The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Kansas City.
Topeka bicycle dealers are selling new |
wheels every day.
Captain John Seaton was over from |
Atchis0n last night.
The Union Ice company of Galena has |
applied for a charter.
People are now getting guns and |
bicycles for tobacco tags.
Go and see the comedy at Washburn |
chapel Wednesday evening, May 2
The small boy is already beginning to
look forward to the Fourth of July.
Chairman Morton Albaugh of the Re
publican state committee Is in Topeka.
A dog and pony show is scheduled to
show in Topeka on Friday and Satur-
day.
Judge Horton was seen on the streets
Monday for the first time in several
weeks.
The Republican state convention will
be held in Topeka two weeks from to-
morrow.
Mr. R. M. Turner. of Chicago, has
taken a position in the store Of w. s.
Furman.
There is talk of putting on La Fiesta
de San Xavier" at the Crawford tneater
next week.
Two years ago today Dewey showed
the Spaniards a thing or two over in
Manila Bay.
The habit of being late at weddings is
becoming as popular as coming in late
at the theater.
Col. S. NJ. Fox has returned from at
tending the meeting Of the Mystic
Shrine at Salina.
Paper hangers are kept busy these
days. People have to engage them a
week ahead of time.
A repertoire company has been
booked for the Crawford theater the
week of the Street Fair.
T14SfpocS Of Sfafio,1 2 Of he To
peka postoff1ce. near Washburn, has
quadrupled in the past year.
The opening session of the annual
meeting of the Kansas Medical society
will be held tomorrow night.
The Republican 11ambeau club meets
tomorrow night. State superintendent
Nelson will deliver an address
DeMoss & Penwen have moved into
their new building at 81 Quincy, a few
doors north of their old location.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Burns will move
to 921 Topeka avenue in a few days Mr..
Burns is Governor Stanley's executive
clerk.
The F'rits-Garwood wedding at the
Central Congregational church Monday
was the first ever held in the Central
church.
Cy Alexander, an employee Of the
Santa Fe boiler department at Newton,
will come to Topeka and open a meat
market.
Al Hulett left today for Silver City,
New Mexico, where he will be connect
ed with Dean Waters in the wholesale
supply business.
The Standard School of Shorthand
placed five of its pupils in stenographic
positions yesterday. This institution
| stands at the front.
Bundy time recorders will be placed
in stations A and B of the Topeka Office
| to record the goings and comings of
| clerks and carriers.
DR. C. w. Hogeboom with a horse
that will be twenty years old in June
| defeated Frank Sims PAGER in a trial
| of speed recently.
Salina, which reports a capital of $500
! 900, has applied for a charter to do
| business in Kansas.
Several small chicken ranches have
been started lately, and several per
! sons expect to get wealthy immedi-
| ately, but they won't.
! Hal Hazlett, who is i'll in San Fran
cisco, as a result of his trip to the Phil
| ippines, will return to Topeka as soon
| as he is able to travel.
George Stansfeld. the first to advo-
cate golf in Topeka before the game
/ arrived, has never played a game since
/ the links were laid out.
The Quinton Heights school closed
last Friday. and after the exercises the
| school enjoyed a picnic in the grove
west of the school house.
Myrtle Ross, a girl 13 years, was adj
! judged incorrigible in the probate court
| yesterday and ordered sent to the girls
| industrial school at Beloit.
The Swedish Lutheran church has ex-
| tended a call to Rev. A. NJ. Herrenius,
| of San Jose, Cal. Rev. Herrenius occu-
| pied the pulpit of the church Sunday.
The first game of ball in which the
| Santa Fe Reds participated was with
| the Knockaboutss and resulted in a
score of to II in favor Of the Reds
The ST. Joe league baseball team
plays Emporia Wednesday and Thurs
day at Emporia. The Washburn team
| will play Emporia Saturday in Topeka
o. E. McEafresh, postmaster at Osage
City, came to Topeka yesterday to take
home the body of Mrs Clough, a pa
tent at the insane asylum who died
Sunday.
A Topeka man who wants a driving
horse, has examined forty animals il
the last ten days, and says positively
that he has not seen one horse will
two good legs under it
Buffalo Jones has returned to To.
peka from Washington, where he has
been lobbying for a bill establishing {
buffalo farm in New Mexico. He say!
he thinks the bill will pass.
Frank Petit. a teamster living at so
Lawrence street has his right leg frac
tured in a runaway Saturday. tn,
team he was driving became frightened
| at a Santa Fe switch engine.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon has receiveS
a letter from London stating that tn
India famine articles in the She1doI
newspaper led a London merchant t.
give 81. 500 for the famine sufferers.
The ladies of the First NJ E churcl
held social last evening at which the.
paid in the dollars they have earned
and each one was supposed to tell il
verse how the dollar was secured.
To climb the stairs of the Columbian
building to the roof and to watch OBJ
server Jennings take his observation
seems to those who have tried it Xix
standing on the bridge with Dewey"
Judge Hazen has denied the petitio
of Eta Lacey asking for a temporar
injunction to restrain Mcfarland
| Ellis from obstructing a window whic
| furnishes light for her millinery stor.