The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

| A. H. Vance is in Oklahoma on legal
| business.
The government thermometer got up
| to 50 yesterday afternoon
E. H. Custer. of Kansas City, is in
| Topeka to visit for few days.
Wall paper and spring medicines are
| the necessaries of life just now.
| The Crawford is being swept. There
| is nothing more there this week
Mayor Parker might write a book on
| How to be happy while in Office"
The Chicago Symphony orchestra
Will be at the Auditorium tonight.
Gin fixes are the style now. Easter
morning egg nog Will be the thing.
Cider" Smith thought yesterday that
we might have some unsettled weather.
B. F. Billings. a prominent farmer of
Jefferson county. was in Topeka Mon
| day.
One week from today is April FOOLS
day Keep your eyes open and don't
forget.
MIR. F. S. Savage. advertising agent of
the Santa Fe has gone to Chicago on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. William MCGEE of 1928
East Sixth avenue, are the parents of
baby girl.
Weather Observer Jennings today
wore grin. He says the sunshine was
all his fault.
There is a scarcity of fox terriers in
them find none.
M. H. Client, a Topeka artist, has
gone to Washington to take a position
on newspaper.
This is a good time to make garden
Spring reveals some very bad places
in the pavement.
The hard coal fires are burning with
a low and uncertain light. This is an
other sign of spring.
Lord Kitchener and Mayor Parker
might exchange letters of coincidence.
Both have been whipped.
Mr.. w. NJ. Levitt from Oklahoma is
spending a few days in the city with
his wife at 1925 Tyler street.
The wheat fields in the country sur
rounding Topeka are looking very well
in spite. of the severe winter.
Easter lilies with from two to nine
flowers and buds. are for sale at Mrs.
Holcraft's. ST Kansas avenue.
Mr.. w. A Smith. secretary of the
board of railroad commissioners, left
yesterday for St Marys on business.
The old quotation about the lion and
the lamb will be revived. The Populists
and Democrats are holding a conference
here today.
Mr. Guy Houghtellin, of Denver. is
in the city. Mr.. Houghtellin is chief
clerk to the general agent of the Santa
Fe at Denver.
If you do not know what symphony
means go to the Auditorium tonight
that strikes Topeka.
Excellent fishing is reported at Lake
View. The shares in the club have gone
up from 500 to $3.50. The reports of fish
ing must be true.
The streets are crowded this week
with Easter shoppers. The millinery
and dry goods stores are doing re-
markably big business.
Mr. Scott Lord, of John E. Lord.
left Saturday for Marceline, Mo-, to ae-
ant a nc CT nh IN he
freight department of the Santa F'e.
c. a. Rutherford and D. H Robinson,
Rock Island passenger agents from
Omaha, Neb., and Fort Worth. Texas,
respectively, were in Topeka Monday.
Norton Payne who was in the office
of the superintendent of machinery of
the Santa Fe here. is now with the q.
b. & K. c. railway at Beaumont, Tex
Miss Frances Mcmillan, who lives a t
1926 Topeka avenue. has been seriously
i'll for the past two weeks. Miss Nc
MILAN is a stenographer in the Santa
Fe offices.
"Side Tracked" is playing in Kansas
City this week. But after all that is not
remarkable. Kansas City has supported
Manning's baseball aggregation for sew
eral years.
The dates for the spring musical fes-
tival of the Topeka Choral Union have
not been definitely determined but it is
announced the recitalS will be the four
days preceding May 80.
The park improvement plan to be
voted on at the city election means
much to the city. This is good time
to drop petty jealousies and make a
pull for the good of the city.
J. Ware Butterfield has received ad-
vices of rich strike of silver in the
Wichita mountains near Parker City,
about % miles from Lawton. The ore,
it is said, yields SO per cent silver.
Charles B. Ramsey, of the contract
ing firm of Ramsey e. Ramsey, has
been in Fort Scott for several days pre-
pairing to bid on the laying of pave
ment on Main street in that city.
The Modocs are not singing RIP Van
Wrinkle Was a Lucky Man" 1t is an
nouneed that this popular ditty will be
annexed to the repertoire of I'm Vocal
Combat" Priscilla" and Hush. Hush.
Hush before snow flies.
The Clemingshire ranch in Jackson
county has been sold to J. F. LarSh,
prominent Nebraska speculator, for $685.
600. The place was owned by S. H
Chase of Hoyt and was sold by Boyce
and Gardner of dolton-
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott play
when We Were Twenty-One' at the
Auditorium theater in Kansas City the
first three days of next week. The play
was seen in Topeka earlier in the sea-
son but Nat Goodwin wasn't here
ALT Young, a coIored boy, was
brought to Topeka yesterday from En-
poria, and will be confined in the Re
form school The boy is one of the
tough co1ored youths of Emporia. His
mother was very much opposed to hav-
ing him sent to the Reform school.
With the coming of spring weather,
the men bers of the Modoc club have
weakened from their seeming lethargy,
and spring rehearsals have begun. The
first rehearsal was held last night and
the participants cavorted about the
practice hall with the sprightliness and
animation of a bunch of school boys.
DR. Ernst Fahrig has at last arrived
in Topeka, and the work of operating
the Fahrig test mill will begin without
delay. A small amount of machinery
is stiH to be put in place. All the tests
at the mill will be secret, and the
plant will be guarded night and day to