The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-07
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

The moving wagons are busy
This morning seemed more like May
than like February
The Elks will hold an important bush
ness meeting tonight.
The curling is being prepared for the
Fillmore street paving.
MCPHERSON has adopted the Topeka IL
quor selling ordinance
The finest cyclamen and primrose you
ever saw at Mrs. Hague's-
There are twenty-four small children in
the Topeka Orphans home.
The fees collected by the city court last
month amounted to s210.45-
Some of the cutters along the side
streets ought to be cleaned out.
The St. Joseph bowlers will meet the T.
A. A team here on Friday night.
The meeting of the city council tonight
will be Expansion" meeting
rectiy written. s.The topeka city Troops"
Station B. at Washburn college. issued
so money orders during the month of Jan
uary-
..TI,,he. Arions, will give. play entitled
evening.
for divorce from her husband, S E.
Spencer.
The water works cases in the federal
court will come up before Judge Hook
Walter, y; Allen has, gone to st Pau!
to attend the National Grain Growers
The registration Is progressing. but not
very speedily. They are about 1900 peo-
Judge Hook went home to Leavenworth
yesterday. but will return to Topeka the
first of next week.
marriage license has been granted to
Ira c.. Mercia: of Oakland, and Minnie A
| Carrot. of Bellevue
The bids for building the addition to
! the Topeka federal building will be opened
| in Washington on February 25.
A large delegation of Washburn stu
| dents expects to so to Emporia to the
! state oratOrica1 contest next week
The federal court jury has been dis
missed for the term by Judge Hook and
| will not have to return to Topeka.
/ Mitch Bundy is the best patrol driver
which the city has ever had; He knows
| how to care for and handle horses.
The warm weather is causing the frost
! in the ground to melt and gives the APP
| pearance that a slight rain had fallen.
! Probate Judge Dolman has granted a
/ marriage license to William Fleming Of
| Topeka and Miss Gertie Cook, of Meri-
| den.
F. L. Shepherd and J. w. Nea1e, the
! well-known sign painters. have formed a
partnership Their office is at III East
! Seventh street.
The Junior. Epworth league of the Wal
nut Grove Methodist church has given
| dren of the city.
The state convention of labor and in
dustry wanted to exclude all but union
men, Even reporters were to be barred
unless they belonged to union
Policeman Frank Hendricks has had one
of the worst cases of smallpox which
and it is thought that he viii get ven
Dennis Lyndon. an Atchison travelling
| man who has been representing W. F.
| DoIan. has resigned and viii go on the
road for the Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile
Mayor Drew has formally appointed the
PARK board consisting Of N. 4. Low. E;
J. P. Griswold. Mr.. Low was appointed
The jury in the suit of Theodore NJ. Sal
( yer against H. w. 7Newcomb over taking
! up the rails on the old Lawrence & Car
! bondale railroad, gave the plaintiff YER
| dict for $615.
Six colored boys were arrested Tuesday
by the police on the charge of disturbing
the church services at the colored church
| Buren, streets
Harrison street from Eleventh to
I've Thweif IN streets, and a petition asking
! scented to the city council.
The city council meets again tonight to
| consider the annexation question. A
property in the Suburbs which it is pro-
posed to take into the city.
Ex-United States Senator W. A. PEI
calls "Americanism and the Philippines p
/ which has, been published by Crane & Co
He defends the policy of the national ad-
ministration-
One reason for the recent heavy loss in
many parents Were foolish enough to give
their boys air rifles for Christmas pres
ents- The rifles won't last long if the
police find them on the streets.
John Van Vechten. o. D. Skinner and
X w SqulreS nave been appointed a
! committee from the Republican city cen
| trail committee to confer with the county
central committee concerning the date for
holding the Republican primaries
The postoffice department VIII soon of
! fer postage stamps for sale in little books
| convenient for carrying in the vest
pocket. There will be y. "a or As stamps
in book. and 1 cent will be added to the
price of the stamps to cover the cost of
the book.
The damage suit of Mrs Lena Belle
Jackson against S. E. Yoeman for s10O 900
for killing her husband has been con-
tinued in the district court Mrs Jack
son is in Minnesota while Mr.. Yoeman
has not yet completed his six months
sentence in the county jail.
A Topeka business man keeps the com
binatfon to his safe pasted over the safe
door. He says there is nothing in the
safe but his books and papers. which no
/ into his place he would rather they would
open the safe door with the combination
and search it, than blow off the door and
wreck the safe.
The Topeka Ice and Cold Storage COM
pany, the Cudahy Packing company and
| Otto kuehne & Co, have petitioned the
city to make a crushed rock road way
enough Tor single wagon along Curtis
street from Kansas avenue to the ice COM
pany s plant They claim that a great
amount of hauling is done over that
street and that 1t is generally in bad con-
dition
c. Saylar has offered to pay the city 30
cents a cord for all stone that he is
/ allowed to quarry out of the city'S stone
| quarry on Deer Creek. east of the city.
/ City Engineer Wise says the new pave
| ments on Huntoon and Thirteenth streets
| foundation was not compact enough, and
| he recommends that the city purchase a
roller to use for paving and other pur-
poses.
SHAKESPEARE NOTICE.