The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Mrs. HoIlcraft, florist, sO7 Kansas
avenue, has fine violets.
Washburn college played the Uni
versity of Denver at Denver this after
noon.
The executive committee of the
state editorial association is to meet
in Topeka Monday.
The Topeka High school and Wash
burn academy played at Washburn
field this afternoon.
The Topeka Y. NJ c. A. is planning
some Sunday theater meetings in To-
peka for next January and February.
United States Marshal Mackey re-
turned today from a hunting trip in
| Comanche county with George A.
Clark.
The sub-freshmen basket ball team
of the High school defeated the Shorey
Athletic club in a game at basket ball.
Score 18 to 4.
The Washburn football team will
| start for home Immediately after the
game at Denver this afternoon, arriv-
| ing here Sunday noon.
Judge Pollock of the United States
court returned on Friday afternoon
from Lafferty, Belmont county, Ohio,
where he has been visiting.
John T. Yates, sovereign clerk of the
| Woodmen of the World, returned to
| Lincoln this morning. 1t was seven
years ago that he was in Topeka last.
DR.. w. G. Evans picture is appear
/ ing quite regularly in the Newark
newspapers. He is aiding DR.. Chap
man in evangelistic work in New Jer-
| sey.
Seventeen candidates were initiated
/ into the Pocahontas degree of the I'm
proved Order of Red Men last evening
at the hall Of the lodge on West Sixth
avenue.
T. F. Carver is one Of the speakers
| at the meeting of the Kansas branch
of the National Reform association to
! be held at Wichita next Monday and
Tuesday.
The state board of railroad com
missioners will not meet at all next
week. The fact that Than ksgiving
| day comes on Thursday is given as
the cause.
This is the last DAY upon which
| tickets for the Washburn-C Colorado
| football game on nksgiving can be
| purchased for rs cents. Next week
they will be 81 per.
Jailer Carl Lawson and Detective Ed
Pavey this morning arrested Charles
| Carter near the Kansas avenue bridge.
| He is wanted by the sheriff of Enid
| county, Oklahoma, for burglary.
Two building permits were issued
this morning to Davis, WELCOME & Co.
| for the erection of two dwellings, one
/ on lots 453-455 Jackson street and the
! other on lots 457-459. Both dwellings
are to cost $500 each.
/ John T. Yates, sovereign clerk Of the
Woodmen of the World, and his wife,
Mrs. Yates. were shown about The city
| today by a committee of local Woodmen.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Yates left this afternoon
for Omaha. their home.
The gas was so poor for a time last
| evening that lights went out and it
was impossible to use gas stoves. There
| is always more or less trouble in intro
ducing new systems, new machinery
and new methods. Gas is no excep-
ton.
The ways and means committee OF
the city council will meet next Wed
| nesday evening at 1880 to consider the
proposed fill of Kansas avenue in
South Topeka and the increase in pay
of a number of city employees who
have petitioned for the same.
Robert W. Brown, grand exalted ruler
of the Elks, win be in Topeka on Mon
day, December 4, to make the local lodge
a short visit He will be here from
1890 until $50 o'clock. An informal re-
ception and lunch will be rendered him
Mr.. Brown lives in Louisville, KY.
Arrangements are being made t
heat and light the city building witt
natural gas. The building is piped TO
gas and the only thing needed i
fixtures and the connection. The boil
ers of the steam heating plant will b
connected up with the natural gas
The Auditorium is not piped for gas