The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-11
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

IAN American Tramp will be at the
Crawford tonight
The annual cane rush at Washburn
college viii take place tonight
Mr. and Mrs. P. j. McKiernan are the
parents of daughter born Sunday.
The Kansas Medics will play the
State Normal at Emporia Saturday.
The county commissioners have finish
ed checking up the county treasurer's
books
Architect Hadley. of Topeka, is at
Abilene looking over the court house
work there.
TheColts and theHigh school basketball
teams meet tonight at the Y. M. c. A.
gymnasium
DIR. r. w. Maintz. of Washington,
member of the legislature. was in To
peka yesterday.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
whist club Will be held in the club rooms
next Monday evening.
The high school and the Central high
school of Kansas City play on the
Washburn field tomorrow.
J. @. Lewis, who some time ago had
leg badly mashed while at work in the
ice plant here, is still in the hospital
The high school girls basketball
teams are practicing the game aim
daily at the Y. W. c. A gymnasium
Dogs, cats and other pet animals ex-
posed to smallpox the health authOri-
ties propose to have killed and burned
Why didn't the police gather in some
nf the large drug store joints yesterday
afternoon while they were in the game?
The football game tomorrow afternoon
between the Topeka and Kansas City
central high schools will begin at $3.50
O'Clock
. Observer Jennings says he is working
on some new styles in atmosphere to be
placed on the market before the hOli-
days.
People who sowed blue grass and
clover on their lawns during the past
two weeks, now have a good start for
next years grass
Robertus Love, a reporter for the St
Louis Post-Dispatch, was here yester-
day looking into the Emmett Dalton
pardon case for his paper.
John Switzer will read a paper on the
Results of the Spanish-American
War at the meeting of the Saturday
Night club tomorrow night
Oscar Swayze has large roll of red
tape at the county clerks office which he
says is for the county auditor to use
in case his string of red tape runs out
E. C. Bailey is suffering from inflaIn-
m alton of the brain at his home a mile
south of Burnetts mound He is
brother-in-law of Street Commissioner
Snyder.
October and November are the months
of the year for black bass, in Kansas.
Streams which have been stocked with
these gamey swimmers are being sought
At a meeting of the members of Cen
trail Congregational church held Thurs
day night, the plans for an addition to
the church were discussed, but no ac-
ton was taken
VIII Macferran, of the State Savings
bank. is distributing pencils with the
name of his bank inscribed thereon The
unusual part of it is that the pencils are
good for something.
Mr. and Mrs P. w. Copeland of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, are in the city
visiting friends and relatives. Mr.. Cope
land is a brother to E. L. Copeland,
fashier of the Santa Fe.
The washburn yells have been print
ed In an effort to Guido K. U. a large
collection of yells was gathered in The
printed circular containing the latest
yells includes some half a dozen
w. E. Ward, receiver of the Colby
land office, came in to Topeka long
enough to get in a vote for a candidate
from his section for secretary of the
Odd Fellows. Ward is a past grand
Mrs Byron Jewell came in Thursday
from South Peak, Staten Island. N. Y,
where she has been visiting her two
daughters, Mrs. Addie Jewell Newton
and Theo. since the latter part of June
If Topeka could shut itself up from
the rest of the world, it would probably
continue to be free from smallpox All
the cases which have occurred in the
past two or three months have been i'm
ported.
A civil service examination for clerk
and carrier postoff1ce service will be
held in Topeka November goth. Appli-
cation blanks can be obtained from LIE
Roy Powell. secretary local examining
board at postoffice.
David Overmyer says the anti-fusion |
law is defective and a species of an |
archy, since the Peoples party has been |
almost legislated out of its name, and |
attorney-gen decisions are depriv- |
ing it even of its name.
Mayor Hughes has new desk This |
is the fourth desk he has had in his |