The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The freshman class at the Kansas
Medical college had a group picture
taken Thursday.
The Mills Dr.. Goods store was the
first to decorate its store today in hon
or of Lincoln's birthday.
The teachers and pupils of the public
schools have been invited to attend the
Lincoln day exercises at the Auditorium.
There will be a meeting of the To-
peka Baseball association at the To-
peka Commercial club rooms Monday
night.
Since oranges got down to 80 cents a
peck there have been barrels and barrels
of orange marmaiade manufactured in
Topeka
The washhurn quartette will give
concert Monday night at the First
Christian church near Seventh on To-
peka avenue
Mayor Bergundthal attached his au-
tograph to so new city refunding bonds
Thursday, and the bonds are being reg
istered today.
Mrs. W. L. Gordon of 227 Van Buren,
street experienced a stroke of paralysis
last Tuesday. She is apparently re-
covering fl ON it.
John Dudley, first lieutenant to D. W.
Mulvane, was one of the Barnes BOOM
ers in Wyandotte county yesterday. No
Barnes didn't win.
Valentines are of about the same de-
signs this year as previously Hearts.
flowers and paper lace seem to be the
principal ingredients.
There are reasons to believe that the
joints are still running. The ice wagon
continues TO go up the alley opposite
the State Journal office.
Entries for the Republican city pri
maries viii be closed at noon on Mon
day, February Is. The city central COM
mittee will meet at the old court house
Monday night
The motorneers on the large new
street cars have been provided with
new harpoons for spearing switches.
They are about six feet long and are as
formidable as an implement of war.
County Clerk Newman has a letter
from H. NJ. Rains, former Topekan,
who is engaged in promoting a railroad
from Jefferson City, Mo, to the Gulf of
Mexico, inviting him to get in on the
ground floor.
The reception committee for the Ma
sonic grand lodge which will meet in
Topeka next week has elected Captain
H. NJ. Philips chairman and Harry F.
White secretary. Persons who will be
able to accommodate visitors are asked
to notify the secretary, giving location
of rooms and price.
AT a meeting of the girls of Wash
burn college Thursday morning pro-
position was taken up to form an ora
torical association through which to
compete for oratorical honogs. Miss
Hila Wood, sophomore, has announced
that she will participate in the sopho-
more-junior contest in June.
The West Side Forestry club. which
has been improperly referred to as the
Potwin Forestry club, has arranged for
an address to be given in the auditor
ium in March on the subject. Civic
Improvement" by E. G. Routzahn
The address will be one Of great in
terest to those interested in the sub
ject.
Malon Burget. the well known To-
peka man, who is a deaf mute, wants
to have it distinctly stated that he is
not the man whom the janitor at the
court house caught stealing coal last
week. Burget says that a good many
people think that he is the deaf mute
whom Janitor Vaughn caught.
The burning of the little peanut
stand at Eighth and Kansas avenue
has brought it suddenly to the atten-
ton of the city officials that peanut
stands are very dangerous inStitu-
ton, and should be entirely kept off the
streets. The city attorney has discoy-
cred that if anybody should run into a
street stand, the city would be liable
for damages.
The colored people in the First ward
organized Republican club last nlgnt
at the home of Max Overton. The
officers elected were as follows: M. w.
Overton, president; James McArd, vice
president; Prince Gibson, secretary;
William McElroy, treasurer; Monroe
Mason. assistant secretary. The next
meeting of the club will be held Feb
ruary Ii. at the Mount Zion Baptist
church.
The Worlds Fair Bulletin, published
at st. Louis, says: "Alonze Wardall OF
Topeka. Kan, chairman of the commit
tee appointed by the Cooperative Union
to provide for a National Cooperation
congress at the Worlds fair in 1904
writes that the delegates will number
between 800 and 500. 1t is expected that
all cooperative and profit-sharing es-
adjustments will be represented, and
that much interesting light will. be
thrown on the progress of this modern