The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-09
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

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A few 'possums are seen in market.
The Commercial club meets Tuesday
night.
E w. Thompson is back from Chi
cago.
The Elks are now talking of billiard
Railroads are doing a big business
west bound.
The Washburn football team returned
home today.
Two weeks from next Thursday is
Thanksgiving.
The farmers have commenced feed
ing their stock.
c. c.. Houston, postmaster at Elmont,
was in town yesterday
Apples have been coming to Topeka
by wagon from Keene for two weeks
"Cider" Smiths prediction for colder
weather seems to be coming true
The asphalt on West Eighth opposite
the city library is being repaired.
The popular song in Topeka just now
seems to be THE Little Tin Soldier"
r. t. Updegraff, of Maple Hill, has
just completed a large hay and cattle
barn.
TIL Topeka Gun club is receiving the
entries for the shoot to be held Thanks
giving.
Marshalrs band will give concert to-
morrow afternoon at the Crawford opera
house.
Trailers are now being run on the
Oakland street cars in the morning and
evening".
Mrs Amos Beeler, who has been i'll
at her home on Lake street. is slightly
improved.
Ten thousand copies of the new state
tax bill Will be printed for distribution
over the state.
DR.. w. H. H Smith, of Alma, has
bought Hatch's drug store. at Fourth
and Kansas avenues.
The chess players at the T. A A
headed by Joe Waters are talking of a
tournament this winter
Col c. E. Mabie, second vice presi-
dent of the National Mutual Reserve OF
New York. is in Topeka
Rev. J. C. Richey, Of Wichita, is at
tending the committee meeting of the
Episcopal church in Topeka
Albert Warner, formerly Of Topeka,
but who is now living at Ottawa, is
spending a month with his parents here
The state board of railway commits
sioners has ia complaints on it's docket.
Most of them will be settled without
difficulty.
The various parties of blood thirsty
deputies who were out hunting conV1ctS
last evening failed to find anything but
landscape.
The T. A. A. received a consignment
of new cues and billiard balls which
were used in the finals of the billiard
tournament
The second football eleven of Wash
burn college is expected to play the
K. q. second eleven at Lawrence on
November 16
All the rooms in the basement of Sum-
ner school will be foored with cement so
that the rooms can be used at any time
they are needed.
The Wolff Packing company and the
Continental Creamery company have
leased booth space at the Kansas Mid
winter exposition.
John Breidenthal has nearly four
hundred applications for membership in
his new insurance order They come
from all parts of the state.
Editor McGahra, of the Manhattan
Nationalist, was in Topeka Friday He
was formerly superintendent of the
public schools at Olathe-
This is the time of the year when
Police Matron Thorpe can make good
use of any kind of old clothes by dis
tributing them among the needy
City-b broke horses that champ the bit
and shy at street cars are being sent
to the country for the winter Board
ing stable rates are S12 and up.
Frank Nelson has this typewriter
motto pasted in his desk in the state
house: Dare to be just; firm to your
word, and faithful to your trust"
The clothing dealer who got in a dozen
automobiles caps is anxiously await
ing the arrival of about five more horse
less carriages SO he can dispose of his
stock
Topeka people who have been in Kan
sas City when the coal gas and smoke
has filled the streets like a fog, have
always returned thankful that they live
in Topeka.
Washburn has been doing quite well,
thank you within the borders of the
sunflower state since the sturdy little
| eleven defeated the husky Swedes at
Lindsborg Is to 0.
| John Switzer will read his paper on
| the Results of the Spanish American
| War; at the meeting of the members OF
| the Saturday Night club tonight at
| Stebbins' and Evans law office.
The new telephone company's en-
| ployes assist the old line men in making
| the upper atmosphere hideous with their
| blood curdling yells as they sit on the
| top of the poles and string cables
The Washburn college faculty has
| passed a rule requiring students to at
| tend chapel and a student missing more
| than 10 chapel exercises will receive q
! mark on the wrong side of the ledger.
| Only two or three 'vags" were book
/ ed by the police last night 1t was
| generally conceded that the night force
| would arrest every stranger in town
| hoping that he bore cash value of $50
| net.
| The state tax revision commission
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