The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-04
Snap Shot5 atHome News.


The Modocs viii sing at the Elks so
cial session tonight
The dog catchers began work Monday
but so far their honest efforts have
made little showing against the CANNES.
The baseball players of the Y. NJ. c.
A will meet Thursday night to talk
over the plans for a team this sum-
mer.
The Y. NJ. c. A. basketball team will
play the team from Baker university
Friday night at the associations gym
nasium.
The oliver brothers. who are holding
revival meetings in North Topeka, will
begin a series of meetings at Peabody
February 20.
The young women of Washburn col
lege will receive in the college library
building on Friday night. The reception
is an annual affair
Even the people who don't believe the
ground hog story are inclined to admit
that there is something at the bottom
Of the old yarn, anyhow.
Governor Bailey is spending today on
his farm at Baileyville He picked
cold day to haul fodder to his cattle ana
shuck the rest of his corn.
Work on the Washburn college sewer
has been progressing, with very few de
lays, all winter. The men are now
working upon some Of the smaller lat
erals.
Harry Baugh pleaded guilty in the
district court Tuesday to burglary in
the third degree and was sentenced by
I Judge Hazen to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The executive committee Of the State
! Bankers association will meet In To-
| peka, February %. to name a time Tor
the annual meeting, which win be held
in Topeka.
The Washington Star devoted coll
umn to reviewing the. election of Ches-
ter L Long as senator. The next party
to review the event will probably be
Mr.. DOoley."
The excavations along the Washburn
college sewer have made a lot of bad
places in the Washburn pavement.
Some of these have been temporarily
filled with earth but others haven't,
Murdock's notary public bill provides
that a notary in a town on a county line
may act for either county. Murdoch
lives in Clifton, part of which is in
Washington county and part in Clay.
The outside steps of the state house
weren't much in use yesterday and were
avoided even more studlousiy today
People remember Mort Albaugh's acci-
dent The janitors, however. were pref
ty careful about shoveling of the sleet
yesterday.
The Elk's social session tonight is
given for the members Of the legisla-
ture The session may remind the
statesman of Dunmore's rump house or
of a Stanley last ditch" caucus for it
viii be a highly informal Misunderstanding
affair.
Quite a crowd Of. thirsty people
crowded in front Of the joint bars
stored in the basement of the court
house Tuesday afternoon but Sheriff
Lucas did not offer to serve them from
the bountiful supply of wet goods he
has stored in the wine cellar" of the
court house.
Senator Fred Dumont Smith is the
author Of more reasonable looking re-
| form bills than any other three men in
/ the legislature He wrote the law
4 which makes possible the parole of
| prisoners from the state penitentiary.
/ Now he is fathering another parole law
and a juvenile court bill.
The Lawrence Journal says: THE
Topeka saloon keepers have adopted
the plan Of exchanging barkeepers in
order to cor fuse men who drink at the
/ various places, and make it impossible
/ to Identity certain men and places a.
those where they imbibed- This is
hardly necessary, as one or two drinks
at q Topeka bar is enough TO confuse
almost anyone"
Ed Howe says in the Atchison Globe:
! Topeka has joint called The Palms,
but its solemn religious name didn t
save 1t from raid last night me
Copeland bar was also raided, and q
bar in the rear of a cigar store. All
the men on duty were arrested. and
{
is a part of the method being adopted
over there to pacify the temperance
element"
Among those who have been placed on
the programme of the State Temperance
Union convention next Tuesday and
Wednesday are Mrs e. P Hutchinson,
state president ". c. 7. u, Hutchinson;
J. ". Dunn. Onaga; Mrs McV
Adams. national W. c. T. q. lecturer.
Mound City. and Rev Frank n. Lynch,
wichita These speakers win have the
discussion OF the subject, The Cultiva-
tion of Public Sentiment; Needs and
Methods"
Ed Howe must be supremely happy
Three Italian bands are to play in
Atchison. The Globe says There is
going to be an Italian band row II
Atchison. Enery's Royal Italian ban6
appears at the theater on the 18th. aft
ernoon and evening On the 10th o.
March. Creatore's Italian band appears
in two concerts, afternoon and evening
and a little later the Banda Rosa vii
give the concerts at the theater. Eller1
is the original italian bend man; h'
brought the first Italian band to thi
country The original band has spill
into three bands all of about the SAM
size as the original, new players hav
ing been imported. Signor Rivela, Sig
nor Sorrentino. and SignOr Creatore
directors of the three bands. were orig
tnal members of the Ellery band, an
I hate each other"