The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Today Is the beginning of Lent
The supreme court will convene next
Tuesday.
A concert and ball is scheduled for
Arion hall this evening.
j. NJ Simpson, Republican politician of
Mcpherson, is in Topeka
The snow has been cleared from the
east steps of the state house.
w. H; Gates of Concordia,. clerk of the
court OF appeals. is In the city.
Kansas avenue presented a busy scene
this morning. There were snow shovel
erS everywhere.
Delivery wagons had a hard time of it
were not broken
Another batch of dispositions have been
hled In the pancake flour injunction suit
in the district court.
The street car company made a call
Tor go men this morning to shovel snow
off the street car tracks.
Webb McNalI is one of the Oldest mem
bers of the A o. U. w. in the state. He
is pioneer in the organization
In some Topeka stores this morning
everybody from the proprietor to the err
rand boy got out and shoveled snow.
There are a great many men ,g,,. with lame
shovel snow and they are not used to it.
An Oakland car stuck in the snow yes
terday just east of the SantasEs. shops
and remained there until dtkzont to-
day.
And in the midst of it all this morning
an ice wagon went around dumping ice
out into the snow drifts in front of GUS
toners houses.
There are SS suits set for hearing in
the district court next week. The ma
jority of them are actions which can be
settled quickly.
The divorce mill will grind in the dis
tr1ct court the latter part of next week
Ten divorce suits are set for hearing on
| Friday and Saturday.
The WEIGH people will celebrate st.
paylds day on Thursday evening, March
begin at 7:90 o'clock.
John Macdonald, of the Western School
Journal. is in Chicago this week attend
| city school superintendent.
Assistant Attorney General West has
filed motion to quash the new. manda-
mus suit Drought against State Grain In
spector Mckenzie by H. c. Galloway.
If the man who apologized for the delay
ford had omitted yours truly from his
remarks, his speech would have been a
| good one.
The bottom layer of snow was packed
| so hard on the walks this morning that
in some places the snow shovelers 'quar-
RED it as they would stone, removing it
Probate Judge Dolman yesterday mar
RED James M. Lamon and Sarah Elliott,
OF scranton He said he hoped that their
welded life would not be as stormy as
| their wedding day.
Early this morning a little pony floun-
| dered through the snow on Kansas ave-
nue. and on its back were two big men
| and a sack OF feed. 1t was a case for
| the humane society.
| OF for congress on the fusion ticket in
| the Seventh district and mentioned for
attorney general, is attending the A O.
| T. W. grand lodge meeting.
| Some of the state house employees who
| live three blocks from their work eat din
| nerS at noon down town, walking the
| same distance, but claiming that they live
| too far from their work to go home.
People who work down town and live
| out in the suburbs were Disguised with
| suburban life last evening when the snow
| tied Top the street car lines and they had
| to founder home through the drifts.
The railroad officials conferred with the
| Kansas City stock yards company today
| to make arrangements to have the COM
| pany weigh cattle in accordance with the
agreement made a the conference last
| week.
On the south side of the court house
grounds the snow drifted up even with
the top of the terrace and out over the
sidewalk, compelling people to founder
| through the outer edge of the drift on the
| parking.
A Topeka man recently remarked to
| G. G. Clemens that he noticed that he,
| Clemens, was drifting. toward the Re
| publican party. Clemens replied, YES
| have got far enough along that 1 can
| drop into the Copeland for cigar
A business woman who was compelled
to come down town this morning waited
| until she thought the Santa F'e office
clerks would have a good patch broken,
but she, says that every one who had pre-
ceded her was man who took steps