The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-18


One hardware merchant has disposed
of SO oil stoves.
Excavating for the West Sixth avenue
road paving has begun.
Mrs Willis Norton's home on Topeka
avenue is being remodeled.
Jennings is preparing a forecast which
says look out for chillblains.
With turkeys so high in price it might
be advisable to try roast pig.
Things seem to be unusually quiet in
the vicinity of Douglass school
The restaurants are now calling quail
hedge snioe" on the bills of fare.
Red peppers were the last to sue
cumb. The last frost nipoed them.
John Hillman has made application for
a place as ianitor at the court house.
So many automobiles have made their
appearance that the count has bean lost.
over 5000 chattel mortgages are on file
in the registers Office at the court house.
It is about time for Judge L. S. Ferry
to make his usual successful squirrel
hunt.
Nearly $4,000 civil cases have been
docketed in the Shawnee county district
court.
The ballots cast at the last election.
according to law will be preserved three
years.
The last heavy frosts were too much
for Ernest Cheney's two acres of straw
berries.
The shunganunga bridge near Baugh-
mans ice house is reported to have set
tied q foot
The man who wears high-topped boots
and red flannel underwear has made his
appearance.
Two Topeka sportsmen are on the
waiting list to buy a share of Lake
View stock.
There will be a dancing hall in the
a VI
Jackson street.
Front rooms are being papered AMI
made ready to let during the session Ct
the legislature
Just to create a little diversion the po-
lice might discover that perennial OPP
ium joint again.
The members of law firm in Topeka
have not paid their personal property
tax for two years.
Calendars for 1903 are appearing and
a good supply of alInanacs are on hand
at the drug stores.
The new sheriff. county treasurer, reg
ister- of deeds and county clerk take
their otAces in January.
If -ou are slated to carve a turkey
Thanksgiving before company, you
might practice on a decoy.-
Cyrus Leland is a member of the State
Historical society. He might relate lot
of mighty interesting history.
There are % chattel mortgages on soda
water fountains on file in the register of
deeds Office at the court house.
1t Will seem like old times for Judge
Hazen to again try Poole, the man
charged with stealing chickens
When John Coyne losses his place as
bailiff OF the court he expects to raise
his famous brand of real Irish oota-
toes
One of Judge Vests duties. under the
no N " = T4I0
will be to look after the Arkansas river
suit.
The Clay Center Dispatch recently
printed pictures of Mrs. w. A. Johnson
and other federated club officers of To-
peka.
The women who are interested in the
Orphans home will give a dance No
vember IS, to raise funds for the insti-
tuition.
Those who would like to take the first
step toward a legal career are trying to
get on the jury for the January term of
court.
County Treasurer-elect Frank Bowen
will not succeed H. NJ. Philips until Oc-
tober, 1908, when Capt. Philips term ex-
oires.
City Engineer McCabe has just about
completed drawings for the proposed
sewer in Orchard Place and Walnut
Gro-a.
Observer Jennings has bought a ne
axe handle and had the cutting end of
the device sharpened. Look out for that
cold wave.
When Otis Hun=ate goes duck hunt
ing before daylight now he carries Il
lantern with him to be able to see where
the deem water is.
Now that the election is over. County
Attorney Nichols might explain what
has become of the insurance cases and
the ice trust suit.
]. H Maxwell. who has contracts for
grading streets for paving, has four
teams of horses which weigh within 100
pounds of each other.
w. E. Sterne who has been talked OF
as a candidate for mayor, says that he
viii positively not allow his name to be
used as candidate.
Two tons of ballots were left over
from the election. They will be cut in
to proper sizes and put into tableIs to
be used at the court house.
County Surveyor Rogers helped sur
vey some of the Santa Fe lines when
there were few red skins prowling
about the edges of the right of way.
Lindsborg ought to feel contented
now that the Washburn football team
has played on the Bethany college
grounds, where there Is no college bell
to ring.
The Grand Prix telescope to be placed
in the Washburn observatory, has arrived
az tAic CCllcSC pdCfSu HI AHS SAINT OOAeS
in which it was shipped from Paris to
Cleveland
The township is doing the grading for
the Sixth avenue road paving. The paw
ing viii be done with funds furnished
by property owners on the road and the
county.
County Commissioner Rain think
If the Viuewood road uses the brick in
the paved streets that the property
owners who paid for the paving should
receive a rebate.
There will be a ceramic. knitting and
crocheting exhibition at Unity church