The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

S. c. James Of Lecompton is in Topeka
today.
The government thermometer got up
to "A yesterday.
Frank Nelson spoke at FOrmosa
Wednesday night.
Potatoes are selling at wholesale at
over dollar per bushel
Lester Davis is at home on a visit
from Dawson, New Mexico.
Now Kansas City, Kas., would like to
get iIAto the Kansas baseball league.
Rev. Norman D. Plass is now talked
of for president of Washburn college
Sanford Dodge will be at the Craw-
ford tonight in THE Three Guards
men,"
Frank V. Gay Of Clay Center and R.
H. Larezele of Troy were registered at
the ThrOop today.
Captain Clement A. F. F4agler. now at
San Juan, Porto Rico, will be stationed
a Fort LeavenWOrth.
Harry Morgan has returned from
Norton, where he spent three days on
the famous golf links
The material for the five iron stair
ways for the state house has arrived
from Minneapolis, MINI.
Homer Hoch goes Monday to St
Paul, Mimi, to represent Kansas in the
interstate oratorical contest.
The visitors to Norton say it is the
liveliest place in the state for all kinds
of games, from golf to poker.
Yesterday afternoon the county com
missioners made the State bank Of
Rossville q county depository.
The State Sunday School convention
win meet in Salina May 1916. A num-
Der OF Topeka people will attend.
There is a big acreage of fax in the
country southwest of here. That sown
a week ago is already coming up.
1t has been ascertained that the body
found in the Kansas river at Lawrence
3. W. Thompson, Of the Rock Island
has rented the handsome home of Col
A. S.Johnson at Fourth and Topeka ave-
nues.
Thirty-four pupils from the Standard
| School of Shorthand have taken posi-
tons since January 1.-TWO as court re-
porters.
A farmer said today he would like to
have a chance to drive through about
six inches of mud, just to see how it
would seem.
Next Wednesday evening the new
members of the First Presbyterian
| church viii be rendered a reception at
/ the church parlors.
This has been a mudless spring.
/ Usually there is complaint about the
/ depth of the mud during March, but
there wasn't any this year.
A laboring man from Massachusetts
| applied to the Topeka free employment
agency for work yesterday, and was
I sent 10 a IaQCn near the city.
Thomas Davidson. who has been in
| charge of the carpet department of the
Mills Dry Goods company for several
years, has resigned and will go to Chi
| cagO.
| T. J. Anderson has received the proofs
| for the advertising folder which the
! Commercial club is getting out to adver-
tise Topeka. The book will be printed
| in red and black.
DR.. William A. Quayle will address
| the State Temperance union convention
in this city, May and g. on the sub
ject What an ex-Kansan Thinks
ABOUT Prohibition"
J. R. Omaca of Kansas City has a
beautiful display of burned wood and
win give instructions in this decorative
and fascinating art at the Hotel Throop
for a few days only.
George Konrodi, a Russian, was
arrested yesterday afternoon on a war
rant sworn out in the city court
charging him with assaulting Rosie
Kafner. Il years old.
Joseph Marsh, who fell SIS feet from
the frame of the new Santa Fe ma
| chine and boiler shop a month ago
sustaining a broken leg, is not vet able
/ to be on the street
A military report received in Topeka
says the cook at Fort Sam Houston,
! Texas, is named Charley Cook. He has
! decided to leave the strenuous life of
cooking for peaceful warriors.
ABOUT ~ IeGI OF Dlll-DOarQS DlGW over
on South Kansas avenue Friday night.
4 A tree standing a little south of the
+ Copeland was snapped off at the sur
J face of the walk by the gale
A Mrs. Jones had sympathy for John
Dobbins, the little negro who was home
4 less and therefore was sent to the Re
/ form school, and has taken him from
! the school and will look after him.
A special policeman could be detailed
/ to do duty in the state house grounds to
7Te
/ settees placed along the walks and to
prevent the breaking of bottles on the
walks.
AIonzo Burt, the general manager of
! the Missouri SS=kansas Telephone COM
pany in Missouri and Kansas, has been
/ given charge of the Wisconsin lines of
the company, in addition to his present
territory.
The high school students gave "A
! several chance situations by that name
in the same place not meant for the
public to see
The officers and team Of Sloan
| lodge No. 225, A. F. & A. NJ, started on
a pilgrimage to Chanute this morning
in response to an invitation from Cedar
1 lodge Of that place to confer the third
degree tonight
The price of the best cuts of beef fell
a cent or two in Kansas City yester-
day. People had quit buying them and
4 the price had to come down until they
were cleaned up. The Topeka market
was not affected.
The state labor bureau has caused the
arrest of J. ". Wright. of Leaven-
| worth for working his men more than
Fights hours in the construction of a
new school house, in violation of the
1 eight-hour law
Miss Nora Churchman, formerly of
Solomon. Kas.. and Topeka, and who is
now missionary in India, will return
| in May to tour Kansas in behalf OF