The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Two weeks from today IS Christmas.
"A. D. Weaver, of Lawrence, was in
town Tuesday.
The Sloan lodge annual reunion will
be held tomorrow night.
THE Daughter of the Diamond King
will be at the Crawford tonight.
The wiring for electric lights in the
federal building is nearly completed.
The snow predicted by the weather
bureau failed to materialize last night.
C. A Walker Santa Fe station agent
at Hutchinson, is in Topeka attending
a law suit.
The Washburn college orchestra will
give a concert at the college chapel
Friday evening
There was a small fire at 7:45 Tues
day night at 1874 Kansas avenue, caused
by a defective fiue.
CAPTAIN Henry King editor of the St
Louis GlObe-Democrat, is visiting his
brother, James L. King.
The lecture of Dr. Fisk for tonight
at the Second United Presbyterian
church has been postponed.
The price of feed is soaring. The
price of almost every kind of feed has
increased from 81 to So per ton.
The EmDoria, Kan, lodge of the An
cient Order of United Workmen will
build hall soon to cost about $4,000.
E, Bennett, a Topeka stock man who
has been in Glen Elder for month, has
gone to Lacrosse to look after interests
there.
Captain Adna G. Clarke, of Law
renee, took the examination for ap-
pointment in the army at Leavenworth
yesterday.
defendant in a damage suit brought by
James L. Harding. The trial of the case
is on in the federal court.
Friday evening, December 13, the Re
bekahs will repeat their entertainment
given Monday evening. 1t will take
place at 704-706 Kansas avenue.
Frank Harrison, the newly elected
county commissioner, will succeed
Scott Kelsey as a member of the board
the second Tuesday in January.
The State Teachers association meets
here December 1921. The Topeka Cho-
raj society Will sing the Coming of the
King at the Auditorium that week
black bass of the salt water varie-
which is easily the largest fish in town.
The fish weighs 278 pounds, and was
caught at San Diego, Cal.
At the meeting of the Fortnightly
Carver & Larimer, Judge w. A. John
ston read a paper on the subject of
ship subsidies. Judge Johnston favored
the granting of subsidies
John Ewing, an alleged jointist of the
North side, was raided by the police
yesterday, and bottle of gin captured.
Ewing put up strong talk to the chief
and was let go. 1t seems, however that
the spoils OF the chase were not re-
turned
chanlc for the Santa Fe, left today for
Newport, Ark. where he will give tes-
tfmony as mechanical expert in a
lawsuit for fire damage between the
iron Mountain road and private parties.
He will not return before the latter
part of the week.
Every man with notion seems to
come to the corner of Sixth and Kan
sas avenue to tell others about it. No
less than a dozen heated debates on the
subject of Who Made Purgatory?"
why Is Clamp" who Hit the Late
William Patterson" and other burning
questions of the hour were on the
boards Tuesday afternoon.
r. s. Brigham met last night with the
business men of the city at the Com
mercial club to discus the rentals of
booth space at the Midwinter exposi-
ton. This is the first effort that has
been made to secure local exhibitors
All efforts to this time have been ex-
pended on the manufacturers scattered
over the state.
The steel bridge contractors are said
to be knocking on the Melan bridge
across the Kansas river here and to be
circulating the report that it is going
yesterday as a representative of the
city of Des Moines, to inspect the
bridge He was much pleased with the
structure, and will recommend that Des
Moines build a melan bridge
Emporia Gazette: To properly appre-
clate just how close mouthed M A. Low
really is 1t may be well to state that he
dined at the White House last Wednes-
day night and not even a hint of the
fact has crept out before. A Kansas
man who has always commended that
Judge Rossington, of Topeka, had the
best looking dress suit in Kansas, saw
M. A. Low on his way to the dinner and
the k m. now says that Mr.. Lows glad
rags make Rossington's look like hand
me-dOwnS.
improvements in the west grounds of
the Santa F'e hospital have been begun
1t is proposed to reduce the terrace to
the grade line of the wall on both the
north and west This will require NOV
ing considerable earth and it is some
thing of a problem of what to do with
that which is being moved Several
teams have already been put on but
the work is necessarily interrupted a
great deal by inclement weather, and
will therefore be continued only at in
tervals during the winter.