The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The street commissioners force is
grading alleys
c. K Holiday returned today from
his trip to Kansas City.
c. K. Holiday returned last night
from a business trip to Kansas City.
The Topeka baseball team win re-
port for practice in Topeka on
April s.
Seymour & Co. will formally open up
| their new cold storage plant this even
ing. MarshalTs band viii play
case of cnickenpox has been re-
| ported from the family of VIM Lint
ger at 1719 Van Buren, street
City Clerk Squires is sending out no
tees to the property owners who viii
have to pay special taxes for paving or
| sewers.
Two new Standard Oil wagons are op-
Grating in Topeka. The octopus does
not appeared to be afraid of what will
| happen In Kansas.
! Over !, 200 people attended the stereop-
ticon lecture given by DR.. Evans at the
| First Methodist church last night. The
lecture was upon California.
The Washburn people rang the col
lege bell about half the night when
the news of their victory over Baker
in joint debate was received.
The following birth reports have
been sent to the office of the city
physician: Jacob Haskell, boy, 1905
Clay street; Ellis Pulley. 1915 Clay
street, boy.
The rehearsal of '''The Redemption"
at the Auditorium on Sunday after
noon by the Choral society will COM
mence at instead of o'clock as
heretofore.
The promotion committee of the
Commercial club held a meeting last
night and talked with W. H. Moore
about the establishment of a canning
fact, ry in Topeka
Next Monday afternoon and evening
the state federation will exhibit italian
art, and Tuesday Dutch and Flemish,
at the manual training school Pro-
gramme each evening. Admission 1oc-
The last days of Chief Stahl are
evidently balmy. He has a new hat,
makes a trusty shine his shoes every
day, and yesterday had his trousers
creased so that they will stand up
alone.
At the city Y. M. c. A. tomorrow
afternoon at $3.50 Topeka man will
tell how he was saved from the life
of a drunkard. A special musical
programme has been prepared. The
service is open to all men.
There is less than week left in
which to pay dog tax al the rate of 81
per head. After March 81, the dog
lax can not be laid except at double
money to the city clerk prior to April
get the benefit of the reduction.
With its customary fine discrimina-
ton, the morning paper Jumps" the
the street sprinklers on Kansas ave-
nue.. Most people know that the city
has nothing whatever to do with the
street sprinkling; it is a private enter
prise, paid for direct by the mer-
chants
Rev. H. A. OFT, who breaches at the
asylum chapel every Sunday after
noon, would be glad to receive old
magazines and illustrated papers,
church papers included, for distribu-
ton among the asylum patients, a
great many of whom are able to read
and others able to enjoy the pictures
Cal up the asylum or Rev. Mr.. OFT
by phone.
J. NJ. Mcfarland bet Manager
Abbott of the Topeka team so cents
game on Friday afternoon with the
st. Louis Cardinals in which he par
ticipated. So after Spencer Arthur
made his little bingle in the third in
ming, Mr.. Mcfarland, all by himself,
gave the Topeka captain a silver
shower. He had ten nickels and threw
them at Abbott one after the other.
If there is anybody in Topeka who
wants to take the civil service exami-
nation for any of the following jobs,
he or she can do so by applying to ths
proper authorities at the postoffice;
Cable foreman on United States cable
ships; mechanical craftsman, ord
nance department; mechanical drafts
man, patent department.; female
physician for government hospital for
the insane at Washington; hydro
graphic aid, municipal water supply
department of geological survey; clerk
expert in internal commerce statistics;
clerk tariff division, department Of
commerce and labor; tariff expert, de-
partment of commerce and labor. The
job of tariff expert is the best paying
one in the list, the pay being $2,1CO
per year.