The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24
Snap Shots atHome News.


Judge W. E. saum, of Hays City. was
IN Topeka Monday.
The government thermometer ranged
between 30 and Is Tuesday.
The coal companies are unable to Sc
cure enough teams to haul coal
The reform school farm raised 1850
punches Of radishes last spring
The banks and the court house will be
''amOng those" closed tomorrow
Sidney Hayden and John D. Myers Of
Holton spent yesterday in Topeka.
The Independent Telephone company
now claims SIS phones in commission
d. c. Tillotson was in Neodesha Mon
day to speak to the Modern Woodmen.
Miss Helen Kimber is in ChetoDa ar
ranging for a Woman's Suffrage meet
ing.
Next years meeting of the State
Charities association win he held in
Wichita
Turkeys seem to be holding steady at
Is cents right uD to the last minuts be-
fore Christmas.
Robert D. Air was in Kansas City
Tuesday giving the Kansas Cityians all
kinds of hot air.
There is paper enough scattered along
Kansas avenue to make 1t look like the
day after July 4.
Jesse Wright is tied with Kirkpatrick
for the T. A A turkey by bowling las
at rubber necks.
Business at the hotels is falling off
rapidly. Everyone who can go home for
Christmas is doing so.
The suit of Will Johnson to break his
wife's will has been argued and sub
mitted to Judge Hazen-
The reform school expended all but
81 O9 of the appropriation for the last
fiscal year for maintenance and repairs
There are q boys in the reform school
who are fatherless and motherless, and
AZ whose parents are not living to-
Eether.
A small company is singing The
Mascotte'' on the short grass provincial
circuit under the name of The Beggar
Prince"
Observer Jennings has already re-
ceived a Christmas present. 1t is a
smoking jacket for him to wear while
on duty.
Those who can not decide which matt
nee to attend on Christmas day can
leave the question to a policeman for
arbitration.
Bishop Millspaugh will ordain R. n.
Billings of Kansas City and George
Gedsell of Beloit, at Kansas City, kas.,
next Sunday.
The Wells Fargo Express company
employees win get the usual can of
oysters, turkey and quart of cranberries
for Christmas.
Christmas will be anything but day
of pleasure for the cashiers of the stores
that do a big ante gift day business I'M
til 11:30 o'clock tonight
If you do not like sweet crackers do
not go crazy. The patients at the in
sane asylum were fed $4,000 pounds
during the last fiscal year.
The meeting of the State Teachers
association will begin next Monday
morning at Representative hall at the
bright and early hour of s o'clock.
Chancellor Frank Strong. Of the state
university, will address the state teach
ers' meeting at Representative hall at
the Wednesday morning session.
Judge Hazen is willing to hand out a
few divorces as Christmas presents ana
Judge Pagan is willing to hand out the
same number of marriage licenses.
Arthur McCabe will probably have al.
most the unanimous support of the bar
for reelection as judge of the city court.
He has made most satisfactory record
5. T. Black fled suit in the district
court Tuesday afternoon against the
First National bank of St. Marys for
$475 damages claimed in the giving of a
note.
Mrs. Sarah Grange IS spending the
holidays in Kansas City with her son
Frank. Before returning to Topeka Mrs.
Grange will visit her old home in the
east
Miss Eva Riley. who formerly lived
in Topeka, is the guest of Miss Rather
Inc Lux during the holidays. Miss Riley
Is now a teacher at Cornell college
Iowa.