The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-27
sNAP sHoTs ATHoME NEWS

The Midwinter exposition viii close
on Friday night.
Legislative box parties were numerous
at the Crawford last night.
The government thermometer ranged
Monday between 81 and 45.
The revival services at Lowman Hill
chapel are to close tonight
George L. Stanley was granted the
rights Of majority by Judge Hazeh
Monday
This is just the kind of weather that
preceded the big snow storm OF two
years ago.
The Oliver brothers are already draw
ing big crowds at the new North side
tabernacle.
The Scottish Rite midwinter reunion
will begin Wednesday noon at the Ma
sonic building.
| A. r. Pease fled suit for divorce from
O. H. Pease in the district court Mon
day afternoon.
A. A. Robinson. president of the Mex
lean Central, left his home here Mon
day for Chicago.
Miss Maud Nonsen of this city was
called to Kansas City Monday by the
4 serious illness of her aunt.
Ed Urmey, manager of the Lyon
4 county poor farm, was in Topeka yes
/ terday visiting the state insane asylum.
It was 11:30 when the last people LETT
/ the Crawford opera house last night
after the performance Of 1.-THE Chris
tian-"
The State Bar meeting will be held
today and tomorrow. These men of the
bar are barristers. not drink mixers by
profession.
The Woman's Relief corps No. "a will
observe Mckinley day, January 20. at
G. A. R. hall, II East Seventh street,
at 1880 o'clock
Il didn't get a single sample" said
tot of six with tears in her eyes as she
! Auditorium Monday afternoon.
the exposition is no good.
Another booth was fitted up at the
MldW1nter exposition yesterday B. +.
/ Kinkead OF Emporia is exhibiting a
! kitchen cabinet of his own invention.
The fee buying business in Shawnee
! county is causing fierce competition. A
4 Topeka man put up his rs cent fee at
auction Monday and got 70 cents for il.
The attorneys for John c. Lowe Mon
day afternoon asked Judge Hazen to
argued and was taken under advise
ment.
F. D. Coburn has appointed Henry
/ Gillespie, a Santa Fe man, to be his
! StenOgrapher in the new work of super
! intendent of live stock of the St Louis
| exposition.
At present the only good results from
/ the inCuisitiOns being held by County
! Attorney Galen Nichols is that the fee
buyers are busy fighting for the few
witnesses fees.
In big silver letters the firm name
''Waggener. Doster & Orr is being put
on the windows of the third floor front
Office in the new block at Ninth and
Kansas avenue.
Washburn students We're busy last
night with some sort of barbaric fes-
| Invites to celebrate the end of the
semi-annual examinations. The hoWls
Of the savages could be heard all over
the west part Of town.
noon ordered SIC, 600 Of the Q. W. Jewell
estate paid to Washburn college under
the terms of the will which gave that
sum to the college if a like sum be rails
ed in two years. The time limit was
today.
Charles F. Ceilly of this city has been
in Emporia for the past week organizing
labor unions. He started she organiza-
ton of the carpenters, painters, plas-
Ierers, BARRIERS, br1CklayeI'S and stone
nasons, also a Central Labor council.
Topeka must be getting accustomed
to aWfully wicked things. Not a single
hiss was heard last night when the lit
tie lady in the brilliant red tights ap-
show for her Roman ring gymnas tics.
It might have provoked a riot last year.
Street Commissioner Griggs had a
force of men at work with a line of
hose Monday washing off the pave
ment in front of the Auditorium. 1t
is feared that SO much dirt was re-
moved that corn won't grow there any
more.
Between fifty and sixty people were
crowded into one of the little street
cars on the Washburn line last night.
The jam was tremendous. Next to the
hired girl question, the greatest prob
lem in Topeka is the problem of how
to get a seat on the crowded street
cars.
After spirited bidding against four
competitors, d man in the west part
of town has finally succeeded in secur-
l Ing the services of a servant girl who
was detected in the act of not having
J a position. In the scramble. the girl
. is getting a dollar more week than
at her last place
The Wichita delegation to the State
Bar association meetings in Topeka to-
day and tomorrow is endeavoring' II
take the next annual meeting to the
Windy Wonder on the Arkansas. This
: was tried last year and was a failure
) but it will succeed this year unless the
members of the Topeka bar turn out III
.