The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The government thermometer got up
to SO yesterday.
The Mckinley memorial fund will go
above $4,000 after all.
Judge w. ]. Combs, of Emporia, was
in Topeka yesterday.
The Republican county primaries are
one week from today.
Six cases of smallpox have been
quarantined in RossvilIe.
Anna Eva Fay might tell whether
Troutman or WEIGH will win.
Judge HaZen has a large motion
docket for hearing Monday.
Annabelle Tice is captain of the
Washburn girls basket ball team.
There We're 80 births in the city of To-
peka during the, month of February
The state Sunday school convention
will be held in Salina on May 10, IA and
Some of the horticultural experts
have said that the peach buds are
killed.
There is a difference of opinion today
as to whether March came in like the
lion or lamb
George E. Dougherty's shorthand
pupils have organized 1.-The Dougherty
Success club.
A case Of SCARLET fever was reported
Friday in the family of Fred Slater,
1860 Polk street.
John Brubaker, who is charged with
court Monday.
Margaret Coleman was found insane
by a commission of physicians in the
probate court yesterday.
Governor Stanley will deliver an adj
dress at the grain growers meeting at
Hutchinson next Tuesday.
Mrs. w. A Sloo has gone to Chicago
is visit her son. Milo Sloo. who is at
tending Rush Medical college.
w. ]. Black, general passenger. and
ticket agent of the Santa Fe,h return
ed from a trip to Denver, Col
The country papers around Topeka
are printing notices about parties who
will attend the Nordica concert.
The city election very appropriately
comes on April FOOLS day this year
More than half of the candidates are
certain to be fooled.
The Independent telephone are being
placed in the court house offices. Now
you can talk with the county officers
with some satisfaction.
The case against George v. Hossfeld,
charged with violating quarantine reg
ulations was continued Friday by the
police judge till March 8.
Judge J. G.. Wood will speak at the
Euclid Avenue Methodist church SIN
day evening. His subject will be, Pro
hibition and Some Points OF View"
Rossville now has $500 combination
chemical and hand pumping fire en-
CINE. The city is now looking for
place to keep it and a fire company.
w. w. Lucas, a well known negro i'm
personator, will address the Pleasant
Hour Literary club this evening at
o'clock at Guys hall, 429 Kansas ave
nue..
The State Normal school girls basket
ball team will play the girls team from
Washburn at the Y. W. c. A. tonight.
Hairpins and other deadly weapons are
barred.
The Republican primaries in the coun-
try next Saturday Will be from one
o'clock till six and in the city from eight
o'clock in the morning till seven O'Clock
in the evening.
DR.. Gustav Andren, president of Au
gustana college, at Rock Island, Ill. will
lecture in the Swedish Lutheran church
at Fourth and Tyler streets on Friday
evening, April 4.
decide for the county commissioners
Shawnee county should bear
part of the expense of repairing the
Kansas avenue bridge.
When the rush was made for numbers
at the opening of the Nordica seat sale
this morning those who were in the rear
accused those who got to the front of
using football tactics.
Clyde Fitch, the New York dramatist,
has been forced to take a rest by order
of his physicians But it is all right,
Clyde Shumway of Topeka has written
a play called Humanity"
Sheriff Tom O'Connor, of Emporia,
brought Carl Nichols, a very bad boy,
10 years old, who has not taken the
of Will Whites editorial. to
the Reform school yesterday.
The registration books for the city
election close on March n. The special
room for the registration of women vot-
ars was opened today in the south office
Of the Auditorium. This room is in
charge of a woman clerk.
Prof Tracy is organizing a male
chorus to sing at the mass meeting of
men which is to be held at the First
Presbyterian church next Sunday. All
who can sing and are willing to help
will meet at the Y. NJ. G. A rooms to-
night.
T. B. Gerow, Of the state employment
agency, says he is receiving many APP
plications for employment from men
living in other states, but he has lew
positions to offer them at this time o.
year.
On the petition of the Kansas Society
for the Friendless Governor Stanley
mas paroled Lott Bronson, of Usage
county, and Dad" Doe, of Nemaha
county. The former was convicted of
Jail breaking and the latter of grand
larceny.
James p Anderson, formerly of To- |
peka and now an electrician on the
q. s. flagship Chicago. The letter is
dated Naples He has visited Gibraltar,
Sicily and Africa. He thinks the S. 5.
is a. floating palace.
There is an old saying that the first |
three days of March govern the weather |
for the coming three months What the |
weather is on March 1 will be the |
weather all through March and if there !