The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Arions will give a concert tonight
A K Rodgers has returned from wash
1ngt0n, D. C.
The ice. trust rate to joints is Is cents
a hundred pounds.
The rubber trade has been thriving for
the past two days
Some of the senior high school students
are camping at Maple Hill.
The Topeka Typographical union holds
its annual election of Officers tonight
Sloan lodge No 225 A F. & A NJ will
confer the third degree Thursday night.
c. F. Nichols and Miss Mamie Fatty
Dolman-
The streets did not require sprinkling
today, but the cutters were flushed this
morning
The mechanical engineering class Of the
State university visited the Santa Fe
shops yesterday
morning TO take position as travelling
salesman for the Rumford Baking Pow
der Co
The city clerk has been instructed TO
advertise for bids for plumbing the new
city building The estimate for the job
the alley between West Dillon. Mulvane
and Thirteenth streets and Walnut or FIJI
teenth street
A noon class for Sunday school teachers
Will be started at the Y W G A rooms
The teachers will study their Sunday
school lessons.
up again now. Notwithstanding the de-
crease in the smallpox epidemic. The
cucumber has arrived
Blythe Wfthers. aged 20 of Kansas City
has secured a marriage license to marry
Vera Marie O'Brien. aged II Of Topeka
The parents consented
Mrs. S. V Leeper Of the Lowman Hill
] school, is attending her son who IS ser
iously i'll in Lawrence, and viii not re-
turn 10 Topeka this school year
J. D. Hickman instructor in the r,rir+
/ ing department of the Agricultural college
/ At Manhattan brought his class TO Topeka
TUESDAY 10 visit the printing houses
/ J. B. McAfee claims TO have taught the
nrst school in Kansas at I.eaven worth
The school was opened May IL 1855. and
tute.
Hugh Campbell has sued B. NJ Daiues
IN the district court for $10e21.52. The
sun Is brought under the double liability
law On account of the failure of the Kan
sas Investment company.
MIS- J. J. Spendlove has sent a notice
[ 70 the state Journal Offering a reward of
| . for the arrest and conviction of the
/ persons who stole flowers from her Law
at Laurent and Van Buren, streets
! The resolution to pave the north an
| proach TO the bridge has been reconsider
| ton as TO whether the cost will fan on
| the abutting property owners or the city
Atchison can not leave Topeka alone
The Globe says: Topeka singers are IRE
! pairing to present Elijah at the opening
| OF the auditorium Either Topeka sing
| are very patient"
a petition has been presented to the
| council asking for a new sidewalk on the
| west side of Kansas avenue from the
| Shunganunga to Twenty-third street ana
/ on TWenty-Lhird street from Kansas ave
nue. to Van Buren,
Dan H Case of Honolulu has sent the
Hawaiian Gazette Of May 1 to Topeka
friends. Most of the eight pages are de-
voted TO the fact that the plague IS over
and that the quarantine has been declared
pau by the health officers
The health and sanitary committee of
/ the city council recommended that the
council refuse to interfere with the Brad
ley roofing plant at the foot of Polk
street, which some of the adjacent prop
erry owners asked to have removed.
The hotels will not be able to accommo-
date all who come to Topeka to attend the
Conference of Charities and Corrections.
Those who can entertain or more
guests are requested to notify Maj. 7. J.
Anderson at the Commercial club rooms.
City Engineer Wise has received let
ter from H V Hinckley. who was en-
ployed to prepare plans for a new water
system for the city, stating that he does
not know just when he can come home,
but he will write again shortly He IS
ment work.
The donation of 81 900 from Rev. Charles
NJ Sheldon for the detention hospital al
| fountain near the transfer station. was
formally made to the city council last
| evening in communication from MI
Sheldon A suitable resolution Of thanks
viii be drawn up and forwarded TO Mr.
Sheldon.