The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The W. c. T. U. viii meet in the par
lor of the First M. f. church, at p m,
Monday.
Bishop MilIspaugh win take charge OF
all the services in Grace Cathedral on
Sunday.
Frank B. Edison and B. l. Rees are
applicants for membership IN the Com
mercial club.
The annual meeting of the CONNER
cia1 club viii be held in the club rooms
next Wednesday night.
A-J.Ormsby and Captain Cleark, spec
ial agents in the rural delivery service
were in the city yesterday.
The county commissioners will meet
Monday and make the official canvass
OF the vote cast at the special election
today
The presentation of medals to the
members Of the Twentieth Kansas viii
take place at the Auditorium on Friday
evening, January Is.
The Topeka City Troop did not hold
their annual election last night on ac-
count Of the lack Of attendance. The
election will be held February 1.
The sudden ending of the senatorial
fight sent many of the members home to
spend Sunday who had intended re-
naming until the session opened
Frank Hammond. superintendent of
iron bridges for the Santa F'e, is recov-
ering from his recent injuries and will
soon be able to leave the hospital
Joseph a. Baker, travelling engineer of
the Santa Fe, has resigned to accept
similar position on the Ohio Central, ac-
cording to information received here.
The men who work in the offices at the
federal building win be happy when the
repairs on the building are completed
At present the federal building is the
dirtiest place in the city.
DR.. J. D. Counternine will read a
paper on THE Outlook for the New
Century at the meeting Of the Min
isterial union, in the Y. M. G. A.
rooms, Monday morning, at 10 o'clock.
The Topeka members of the Retail
Grocers and Business Mems league of
Kansas held a meeting at the National
hotel last night to arrange for a meet
ing at the Auditorium January and 9.
The postmasters Of Kansas will meet
in this city January 10 and H. Judge
Guthrie, president Of the association.
has invited the postmaster general and
his four assistants to attend the meet
ing.
clyde M. Reed Of Wichita, clerk in the
railway mail service, viii read q. paper
at the state meeting Of postmasters on
January 10 on the subject, THE Rela-
POstOffice."
Sam Sproat, formerly of Topeka, is
visiting his brother, J. s. SprOat He
left Topeka about five years ago, and IS
now connected with the Hammond
Packing company, with headquarters at
San Francisco.
The county commissioners will object
to turning over to the state the furni-
by the county They want to keep 1t
for the use of the city court and of
course it should be kept.
Harry Burns has received some rich
specimens of free gold bearing quartz
from a mine located near Ouray, Colo.
Several Topeka men are interested in
this venture, and will push the work
with the opening Of spring.
Morning subject, Organization Of
Christ's Body and evening theme,
1.-The Supreme Gift" being the fifth in
a series of sernonts on Supreme Re
alities," is the programme for Sunday
at the First Christian church
The entertainment committee of the
terlainment to be given in the Auditor
ium in a short time. The proceeds of
the entertainment will GO to defraying
the clubs expenses to Washington.
The First Baptist Sunday school will
mark the first session in the twentieth
century by recording the names of all |
the attendants in the archives of the |
school by preserving each name with a |
souvenir.
Assistant General Freight Agent H |
H. Embry announces the appointment |
of 0. 3. Byers as commercial agent at |
who became traffic manager of the |
Northwestern Steamship company on |
New Years.
c. G. Sholes, superintendent of tele-
graph of the Santa F'e. has gone down to |
Texas on a. variety of business matters |
relating to the department, including |
things growing out of the recent strike |
and echoes of the reconstruction work |
that followed the Galveston disaster
The Primary Sunday School Teachers
union viii meet at the Central COngre-
gational church on Friday evening, jan |
uary II, at 7:30. Mrs. G. Cleveland of |
the First Baptist church will lead the |
devotional services. Miss Bessie Max |
well Of the English Lutheran will con-
duct the lessons and Mrs. Anna 6. Over
holt will sing a new building song. All |
Sunday school workers are invited to
attend.
The semi annua1 row between the /
senior and sub-senior class at the high
school is on. 1t has been the custom of |
the sub senior class to make life as mis-
cradle for the seniors as possible just /
before their graduation. This year when
the senior boys ordered high collars
made of purple, the class color. the sub
seniors heard of it in some way and Sc
cured the collars. They were presented
in chapel yesterday morning, tackled on
a board and draped with the sub-senior