The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka Ministerial Union met to-
day.
Kansas avenue wasn't crowded sun
day.
c. J. Evans left today for California
to recuDerate.
"oId Arkansaw'' will be at the Craw-
ford Tuesday.
The Topeka street cars were delayed
by the high winds Sunday.
Anyone who was out of doors Sun
day for five minutes got their peck o
dust.
state house rotunda attract a great
deal of attention
The wind did more in { day yester-
day to clean Kansas avenue than the
street sweepers do IN week.
Work is progressing on the big addi-
ton to the MOeser Ice and Cold Storage
plant on West Second avenue.
The Commercial club win consider at
the next meeting plans for the construc-
ton of a home for the organization.
The Peoples Ice trust has had its
wagons repainted. 1t evidently does not
propose to go out Of business just yet.
The wind did considerable damage in
some parts of the city Sunday by over
turning coal sheds and other outbuild-
ings.
Miss. Edith Fiske has gone to Chicago
for a visit Of indefinite length with her
brother, Henry, who is in business
there
The Kansas City excursionists who
were in Topeka yesterday added very
materially to the regular Sunday trade
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon lectured at
Hutchinson Friday night and gave the
inmates of the state reformatory talk
on Saturday
Rev. c. A. Finch, pastor of the First
Christian church, spoke at the gospel
meeting of the railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Sun
day afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid society. Of the First
Congregational church viii meet on
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. D. NJ. F'isk2
Rev. DR.. Bamford. of Lawrence.
preached at the First Methodist church
yesterday, and DR.. Mcfarland filled the
Methodist pulpit at Lawrence
All Ohioans will be welcomed to the
regular monthly meeting of the associa-
ton of that name TO be held at III
West Sixth avenue this evening.
A new lodge has been organized in
Topeka It is chartered as Macedonian
Lodge, No. 9, Order of Good Sanaarl-
tans and Daughters of Samaria.
The Topeka employment agencies are
experiencing difficulty in furnishing all
the help needed. Mechanics, laborers
and servant girls are in demand.
e. D. A1cKeever, assistant u. S. attor-
ney, has recovered from his experience
of Saturday evening when he read pa
per before the Saturday Night club
The adjutant generals department
expects a consignment of krag-JOrg gem
sen rifles in the near future to take the
place of the Springfields now in use
Judge W. c. Hook returned from
Leavenworth today to resume the bench
! in the April term of the United States
district court. This is the second week
The College Hill Blues and Lowman
! Hill baseball teams played Saturday at
the College Hill grounds and the result
was a score of 10 to 4 in favor of College
! Hill.
Lawrence beat Topeka at Mount
/ Dread at golf Saturday by 25 up. which
means that the Topeka players hit the
earth 50 hard it Will take them % days
to recover
Why doesn't the battery of street
when there was such wind as yester-
( day and delegation of Kansas City
/ excursionsists in town?
C. L Spencer and c. NJ. MunyOn, rep
! resenting the Travellers Insurance
! company of Hartford, are in Kansas
! at present, looking up their company 5
real estate investments.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs has just COM
/ pleted a catalogue of the state law
4 library, the first one that has ever been
made. It was a thFee months task Tor
! herself and her assistants
Some of the clerks in the Santa Fe
offices. more especially the sixth floor
clerks, are catching the baseball fever,
/ and there is likely to be blood shed
when the challenging begins
At least a dozen Of the es1cursionists
from Kansas City We're hatless when
they reached Topeka yesterday. They in
sisted on putting their heads out of the
car windows and the wind did the rest.
After this all physicians who wish to