The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-24
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


The Topeka Golf club house is nearing
completion.
The soldiers encamDed in Topeka are
very young.
Mort AIbaugh is not a candidate for
governor-nOt now
Apollo lodge "A. o. U. W. will give an
entertainment tonight.
Ihere Will be handicap tournament
by the Topeka Golf club Saturday.
L Wise, ex-city engineer, has gone
c. B. Lane, trainmaster for the Rock Is
land at Goodland. was in Topeka Thurs
There win be a Y. M. c. A. gymnastic
exhibition at the gymnasium this even
years ago. is now under arrest at Kansas
The Scottish Concert company closed
night.
crowd was at the fair grounds last
night to see the soldiers. Young women
Warren Goddard has sold his residence
at 425 Clay street to B. T. Payne The
The high school graduation exercises
viii be held next Wednesday evening at
A W, Dana is building a new residence
on Fillmore street, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth.
A play and miscellaneous program will
ing a o'clock tea
There will be a civil service examination
held in Topeka June IS for the positions
of clerk and carrier
The house formerly occupied by Omar
Newman. in POtWin. is now rented by
Charles H Hubbell-
Since Ned Osborn purchased the Column
bian building he has personally assumed
the duties of manager.
The Topeka women who were attending
the meeting Of the Rathbone Sisters in
Kansas City have returned home.
It is rumored that R. Stevens agent for
the Rock Island on the north SIDE is to
be transferred to PhiAipsburg as agent at
that place.
Clad Hamilton will deliver the Memorial
day address at HiaWatha, and Milton
Brown viii be the orator on that day at
CarbOndale.
The American Benevolent association is
preparing for entertainment to be
given two weeks from last night at the
hall on West Sixth street
The gentlemen of Unity church will give
supper 3l2Ti +, this evening at the church. Sup
entertainment will be given.
The Washington School Hornets played
nine innings yesterday with the Lime
fore dark and the Lime Kiln players
scored S.
The artillery camped in the fair grounds
an 9dam aPaG5 ground near the Reform school
march to Rossvile.
Mayor Hughes, when asked if his con-
science did not hurt him for displacing
and his chest out. took the position of
martyr, he said No"
The politicians who started in at the be-
ginning of the campaign for the Republi-
can nomination with one horse buggies,
are now using. two horses. The primaries
will be a week from tomorrow
Mrs. Nation sailed through the state
house last night soliciting subscriptions
for the Smasher,s Mail She made
friendly. call on Gov Stanley and they
buried the Ratchet on everything but pol
itics. She is still ''agin" him that
score.
The question of location for the new
Kansas river bridges is becoming an is
in no 1,1 ri Mo-
only the candidates for commissioner, but
all the candidates are trying to square
themselves with the people at Silver
Lake, Valencia and Menoken.
State Bank Commissioner A1baugh
SAYS the S6S, 100000 in Kansas banks alone
gives $3.50 per capita in the state. Banks
do not average more than 200 depositors.
however, and the nine-tenths of the pop
ulatiOn that does not patrOhIze them have
as much cash as the one-tenth who do.
At the request of large business in
terests of Topeka and Shawnee county,
for the Republican nom ination for the
office of county commissioner The peo-
pie are certainly fortunate when a
brOad-gauged man like Mr.. Howe, with
wide, practical business experience In
affairs of city and state, consents to
run for an Office of this kind. His Sc
lection ought to be, under the circum-
stances, practically unanimous. There
are several other candidates, but Mr..
Howe, beyond a doubt, should receive
the nomination by a handsome ma
jority. More men of this kind should
be encouraged to serve the public The
Importance of the office is far beyond
the general concern given it.