The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Andrew Smith and A. B. Kirkpatrick
left today for Buffalo.
Tom McNeal win lecture before the
Edgerton high school tonight
Criminal cases will be taken up by
the district court next Monday.
Mrs. c. H. Pattison left Thursday ev-
ening for New York to join her hus-
band.
Society girls will have charge of the
candy and flower booths at the Mid
winter exposition.
Alice Logan brought suit for divorce
from Thomas Logan in the district court
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. w. A PETER, who is with her
husband in Washington, is seriously i'll
and may not recover.
Tim Donovan, who will be the new
chief of police, has had 20 years expert
ence as a thief catcher.
Leavenworth is trying to secure the
encampment of the Kansas National
Guards the coming summer
Anna ID. Campbell brought suit for
divorce from F. A. Campbell in the dis
trict court yesterday afternoon
Modern Mercury, the society paper Of
this city, has been admitted to the post
office as second class mail matter.
Way Down East will be at the
Crawford tonight for the opening per-
Torrance of a two days engagement
Mrs Carrie Nation was in Kansas
City yesterday. She is on visit to her
brother, ]. W. Moore, of Kansas City.
Kas.
Miss Ethel Wagner. of Nortonville,
was brought to Christ hospital Thurs
day to undergo an operation Tor appen-
dicitis.
]. N. Greene. chief clerk in the Office
of Fuel Contractor Closson of the Santa
Fe, has gone to Colorado on a tour OF
inspection.
The advance sale of tickets to the
Midwinter exposition has been phenom-
email. Practically all of the tickets put
out in advance have been disposed of.
The electric lights for the outside IL
Elimination of the Midwinter exposition
building were tested yesterday and the
circuits were found to be in excellent
condition
Albert Reid has made n cartoon of
Conner Davies, of the Concordia Kan
san, for the Mail and Breeze, but he is
not sure which of Corners legs is the
wooden one.
The Rev. Matt S. Hughes. of Kansas
City. Mo, will lecture at the First
Methodist church in this city next Fri
day evening on the subject THE Ameri-
can Pessimist."
Mrs Thorpe, police matron, will read
a paper at the coming convention of
Kansas police matrons on the subject OF
Digging for Gold" Has Mrs. Thorpe
invested in some Kansas shale?
The receipts for Dean Hayes lecture
on Florence, Italy" at Grace cathedral
under the auspices of the Sons OF the
King were over $25. The money will
be used in missionary work in Topeka
Fling from the Atchison Globe: Jerry
Black, of Topeka, is a heavy investor
in the Trego county shale lands. We'd
like to bet that he feeds his chickens
Red Albumen. to make them lay in
winter"
The washburn Y. NJ c. A. will send
two or more delegates to the quadren-
NAL convention of the Students Inter
national Volunteer movement, to be
held in Toronto. Canada from February
25 to March 2
Prof. w. A. HarShbarger, of Wash
burn, discovered a new specimen OF
oenocrinoid while digging in a shale
bank near the coal mines west of To-
pelza- A cenocrinoid is not as bad as it
looks on paper. 1t L. a species OF pre-
historic lily.
Sixteen thousand dollars will be dis
tributed monthly among the zoe rural
free delivery carriers of Kansas by
Postmaster John Guthrie of Topeka,
wha has been designated by the postoffice
as the paymaster of all free
delivery carriers in this state.
DIR. A E. Winship, who lectured be-
fore the recent meeting Of the State
Teachers association here, speaks in
high praise of the meeting in his paper,
The Journal of Education. He says:
No one who does not enjoy these great
western state meetings can know what
a mighty force the school people of the
west are, and In what esteem they are
held by the community