The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS


Father HAYDEN preached in Kansas
City last night.
A. o. u W. lodge No. II is remodeling
its hall at 11e West Sixth
The Republican primaries will be held
a week from next Saturday.
The next regular meeting of the Com
mercial club Will be on June Is.
Generally fair weather has prevailed
along the railroads for the past two
days.
Major T. ]. Anderson viii deliver the
address on Decoration day at Manhat-
G. W. Kanavel, a member of the state
board of charities. was in the city to-
day.
The r. A A. athletic exhibition viii
be given tonight at the association
rooms
A new machine capable of making
sixty tons of ice a day is being put in
at Wolf's.
A motion for a new trial in the
"Pearly'' Atkinson case has been filed
in the district court.
The high school graduation exercises
will be held in the Auditorium a week
from tomorrow night.
Major Anderson. secretary of the To-
pel1a Commercial club. will be g. years
old on Wednesday, May %.
The Edison company is preparing to
lay steam pipes in the alley between
Kansas avenue and Quincy street.
Mrs NJ. E. Hollcraft Of West Sixth
avenue is in Kansas City attending a
meeting of the Rathbone Sisters.
Colonel Wilder s. Metcalf made
semi-annual inspection of company A,
X N. G., in the armory last night.
The Hartford Creamery company of
Hartford, Lyon county, has been char
tered, with a capital stock of $1,000.
Nearly all the government officials who
make the postOffice their headquarters
are at Salina this week attending court
Some of the electroliers on the fourth
floor Of the State house clear the floor
by just six feet. Tall peoples hats
suffer.
The new building at Wolff's packing
house, which is to be used for smoking,
curing and storage, will be completed
about July 1.
The pension Office will begin moving
into the new rooms in the government
building about May 27 and it expects to
finish the work by June l.
The Shawnee County Stock Breeders
association will meet Saturday at
o'clock to consider taking stock in the
Topeka Exposition association.
Labor Commissioner W. l. A. John
son went to st. Louis today to attend the
seventeenth annual convention Of the
officers of the bureaus OF labor statistics
of the United States.
The Republican city central commit
tee is now talking of raising money to
pay Colonel Hughes attorney fees and
with Albert Parker.
Although the spring has been called
backward, there are several places IN
Topeka where there is an abundance OF
trees and grass that look particularly
picturesque just now.
one huckster came to town Saturday
with one-horse wgaon load of vege-
tables which netted him $50. And still
some people will not wear overalls, get
their hands dirty and make money
.1<~ R,r1k
the commencement exercises viii be
held May %, as Governor Stanley, who
is to deliver the address, has an en-
gagement for Decoration day.
The Methodist church at Rossville is
planning to have a big Sunday school
picnic on June i. The picnic will run
in opposition to the county Republican
primaries-and will probably win the
most support.
Tonight the druggists banquet viii
occur at the Auditorium The caterers
will cook the food in a tent located IN
the court back of the building. The rules
Of the building prevent the use of stoves
in the Auditorium
The druggists convention may be
called 1.-The pill rollers reunion" or the
conclave of the knights of the pestle'
with all due propriety. but any refer
ence to a joint convention should be
barred from the records.
The city clerk Of Wheeling. w. Va. has
written to City Clerk Squires, asking
finance report, and anything else the
city has in the way of statistical infor
nation. But he didn't enclose stamp for
reply.
The Volunteers of America have pitch
ed q tent at the corner of Fourth and
Quincy and will hold meetings every
night The Volunteers are in charge
OF Capt j. II. Keene. and a general in
vitation is extended to the services each
evening.
Colonel Fred L Jeltz is out of the
race for county clerk The entrance
fee of $50 was too high and the Republ1-
can county central committee would
not wait for the money until the colo
mel had won the purse He will ask
the voters to write his name on the
ticket
Grace Ware. who lives at 522 Lincoln
street, was knocked off her bicycle and
trampled by a horse on the avenue in
front of the State Journal office late
Monday afternoon. She was painfully
bruised. Andy Dupree, a colored man,
was driving and coming rapidly around
the corner of Eighth avenue when the
accident occurred. The little girl made
no complaint and uttered no cry
though her injuries were very painful
The horse stepped on one of her hands.