The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

ing in Topeka
The show windows are. beginning to
wear holiday ASPECT.
This weather increases the business of
| Poor Commissioner Hale
James M Mcfarland is the only hoE-
orary member of the Saturday Night
club.
"Cider" Smith. it will be remembered.
announced storm period from the 7th
to Afte.'
Mrs NJ E. stitt of s1s Locust street.
submitted to an operation Saturday for
tumor.
The children of ]. f. farrell. who are
in quarantine for scarlet fever, are re-
covering.
Ella Mercer has brought suit for dl-
vorce against Chauncy Mercer in the
district co,-rt.
The Topeka insane asylum did not use
$17,0S2.91 of the appropriation for the
last fiscal year.
The AIl-American bowling trio will
bowl against the picked team tonight
at the Elite alleys.
The midwinter exposition stickers arc
out. You can get a supply by calling at
the Commercial club
The Washburn girls basket ball team
will play the girls team from the Has
kell Indian school ON December 20.
Despite the cold weather. there was a
good attendance upon both the morning
and evening church services, Sunday
Porter S. Cook was banker Of a Mod
ern N-oodmen lodge for twelve yea1s.
until he refused reelection few days
ago.
F. NJ. Bonebrake has his name on the
board at The T. A A. for making the
high score at candle pins. His -ecor"
is IA
c. L. Wood returned today from Chi
cago where he met Mrs Wood on her
~fe.sf x.f
Indiana.
cold this morning. 1t is difficult to heat
house when the icy wind blows out of
the northeast
The decision in the Vinewood City
railway Injunction suit for possession
of Fifth street will be decided by Judge
Heller on December %.
Charters were issued Saturday to the
Citizens State bank of Humboldt, with
a capital of $1,000; Wichita board OF
trade, with no capital
Jane and Mary, the daughters of Mrs.
Reid Alexander, who have been sick
with scarlet fever and diDhtheria for
few weeks, are convalescent.
The girls basket ball teams of the Z
w. G. A. high school, Washburn college
and Haskell institute at Lawrence have
formed basket ball league.
DR.. L. S. Chamberlain. who for some
time has been connected with the staff
of surgeons at Christ hospital. has been
appointed house surgeon there.
The Gordon-Shay Opera company.
which was in Topeka last week, Is try
ing grand opera on Kansas City this
week at the Willis Wood theater.
This is the kind of weather when the
paste used by the bill posters freezes
and the pictures of the actors and actor
ines are not as stuck up as usual.
Saturday night at the Y w c. A
gymnasium the high school girls basket
ball team defeated the girls team from
Washburn college by the score of Is
to At.
The state board of health turned bach
into the treasury s5,532 SIS of the appro-
Driation for the last fiscal year. The
state board is different than some city
boards ,#e5tt ~"
William Hodson. H. F. Morris ana ].
E. Dubreuil. all of Chicago. are among
the out-of-town guests expected to at
tend the Sloan lodge reunion next Sat-
urday night.
The Topeka reform school did not use
81, 664. Sc of the appropriation for the last
fiscal year If it had been expended for
food for the boys table the record of the
institution might have been better.
H. D. Ferguson. of Poplar Bluff, Mo.
hes taken the night clerkship al the
Copeland hotel. Mr.. Ferguson was for
of the Fifth Avenue while they were i'll
charge of the Goodlander at Fort Scott.
The supreme court decided Saturday
that the Orient railroad had the right to
condemn real estate in Emporia owned
+ by Santa Fe railroad. 1t seems that
other large trunk lines besides the city
railway are opposed to competing
roads.
Fannie Bloomfield zeisler, who gave
a piano concert in Topeka under the
auspices of the Ladies' Music club, has
/ just scored a triumph in Vienna by
playing at the Philharmonic society's
concert. She is the first American who
/ has ever played at the concerts given
4 by the society.
The annual memorial services of To-
peka lodge of the Benevolent and Pro
| tective Order of Elks was held at the
| lodge rooms Sunday afternoon. The
room was decorated with palms. Luther
c. Bailey delivered the annual address.
The music was furnished by the Am
Dhion quartette.
Rev Enoch Powell. founder of I'm
ity church of this city. and for a long
time its pastor, arrived in the city to
day. Rev. Mr.. Powell is returning from
Valparaiso, Ind, where he accom9anied
4 the body of his wife who died recently
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Foster 105 Greenwood avenue, this ev-
ening
Considerable complaint is being made
! by patrons of the street cars that at
night the conductors pay no attention
to the requests of passengers to have the
cars stopped at certain streets and the
passengers are consequently carried
past their destinations. At night it is
impossible for the passengers 10 see
what streets are being crossed. But
then it is nothing unusual for city rain
way employees from the head to the foot
of the list to give little heed to the ac-
commodation of the public. The vocal
effort necessary to call the streets APP
pears to be too exacting.
The following are the new officers Of
day night: Past commander, ]. E. Pen
nick; senior vice commander, S. c. Gar
rard; Junior vice commander, john San
derson; quartermaster, Elias Shull; sur
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