The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The epidemic of winter cholera is
subsidfng.
The Midwinter exposition opens
Monday afternoon.
Kansas viii win a reputation for
severe winters if this keeps up
Ed McKeever has returned from a
trip to lola on government business.
The dedication of the pipe organ
will be Topeka's next big musical
event
City candidates are becoming
numerous enough to satisfy the ward
heelers.
Harry f.. Donaldson of the Santa Fe
passenger department will go to
Omaha tonight.
United States Marshal Mackey re-
turned from a trip to his home at
junction City today.
Bishop Millspaugh will preach at
Grace cathedral both morning n
evening on Sunday.
County Attorney Hungate is busy
preparing for the grand jury that
convenes on Monday.
The walls Of the entire lower corridor
of the county court house Will be paint
ed in a terra Gotta color.
The new Manual Training High
school building will not be opened be-
fore the middle of March.
A numbe of Topeka people are
planning to attend the season of grand
opera at Kansas City in March.
J. c. Emahizer, of Emahizer e.
Speilman, has returned from a trip to
Grand Rapids and Chicago on BUSH
ness.
Lincoln post NO. 1 and Lincoln cir
Gle No. I, Will hold an entertainment
this evening at their headquarters, lis
East Sixth street
Here is a good safe rule to follow:
If you see any news in the baseball coll
umns of the Capital, it has been stolen
from the State Journal
"~Brigham's Pagoda" presents quite
an impressive appearance in front of
the Auditorium for the Midwinter ex-
position which begins next Monday.
With sorrow and calamitous feeling
many people remember one Sisler who
played third base for Topeka last sum-
mer- Well-he wants to come back. but
he won't.
In honor Of the 16 members of Lin
coin post who died during the past
year. a memorial service Will be held
at the hall on Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock.
Frank Griggs, the high school athlete.
and a member of the famous Griggs
family of athletes, will enroll in Wash
burn college on Monday. He will be a
candidate for h baseball team this
spring
F. NJ. Leach, formerly manager of
Washburn athletics, is in Topeka. He
is still interested in the Topeka insti-
tuition and is working UP an interest
ia Liz RADRHGC0 nigh SCAlOO4 track
meet.
The criminal docket will be commenc-
ed on next Monday by the United States
court which is now in session in Kan
eas City, Kan, presided over by Judge
Pollock A lot of bootlegging cases are
on the list
The Topeka Whist club viii hold an
important meeting Monday night to
complete arrangements for the Cen
trail Whist association which is to be
held in Topeka February 10 and IL.
All members should be present.
A good thing to remember: The doors
of the Midwinter fair open at 1870
O'Clock every afternoon and 1880 O'Clock
management need the morning to clean
up and ~straighten out the displays.
The Washburn Athletic association
has petitioned the faculty Of Washbu.n
college 10 postpone the spring vacation
this year from April 5 10 April Ii, so
as to give the baseball team the use Of
the holidays for a trip through Mis-
souri, and southern Kansas The change
viii probably be granted.
The county commissioners were busy
all day Friday answering questions If
people who wanted to know why their
personal taxes We're SO high. Few know
that if they do not pay them by a GER
tain time, q penalty is imposed, and
placed in the hands OF the sheriff for
collection. About $500 was paid into the
sherif's ofice on Friday
The county commissioners Of Jeffer-
son county did not meet the Shawnee
commissioners on Friday afternoon as
expected to formulate some agreement
as to the rebuilding of the Granville
bridge across the kaW river. The Shaw
nee commissioners are willing to pay
one-half h cost while the jefferson
people were holding out that Shawnee
pay two-thirds. The people of Jeffer-
son county affected by the bridge have