The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-20
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


of the Santa Fe is in Chicago.
General Passenger Agent Black left
Monday afternoon for Chicago.
Tonight the Order of High Priesthood
will be conferred at Masonic hall.
People are already beginning tc wish
that the month of March was over.
1t viii be 16S years next Thursday since
the Father of His Country was born.
T. l. King entered Stormont hospital to-
day to have a surgical operation perform
A Topeka man claims that the air had
ing i spring ies'i"S ~''D' i TINS morn
Councilman J. s. Warner has returned
City.
The State University basket ball team
will play the Y M. c. A. at Topeka on
Bandmaster John Marshall promises to
be generous in the matter of encores at
the concert tonight
Postmaster Guthrie received orders for
81 900 stamped envelopes with the return
card printed on them.
Charles J. Webb is prominent in all of
the three Masonic bodies that are in SeS-
sion here this week.
1t is said that every Republican in
Silver Lake township is a member OF the
Curtis club up there.
This is the season of the year when all
concerned feel like chipping in to get the
office boy hair cut
On Wednesday evening the custodians
will exemplify the work in two or more
degrees at Masonic hall.
The weather will go to smash this
week. Observer Jennings Is busy with
the grand Masonic lodges
The city officers are packing up pre-
Paarers to the meV oce nf BloeR
Mr.. c. G. Sholes, superintendent of tele-
graph of the Santa Fe, has returned after
visiting his family in Chicago.
Zabud Council No r. & S. NJ. con-
ferred the Royal Sele z and Super-Ex-
cellent Masters degrees last night.
Harry Stafford and Rev. W. L; Grant
will go over to Atchison this afternoon
to address the Curtis club over there.
BY the time the smallpox epidemic has
been stamped out, nearly every one viii
have suffered the horrors of vaccination.
The Republicans defeated Kerr's In
dams by the score of /, 166 to 1.l53 at duck
pins last night on the Y. NJ. c. A alleys.
Assistant General Passenger Agent E.
w Thompson, of the Rock Island, is in
the west on business connected with the
road.
There is hardly a lecturer in the United
States for whom there is a greater de-
nand than for Topeka man-Bishop
The team of Orient Lodge No. 81 A. F.
& A. NJ. will confer the third degree at
Masonic hall tonight for the benefit of the
visiting Masons.
my Lord in Petticoats," at the Grand.
and BLACK Crook" at the Crawford. Will
be the Washington Birthday entertain9s
ments in Topeka
Leavenworth and Usage counties each
have new rural free delivery routes One
runs out of Tonganoxie and the other
out of Carbonate.
The nerve of some towns is almost be
yond belief. A Topeka man received a
letter today directed to Topeka, sixty
miles from Emporia-
Frank Bates was. discharged and his
bartender was found guilty and meg S2o9
Magaw for selling liquor
In nearly all games nowadays a club
team. Pretty soon we shall have "croquet
teams and marble teams"
Mayor Drew has received a request
inf,
Corning Paul Bernard. Mayor Drew can
find no trace of such a person.
There are. over $50 stations on the Santa
Fe road. which have yet to be equipped
being put into use on the road.
H. H. NeviI and wife. left today for
Mrs. Nevills father. Mr.. Nevill is night
depot master at the Rock Island
Real Prussian sword bayonets relics of
the F'ranco-Prussian war, are now on the
market wall ornaments or corn knives.
Pay your money and take your choice
Impromptu posters" advertising the
coming Elks' entertainment are hanging
in some of the Kansas avenue windows.
They are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Fathers Boarman and Magevney, the
Jesuit missionaries who conducted mis-
sion at the Church of the Assumption
during the past two weeks, have gone to
Chicago.
A Topeka man claims to have seen the
a6ganee gqard OF the f F9P1ns ana Pyhe eff
people claim they are Missourians on that
proposition
The good roads movement ought to re
ceive a great impetus this spring. As
soon as the frost gets well started from
the. ground the roads will become well
nigh impossible.
A smallpox sign appeared at the north
west corner of Seventh and Jackson few
moved to the detention hospital and the
premises fumigated.
Mr. A. B. Whiting yesterday received
two Shorthorn calves from the stock
farm of E. R. Barnes at Rock Creek. Mr..
Whiting viii ship the calves to his ranch
near Fort Riley
The Republicans of MCKEE Plate pre-
cinct otherwise known as The Strip
will hold a caucus tonight at the school
house to nominate a delegate ticket 20
the county convention
DIR. Peers says the present epidemic of
smallpox started among the boys at the
brought into the city by workmen en-
ployed at that institution.
Lieutenant E. f. Huddleston, late of
A company. Twentieth Kansas. will re-
turn to the Philippines as a private in
the Twentieth, U. s infantry He will
The police department ought to have
large sized dray wagon, which could be
o+ber 10 ,anbarnslia 70 The notice Station
when they make a raid the joints.
Mr.. J. Fred Scott. of the Santa Fe
treasury department who at one time
managed the Chestnut street theater in
Francis Wilson, the comic opera star.
the Topeka insane asylum authorities that
Virgie Dinsmore and Isaac Belts two in
mates from Shawnee county, have been
discharged from the asylum as i'm
proved"
The latest march song is entitled THE
Sousa Girl" and is dedicated to John
Philip sousa- It Is being sung on the
last season with Hoyt's "A Stranger in
New York"
One of the happiest men at the Santa
Fe shops Is Louie Deutscher. foreman of
the tin shop All day Monday he had
broad smile on his face When asked
what had happened, he would say: 1T is
a underground girl
Topeka is not the only city in which
Francis Wilson will substitute "Erminie''
for "Cyrano de Bergerac-'' Erminie''
will be put on in Omaha tonight and
Wednesday night, in Lincoln Thursday
night and in St. Joe Friday night.
Abilene Reflector Two mighty fine
young men are mentioned by the Repub-
licans of Topeka as likely to be nomin-
ated during the coming campaign: I. F.
Doran and Harry f. Valentine. The Re
publican party does itself credit by sup