The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Elmwood club will give another
| dance tonight
The air this morning was heavily satur-
There are a few people who have not
| yet been vaccinated
| T. F. Lannan is talking of starting
| wagon factory here.
| 1t showed just about enough to make
walking d1Sagreeable.
| DR.. G. z. Mum will leave on his Euro
| pean trip next Friday
| Since the primaries have been fixed. the
voters are registering.
The ladies play tomorrow night at the
Topeka Whist club rooms.
Councilman A. P. Benson of the Sec
| ond ward is in Nebraska
Governor Stanley will be back from
Lincoln tomorrow morning.
The name of the late Resell Mammalian
is seldom spelled correctly.
The Masonic Mutual Benefit society
meets at the Masonic temple Friday.
The asylum has harvested 100 tons of
good ice from the river this season.
The asylum employees. with their uni
diers.
Joseph Griley has been re- elected a
member of the BARRIERS legislative COM
mittee.
There is 8, case Of scarlet fever near
tenth.
P. B. Ross OF the Santa Fe shops, has
returned to his work, after ten weeks
The slight snow yesterday afternoon
was sufficient to bring out the cutters
last night.
Mrs. DR.. Dearborn, of Highland Park.
who has been quite i'll for the past two
weeks, is improving.
The commissioner of elections will prob
ably move his office into the Central Ma
1onal bank building.
Mrs. NJ. e. Hollcraft has. just opened
cut flowers store in the Ladies' Exchange,
119 West Sixth street
Judge, Arthur McGabe,s fayorite books
are Tbe T Inc P pwslYe Great Reg1ons and
If the T. A. A. bowling team wins any
of the forthcoming matches. recruits in
one or two weak places will be needed
The street cars were delayed by the
snow last night. Three cars went east
on Tenth street in bunch, at one time.
Frank Squires will take the part of
night.
The Webb Nichols Branner litigation
in the supreme court has ended and the
plaintiffs: Webb and Nichols. have won at
every point.
Poor Commissioner Hale is now provfd-
ing 1S2 families with county assistance.
and the most of them are afflicted with
the smallpox.
People who have been laughing at vac
cination have concluded it isn't such
bad thing after all.
George A. clark, secretary OF state. has
returned from New Mexico and the SOUTH
west, where he is interested in zinc and
copper mining property.
Probate Judge Dolnan has received no
tice from the Topeka insane asylum that
George H. Turner, one of the Shawnee
county inmates, died recently.
The entertainment committee of To-
peka post no nj, VII renew ne their s dances
street, commencing tonight.
The Sons and Daughters of Justice mi
uated tWenty-three candidates at their
g tt we're Conferred by Henry Martin
The soft snow last evening made it hard
for the street cars to run. The wheels
would slip SO that it was difficult to
start and once started. it was hard to
stop.
The Kelchner & Machay versus Rurdge
suit in the district court has been con-
tinued for the term, because the attor
neys had too much other business to look
after.
Rev. ]. N. Biendell of Chicago, has
been given a call to the pastorate of the
succeed Rev. c. A. Engstrand, Who .las
resigned.
State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
the bankers of northeastern Kansas at
their meeting at Kansas City, Kan, on
Thursday.
The basket ball game between Wash
burn and the, Medical college for tonight
has been called off. The game was to
have been played in the Y. NJ. c. A.
gymnasium.
The entertainment committee of the Re
publican f1ambeau club will provide cigars
and something to eat in addition to
speeches, at the meeting of the club to-
morrow evening.
Lie dOicS Op-lO-Odle, WHICH 4OIu
McNeal has been running in the Mail
and Breeze will be published in book form
by Albert Reid.
Sheriff Cook tried sliding down the steps
at the county jail on the small of his back
when the steps were covered with ice
few days ago and he has been suffering
with a lame back ever since.
A. E. Ashbrooke. editor of the Horse
Show Monthly has been in Topeka in
hopes of interesting the horsemen here
in giving horse show this spring. There
will probably be no races in connection
with the show.
Candidates for city offices who expect
to ran at the Republican primaries will
sanires before 'te ococE neXt TUESDAY ev
| ening, in order to get their names on the
primary ballots
appeals, will not return from ILLINOIS till
after March /. 1t will take until that
n me to PpoDaIe nus ef tn VIII H.
the settlement of the estate.
The following officers. were elected by
the Topeka Scottish society last evening:
/ President, James Cuthbert; vice presi-
dent, Peter Reach; secretary, John Ban
herman; corresponding secretary. Alex
Drummond; treasurer. Peter Fisher.
The union of the Topeka Steam Laun-
dry and Peerless laundry under one man.
agement on a cooperative basis is prov
ing a success At the end of the first
three months business there was 1924 to
be divided among the employees.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church. will
hold its monthly meeting on February
| 2Sth. in the church parlors. This will be
union meeting of the Home and Foreign
societies, and will be of more than ordin-
I airy interest.
Sanitary Sergeant Patterson is author
| ity for the statement that the number of
| -so-called Cuban Chickenpox" cases are
diminishing. This month so new cases
| have been reported and an average of
nine q, day or so cases have been fumi-
/ gated. At present there are nine cases in
/ the pest house at the fair grounds. The
/ present cold weather viii tend to increase
/ the number of cases rather than to dimin-
ish them.
In the latest instruction received by
! the employees of the Topeka postoffice
| from the department al Washington, is
| the following paragraph concerning the
use of intoxicants: 1.-THE salary of class
| two clerk has been reduced for the month
| of February from 5000 to $40 per annum,
as a penalty for carrying intoxicants in
| his car and also using them to a limited
extent, while on duty. The diScredit
which such conduct brings on the service