The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

BY the things that the other folks do.
The faults that I note all about me each
Are enough to make anyone blue
have my own weaknesses, let US be
Some triaing defects which crop out here
and there,
With the things that the other folks do
And yet it is sometimes a comfort to
OF the things that the other folk do.
OF reform have frequently been on the
A leaf I'd turn over anew
Were it not for the fact very candid to
That the things for which people have
criticised me
The things that the other folks do.
Washington Star.
"Cider" Smith picked Wednesday for
Unity social will be Saturday night
instead Of Friday. ssrg-s..sz4ss=s
Matt Weightrnan is in Topeka this
week. He will return to Las Vegas
Saturday.
Mrs. John Movers, who has been
seriously sick at her home in Potwin,
is slightly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Iziel Paisley. of the
Santa FNe boiler shops, are the parents
of a daughter, born January 8.
A. L. Thomas and Charles Z. Holli-
day went to Chanute today to look af-
ter their investments in the oil field.
The gymnasium class of the new Rail-
road Y. M. c.. A. was organized Monday
evening. Over 20 members were en-
rolled. 5osrr lss
Roy Johnson theatrical traffic man
ager of the Santa Fe. is spending the
day in Kansas City on business for his
company.
John Howerton, of Rossville. is the
latest candidate for representative be-
fore the primaries of March 81. He
vents to represent the Thirty-seventh
district.
Engineer Wise will start in on the
survey of the Frankfort railroad in
day or two. Petitions are now in cir
culation asking for township bond cleo
lions. which are desired to be held
within sixty days
George Wells was bound over to the
city court Tuesday to stand trial in
the district court on the charge of as
saulting Arnie Mitchell with intent to
kill. Wells bond is $500. He could not
furnish it and went to jail.
The headquarters of the Republican
county central committee will be at
the city jail for some time. The secre-
tary of the committee, John Gardiner, Is
on the police force. That is the reason
for the locating of headquarters.
Street Commissioner Snyder says he
will take advantage of the first thaw
to begin repairs on the West Sixth ce-
dar block pavement. 1t does not seem
likely that Mr.. Snyder will be over
worked at this job for a while. then.
The drake member of the family of
Muscovy ducks exhibited in the state
poultry show looks as though he had
been manufactured out of what had
been left over after the chickens, turk
eys and other varieties of ducks had
been turned out.
f. E. Christy, a Chicago evangelist,
will address the regular weekly Rail
road Y. M. G. A. meeting at the Santa
Christy is well known to the men at the
shops, having addressed them several
times before.
The ladies of the Topeka w. c. T.
u. will have a social meeting at the
home of Mrs. Currie, s06 Madison
Thursday afternoon, January IA. A
short programme will be given com
mencing at 8 o'clock Every one inter-
ested in our work will be welcome.
Manager Lee, of the Dubuque COM
pany which is planning to rebuild the
ear lines in that town, was in Topeka
yesterday looking over the work done
here by the L. E. Myers Construction
company. This company is figuring on
doing for Dubuque what it has done for
Topeka.
At 6:55 o'clock Thursday morning a
Raymond Whitconb excursion will pass
through Topeka carrying ITO people
from New York, Boston and Philadel-
phia to Los Angeles, Cal, and return.
The train, which is composed of eight
cars, is being run from Chicago to Los
Angeles via the Santa Fe.
DR.. J. E. Minney left Tuesday for
Mexico. At Benson, Arizona, he will
be Joined by his daughter-in-law. Mrs
Z. w. Minney and she Will accompany
him in Guaymas, where they will take
the boat for Mazetlan from which
place they will go 60 miles by wagon
to Guadalupe where DR.. Minney's son,