The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-27
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAfSHUIS Al HUME NEWS.
There are stilI a few holes in the
The streets and, walks committee
viii meet next Thursday evening at 8
o'clock
There win be no end of malaria in
Topeka if mosquitoes are really its dis
tributors.
City Clerk Squires is home from his
vacation which he has been spending
in Colorado.
H. c. Bowman, member of the
board of control. went to his home at
Newton yesterday.
A case of diphtheria is reported in
the family of man named Morris at
1882 Lawrence street.
F. C. Gunther has taken out a per-
init for the erection of a s., 900 residence
at 284 Jefferson street
The board of health hasn't suppressed
the filthy water hole on the Sixth ave-
nue. road just outside the city limits.
Pictures were taken Of the parties Inn
plicated in Sunday nights hold up by
the county authorities yesterday after
noon.
The white wings gave Kansas ave-
nue. a securing last night and par
TALLY washed the filth out of the sink
holes.
The lid is thing of the past. It
came suddenly and after staying less
than a week left as suddenly as it
came.
E. B. schermerhorn and sherman
Elliott of the state board of control
are visiting the Topeka asylum and
reform school today.
Fitzgerald & Lannon have taken out
permit for the erection of a store
building at S12-314 East Fourth street.
The building is to cost $1,000.
Senator Belts and wife returned from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, yesterday where
he has a, force of men at work on
large government contract
The Topeka High school football
! eleven will play the Holton High school
| at Holton Saturday. ]. Karl Henderson
| of Topeka will act as referee.
F. C. Brown, of ottawa, has purchas-
ed an interest in the weekly paper pub
lished in Oakland and will move to that
addition of the city of Topeka.
The coal bins at the county Jail are
being filled with slack, preparatory to
furnishing comfort to those who may
make their homes there this winter.
The grand lodge OF the state of Kan
sas, Knights of Pythias, is holding its
annual meeting at the lodge rooms
corner of Sixth and Quincy street to-
day.
Ed Sinner. stenographer for the
1 board of railroad commissioners, and
Fred Knapp, secretary of the board of
control. have gone to Colorado on a
visit.
Adjutant General Hughes has re-
ceived a photograph showing Gov
/ ernor Hoch and a number of others of
| the Kansas party in their bathing
suits at Atlantic City.
The will of the late j. L. SheIIabarger
was filed in the probate court yester-
day. The entire estate is left to his
wife who is made executrix without
bond.
Frank J. Thomas and family leave
today for Ration. New Mexico where
| Mr. Thomas will be in charge of the
sales department of the St. Louis Rocky
Mountain and Pacific railroad.
The boiling of the tar by the con-
| tractors at the state house grounds is
good for a fire alarm nearly every day
as the Kettle is permitted to boil over
| and some one turns in an alarm.
An invading army of mosquitoes
made rest last night a thing out of the
question 1t has been suggested thai
they were aiiicubated in the cesspools
i and small lakes on Kansas avenue.
4 L. S. Arthur. the minister of the
New Hope Colored Baptist church
filed suit against the church in tbs
district court asking for 5000 which
he claims is due him on back salary
Governor Hoch insists that the ex-
pert accountants will make their re-
port within month. Kelly is a mar
of strong constitution and may yet live
to hear the report of this committee
. George Stansfield returned from
hunting trip in western Kansas yester
!, day. He says that their party fount
prairie chickens very plentiful and tina
they had all the shooting that the.
. wanted
The evangelists in charge of the re
vivaI meetings in the city wish to NEE
any horn players in the city who woul'
: like to take part in an orchestra which
is being organized to play during tn
meetings.
5 Superintendent Shaw of the cit.
, waterworks will take up the matter o
meters with the school board. 1t i
proposed to place meters on all pipe
leading into school buildings in th'
. city.
John Dawson. who has just returned
!, from his home in Graham county, say
he went out for the purpose of throt
! ting his boom for county attorney
? He claims he couldn't find the boom
Dawson has had booms for so man.
, things that the county attorney boon
: has been lost in the shuttle.