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

Cyrus Leland was up to Troy saturday.
Nearly all public offices We're closed to-
The mail carriers only make one deliv-
cry to-day.
venison is now having a run at the res
You are not in style unless you are
vaccinated.
The santa Fe and Rock Island offices
are closed today
Happy New Year is a universal greet
! ing this morning
The Catholic parochial school will re-
DR.. ". N. West is out after a mild at
| tack Of diphtheria-
The January term of the supreme court
will begin tomorrow.
The county clerks association will meet
next year in Topeka
The heat in the Topeka Whist club
rooms is all right now.
The cold weather gives Poor Commits
| sionerf Hale more to do.
/ When one says next year. now it also
means next century, 1901.
The Turner's ushered in the New Year
| with appropriate ceremonies.
| General Manager Nudge of the Santa
| Fe has returned from Chicago.
Governor Stanley is spending New
Years at his home in Wichita.
/ A man who has not smoked for six
| weeks commenced again today.
There are two lone Christmas trees still
| exposed for sale on Kansas avenue
| The largest snow flakes which have
| been seen this winter fell yesterday.
The drug stores are doing a good bus
|
| Fred Watson, fireman on the Santa Fe,
| is sick at his home with typhoid lever
A chicken fight which, was to have been
pulled off Saturday night was postponed.
| The New Year was ushered in last night
| by appropriate salute, fired by battery
There are a few Isolated cases af meas
les. diphtheria and scarlet fever in To-
| peka-
H. G. swayze of the Capital, has re-
turneG from weeks visit to friends IN
Chicago.
The weather man gave US a green
Christmas, but he managed to make New
| Years white
The printers have been doing a rushing
| business in New Years calling cards in
Appropriate c. A R. exercises were
held Sunday afternoon at the First Con-
| gregatsonal church.
B. e. Smyth has been elected librarian
of th9 Kansas Academy of Science for
the sixteenth time
The state treasury is doing a land office
business in receiving taxes from county
treasurers at present.
There are good prospects of Topeka Sc
curing several IaIge conventions and
| gatherings during 1850.
The 3Woodmen of the World will install
| their officers tonight at Topeka Post hall
! on East Seventh street.
There will be excursion rates into To-
peka. next week on account of the state
meetings to be held here.
Some of the dealers who can not get
coal to sell on account of the coal dealers
combine are dealing in wood.
The state teachers association was or
gained in in 1868. Rev. H. D. Fisher of
Topeka, was one of the members.
The holiday business on the Rock Isl
and has been enormous and has nearly
, been eouble what it was last year.
, DR.. william Maclay. Lyon will return to
Kansas City this week after spending the
: holidays with his parents in this city.
Some Topeka men claim they can buy
their GOAL in other towns and ship it in
7 here cheaper than they can buy it in To-
/ peka-
permanent cross formed of incandes-
15.r r1oIlc hos Mo
? over the main door of the Church of the
: Assumption.
! The ice man has just about gone out OF
l business. At any rate he does not have
e to hurry on his rounds for fear that the
r ice wisl melt.
: A Topeka man started out with ten
/ resolutions this morning. Three of them
. were still intact and unbroken at O'Clock
= this afternoon.
VIM Hoeck of the Santa Fe round
house,I ana wife have returned from a
holiday visit to Mr.. Hoeck's parents in
r Marshalltown, Iowa
= People are now wondering how to alb
bre reg ls9o; It doesn't look right to write
don't know how to read it.
Mary Bradshaw was arrested Saturday
= | afternoon by Sergeant Donovan on the
e street near the river.
4 Mr.. J; J; Kinney gave up his. connec,
s ton N'sth the Santa Fe today. The secret
b | services department of which he was the
a | head, has been abolished.
e Edwin Mayo viii be seen in ''Pudd'n.
:, | head Wilson" the piece which proved
such success for his father at the Crane
opera house on January g.
S People who expect to run for office mex
fall arr beginning to be extremely. friend
|, | " with everyone. You can tell them by
/, the way they shake hands with all the
+ | votersl
+ The police court was busy Saturday af
/ ternoen discharging jointists who Were
$ Jack .70url6in. George Head and Bucl
5 Mr. &. F. Resseguie who today assum
: ed the general SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Santa F'e, will move his family from Gal
: vestoni to Topeka as soon as he can fine
0 Col. Wilder S Metcalf will give a his
r tOrical review of the Twentieth Kansa!
a regiment in the Philippines at the meet
n ing of the State Historical society in thii
= city January l6.
4 D. j. GreenwaId. R s. Brigham anC
q q william Green eqmPose; the ComTmefcia
= the banquet to be rendered the Improved
q Stoclzbreeders' association.
5 A Topeka three year old who has take1
great interest in the Boer war was aWak
, ened last night by the booming of cannon
Il Papa are the Beers fghung?" said sh'
e and she hid her head under the cover.
= Ellen J. England has filed a suit in tn
e district court against J. j. England.
g IS not a divorce suit however, as on,
q might be led to suppose from the title
q but is "a friendly action for the partition
3 of property.
!. = People who fail to stop street cars af
u ter running a block and shouting in ever,
known key probably feel that the man
agement should pay more attention to tn
7 examination OF the employees ears thai
d their eyes
r There will be four important state meet
. ings in Topeka next week. They are tn
= meeting of the Improved Stock Breeders
association the state board of agriculture
the state Temperance union and the Stat
Poultry show.
|. The city jail is fumigated frequent.
: now to kill any chickenpox germs which
5 may have strayed into it. It would be
: good idea to fumigate it frequent.
whether there is any danger from chick
/ enpox or not.
T open the Auditorium next fall? The Kan
I sas City convention hall was formal.
= ! opened by one of SOusa's inspiring march
: es played by Sousas band. and the biz
building has so far had very success
= full career.
I The absence of the necessary hydrant
, | and fire at he al &c