The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-30

New Bell telephones were installed in
the city hall yesterday.
Are you able to tell the doctors, the
| teachers and the horticulturists apart ?
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Whitaker of sS1
Monroe street are the parents of a son
The city railway track laying gang
began work on the West Eighth avenue
line this morning.
The ceiling of the district court room
is so smoky and dirty that two coats of
paint will hardly cover the CRIME.
Judge j. @. Pollock will hold court
in the judges chambers at the federal
! building during the early part of next
week.
Marshalrs band is. rehearsing new
music for the annual concert to be
given in the Auditorium some time this
winter. rs -
The ladies' society of the First Bap-
fist church gave a thimble party this
afternoon at the home of Mrs. John R.
Mulvane.
The State Bee Keepers association is
holding convention at the state house
this afternoon. Another session will be
held this evening.
The Auditorium pipe organ PROPOSE
ton seems to have gotten on it's feet
again in very good order and with as
much vitality as ever.
Sheriff Lucas will next make a trip
to the insane asylum at Parsons to
take the Shawnee county insane com
nftted to that institution.
Prof. W. NJ Davidson, of the city
schools, was one of those who accom-
panied the body of M. L. Field to
! Lawrence where it was buried Tues
day.
DR.. L. A. Ryder, councilman from the
First ward, is being doomed by his
| friends as candidate for representa-
| tive from the north district of Shawnee
| county.
The hot water heating plans in the
new street cars are supposed to be ex-
cellent devices for heating the cars.
The passengers might believe this if a
fire were started in them.
Kansas has 20 million fruit trees and
IL thousand school teachers. Allowing
a dozen sprouts for each tree it makes
a pretty hard combination for the
ornery boy to go up against.
B. F. Smith, the Kansas strawberry
king, of Lawrence, is in Topeka. He
says Kansas stands a good show to
| harvest a great crop of small fruit in
1904. It depends principally on late
frosts.
! Independence. Kan, is sending out,
through it's Commercial club, folder
| advertising the natural resources and
mercantile and agricultural opportuni-
| ties of the locality in which it is stu
| ated.
u. w. SHOOK, one OIL the passengers Oh
the train wrecked on the Rock Island
| tracks near Lawrence, was in Topeka
| Tuesday. He was on his way home tic
| Jennings Kan, where he is editor OF
the Jennings Echo.
REPRESENTATIVES of the state oratori-
cal contest were in Topeka yesterday
looking over the Auditorium and
Grand opera house to determine which
should be secured for the holding of
the state contest in March
Those who were up last night to hear
how the San Francisco fight ended
ought to have kept right on staying up
land have made a continuous watch
meeting for the outcome of the fight
and the coming of the new year.
Tuesday Probate Judge Hayden is
sued the following marriage licenses:
w d. Storrs and Laura S. Wedding,
both of Shawnee county; Grant Allen
of Topeka and Clara E. Denney OF
Valley Falls; Delos Clapsaddle, Gales
burg, and Blanche Robinette OF To
peka; w A. Hawkins and Mary Kenny
of Topeka.
There will be a watch night meeting
at the Westminster Presbyterian
church at Huntoon and College avenue
Thursday night The programme vii
begin at $50 o'clock and the different
departments of the church work viii
be represented. From $3.50 to IL p. M
will be devoted to a social The
meeting will close with a prayer ser
vice.
The Democratic Flambeau club me
Tuesday night and elected the following
officers: President, J. B. Billiard; frs
vice president, C. r Jones; second vic'
president, Maurice Jenkins; recording
secretary, n. H. Wolff; financial secre
tary, H. P. Miller; treasurer, H. Heise