The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HoMENEws
Wen make good resolutions
Just as in the past,
With the usual understanding
mot guaranteed to last"
Washington Star.

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The toy counters are being replaced
with dry goods displays.
Many visitors in Topeka mistake the
court house for the state house.
The district court room is being
painted and it is closed to the public.
The State Teachers association will
open at the high school auditorium to-
night
The good looking strangers seen on
the streets of Topeka are Kansas
teachers.
Nearly every train that passes
through Topeka now is from one to
four hours late.
The grocers have decided to close
their stores at 10 a. m. on New Year
day, says President F. NJ. Newland.
A license to marry has been issued in
Kansas City to Edgar d. Hager of To
peka and Anna c. Walter of Leaven-
worth.
Albert Reid, the well known car
toonist, says that since he has struck
oil at Chanute he may give up his
cartoon work.
The city railway still uses cars with
out fires in them. This is not in har-
mony with the general up-to-date
methods of the company.
FREDERICK Sarabia, who is a student
at the State Agricultural college at
Manhattan, is visiting Edwin G. Kistler
at 3G1 Topeka avenue.
w. A. McKeever who is the leading
candidate for president of the State
Teachers association, is a brother of
e. D. McKeever, assistant United
States district attorney for Kansas.
While the wind was blowing Monday
no one who walked on Kansas avenue
would have believed that any two new
street sweepers and sprinkling wagons
had worked on the street in six weeks.
The teachers of the eastern district
of German parochial schools are hold
ing their annual convention here The
meetings are in the building at Second
and Van Buren, streets.
General L. H. Waters of Kansas City
and Capt. ]. G. Waters of Topeka will
be speakers at the Lincoln Day me-
mortal exercises to be given under the
auspices of the Grand Army posts here.
They are brothers.
The Democrats will likely hold ward
caucuses this year to nominate can
didates for the city council. They ex-
pect to make a hard fight in the First
and Second wards. as usual, but have
no hope of doing anything in any of the
other wards.
Dave Myers, formerly councilman from
the Second ward, is likely to make the
race for the Republican nomination for
councilman next spring. Mr.. Myers
wasn't a hilarious success when he
served as councilman before and was
easily beaten by a Democrat.
L. P Wingate, a former employe of
the Santa Fe passenger department in
this city is visiting in Topeka during
the holidays. Mr.. Wingate is now with
the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
Transportation company with head
quarters in Chicago.
This evening the midwinter reunion
Of the Kansas Medical college will com
mence with a reception at the home of
DR.. j. C. McClintock. Tomorrow morn
ing there will be clinic at Christ hos
pital, and at O'Clock in the afternoon
a reception at the home of President
and Mrs. Norman Plass at Washburn
college.
After nearly three years of service in
the regular army Frank Murphy has
returned home, he says to stay. Muir
ply has been in the Fifteenth cavalry
and spent most of his enlistment in
the Philippines where he participated
in the capture of the Sultan of Sulu,
immortalized by George AIDE. Murphy
says that most of the Fifteenth cavalry
boys have had enough of soldering
and will quit with their enlistment