The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-06
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.


peka next Saturday.
There won't be any state or county
election for two years anyhow.
The season is advancing but no chrys-
anthemum show has yet been booked.
J. Harvey Firth, city attorney of EN-
poria, is in Topeka on legal business.
Charles Sawyer, banker and politician
of Norton, was in Topeka Wednesday,.
The official canvass of the vote in
Shawnee county will be made Friday.
The commissioners win now have a
good time juggling with the sale of the
court house.
DR.. E LaFevre, of Abilene. was in To-
his profession.
Christ hospital guild will meet Friday.
November Z, ats p M, at the home OF
Mrs. Guilford Dudley
Several Republican candidates in To-
peka are now wondering why in the
world they were scared.
Mrs. A G. Snyder. of Downs is at
Christ hospital having undergone an
operation there Wednesday,
The election out Of the way, the foot
ball heroes will again have the undl-
vided attention of the public.
The Republican Flambeau club will
meet tonight to talk over the victory
Oscar SwaYze may be absent.
Pennsylvania anthracite coal is now
retailing in Chicago for IS a ton, but in
1Op6hd IL COSlS nearly Twice lHdl Sufil
In a football game between the Polk
school and Catholic school teams played
Wednesday, neither side was able to
score.
William M. Towne, who was formerly
employed in the pension office in Tope-
ka, is now in tie transfer business in
Chicago.
Ernest Evans, of Topeka, and Matte
Crockett, of Kansas City, were granted
marriage license at Kansas City on
Wednesday.
Frank Sim. proprietor of the Swift &
Holiday drug store. is a cousin of Bird
S. Golfer. who came near being governor
of New York.
May Anderson plays the part of Mrs.
links" in Captain links of the Horse
Marines" which comes to the Crawford
next Tuesday.
Mrs. D. B. Mote, stenogra pher in tn
state supreme court has been release
from Stormont hospital after an illness
of several weeks.
A gang of men and teams are at work
in Central park grading and preparing
the land at the north end of the park
for tree planting.
Sousa's band. which will play at the
Auditorium tomorrow evening, will
reach Topeka late after a matinee per
Torrance at Strong City.
w. E Winner. who is trying to build
an electric line between Topeka and
Kansas City, has just purchased 80 acres
of land near Armourdale.
Peter Monaghan, of the Southwestern
Fuel company, who had an operation
performed for appendicitis at Stormont
hospital, is rapidly recovering.
Since the election the Salvation Army
people are able to conduct their evening
street services without running in oppo-
sition to other nearby meetings.
A. w. Dana, who made speeches for
the regulars" is so happy over the
election that he has resumed friendly
relations with a man he hasn't spoken
to for ten years y
The automobile owners Of the city are
making a violent protest against the
proposed six-mile per hour limit on the
speed of their machines. They say than
20 miles per hour would be about the
right limit, -,
The Topeka Athletic association
smoker will be- pulledxoff tonight. A
wash tub filed with cider and clothes
basket, fun of doughnuts, a half bushel
of corn cob pipes and a baIe-o long
green are among the special features.
Col. F. !. Close was in the city today
on his return from Kansas City. He is
still hopeful of the results which can be
| produced from Kansas gold shale, and
says that the company of which he is
member is soon to build another mill in
| the Smoky Hill valley for the purpose of
treating the shale- He still remembers
that he was recently a candidate for
lieutenant governor
washington man claims to have
distanced Ironquill in finding rhymes
for Kansas" and he perpetrates the
following:
There was young fellow from Kansas,
Who dashed off a few thrilling stanzas;
THE only thing wrong
With our state" ran the song,
rs the way it turns out Sancho Pan
zaS."
Mrs Thorpe, police matron, announces
that the best way to reach the deserving
poor with Thanksgiving dinners is tosend
the dinner to the homes. Mrs. Thorpe
will furnish names and addresses of
needy persons to those who desire to
furnish dinners. Or if baskets are pre-
pared and left at her office. Mrs Thorpe
| will see to it that they are properly dis
| tributed. With each basket there should
| be a statement as to the number of per-
sons provided for in the basket. There
are about seventy-five families in town
| which need help.
There has been a factional fight in the
Iris club at WaShburn college, and one
faction has gone off to flock by itself
| The Iris club is a literary organization
of young women, and is affiliated with
1 the State Federation, being the only coll
| lege club in the state to be a member
of the federation. The cause of the split
| is not generally known, but is the re-
| bers The officers of the new club,
| which has not yet been named, are:
| President Miss Mary Cleveland; vice
| president, Miss Elizabeth Leeds; secre-
| tary, Miss Florence McCracken; treas
urer, Miss Mabel BROKER.
Volcanic Ashes Helped Coffee.
Mexico City, Mex, Nov. 6.-Walter
Everett of California, president of the