The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-17
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

| Col. Wilder Metcalf returned to Law
| renee today.
/ The Arion society will give a concert
| at its hall tonight.
Frank farrell has Joined the Atchison
! Don't Worry club.
Probate Judge Dolman is in the In
| dian Territory this week.
A new clock is to be placed in the
/ corridor of the court house.
| J. D. Newman, manager of Gentry's
! dog show, is visiting in the city
Mrs. viii Abernathy was operated on
| at the StOrmont hospital Tuesday.
! The comedy "A Family Affair will
| be put on at Turner hall next Sunday
night.
Book. agents. solicitors, canvassers
| and peddlers continue to infest the state
| house.
Miss Emma Leonidas Kelly is expect
| ed home from the Klondike in the
! spring.
Yesterday was pardon day at the gov
| ernor's office. A dozen applications
/ were refused.
The club formed by the ex-members
| of the Twentieth Kansas will soon give
/ a military ball.
There is a justice of the peace in
| Shawnee county who spells Mission
/ township ''Mishion."
Governor Stanley returned to the city
| to attend the State Historical society
| meeting last night.
Dr. Chapman, Of Mayetta- had a tu-
NOR removed from his neck at the Stor-
| mont hospital this week.
| Gasoline stoves are still being used by
| some few people who want to keep up
/ with this summer weather
Welch rarebits are becoming more
than popular. They have reached the
18th degree, and are fads.
Below Zero" will be the bill of the
Manhattan Stock Company at the
/ Grand opera house tonight.
/ The Manhattan Stock company will
! give a matinee performance at the
Grand opera house Saturday.
George NJ. Stone has been commits
| stoned by F. O. Popenoe to paint Kan
| sas corn field for the city library.
A travelling peddler sold a cheap and
| worthless milestone in nearly every
office in the state house recently.
There have been very few days this
winter on which a bicycle could not be
ridden with safety and pleasure.
| Somebody has nicknamed George NJ.
Munger the nightcap candidate be-
| cause he always wears skull cap
| Representative hall was cold last
night until the meeting of the State
| Historical society was half finished.
The rule governing the admittance of
| ladies free will be in effect each night
this week at the Grand opera house.
The Cottage Praying band will hold
! a house warming tonight at the home
| of Frank Cope, 409 Harrison street.
The Twentieth Kansas veterans are
interested in history. Many of them at
| tended the Historical society meeting.
Miss Eva Ryan. formerly owner of
| the Severance News, and late of the
| Missouri Valley Farmer, is in Topeka.
The dog catcher could do good work
| just at present. There are about 500
more dogs in Topeka than are needed.
! Col D. r. Anthony attended the meet
| ing of the State Historical society. He
| returned home to Leavenworth today.
The coal men, with feverish haste ex-
/ anime the daily papers, morning and
| evening, to see the weather predictions.
| Governor Stanley told Ed Howe the
| other day that Atchison had the best
| street car service of any town in Kan
| sas.
The ng-of-the-century debate
| is becoming worse than ever. The coun-
/ try papers are getting into it deeper and
| deeper.
Mr. J. J. Frey, late general manager
| of the Santa Fe, left to-day for Albu
| querque to spend several days with his
| family
The state administration has issued
| a defense of the governor and private
! secretary's frequent absences from the
| executive office
| After an accident happens the acct
| dent insurance agents always reap a
harvest with a text concerning the un-
| certainty of life.
Chief Surgeon Raster, of the Santa
| Fe, recently spoke to the members of
| the Argentine Y. n. c. A on First
! Aids to the Injured"
| Charles S. Gleed will be one of the
! speakers at the January dinner of the
| Knife and Fork club at Kansas City
| next Monday evening.
1t might be well for the hardware
| merchants to provide a large supply Of
| picks and shoVels owing to the passage
] of the nOll tax ordinance again.
The St.Cecilia quartette and Mrs. Chas.
/ J. Smith, Henry Beerman, Miss Irma
| Doster and Miss Eleanor Work finished
the music for the Historical society
| meeting.
Mary Marshall, the notorious colored
! woman who was admitted to bail for
| having assisted in a highway robbery
| episode, is in jail to work $40 worth for
being drunk
The clothing merchants always have
| few umbrellas and rubber coats laid by
! in a handy place which can be quickly
| gotten out and exposed for sale on
| rainy day.
The Grand lodge committee having in
1 charge the arrangements for the meet
| ing of the Grand lodge of the A. o. u.
| w. will meet Thursday evening at the
hall of Capital lodge No. 8.
| If the telephone and telegraph COM
panies continue to put up caDIes. Kan
| sas avenue will soon be cleared of the
network of wires, which at present OBJ
| scures the view heavenward.
| It is expected that Crook Wright will
/ be cleared of the charge of highway
/ robbery, with the usual activity which
! has marked all his former trials There
! is nothing so valuable as a pull
Joseph Dodson, an attorney of Enid
| Oklahoma was in Topeka last night on
| business with the National Aid associa-
| ton. Mr.. Dodson is a formerly f-Kan-
sas man, and is an old friend of Assist
ant United States District Attorney
| Bone.
George Burroughs, formerly editor of
| the Abilene Chronicle was in Topeka
last night buying material for the Con-
| cordia Blade, which he has recently
leased He will give Concordia daily
| paper as soon as he gets the lay of the
| land.
J. ". Gibbons. attended a meeting of