The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


4 pest house.
The registration last night stood 4.S00
1 men and 1900 women
The Aubrey Stock company played
| matinee this afternoon.
/ c. P. Sturgis and family have moved
i from Maple Hin to Topeka
The weather bureau yesterday failed
1 to say anything about rain
Carr Clifton is building a neat little
/ cottage on Oakland avenue
4 The rain today did not stop the men
/ and women from registering
4 Observer It. b. Jennings says: "a
/ March wisher is not good fisher"
! Capt. 7. f. Orner, of the Office of the
probate court. is sick with pleurisy.
Police Matron Thorpe is in need of
blankets for a poor man who is sick.
Many a Topeka home has been divided
| against itself in the present campaign
George Bradshaw has made and is
rafting a $3.50 cow puncher" saddle
Dean Ruskin Low has an article in the
Mail and Breeze on how to judge horses
Crawford next week, is now playing in
/ Chicago.
The Aubrey stock company will play
Lost in New York tonight at the
| Crawford.
Norman Webster. who had his throat
/ cut. is at Christ hospital and expected
to recover
The spring rush of business for the
sign painters and paper hangers has
commenced.
The hailstones that fell this morning
were not as large as hens eggs-let that
be understood.
Mrs William Hall Jenkins, who had
4 her leg broken by being knocked down
/ by a dog, is improving.
In beginning or in end March it's gifts
will send,' one of the official proverbs
/ of the weather bureau.
Some of the people now refer to- DR..
J. D. Mcfarland of the First Methodist
church as colonel"
The Aubrey stock company will play
a return engagement of a week in To-
peka some time in April.
The Sunday meeting at the r. R. y
NJ. c. A. will be conducted by. George R.
Winslow of Kansas City.
Another sally Of G. c. Clemens: He
that buyeth pig in a poke should not
thereafter squeaL-Franklin
Th- O. Il. Walker ranch near Willard
IN this county, was sold a few days ago
to L. Viergever of Jewell county.
No matter who is elected mayor the
people should not forget the waterworks
question 1t has not been settled
The fire department was called to
Dyche's grocery. GIL West Sixth avenue
yesterday afternoon for a small fire.
The members of the Twenty-third
regiment band have a piano in their
practice rooms at 422 Kansas avenue
One of the old weather proverbs about
March is Winds in March and rain in
April promise great blessings in May"
Superintendent John Stein of the Har-
vey eating houses between Kansas City
and Albuquerque was in Topeka yester-
day
Rev Mr. Husband Is the new pastor
of the Congregational church at Dover
and strange as 1T may seem he is not
married.
Senator John CLANCY acted as ad-
journing officer of the senate today in
the absence OF Lieutenant Governor
Richter.
A pleasing entertainment was given
last night at the r. r. Y. M. C. A by
Ed. Moore and Grace Drollinger Of kan
sas City
Ida Courier, negro girl. bought
rough on rats yesterday, but her
she dined on it.
John Dyche, the father of Prof. L. L
Dycne, the Kansas explorer, suffered
stroke of paralysis at his home in Wa
karusa a few days ago
Remember that the polls do not close |
until o'clock this evening and there is |
still chance to vote for good govern |
ment and a reliable man.
The Leavenworth Standard makes the |
following observation: "A Topeka Elk I
took a pocket full Of beer corks back /
with him to remind -.''
LAS it rains in March so 1t rains in /
June is another official proverb from /
the book of the weather sayings com
piled by the weather bureau
1.-The Old Maids convention netted the
Epwcrth league Of Oakland $40 and it IS
reliably reported that there was not a |
single "old maid" in the cast.
Rev. Mr. Allen of the Walnut Grove |
NJ. z. church has recovered from his re-
cent illness and will occupy his pulpit
morning and evening tomorrow.
c. Fl. Phillips formerly Of the Rock
Island passenger Office in this city but
now excursion manager for the same
road. is spending a few days in the city. /
The Topeka high school girls will play
basket ball with the Indian girls from
Haskell institute at the w q. T. u.
gymnasium on Jackson street this eve
ming.
The new church workers Of the First
Baptist church and the Ladies' Aid So
E. Eldridge. S1S Jefferson street. w ednes-
day
The members of the German Methodist
Episcopal church gave a pleasant sur
prise to Mrs. F. Schmidt at her home on
East Eighth street in honor Of her sixty
ninth birthday.
George Klauer was tried in police
court yesterday for selling liquor. The
evidence was furnished by the Gilmore
detective agency. The case was taken
under Amusement.
How dare you hail when I want to
reign over Topeka" stOrmed "Col"
Hughes at the weather man this morn
ing when they rode down town in the
same car together.
Ihere are five small children of Mrs
Myrtle Webster, who cut her husbands
throat and who has since been sent to
the asylum, who are being cared for by
the people in Parkdale.
G. G. Clemens, years ago editor Of
The Whim Wham." has gotten into
print again with The Daily Foolkiller,'
which appeared for the first, and prob
ably the last time yesterday.
The following is from Clemens new
daily paper published once in two years:
: Make your city government get water
for you Make your assistant attorney
general Introduce it as a beverage