The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-25
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

The Scottish Rite reunion begins to-
morrow.
NJ. A. Low went to Washington yes
terday.
Albert Reds IN. S. u" football boy
poster is out.
Prof j. H Bell of Lawrence was in
Topeka Sunday.
The stoves are at last being placed
in the street cars.
Mrs. Con vanatta has returned from
a visit with her parents at Salina.
Turkeys are again the center of at
traction at the butcher shops
Christmas is one month away and the
young hopefuls are counting the days
John A. Bright has gone to Lamont,
Ok, to institute a new Odd Fellows
lodge.
The Elks will have a dancing party
at their lodge rooms Thanksgiving
night.
John E. Frost. president of the Com
mercial club, will return from Colorado
this week
Charles d. Welch who had fall from
bicycle three weeks ago still walks
on crutches.
George Banter of the Rock Island
passenger department was in Kansas
City Saturday.
On December u and IS the ladies of
Unity Alliance will give their annual
fair at the church.
The days are getting very short In
less than month they will begin to
lengthen once more.
The fall term of the federal court
opened here today. Judge William
Hook is on the bench.
Assistant County Treasurer w. s.
Eberlee is building a $1,000 cottage on
Lane streer near Fifth.
The weather men will not announce so
long beforehand what kind of weather
will be served Thanksgiving.
charter has been granted to the
Mutual Home company of Kansas City,
Kan. Its capital stock is $500.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Patterson has returned to
her home in Carbonate after brief
visit with relatives in Topeka
The Topeka Business college football
team defeated the Shawnees Saturday
afternoon by a score of Is to 0.
The city physician has a supply of
vaccine, and will vaccinate free all who
apply to him for such treatment
Blanch Walsh plays Janice Mere
dith" in Ottawa and Lawrence this
week but does not come to Topeka.
A Topeka man says he doesn't object
to eating one meal A day by lamp light,
but he hates to have it the first one.
At the German Lutheran church Sun
day child was christened whose father
was 70 years old and the mother q
years old
d
living at 426 Lafayette street, was taken
sick Saturday with smallpox, and is
Quarantined.
The new state house heating plant
will heat the entire building to the
roasting point these days with only two
pounds of steam.
The Ottawa Washburn game here
Thanksgiving should be close, though
Ottawa men say they expect to win
at least "a to o.
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piled for the use of the Auditorium on
December &c. A dance and entertain
ment will be given.
Charles NJ. Sheldon preached a sermon
yesterday at Central church on the sub
ject of prison reform and care of con-
victs after their release from prison.
The federal building is being wired
for electric lights. The E. NJ Reed
company of Kansas City has the con-
tract and Chas. B. Fox is here doing
the work
Johnson county now has the largest
membership in the Grange of any coun-
ty in the state At one time the organic
alton was powerful enough to elect
congressman.
The trial of ex-Policeman S. M. Hall
for the killing of George Head with a
blow from policeman's club, is set for
trial in the district court for Wednes-
day of next week.
Saturday afternoon Judge Hazen
granted a divorce to Mrs Jennie VOL
stenholme from William T. Wolsten-
holne. The parties were best known by
the name of Lawless.
People are wondering how much long
er this fine weather will last Not that
there is any objection to it, but snow
f1urrieS generally come before Thanks
giving or about that time.
Judge T. F. Carver, N. H LOOMS,
Albert Watkins l. S. Ferry, H G.
Larimer and A. w. Dana are the law
yers who are to give the course of lee
lures to the law students of the Y. M.
C. A. this winter.
The Topeka police are keeping a look
out for the escaped convict, John Nor
gan. Morgan made his escape from the
federal penitentiary Friday. He was a
trusty and at work in a stone
quarry the day he made his escape.
81. E. Murphy, of Leavenworth, has
been appointed a member of the board
of directors of the ST. Louis Exposition
Fraternal Building association, which
proposes to erect a $780, 900 fraterna1
society building for the worlds fair in
1903
The stores that were decorated with
bunting for the Washburn-K. U. foot
ball game will again throw out the
bunting on Thanksgiving day for the
Ottawa game. The cOlOrS are blue for
Washburn and lemon for Ottawa.
William Macferran, commissioner of
floral designs, and Ralph Brigham,
manager of the Kansas Midwinter ex-