The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

night
The Elks are preparing to spring their
annual benefit.
The sidewalks are slippery and conse-
uuently dangerous.
Erasmus Bennett rode the goat in
the E1ks lodge last night
F. H. Barnes of Lincoln, Nebraska,
was in Topeka Wednesday.
The Elk have purchased so Of the
latest novels for their library.
E. W. Thompson of the Rock Island
is spending a week in Colorado
These are great lays for skating par
ties. The ice is solid and smooth.
J. H Goddard is attending he bill
lard tournament at Kansas City.
Ed Howe is still shooting at Frank
Roots new book. The shots are good
ones.
The Ferris comedians will play For
Love of a Woman" at the to-
night.
The Ferris comedians viii play '"The
Commodore at the Crawford tomorrow
night
Mrs. H. A. Miller of Ell Dorado is at
the bedside of her father. DR.. A. M
Callahan.
The Farmers Advocate has been re-
stored, temporarily at least, to the list
of second class publications.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sturgis. who have
been visiting for three weeks at Gal
weston, win return Saturday.
N. H. Loomis is chedule to lecture
| on Contracts" before the law class of
the Y. N. &c. A. Monday night
Prof. H. M. Cottrell. who has been
attending the farmers institute out at
Oak Grange hall, has returned to Man
haitian.
Jacob F1eisch, a bookkeeper at the
been taken to Christ hospital for an op-
Grafton
The Edward Wilder Loan Collection
of European Ceramic and Victric art
has been placed on exhibition at the
city library.
Charles M. sheldon will read the final
chapter in his serial story. THE Re
former at the Central church next
Sunday evening.
Mayor Hughes was in Carbonate and
other mining towns the early part of
the week., making arrangements for
shipments of coal.
Several of the professional billiard
players now playing in the nam
at Kansas City, are anxious to play an
exhibition in Topeka
The children of Miss Monteith's room
at Clay school raised S. which was yes
terday given to Police MatrOn Thorpe
to be used for the poor.
H. B. Van Vorhis, the Topeka airship
man, now has a model OF his invention
in Washington and is trying to get con-
gress to take hold of it
Brewer Helm may have to send his
Kansas City trolley line into
county by the Marconi system, If the
county commissioners stand pat
The Tennesseetown kindergarten will
have a Christmas tree Friday morning,
December 20, at 9:15 o'clock. All friends
of the kindergarten are invited.
Judge John f. Phillips will not come
to Topeka until after the Christmas
holidays to hear the cases set for trial
before him in the federal court
State Fish Commissioner George w.
Wiley will not distribute any more fish
until spring. He still has some on hand
hr1f he q We the WaQfhar is ton cold tn |
ship them.
Robert Stone will read a paper which
he has ~prepared on the subject of Ma
chine Politics" at the next meeting of
night, December Fl. |
John Bell, a penitentiary convict
whom Governor Stanley paroled a
month ago because he was thought to
be dying of consumption, died this week
at his home in
The Light Bearers Holiday Fair will
occur at the Tennesseetown kindergar-
ten on the afternoons of December 80
and 81. The aim of this vacation club
is to help needy children
The S1,100 worth of new hose for the
fire department will likely be assigned
to station No. I, and other outlying sta
tions. as the supply at headquarters is
comparatively new.
William Carr, day Associate Press op-
orator, is spending a week at the home
of his parents In Eudora. George Hart
is working the day trick and Charles
M. Talley of Ellis is substituting.
Florists say that people who indulge
in cut flowers Will have to pay h@c1a-
somely for them next week, as the de-
mand is always very great at Christ
mas time and the supply is short
Mayor Hughes has received a o
christmas stores. kansas City
charges a license of SIS a day for stores
which start up for a few weeks to catch
the holiday trade.
City Engineer Goa has already re-
ceived four letters from eastern con-
Germs asking for plans and speciica-
tons for the proposed Washburn college
sewer. The eastern concerns Ill men
ton the State Journal"
1t is reported that the New Mexican
copper min in which Secretary of
State Clark is interested has struck a
rich vein. Mr.. Clark left for the south
west a few days ago but it was given
out that he had gone hunting in the
Pecos valley.
w. NJ. Niece filed a suit in the dis
trict court yesterday against the Ma
to be due him as insurance carried by
his wife that the association refused to
pay. Niece asks that a receiver be ap-
pointed for the association.
The l~ong-expected volume of Kansas
biography on which Hill P. Wilson, as
sistant secretary Of state, has been
working. is out. 1t s title Is Eminent
Men Of Kansas" and it contains a large
number of portraits. pen sketches and
pictures of prominent Kansas men,
L. e. Lambert, who has just retired
from the office of United States district
attorney, has purchased a farm of 800
acres near Emporia at $50 an acre, $16,-
600. 1t would appear that Mr.. Lamber
has managed to keep the wolf at some
from the door during his term
of office.
A man in Denver who has just COM
p1eted the patent formula for a new
dandruff cure, has written the Trego
county gold Shale magnates that he has
a process for extracting gold that