet stock shows and that is that q
great many people get the chicken fever,
and start into the chicken raising BUSH
ness. AS a usual thing it does not last
long.
January is always a light month in
railroad circles. This is due to the in
creased trade during the holidays, and
to the fact that merchants are taking in
VentOry of stock and that the new spring
DR.. Hoover of Halstead, ex-president of
the state board of health, belongs to the
Eclectic school. 1t was reported that DR..
Alexander, the present chairman, is the
ever held official position on the
board.
Geo. J. Walker, formerly an engineer on
the Hutchinson & Southern road, was in
Topeka yesterday to take mechanical
examination before Master Mechanic Ben
Walker passed the examination in good
shape.
People who have been wondering what
the peculiar noises were which came from
the tops of the tall telephone poles along
Kansas avenue, may pc at ease, as they
are only the men employed to put up the
new cable, calling for the cable to be
pulled ahead.
Buy your tickets for the Burns" con-
cert and supper on January 25th, at Line
avenue; Peter Fisher (F'urman's shoe
store); Postmaster Guthrie President
James Cuthbert and the members of the
Scottish society. Positively no tickets will
mission: Ladies and children, 25c; gents.
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