The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The Huebner Stock company will be
at the Crawford all next week.
Mason and Mason in Rudolph and
Adolph" will be at the Crawford to-
night.
C. ]. Devlin is said to carry a larger
amount of life insurance than any man
in Chicago.
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
States circuit court, has returned from
Leavenwarth.
The street commissioners force is
trimming trees which interfere with
street traffic.
Workmen have begun the work of
preparing the auditorium for the Kan
sas Midwinter exposition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert D. Washburn of
$40 Harrison street, are the parents of
a daughter born Saturday.
According to the weather bureaus
statistics so far January is deficient in
rainfall AZ hundredths of inch.
Policy shops have been hourishing in
Topeka during the past six months.
George Morrow of the Hotel Throop
has returned from a visit in AtchiSon.
The county commissioners have de-
cided to meet each Monday and Friday
hereafter instead of Tuesdays and Fri
days.
Ex-Governor Morrill, has just been
elected superintendent of his Sunday
school in HiaWatha for the twenty-sixth
time.
The weather prophets have all been
mistaken in the guesses recently. 1t
continues pleasant in spite of their pre-
dictions.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Methodist church will meet in the
church parlors Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock.
Seventeen persons have already join
ed the Christian church in North To-
peka as a result of the revival meeting
going on there.
The handsomest electrical sign in To-
peka has been erected by George Burg
hart over his cigar store at Eighth and
Kansas avenues.
There are three cases of smallpox in
the family of E. L. Farley at 422 Law
renee street. Mrs. Susie Farley and
two children are ILL.,
Mayor Parker is now enjoying the
delights of having a few offices to dis
penSe. He has at least $50 callers a day
all in search of jobs
The sale of seats for "Way Down
East at the Crawford Friday and Sat
urday will open tomorrow morning at
the Crawford box office.
Kansas furnished 576 men for the reg
ular army the past year besides those
who enlisted in Kansas City, many of
whom came from Kansas.
Gradua ton exercises will be held at
the Topeka high school in three weeks.
The regular midwinter graduating class
is not so large this year as usual.
0ON6TnOT 0Idnley mas pOSIpOn6Q I1G
consideration of pardon cases this month
until January 20. The fifteenth is the
usual time for hearing pardon cases.
Secretary T. ]. Anderson of the Com
mercial club has begun a schedule that
will include every convention scheduled
to meet in Topeka during the year 1902.
Labor Commissioner Johnson is pre-
pairing a circular to be sent to all con-
tractors on public works informing
them of the supreme court decision in
the eight hour law.
The street commissioner has been at
work the past two days lacking up
the supporting joist at the North To-
peka fire station. The joists were not
set on solid foundations, and were
sinking into the ground.
Leavenworth county has 319, 453 bear
ing apple trees and Isl, 942 that are not
yet bearing, and many more will be set
out the coming spring. 1t is said to
be the greatest apple county in the
west
S. s. Ashbaugh, of Wichita, was in
Topeka yesterday comforting with At
torney General GODDARD and E. F. Ware
concerning the brief to be fled in the
United States supreme court in the suit
of Kansas against Colorado.
Albert Barnes, a member of the Whit
man-Barnes Implement company of
New York city, stopped off few hours
Monday in Topeka on his way home
from San Francisco. He was the guest
of L. K. Wells of Lane street.
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