The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
Snap Shot5 atHoms News.


A new tin roof is being put on the
Fifth Avenue hotel
The government thermometer ranged
between 40 and 49 Friday.
The midwinter senior class of the high
school finished their studies Friday.
The Kansas Bridwinter exposition win
open Monday morning for its two
weeks show
There viii be a meeting of the Ohio
association at III West Sixth street
Monday night
George W. Clark spoke at Jewell City
Thursday before the WOOdmen He is
advocating the reimbursement of rates.
The Topeka Athletic association
will give an athletic entertainment and
smoker at the club rooms Monday
night.
Prof. Wilcox of the State university
gave an illustrated lecture at the High
school Friday afternoon on the Grecian
ruins.
Rev. DR. Mcfarland of the First NJ
D. church viii preach Sunday even
ing on Legislators and Their Responsi-
bility.
The spectacular ladder act Of Plamon-
don and Amondo VIII be one of the OD-
ening entertainment features Of the
Midwinter exposition.
There is a close contest between the
West Sixth and Oakland street car lines.
over the proposition of which is the
JOltiest piece of track.
Topeka hotel population has thinned
out materially by reason of the going
home of a considerable part of the leg
islature for Sunday.
The Midwinter exposition begins next
Monday. It comes in an opportune time
as there viii be few attractions at the
theaters and they viii be far between.
Chief Engineer Story of the Santa Fe
was in Kansas City Friday The union
e r-
never want for story" when he is
around.
L. L Dyche, the president Of the State
Poultry association, is visiting the pOul-
try show in Kansas City. Dyche is an
expert on chickens, polar bears, seals
and golf.
The county officers in the court house
have rogue 6ed that John Marshall, the
new register of deeds, abstain from
practicing on his Z fiat, rotary valve
cornet, during Office hours.
Street Commissioner Griggs has at
last started in to clean uD Fifth street.
Dirt to the depth of half an inch was
scraped off in front of the pOstOffice
building on East Fifth yesterday.
General Leonard Wood will play the
west in the latter part of January. He
has a date for Topeka before the kan
sas Day club January % and before the
Kansas City Knife and Fork club Janu-
airy 30.
1T IL W. E4llnEeF mas Deen reap
pointed county physician by the COM
missioners for another year. His bid
for the work was $500 and the same as
the bid of DR.. H. H. Keith, but the com
missioners decided not to change physi-
clans.
Captain J. H. Churchill. who was
elected president of the state board Of
agriculture was once a sailor. He took
a ride on bottailed Topeka street car
q few days ago and in telling about it
he said. 1.-THE car pitched so badly that
was afraid Of being seasicl"
The H. 2. Reisman Advertising
agency is one of the new additions to
the Topeka Commercial club. The mem
bership committee has a lot of new
names on the string and expects to have
Is or 30 more additions to the roll by
the time of the next meeting.
The seniors and the undergraduates of
the high school fought Friday afternoon
TO see whether the senior class should
be allowed to wear the class colors as
neckties. The class colors are black and
orange and under the circumstances the
undergraduates should be commended
for their efforts to suppress the horror.
A. Marburg viii leave tomorrow for
trankfurTer on the Rhine Germany
He may take with him that parody of
IrOnQuius on -Bingen on the Rhine
which refers to a ham and is set to the
tune of the "Bingen" rhyme and is
something about THE nice large, corn
fed ham marked Kansas, sunny Kansas
on the rhiad." The Germans might ap-
preciate it.
The members of the state board of
agriculture We're given a car ride around
town Friday on the citv railway The
special train was made up of a rickety
motor car of the vintage of 80 and a
trailer which had been rebuilt from an
old mule car The farmers felt perfect
~ at home for the outfit resembled in
actions, size and speed, a traction en-
CINE with coal wagon hitched on be-
hind.
1t is likely that Ensign John Howard
Of the Salvation Army detachment. To
peka, viii be moved to Calves
ton, Texas, in compliance with an order
from the Kansas City headquarters
Ensign Howard's health is not good
and on this account he may leave
Topeka. He has been in Topeka but