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

A class in wrestling has been formed
at the L. A. A
Thomas EIiskey, from WaKeeney, is
in Topeka on business.
The Topeka Desiccating plant has
filed its first report with the city clerk
Two cases of scarlet fever were re-
| ported yesterday to the board of health
Col. Ed Little is in Topeka on bust
! ness connected with the Ancient Order
of Pyramids.
Jno. F. McManus & Co., tailors, are
making very nobby suits for $780, worth
| $35. Special sale
A case of chickenpox has been report
| ed in the family of A D. Gray, La
Greenwood avenue.
The annual meeting of the county
| clerks of Kansas will be held at Hutch
insOn during the holidays.
The seventeenth annual reunion OF
| Sloan lodge will take place this even
ing at the Masonic temple.
Alice Archer will be at the Crawford
tonight in the drama Of New Mexico
| ranch life. Jess of the Bar u
w. E. Curry, who has lately returned
from a three years visit in Costa Rica,
was in Kansas City yesterday.
]. J. Griffith has moved his family
| from Topeka to Hutchinson. where he
| represents the Parkhurst-Davis mer-
camille company
| There is a brand new street car rum
ming on West Sixth street 1t is paint
| ed a brighter yellow tAan the running
| gear of a red wagon.
The Topeka w. C. T. U. gave a par
| Tor social this afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Monical. POI Topeka avenue. A
| short programme was given.
Topeka lodge No. IL, A. 0. u W., will
| give free stereopticon lecture tomor-
| row evening. Subject, Historic BoS-
| ton; the Athens of America"
May Vokes. who made such hit as
lilly in MY Friend from India" will
ho in ha Of PlI1r Arc
Your" at the Crawford tomorrow night.
Every railroad man in Topeka who
works for the Santa F'e is making the
hustle of his life today. The brass col
lars" are here (Railroad term for mag
nates.)
The government forecasters missed it
a little the snow proposition but
this mornings London weather along
with the usual "Lunnon deah boy" joke
fully made I'D for it.
Pick Smith has made an affidavit
that be never claimed that he caught
the big fish, on exhibition at meat
market, with fly hook a silk line.
The affidavit has been placed on file
This evening the Wholesale and Re
tail Grocers' association will meet at
the Commercial club rooms to arrange
for the entertainment of the Grocers'
association which will meet here during
the Midwinter exposition
In Detroit the city council has reduced
the price of gas from 81 a thousand to
l.
ing for a big legal fight with the gas
company, and it has the sincere sym
pathy of Topeka in the struggle.
Mrs. Mollie A Breckenridge of Galva.
guest of her sister. Mrs. E. A. Shaffer
of 304 Monroe street, left today for
Leadville, Col. She is on her way to
Los Angeles where she will spend the
winter.
There is a scarcity of prunes. The
state board of charities just let the
semi annual contracts for the state in
stitutions and as prunes and hominy
are two staple delicacies in the state in
stitutions there will be short market
for while.
A charter has been granted to the
Swanson & Caesar Manufacturing COM
pany of Blue Rapids, which is organized
with capital of $4,000 to manufacture
farm implements. The chief stockhold-
ers are H. S. Swanson of Blue Rapids
and w. H. Caesar, of Frankfort
The Kansas state historical library
contains 23.051 volumes of books. q, 907
volumes of newspapers and magazines,
s7 "a pamphlets 2ssl7 manuscripts.
maps, aliases, pictures and museum
objects. Estimated value. $4,000.
Frank Schoenthailer, who is in the
Ellis county Jail for selling liquor, has
applied to Governor Stanley for a par
don. He has served his jail sentence
but still has fine of $500 to pay but
no money to pay it with, and he will
have to stay in Jail indefinitely unless
he is pardoned.
After hearing the evidence of the
spoilers in police court who testified in
the druggist trials that they drank a
gallon or two of liquor a day, the i'm
preston is out that Chief Stahl should
put in Kelley cure department along
with the bath tub and card tables for
the benefit of his force.
William Allen White returns today
from a trip of two weeks to South
Carolina and Washington. He went to
South Carolina to gather material for
a forthcoming article in McClure's on
Senator TilIman, and he attended the
opening of congress in Washington to
write up that event for the Saturday
Evening Post.
Captain Adna Clarke. of Lawrence,