The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Nearly all Of the district schools have
closed.
Ice cream socIals are coming into popu-
larity.
The school board meets week from
Monday.
The gardens have been booming during
the past week.
Sheriff ST. Clair, of Marshall county,
was In Topeka last night
United States District Attorney Lam
bert has gone to Washington.
Mrs. Sarah Oline has been removed to
the asylum by the county Officers
1.-THE new stamp books are going like
hot cakes says Postmaster Guthrie.
Judge Dolman intends to open a law Of
fee when he retires as probate judge
Governor Stanley will deliver an address
to railroad men at Fort Scott tomorrow.
The Washburn ball grounds are even
better than the old Athletic park dia-
mond-
The farmers are now wishing the rain
would let up so that they may plant their
corn.
Tomorrow will be the eighty-frst ami
versary of the organization of the ODD
Fellows.
The Woodmen of the city held a joint
meeting at the han Of SunhOwer camp
last evening.
Mrs. Edwin Knowles and Mrs. Henry
Keller made the high score at the Ladies
Whist club last night.
There viii be little business acted
in the United States court after the SWEET
lick case is disposed Of
Tuesday afternoon the police arrested
Frank Murphy, William Wood and Ben
Adams for running joints.
The meeting to form the Holiday monu-
ment association Will be held this evening
in the council chamber.
The baseball team of the Santa Fe shop
men will play the high school team on the
Washburn diamond on Saturday.
People who are afraid of the weather
were looking for a cyclone yesterday af-
ternOon, but 1t failed to arrive.
10 cd q of
time. He had a days grace in which to
pay his poll tax and the officers apollo
gized.
Miss Mary McKenna., formerly with the
Blue stamp premium company, has taken
a position with the New York Mercantile
company.
The University of Illinois has applied to
Secretary Coburn for copies of his last
report, Forage and Fodder" to be used
as a textbook
Grand Master John A. Bright has gone
to Phillipsburg to deliver an address at
the odd Fellows anniversary celebration
there tomorrow.
school took up a collection for the India
famine fund last Sunday afternoon,
amounting to $l1276.
Patrons of some of the milk and cream
depots are complaining because the milk
has begun to be strong from the eff
fects Of green grass.
Mayor Drew IS making up his annual
jury list, which viii be turned over to
the county clerk, and from which district
court jurors Will be selected.
The tablet to the memory of the late
Resell Manahan will be placed in the hall
way Of the High school building Thurs
day morning at IL o clock.
The Republican city central COMMITTEES
has IL cents in its treasury as a starter
for next years campaign, but it is in deb
to the hambeau club for rent.
The firemen at headquarters station
have received a supply of picture frame.
20 use in their new quarters and will nov
be glad to receive pictures to place in thl
frames.
A Scotch social will be given by the To
peka Scottish society this evening at To
peka Post hall on East Seventh street
at which the music will be furnished b!
bagpipes.
William Michel, W. Williams, Ere,
Brown. John II. Graves and c. s. Bennett
promised in police court to pay their pol
tax and were discharged They were ar
rested for refusing to pay.
Judge John Martin is not pushing hi
candidacy for district Judge just at pres
Jefferson county district court.
Rev J.. r. Madison, presiding elder 0
the Topeka district, is one of the minis
terial delegates from the Kansas Method
LIST conference, to the general conferenc
which begins in Chicago next week.
A new volume of the Twentieth Centur
CLASSICS mas been issued by Crane & c.
1t Is a history of the territorial governor
Of Kansas and was written by w. Z. Cor
nelly, an excellent authority on Kansa
history.
The general conference Of the Method
tst Episcopal church, will begin in Oh
cago a week from today and will COntinU
for a month 1t will attract worldwide
attention. A number of Topeka Peep
will attend.