The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka city troop meets tonight at
the arnory.
There is only one more week of lent
after this one.
Ex-Governor Click was over from
AtchisOn last evening.
S. J. Bear is in Winfield working up a
new telephone exchange for that place
The city council meets tonight to can
vass the votes cast at the city election.
Rehearsals of the opera La Fiesta de
San Xavier are being held each night.
A large picture of Congressman Curtis
now hangs in the elevator of the federal
building.
The dentists of the state will hold their
annual meetings at the Throop hotel
May 3, and 5.
Work will begin in a few days Oh the
paving Of Tyler street, between Ninth
and Twelfth streets.
General Superintendent Resseguie of the
Santa Fe is on trip of inspection of the
Panhandle division.
H. r. Dorr. a formerIy-of-T Topeka man
who lives a Rutland, Vt, is visit
ing friends in the city.
Miss Sadie Coe, one of the nurses at
the Santa Fe hospital, is suffering from
a badly sprained ankle
Topeka horse clipper uses a bicycle
as motor power and claims that it is
much better than electricity.
Mrs. D. A. Fretz, who was tried in the
police court yesterday for keeping a dis
orderly house was discharged
The annual spring discount of the
Standard School of Shorthand, $50 Kansas
ave, will be void after the 18th.
Captain Ralph ingalls,. formerly Of To-
peka, will sail from San Francisco for
Manila the middle of this month
A Topeka woman has confessed that she
lies awake at nights thinking of the new
Easter bonnet that she is to have.
| Sain & Skinner proprietors of the Mer-
| chants Transfer company, are applicants
! for admission into the Commercial club.
Interest in the approaching county pri-
maries continues to increase as the time
| for deciding the various contests gets
nearer.
| burn college will put on the comedy, Mr..
Bob at the college chapel Wednesday
evening.
/ peka auditorium shall be built so that the
Kansas City experience may not be re-
/ John NJ. Clevenger of Missouri, has
4 brought foreclosure suit in the federal
court against Andrew s. FigIey, of Hor-
/ ton, for $4,000
It was so pleasant in Topeka Thursday
that it was almost impossible to imagine
| that in Denver it was showing SO hard as
/ to stop the street cars.
United States District Attorney Lam
bert is in the city preparing Tor the april
| term of the United States district court,
| which begins next week.
Since April started in a Topeka woman
who is very much afraid Of cyclones,
anxiously watches the sky for the ap-
pearance of funnel-shaped clouds.
Two handsome new affairs have been
placed at either side of the main altar in
1 the Church of the Assumption The al
tars are finished in onyx, white and gold
Nels Mcconnell, the dog tax collector,
turned $3.50 into the city treasury during
the month of March That is what it
means to have an official in this position
who knows his business.
A Topeka man who prophesied months
ago that Dewey would eventually do
something to take the shine off his repu-
tation as hero, IS now going around
saying Il told you So.
People who want to give corn to the
India famine sufferers had better give it
quickly. because il is rapidly advancing
in price. It went up a cent in the Chi
cago market Wednesday,
4 Topeka man is making his wife be-
lieve that he is staying home and making
garden TO accommodate her. when as q
matter of fact ne is doing it to get out OF
work that he doesn't like at his office.
Topeka people continue to wonder why
the showers don't arrive that have beer