The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

The golf enthusiasts are not playing
much just at present.
There is a fine lot of promising young
horses at the fair grounds.
The sale of stamps for the month Of
December amounted to S466.3S.
w V. Church, superintendent of in
surance, owns a string of fine horses.
The auditorium bond issue was regis
tered by the county clerk yesterday.
w L. Excl, of the Santa Fe telegraph
office, is i'll at the Stormont hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter r. Barrett, SIS
West street, are the parents of a daugh-
ter.
The Saturday Night club will meet
tonight in the Office of Water & Wa
tiers.
Terrence Ewart has gone on the road
as travelling man for a lumber COM
pany.
The city school teachers are now wrest-
ling with promotions for the ensuing
term.
Woodward has an attorney named
Swindal. Topeka has none of that
name.
Oscar swayze is preparing to issue a
boom edition of the Flambeau Bulletin
in a few days.
James L. King will read a paper be-
fore the Saturday Night club tonight
on Washington"
The state board of agriculture meets
in annual session next Wednesday at
representative hall.
The entire trial docket will be called
in the district court on Monday morn
ing at nine o'clock.
There are a few wood sidewalks left
in town. They will be succeeded by
brick in the spring.
The workers on excavating the site
for the city building are surrounded by
applicants for jobs.
The curbing for the pavement on Fill
more south of Tenth avenueN is being
dressed by stonecutters.
The T. A. A. bowlers are confident of
winning from the Kansas City team on
the Topeka. alleys tonight.
It has been just SO years ago this
week since the state normal school at
Emporia was dedicated.
The pension office in Topeka has been
established just Is years. 1t was es-
tablished January 1, 1882.
The Sunf1owers defeated the High
Rollers at duck pins last night on the
T. A. A. alleys 1,248 to PA.
General Manager Nudge of the Santa
Fe has appointed his son, Burton
Nudge, his private secretary.
The Jesuit fathers will conduct mis-
sion at the Church of the Assumption
during the month of February
Ben Jordan. jointist. has at last been
released from the city Jail to go to the
soldiers home at Leavenworth.
The Metropolitan Stock company will
be at the Grand Opera House the week
of January is at popular prices.
Brigadier J. C. Addle and Staff Cap
tain Potter, of the Salvation Army at
Kansas City, are in Topeka today.
Mr. L. NJ. Crawford will leave Sunday
on a trip through the west in the in
terest of the Crawford circuit of the
aters.
Since the recent fire at the fair
! grounds the owners of horses quartered
there have taken out additional insur-
ance.
c. H. Samson has returned from at
| tending the meeting of the wholesale
| paper dealers OF the southwest at Kan
sas City.
Thomas F. Doran read his paper on
Trusts before the Unity club last
night. He says trusts ought to be an
initiated.
A. P. Neddo has filed a suit for d.
vorce from Ellen c. Neddo, charging
that she has abandoned him. They were
| married in 1897.
| Doniphan county furnished a walnut
| tree four feet two inches in diameter
! that made 76S feet of lumber. The tree
| was 120 years old.
| John J. Ingalls, was at one time edi-
| tor of the Atchison Champion, retiring
| from the editorial chair IS years ago
| the first of January.
| Many people are complaining of colds
| at present. The weather during the
| past two days has been very produc-
| tive of cold bacteria.
| The Divine Healing Mission will have
a nurse and an assistant to care for
| the Ewing family where seven are sick
with typhoid fever.
The banquet to be given the stock
! breeders by the Commercial club will
| be given at the National on Wednesday
| evening of next week.
Candidates who are expecting to run
| for county offices are already making
| an active canvass. One of them recent
| ly made the rounds of the court house.
John H. Zirl1le has been appointed
| administrator of the estate of his
brother, J. A Zirkle. who died at the
Salvation Army hospital a few days
ago.
S. c. Garrard says he usually puts off
| registering until the latest possible
moment, but this year he tried to be the
first man registered. He missed it by
| nine.
The jointists will now attack the new
/ ordinance relative to their business. Be
cause it sticks them rather hard they
! will try to have it declared unconstitu-
| tional
To show how things may change,
| Frank Montgomery recalls that ]. r.
| Burton was an active spirit in an anti
railroad convention in Topeka in jan
uary, 1888
Frank Painter, a Santa Fe switchmar
| of Emporia, who had his hand badly
| mashed some time ago, has been dis
charged from the company hospital il
this city.
The orchestra of the Beach & Bowers
| MINISTRIES, at the Grand Opera House
last night, was the first to play Sousa's
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