The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The melancholy days have come
The saddest of the year.
When man goes out and shoots frlend,
40. '.''-''>S - 2Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Nation will make her stage
debut next week
The country roads around Topeka are
almost impossible.
Reports from the Kansas bass streams
are that fish were never so plentiful
Judge Hazen will not call or hear the
motion docket of the district court Mon
day.
E. B. stotts, of Garden City. is in To-
peka after having disposed of some tat
cattle in Kansas City.
Dusenberry, the bicyclists' delight,
used to be town marshal back IN
ohio. That accounts for it.
The city prisoners are doing better
job of cleaning the Kansas avenue pave
ment than the white wings" did.
The football game between the teams
morning resulted in a score of to in
favor of Quincy.
Mrs M. L. Powell will address the
Socialist conference at Lincoln Post
hall Sunday at p. m, subject, So
eialism and the Home
The rabbits and the hunters are wor-
rying about the weather on Thanksglv-
ing. The hunters want light snow to
fall early in the morning. The rabbits
don't want any snow.
City Engineer McCabe and the street
railway officials will have ameeting soon
to determine the value of the paving
brick used by the railway company on
West Twelfth street.
The Alethean Literary society, a
girls organization at Washburn college,
will hold an open meeting in the college
chapel tonight. It will be an "On the
Old Plantation" meeting. The public is
| invited.
| Sheriff Guthrie, of Marshall county,
arrested Benjamin F'innamore at Marys-
vile Friday on the charge of burglary.
| He is charged with stealing from M.
Ross who lives near the Rock Island z.
Twenty-four additional mail carriers
have been appointed to rural routes II
Kansas during the past month. This
brings the present number in the state
up to SS6. They are all paid through
the Topeka postofice.
The patent paint which K. M. Brain
| is putting on the Melan bridge is said
to be satisfactory. City Engineer Nc
Cabe has ordered that a different dryer
be used in the paint to keep it from
rubbing off on peoples clothes.
| Eight new statues have recently beer
received for installation in the Catholic
churches in Topeka. Special service:
were held in the Church of the Assump
ton last night on the occasion of theil
blessing. The ceremony was conducted
by Fathers Hayden of Topeka and D.
Smet of st. Marys.
The Topeka high school finds itself un
able to secure the football game will
Campbell university of Holton, which i
had expected to play today. Next Sat
urday the team goes to Lexington, Mo.
to play the Military academy there Al
effort will be made to secure a mid
week game with Kansas City Contra
later in the season.
The recent issue of the Washburn Re
view contains a cartoon representing
the activities of President Norman
Plass who is now in the east. Dr.
Plass is pictured in the act of pulling
the Leg of a "benefactor, while abou
him lie the distorted figures of thos
whose cash has just been transfers.
into the college strong box.
Two carloads of -curbing shipped ir
here from Fort Scott were condemned
Friday by the city engineer because
they were not UP to the specifications
Besides being too small, the stones were
of poor quality. Fred Weber, the loca
representative of the Fort Scott sand
some curbing, is not held responsible
for the effort of the Fort Scott quarrie:
! to work of poor material on Topeka. A
few lessons like this will probably b.
sufficient to prevdElts similar attempt:
in the future.