The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

But whatso er she plans to do,
No contradiction will she brook;
And she assures me it is true
J That she's resolved to write a book
In ink-splashed cambria, now. she's clad;
Her hair is plated in a queue;
Strictly sub rosa, may add
The shops, the play, the private view
Now win from her no passing look.
For she's resolved to write a book
Girls, here's a splendid chance for you
I'm looking for sweetheart who
j Has not resolved to write booki
Frank Roe Batchelder. in January
Smart Set.
The genuine midwintee weather for
the exposition continues
Dick Hodgins is the head organizer
of Hoch clubs in Topeka.
/ L. S. Dolman will move to Kansas
City TO engage in the practice of law.
Wednesday nights attendance at the
Nidwinter exposition was a record
breaker.
Examinations for clerks and carriers
will be held at the postofffce Feb
ruary 10.
Tables for the Kansas Day club ban
quet are being constructed in Repre-
sentative hall.
Rev. F. G. Brainerd, of Ottawa, is
here attending the meeting of the
| Society for the trien0leSS.
Major A. M. Harvey has been ap-
pointed referee by Judge Hazen in the
case of Bennett against Ruffner.
One of the greatest vaudeville attrac-
tons of the Midwinter exposition is the
flip-fiops which the weather is turning.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the First Presbyterian church will meet
in the church parlors tomorrow after
noon at 2:30.
Luther Nellis is losing flesh. He says
it is caused by worrying over how to
accommodate the people at the Kansas
Day club banquet.
The Philips SIonecker- Ro dgers- Dud-
Iey-Mulvane primaries. sort of a
donatio party to Congressman Curtis.
will be held tomorrow.
The memorial flag staff committee
has raised about $500 toward the erec7
ton of an old soldiers monument on
/ the Washburn college campus.
The B street colored Baptist church
has split, and one of the splits has de-
cided- to have Rev. II w. White for
pastor and to buy a church building.
Frank Croy of s14 Fillmore street
was taken to Stornont hospital Tues
day morning and operated upon for
appendicitis. He is now convalescing-
The Topeka, Northwestern & Frank
fort Railway company has filed with
the Shawnee county clerk its plat of
the survey north from Topeka beyond
the county line.
Mrs Frederick Scott will talk on
Current Events" at the Y W: G. A.
parlors at p. m. Friday evening. A
general invitation to young women mas
been extended
D. e. Cain, formerly stationed at To-
peka in various official positions for the
| Santa Fe, is in the city on business. He
is now general superintendent OF the
western grand divisin, headquarters at
La Junta.
Men who want to get their names on
the eligible list for appointment as
clerks at the Topeka postoffice will
have an opportunity of doing so on
February 10, for which date a special
examination has been set.
The city railway has so far taken no
action in regard to the petition OF Ie-
cumseh people for an extension OF the
line to that place The line is not hKe-
Iy to be built, because there is not be-
lieved to be enough business to JUS
tify it.
Black Patti and her negro trouba-
dours were at the Crawford last night
to play their annual engagement: A
season without BLACK Patti would be
like a season without 'Uncle Toms
Cabin" or Faust: it would be no sea-
son at all
Blanche Boies, temporarily a resident
of the county jail by force of circun-
stances and law, will receive bids on
the Jersey cow which the Kansas
Hermit donated to her to help her in
her days of trials. troubles and tribu-
lations. What does she hear?
One of the telephone statesmen stop
ping at a big Topeka hotel insisted upon
having a room with bath. When 10
Gated in his room, he had two barrels of
bottled beer and 200 pounds of ice sent
to his room. He had the porter crack
the ice, and pack the beer in the bath
tub In this way he has very con-
venient refrigerator, with good drain
age.
Postmaster John Guthrie was honor
cd by a surprise party at his home at
921 Clay street Wednesday night by
the members of Topeka Post, n, G. A.
r. and Relief Corps 81 After the greet
ings Judge Guthrie was installed in the
office of surgeon of the post. He was
unable to attend the installation of the
post and this manner was adopted by
his friends of bringing the installation
to him.
Leroy Powell who is superintendent
of the civil service examinations at the
Topeka postofhce. received instructions
from the department at Washington
by wire Wednesday night for the hold
ing of a special examination of apDn-
cants for appointment as postoffice
clerks and mail carriers. The exami-
nation will be held on February TO-
This is short time for preparation,
and those who desire to take the ex-
animation should apply for information
about it Immediately. From those tax
ing this examination it is hoped to APP
point eligibles for the reserve list. Re
turns have been received on the exami-
nation held last November showing
that only one eligible has been named
There was but one remaining on lie
list from previous examinations. At
least one more name must be certified
to the postoffice department.
Will N OF Employ Tax Ferrets.
ottawa, Kas, Jan. 28.-After a pro-
longed controversy over the subject of
employing sstax ferrets" to list cash and