The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS
The annual tree trimming craze is
Albert watkins left today for Reno
county where his mother is very low
Pineapples are plentiful in some mar
kets but there are few to be had in To-
pelka.
]. wits Gleed is to speak before the
May 1.
The family of John E. Lord. recently
quarantined for smallpox, was released
yesterday.
Charles .Beebe. city editor Of the sa-
lima Republican-Journal. was in Topeka
yesterday
The W. S. c. will meet Thursday at
the home Of Mrs. J. Weaver, 1710 Madi-
son street.
Frank Brown. clerk of the United
States district court, went to Kansas
City yesterday.
DR.. Charles Lowry Of Topeka has been
reappointed as a member of the state
board Of health.
The frost predicted by the govern
ment weather forecast yesterday did mol
materialize last night.
The elevator at the federal building
has not been out of order for over four
weeks. Think of that.
The Riverside Mining and Milling
company of Galena has been chartered
with a capital of $4,000.
People are very shy about appearing
on the state house dome when there is
a stiff breeze blowing.
Andrew Baird, state secretary Of the
Y. M. c. a, will conduct a meeting at
Ottawa next Sunday.
E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas
State Grain Dealers association, was in
Kansas City yesterday.
Chfaf yyi1r7aarfH raonnfIU issued
a large number of building permits for
small structures in the city.
Prof. G. B. Penny and c. A. Preyer Of
Lawrence will attend the music teach
ers' convention here next week.
c. G. Green passed through Topeka
last night on the Santa Fe in his pri-
Vate palace car, westward bound.
Rats and matches caused a small fire
last night at the Moore grocery at Sixth
and Topeka avenue. The damage was
slight.
The Santa Fe is using an extract from
one of William Allen Whites editorial
letters in advertising its line to Cali
fornia.
The high school students win give a
performance at the high school assem-
bly, room Friday night The play is
called "A Perplexing Situation"
Abe K. Fulford has been appointed
pavement inspector He will see to it
that the pavement being laid is done
according to the specifications.
The state officers who form the board
Of treasury examiners went through the
form of making the monthly examina-
ton Of the state treasury yesterday
A complaint has been filed with the
railroad commissioners asking that the
Rock Island be compelled to build via
duct on its tracks on Main street in Nc
Farland.
Rev. Hal Smith. pastor of the Cum
berlahd Presbyterian church will deliv-
er the address at the anniversary cele-
bration of the Odd Fellow lodges of
Garnett Saturday.
A contractor has taken the measure
ments of the Topeka pOstOffice prepara-
tory to manufacturing a new set of
lock-boxes and other necessary furni-
ture and fixtures to match.
DIR. Eva Harding is among the dele
gates appointed by Governor Stanley to
represent Kansas at the National Con-
gress Of Charities and Corrections, which
meets in Detroit the latter part OF May.
James A. jenkins, of Cardiff, Wales,
is in Topeka visiting his brother, Chas.
! p jenkins, whom he has not seen before
in twenty years. He is on his way to
/ Los Angeles to attend a grand lodge
meeting.
Councilman Griley says there are
/ only three bath tubs in the Second
ward. This is practically an admission
that the Sixth ward people are right
when they call the Second the great
I ullWdSnGQs Out OF course 4OuuCll1lltSu
| Griley is mistaken.
The medical reporter on the m orning
paper says that srubiola" or humps
have appeared in North Topeka. One
should scarcely expect a plain neWspa-
per man to know that ''rubiola" is
measles and not mumps.
The Lawrence Oratorio society will
assist the Topeka Oratorio society in
the musical festival to be held here in
June. The Lawrence people will come
to Topeka in a special car at the ex-
pense of the Topeka society
Governor Stanley yesterday received
$735 from the United States government
towards the support of the state SOL
diers' home at Dodge City, the balance
due the state this year on the per cap
tia arrangement with the government
The "five-cent differential rate case
before the board Of railroad commission
ers has been dismissed. The case was
won once by the railroads, but an ap-
plication was made for a rehearing on
the part of the millers, but this has now
been dismissed.
D. c. Tillotson has been in Washing
ton the past week in charge of a party
of Indians two PottawatOnies and two
Kickapoos, who want to get permission
to sell their land in the Pottawatomie
and Kfckapoo reservations and to buy
more in Wisconsin.