The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Topeka doctors are busy today.
Topeka has surrendered to the teach
ers.
A new elevator will be put in the Col
umbian building.
There will be no cases tried in thu
district court until January g.
The city was enveloped in a London
fog last night and this morning.
The Wichita teachers arrived in a
special car at 4:40 this morning.
F. Cook and family. of Valley Falls.
have been spending a few days in To-
peka.
Lyon county has a delegation of forty
teacher here attending the state meet
ing.
Silby Kelly wrote his father, H. B.
Kelly. a check for $1,000 for a Christmas
present
Charles B. Hanford will be 1t the
Crawford tonight in THE Tanning OF
the Shrew."
Cider Smith said something about
misty weather on December 25 several
day in advance.
w. w. Carr, day Associated Press OPP
orator, has returned from a visit of d
week in Eudora-
Observer Jennings used a nutmeg
crater this morning to measure the
density of the fog.
J.. r. Ness, of Topeka, has gone to
Chanute to begin his work as travelling
auditor for the Santa Fe.
LIE A. L. L. DOyS were al pI0SC1tC0
with new suits yesterday by the man
agement of the
Topeka was treated to a sample of
southern race wars last venin with
the difference that no one was killed.
All of the late night and early morn
ing trains brought in big delegations of
teachers attending the annual gather
ing.
The streets appeared deserted yester-
day in comparison with the day before
vuhan ChrfCfroaa GHnnninO was at its
height.
H. J. Bevelle, formerly manager of the
Western Union here, has a position as
day operator in the Santa Fe general
offices.
A Topeka bachelor who is a close
observer says that Kansas school
ma'ams are growing better looking ev-
cry year.
Not a Christmas tree burned yester-
day and no one shot Santa Claus by
mistake for a burglar. The millennium
is coming.
The regular yearly meeting of the
Commercial club will be held on Janu-
airy g. The election of officers will oc-
cur at that time
student and graduates of Baker uni
versity will hold a reception and re-
union this afternoon from 4:30 to $50 IN
h senate chamber.
A song and music recital will be
given Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. c. G. Foster by the members OF
the Poster Humane society.
You have remembered everybody but
yourself for Christmas. Why not get a
suit. JnO. F. McManus & Co.,, tailorS,
are showing some eautie
Many Topeka young folks misjudged
their capacity on Christmas day and
they saw things not on the programme
while they slept last night
The small boy who received his first
pair of skates from Santa Claus is
wishing for a repetition of the cold
weather Of a week ago..
Observer Jenning will not allow any
jokes in his presence about this fog
being the London kind. He a " it is
the straight Kaw valley variety.
Representatives of the knights of the
Protected Ark, a beneficiary order, will
hold their national council in Topeka,
beginning his evening. in Security hall
Thomas Davis celebrated Christmas
by breaking into jail. He was arrested
ON a state warrant charging him with
robbing Mac Overton's grocery store in
North Topeka
The Topeka Choral society will sing
the Coming of the King" tonight at
the Auditorium. 1t is one of the fea-
lures of the State Teachers association
meeting here this week.
M. A. Bailey, formerly a dispenser of
mathema tics at the Kansas State Nor
NAL is attending the State Teachers
association He is now a professor in
a New York teachers training school.
About 500 people attended the mas
querade ball given at the Auditorium
last night by the Modern Woodmen of
America. The prize for the best waltz
ers was given to Z. B. Hannigan and
His sister.
Now that Christmas is past things
will begin to be done towards the actual
realization of the Kansas Midwinter
exposition. About three-fourths of the
booth space at the exposition has been
contracted for.
Red seems to be a favorite color with
the schoolna'ams. One of them an
during a speech last night that
there were p red waists of different
shades in a single section of those seat |
ed in Representative hall.
Otis Ogg, of Thayer, Kas., was
brought to Topeka yesterday to have his |
feet amputated. Mr.. Ogg had his feet
frozen during the recent severe cold
spell. He was brought to Topeka by
Drs. Coffman and Barker, of Thayer.
Lawrence Journal: If General Met
calf persists in his determination to live
in Lawrence, Topeka will robably in
quo warranto proceedings and
him show how he can hold an
office without residing in Topeka.
In announcing a concert by the ApOl-
10 club in Chicago the Record-Heraid
refers as follows to a Topeka young
in enumerating the singers: Miss
Mabe1le Crawford, a rising contralto, |
well known in Chicago, and who has
won favor singing oratorio in western
Ticklin Harper, a brother of the no
torious Jess Harper, and considerable
Of a crook on his own account, was
arrested here yesterday for violating a
parole given by the officers at Lawrence
Harper was released from jail at Law
renee on condition he would not leave
he city.
Another Death From Fire.