The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

G.. A. Bailey was in Kansas City yes
terday on business.
Charles Eldridge was in Kansas City
yesterday on business.
D. P. Elliott, of Enid, Ok, is in To-
peka for a day or two.
Charles NJ. Sheldon has gone to Min
neapolis, Mimi. to lecture.
The Midwinter exposition will open
next Monday bright and early.
Four of the piers of the new Sardou
avenue bridge have been placed
The Heubner Theater company will
be at the Crawford all next week
Mrs. Charles Biglay, living near
Twelfth and Quincy, is seriously sick.
Judge ]. c. Pollock, of the supreme
court, was in Kansas City yesterday.
Superintendent of Insurance W.. V.
Church was in Kansas City yesterday.
The Woman's Auxiliary, of Emporia,
is packing a box for the Topeka hoSpi-
tails
State Supt. Frank Nelson lectured at
Paramount. Leavenworth county. last
night.
The W. c. T. U. will hold a meeting
at the First Methodist church Monday
afternoon at o'clock.
John Sheets, who works at the Mail
and Breeze, is able to be around after
an illness of several days.
H. T. Marsh, state commander of the
Maccabees, was at Winfield yesterday
attending a lodge function.
Mrs Way Townsend has filed an Aft
davit in the district court claiming that
her husband, Lon Townsend, is worth
about $4,000.
Topeka will send delegation to hear
Mary Mannering who will play at the
Auditorium theater in Kansas City the
week of February 81.
Machinist H B. Tillotson of the Santa
F'e shops was struck in the face by the
firebox door of the S24 engine, Friday,
and was slightly injured.
If the 'Ten Nights in Bar Room
show is as bad as the posters used to
the cheapest show of the season
The cheerful reports come from some
parts of the wheat belt that while the
wheat is suffering for want of moisture
it is not as bad off as it might be.
A small fire occurred yesterday after
noon at 4:2O at the home of Guy Nor
gan, SIG Chestnut street. 1t was caused
$780,
W. H. Cheney of this city, was at
Newton yesterday attending sale Uf
Poland China hogs. MIR. Cheney is the
proprietor of the Shady Brook stock
farm
DR.. L NJ. Powell will occupy his new
ly purchased residence at the corner OF
Seventh and Taylor about March 1. 1t
is now occupied by Secretary of State
Clark.
On February the young ladies of
Washburn college are planning to give
a reception. February 6 is 'Washburn
day." the anniversary of the founding OF
the college.
Amateur photographers of Topeka
have organized a club. with R r. Tuck
erman as temporary president A meet
ing is to be held on January % at John
Stricllrott'S studio.
All members of the Topeka Whist club
are requested to be on hand next Mon
day evening, as arrangements for play
ing out-of-town teams during exposition
week will be completed
The jointists and druggists have
wholesome dread of Assistant Attorney
General Redden and his co-workers, but
it is noticeable that they don't quit bus
mess on that account
The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Cunning
ham, who died Wednesday at Guthrie,
Ok, was held this morning at 10 o'clock
at Meriden. The body was taken over
land from Topeka today.
In falling from his mail cart back
wards Yesterday, S. J. HodginS, SuS-
tanned injuries which rendered him un-
conscious. He is under the care of a
doctor and will recover.
wild Bill" Allen, who made a failure
as coach for the Washburn team last
fall, is being talked of for the position
of coach for the Colorado college at
Colorado Springs next season
The young people of the First Meth
odist church who organized the Oxford
Literary society, have abandoned that
plan and reading circle will be started
in its stead to meet twice month.
A delegation of Topekans will attend
the annual Sangerfest to be held at
Kansas City in May. 1t is thought
about 1000 people will attend the
Sangerfest from Kansas and St. Joe.
In his fight to hold the office of dis
trict judge, Judge William Thomson
will file a brief which may possibly state
the case for consideration, as said brief
will contain about $50 printed pages.
Wy
who several weeks ago went to Sche-
nectady, N. Y, to inspect the building
of Santa Fe engines, will soon return
to his place in the Santa Fe shops here.
The women of the Ladies' Federation
of Clubs have arranged several beaut1-
full booths at the Midwinter exposition.
They will be in charge of society girls
and light refreshments and flowers will
be sold.
A requisition was honored yesterday
from Governor Dockery of Missouri for
Frank Smith, who is accused of steal
ing harness in Kansas City, Mo-, and is
now under arrest on this side of the
state line.
The Ninth u S. infantry has been or
dered home from the Philippines. Ar
thur Long, of Topeka, formerly a Twen-
tieth Kansas soldier, is with the regi-
ment and saw service in China and the
J. E. Dubreuil, paymaster of the Rock
Island, has entered the name of John |
Marshall as candidate in the voting |
contest to decide to whom shall be given |
the handsome cornet offered by Band |
master Innes.
Harry Conwe1 of the Santa F'e shops, |
who has been in bed several months |
with typhoid fever, is now able to walk |
around, although he does not expect to |
resume his place in the roundhouse I'M
der month yet.
The committee on streets and walks
has decided that no bridge across the
Shunganunga at Chandler street can be |
built till the residents in that part of |
town buy the land necessary for the
bridge approaches, and deed it to the
city.
Horace Swayze, who was for several
years a newspaper reporter in this city