The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


A few more ice wagons are appearing.
If you haven't registered it's too late
now.
Seth G. Wells, postmaster at Erie, is
in the city.
Photographs of the St. Marys wreck
were taken.
And then it rained. The weather fore
caster said it would
The street cleaners worked on Kansas
avenue this morning.
The paper hangers are having just the
beginning OF the spring rush.
The Elks are filing a large album with
photographs of the members
The golf enthusiasts viii soon have a
'chanst upon the green sward-s
The Jossey Stock company will play
THE Signal of Liberty tonight.
Otto Kuehne is in Chicago today on
business. He will return Monday.
The First Lutheran church has pur-
chased a new carpet and a new piano.
Several good saddle horses have been
developed in Topeka during the last
winter.
Storm doors are coming down and gar
den seats being hauled out for spring
time siestas.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is in Atchison to
day. She will speak at Leavenworth to
the old soldiers tomorrow.
G. "A Sewers of 213 Harrison street
mas De6n taken down with smallpox. lie
is quarantined at his home.
The directors of the Orphans Home
will meet Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. Howell Jones'
Boys and girls did you read that offer
Warren NJ Crosby & Co. had in their
advertisement in last evenings Journal?
DR.. Julia Donahue, a medical mission
airy of China, will speak at the Walnut
Grove M. f. church next Sunday even
Sraorora sseola7v ~ 1,,,,.,, ..o11eeya mill
retain his place on the debating team to
meet the team from Grinnen college next
month.
The Jossey Stock company played to
crowded house at the Crawford last
night. Another performance will be Civ
en- tonight
The spring vacation at Washburn col
lege will begin next Wednesday and
school will begin again the following
Wednesday.
It appears that the women are going
to control the coming election. They
never before displayed such an interest
in city politics.
TIE Commercial club is sending out
postal cards remindfhg those who prom
lsed to vote for the shop extension pro-
position of their pledges.
One new case of smallpox was re-
ported yesterday There is a decided
falling off in the number of cases OF both
smallpox and scarlet fever.
The man in Topeka has been discov-
cred who built a house and forgot TO
have a back door. One was cut in the
kitchen after the house was done.
Dr.. J. T. Mcfarland of the First NJ.
z. church, is out of the city and Rev.
Frank Lockwood of Manhattan viii
fill his pulpit morning and evening.
Trainmaster A E. Austin, who has
been in the Santa Fe hospital In this city
undergoing treatment for his eyes. has
returned to his home at Arkansas City
The first concert at the Auditorium by
Marshalls band will probably be given
March 81. John b. Marshall is trying
to make arrangements to that effect
Topeka Touring mills are sending out
twenty-five to thirty-five cars Of flour
a day Most Of it goes to New York,
but some of it is consigned to England.
The JOssey Stock company seems to
have Justin Mccarthy among the per-
formers but the combination is not kept
up by his wife being known as Cissy
Lotus.
DR.. Julia Donahue, a returned mission
airy from China, viii make an address at
the Young Women's Christian Assocla-
ton on Sunday at Ais p. m. The lecture
will be of especial interest
The court room in the federal building
will not be completed in time for the
term of the United States district court.
Unless a room is arranged for the court
may be held in Leavenworth.
William Hawkins claims he was con-
V1CTeQ IOT the InLE0Sr Nathan NC
Girk, at Columbus, in 1898, though in
nOcent, because persons wanted the $500
reward offered. He asks for a pardon.
H J. Ornsby, special agent free rural
delivery, returned yesterday from the
Fourth district where he has been eStab- |
fishing routes. There are applications in |
for 300 routes in Kansas which have not
yet been inspected
Oae Of the women's clubs Of the city
will have a new way to amuse the me1n-
bers. Each lady will bring a bunch of
photographs Of herself from the time of |
ner childhood until the present. The |
plan gives promise of much sport AID
amusement.
The law increasing the salaries of the |
mayors in cities of the first class went !
into effect yesterday. This will increase
the salary of the mayor of Topeka from |
$500 to 81 900 and If the council sees fit /
they may Increase it to $1,000, that is |
the limit The salary of the councilmen |
is increased by the law from $50 to $500 |
per year
the death Of Hermit Frank MacGif
fin, told in Fridays State Journal re-
moved one of the pioneers of Shawnee /
county He was II years old and has
been a. resident Of Shawnee county for
about SO years. Mr. MacGifin has
niece living in Topeka and is the owner
Of considerable property. Some of his
friends going to his house in the after
ncoG received no answer to their knocks
on the door. They gained entrance
through a window and found him dead
in the back room where he had fallen
face downward against a door.
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