The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-24
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS
Corn is worth 30 cents a bushel.

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Corn is worth 90 cents a bushel.
Kansas avenue was swept last evening
The Sixth avenue viaduct is still closed
TO traffic.
The coal combine is after the anti-com-
bine people.
Soda water is being served in many Of
the drug stores
There is q demand for good driving
horses IN Topeka
The roads in Quinton Heights are be-
ing filled and graded
Heating stoves are offered for sale
cheap all over Topeka
One of Topeka's cold storage houses has
a capacity OF over 200 cars.
The Elks viii produce something in
place of "Charley's Aunt
W. s. Benedict of Kansas City is trans
acting business In this city
Feed men are having some difficulty in
supplying the demand for bran
The Arions are arranging to give
masked ball on Friday evening
This is nice shopping weather and the
ladies' are taking advantage of it.
Marbles are being offered for sale The
nice weather has brought them out
The merchants have begun to receive
large tustallments Of spring goods
The Topeka commission merchants have
a large supply OF oranges on hand
The State Bar association viii meet in
Topeka next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The funeral of Miss Ruth Trap Will
be held Thursday afternoon at o clock
Some of the enterprising Topeka young
suits.
A great amount Of the wire put up to
still up.
Many of the people have laid aside their
overcoats- This Kansas weather can't
The paved streets near the city hall site
are covered with dirt dropped from the
The enthusiasts are stnI playing golf
The weather is especially favorable for
ton mark?'
There are % jury cases set for hearing
trict court
The January examinations for county
teachers will be held over the state next
Saturday.
Deputy United States Marshal Trfgg
has returned from taking a federal pris-
Oner to Omaha
Coal men are reducing the force Of en-
ployes- Warm weather IS not conducive
10 large pay rolls.
The annual statements from insurance
ment of insurance.
The forecaster is still talking about fair
weather, Just as he did last week when
every day was cloudy.
.,1 The s- ieemasn who handles the real ar
who is worrying just now.
Shiny" duck on rock" and like
games are daily sports with the Topeka
urch1ns this nice weather.
superintendent W. H. StflIweu OF the
Rock Island has returned home after
short trip out on the road
The policemen are suffering with colds.
The changes in temperature. from out
doors to indoors, is the cause
Two weeks from yesterday, February 6,
Will be the thirty-ffth anniversary OF the
founding of Washburn college.
Nearly all of the state Officers express
themselves as IN favor Of holding the Re
puolcan state convention in Topeka
The ,groeers say that an advance of
from 80 to 90 per cent in the price Of
Farz
People are not waiting till spring to
move Ihey are moving now and the
express men have been busy for week
Excavations for a new drainage ditch
bridge over the ditch It is about com
pleted.
The joint cases which have been ap-
pealed from the police court are set for
next week.
James McClary. who is accused of rob
ping hardware store in North Topeka,
trict court
A motion for a new trial has been fled
Charles brennan, who was convicted last
week OF assault and battery.
The annual meeting Of the Republican
Flambeau club viii be held tonight at the
fer will address the meeting.
The weather has been so spring-lil1e
during the past few days that some peo-
PIE are giving spring fever as an excuse
Tor their 1ndisposttiOn to work.
The Twentieth Kansas volunteer asse-
cation wall give the organizations first
military ball at Hudson's hall; The dec
Orauons viii be OF Filipino relics
The police force might employ some OF
Its spare time by looking after boys who
make street impossible BY yells, screams
and a din Of sticks playing shipny.
A break in the water main on Tenth
ceived attention. The waterworks fnspec-
tor must have been on a vacation.
A Topeka man who while in Chicago
recently met Peter Dunno. the author OF
Dunno IS as entertaining as his book
The Topeka council of the American
Benevolent association. has a member
ship OF nearly 800 and from 10 to Is new
week. sA' s' cry
A Topeka man who wrote to his friends
IN the east that Kansas farmers are plOw-
ing 1or their spring oats, has received an
lntlrneuon that he Is believed TO be d
second Ananias
Major A. P. Shreve has been appointed
financial hustler for the Democrats
party in Shawnee county and the Fourth
came through the national committee
A new pet cat IN Topeka household
has been turned out of doors because at
the house, jumping onland on chairs and
making sounds which the members of the
man"
II this sort Of weather keeps up the
1ru4t trees VIII all swell out their buds
here. Then Jack Frost win ''holIer .
april Fool. and the fruit raisers viii
go Into mourning.
People who are congratulating them
selves on getting through the winter with
no extremely cold weather, should re-
began falling on the evening Of February
g. and kept going down until it reached
20 degrees below zero.
J. n. Knight has been given the con-
tract Tor burying the county poor by the