The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Ministerial union meets next
Monday.
DR.. George L. Cole. of Los Angeles.
Cal, is in town.
Frank Brown was in Kansas City
yesterday afternoon.
When We Were Twenty-One" will
be at the Crawford tonight.
Miss Susie Armstrong, of Eslkridge,
IS here for a visit of a few weeks.
The Mckinley memorial fund of the
Kansas school children continues to
grow.
Lincoln's birthday anniversary was
celebrated at the Industrial institute
yesterday.
The True Hardware company, of st.
Marys. has been chartered with a CAPT
tai Of $1,000.
Clyde Miller. of Usage City. who is
looking after his fathers boom for gov
ernor, was in Topeka last night.
Violets for valentines in a violet box
tied with ribbon can be bought at Mrs.
NJ. f. Hollcraft's, 81 Kansas avenue.
Olive Barrett filed suit in the district
court yesterday for divorce from Edwin
S. Barrett on the grounds of desertion.
The Haskell Indians date to play
basket ball with the Y. M. c. A. team
has been changed to Tuesday night at
$50 o'clock.
Dan Hamer. stenographer in the office
of u s. Attorney ]. S. Dean. has re-
turned from visit to his home al
Madison, Kas.
The politicians have all been in Wich-
tia this week, attending the cattlemen's
convention. None of them entered the
roping contests, however.
General Wilder S. Metcalf was up
from Lawrence last night. He expects
to make such trips frequently after
March 1, about once every "A hours in
fact.
Hundreds of people are being fitted
with DIR; Littlefield's Pure Partisan
rvs alf n1n nd
Only two days more of this sale. Best
glasses only S1-00.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Pennybacker,
Miss Henrietta Pennybacker and Miss
Della Holmes have returned to their
home in the northern part of the county
after a visit in Topeka.
So far no candidate has appeared
against ''Shel'' Curtis in his candidacy
for clerk of the district court. 1t is just
as well for no one is as we'll acquainted
with the duties of the office as he.
Topeka will probably get the state en-
campment Of the Kansas National
Guards next summer, as they can mo
bilize'' here more easily and with less
expense than at any other point in the
state.
1t is now nip and tuck between the
government prognosticators and Cider
Smith. The government has promised
snow for two days, and Smith says the
storm period will not be here until
Sunday.
People who cross the state house
grounds in their daily trips to and from
the business part. of town wonder why
it is the janitors at the state house are
not required to keep the walks in pass
able condition.
The Missouri Pacific Railway com
pany has appealed to the supreme court
a case from Marshall county in which
it was ordered to repay s1G2 to the Blue
Valley Plaster company, which the lat
ter claims was excess freight.
]. G. Slonecker, w. G. Smyser and D.
w. Nellis, the building committee of
the trustees of Christ hospital yester-
ing at the hospital preparatory to ac-
cepting it from the contractors.
f. S. knight, commission clerk in the
secretary of states office, returned to-
day from Colby where he has been at
tending the Sixth district congressional
committee meeting. plugging for
Reeder. He also succeeded in taking
the judicial convention to his home
town. Goodland.
Medical college students are enthu-
siastic over the prospects for a strong
football team at the Medical college
next season. A schedule of games is
being arranged to include games on the
local gridron with Nebraska univer-
sity, Iowa university, Haskell Indians,
OSteopaths of Kirksville, Denver Ath-
letic club and Manhattan. An effort
will be made to get games here with
both Kansas university and Missouri
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