The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

filed.
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
The Scottish Rite reunion begins one
week from today
The roof has been put on Lowman
Hill school house.
Charles Barnes of the state auditors
office went to Chicago yesterday.
A charter has been granted the West
ern School of Embalming, of Kansas
City, Kas.
Observer Jennings said yesterday the
snow would not amount to a great deal.
He was right.
w. B. Jones. Santa Fe car repairer,
has gone to San Bernardino, Cal, to
work for the company.
Sam Radges is very busy getting out
the first 500 holiday gift book edition of
his new city directory.
The elevator at the federal building
still continues to be a nuisance. 1t Is
in need of repairs regularly.
The reservations for carriage spaces
at the Thanksgiving football game are
already being made at Kellams.
Chief Stahl stated on the witness stand
today that he has not played game of
cards of any kind for 80 years.
Street cars are running to Western
avenue on West Eighth again. The paw
ing will soon be completed to Buchanan
street.
Howard Marshall of I'll Western ave-
nue., was taken sick with smallpox yes
terday, and removed to the detention
hospital.
Eugene Davis, deputy state bank
commissioner, Instituted the Citizens
bank of Pomona, Monday. Its capital
stock is $4,000.
John B. Quay a cousin of the Penn
sylvania boss of the Republican party,
was in Topeka yesterday. He is a post
office inspector
The board of directors of the Kansas
Midwinter exposition will meet We'd
nesday afternoon at the Commercial
club rooms at 2:30.
The Woman's Auxiliary board to the
Kansas Midwinter exposition will meet
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the
Y. w. c. A. rooms.
Jonathan apples are now selling in
Topeka for $1.60 a bushel. And this is
the season of the year when apples are
supposed to be cheap.
The Ladies' society of the First Meth
odist church will meet with Mrs. E. w.
Poindexter at OIL West Eighth avenue,
Wednesday afternoon
Albert Griffin wants to try his moral
suasion plan of promoting temperance
on Iowa, and has written the Des
Moines Register to that effect
Observer Jennings has had a house
cleaning and his office now looks like
that of a first class metropolitan at
torney or railroad magnate.
Much doubt exists to the result
of the Thanksgiving football game here
between WaShburn and Ottawa, but
there is little reason for doubt.
The Ministerial Union has recon-
mended the reading of the Ten Com
mandments, the 23d Psalm and the
Lords Prayer in the public schools.
The case against the Kansas Mutual
Life Insurance company is No. 1872 on
the docket for the next term of court
The court sits here Monday, November
pa.
Delno Romer, the young man who
finished term in Jail not long ago for
stealing a bicycle, is again in the tolls,
this time for burglary and grand lar
ceny.
Irwin lodge, No. 260, of the A. o. U.
W., will give it's tenth annual ball at
it's hall the corner of Sixth avenue
and Quincy on the evening of Thanks
giving day.
Phillips county has refunded $4,000
worth of its bonds, reducing the inter-
est from to AZ per cent. The re-
funded bonds have just been registered
by State Auditor Cole.
The board of railway commissioners
went to Bunker Hill Monday, to hear
the application of r. j. Edwards, who
wants to compel the Union Pacific to
build a spur to his mill.
The council last night passed the anti
opium joint ordinance by a unanimous
vote. City Attorney Spencer says there
is some doubt as to whether or not an
ordinance if this kind is valid.
1t is likely that after January 1 the
rates for renting the Auditorium will be
raised. 1t is claimed that the present
rate does not pay for lights, heat and
the wear and tear on the building.
Charles C. Smith, who for the past
two years has been running the Current
Remark at Lyndon, Kan, has returned
to Topeka to engage in business. He
will live at 521 West Tenth street.
Rev. L. C. Denise will preach at the
Westminster Presbyterian church to-
night on the subject of Temptation and
How to Meet It." A series of religious
meetings is now being held at the
church.
The Topeka Medics' football team will /
play the eleven from the college of ply
sicians and surgeons in Kansas City
Saturday unless the game can be called
off and one be played in Topeka with
Washburn on that date.
Basket ball will be more popular here
this winter than last Nearly a dozen
teams are practicing now preparatory
to the beginning of the season The high
school girls have three teams.
The State Journal has received a let
ter from l. 1. Nedeau of Rossville who
says that the following former residents