The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

tary of the Mutual Ice company
John Macdonald viii speak tonight at
Wellington before the teachers assOcia-
ton.
The Wflbur-Kirwin company viii give
The Mascotte" at the Crawford to-
night.
The Orphean quartette sang to a good
sized audience at the high school last
night.
Wesley Merritt, industrial commits
sioner for the Santa Fe. was in town
Friday.
Pegasus has been stepping lively since
the pension commissionership went to
1ronouilI-
Joseph Dean was found insane by a
commission of physicians in the probate
court yesterday
Dick Blue never wrote any poetry and
| s. r. Peters, it is said. could not recite
| even Twinkle Twinkle"
The contract for wiring the new court
house at Emporia has been awarded to
I the OyertOn company of Topeka.
Topeka negroes headed by W. r. Car
ter and Clay OdelI are talking of estab-
fishing a cooperative brick plant
The Natural History society of the
High school discussed whether insects
are necessary or not yesterday and it
was decided that they We're.
Eugene Ware ate an extra piece of
pie for lunch at the Cremerie yesterday
on the strength of the announcement
that he was to be pension commissioner.
The Washburn college baseball team
won two games at Enporia. The games
We're played right through, too, and the
Washburn players proved their old time
prowess.
The palmists who are doing stunts in
Topeka now are not the only ones who
make a business OF looking at hands
Several poker rooms are said to be run
ming in full blast.
n. 7. Dennis. chief clerk in the Rock
Island passenger offices at Chicago, was
in Topeka Friday evening on his way
to Ell PasO. Texas. He was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Dennis.
A young man who married a Topeka
society girl spends his afternoons drink
ing pink tea with his wife and her So
ciety friends-no wonder there is such a
scramble for Topeka girls.
W. A. Bolingers formerly of Eureka,
made the high record in the tabulation
Of figures in the government census Of
flee. His father, w Bolinger, lives at
935 Morris avenue, Topeka
Miss Frances Norris, of Ottawa, gave
an entertainment at the First MethO-
dist church last night She also made
addresses to the students at the High
school and Washburn college.
staff Captain Potter, secretary to
Brigadier Addie of the SalvationArrny
will speak on Sunday morning at the
First Congregational church and in the
afternoon at the Y. M. c. A.
The Kansas politicians are about con-
WINGED that the endorsement of the pres
ident amounts to more at Washington
than the endorsement of Senator Bur
ton or the Kansas delegation
A free scholarship has been offered by
Herring Medical college Of Chicago to
graduates of Washburn college and the
Topeka high school The scholar Will
be chosen by a competitive examination.
It is said that there is a dog in To-
DHl{R. which likes TO ride the ElR-
vators. 1t is safe to say that there is
no dog in Topeka which would volun-
tarily ride in one of the Topeka street
cars
The handsome new sign of the ". f
Roehr Music company is unlike any
other in town The letters are hand
carved and gilded, on a background of
pure white Neale q Shepherd made the
sign.
". S. Kennedy was found guilty in
the district court Friday of petty
larceny. The jury decided that the
watch stolen from Otto VonLangen was
worth about SO. Kennedy Will have only
to serve a county jail sentence.
AIrs.H. H. Hazlett, who is well known
in Topeka is now the manager of the
Alabama hotel. corner of Ellis, Bowen
and Berkeley avenues, Chicago. Topeka
people will find this family hotel a very
desirable place to stop when in Chicago.
Applications for farm hands are be-
ginning to be received at the free en-
ployment agency, and all the able
bodied men who apply for work are
given a chance to get a job as hand
on some of the farms in Shawnee
county.
The Rev August Johnson. state mis-
sionary in Kansas for the Swedish Bap
fist church. Will lead the services at
1890 o'clock. w. H. Harris. of Kansas
| City, will speak at the evening meeting
and explain the work of the Salvation
Army.
The annual prize debate at Washburn
college was held last night and won by
the free traders who discussed. Re
solved, That the present tariff system
should be maintained Thomas Akin
son was first, A. J. Bolinger second and
Frank Killough third.
E. F. Ware, who has been appointed
| pension commissioner frequently axes
as his noon lunch half a pie and a glass
of milk He refuses to have the pie
served on a plate, preferring to eat it
out of the pan in which it was baked.
/ with an old tin spoon.
At the annual meeting of the Grace
Cathedral Guild Wednesday afternoon,
April 8, the following officers were
! elected: President, Mrs 1 S. Lauck;
vice president. Mrs. A. W. Lacey; sec
rotary, Mrs. D. W. Nellis; treasurer,
Mrs Jane r. Dennis; chief directress,
/ Mrs. c. B. Reed.
Mrs. Emma S. Wall. OF Lawrence, ma
tional president, and Mrs. W. W Den
isOn, national inspector, Ladies of the
| G. A. R., left Wednesday for Chicago.
| Pittsburg, Philadelphia. Washington
| and other points on business connected
with their order. They will be gone
| ten days or two weeks.
Robert NJ Luce one of the men who
! came to Topeka in the days of Loring
( FarnsWOrth and other original settlers,
is very sick at the home Of his daugh-
ter al 623 West Sixth avenue Mr. Luce
| has had several severe strokes of pa
/ T-1AUGiS T6CPnflV- and If is feared that
he can live but a short time
Two children from the family of A.
L. Thorson, AZ Clay street, have scarlet
fever. They had attended Clay school
and the room in which the children at
tended was dismissed for Friday after
/ noon, though the children We're not IN
school Friday. The room has been fu-
migated by the health department
District Attorney Dean has decided
that duns on postal cards can be sent