The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Scottish Rite will celebrate
Maundy Thursday on April 20.
The jury in the district court viii be
busy ali this week trying cases.
The session of the United States dis
trict court for April began today.
Charles Holiday is planning to give
a dinner to the new city officials.
Some of the shrubs in Huntoon. Hol-
iday and Central parks are in bloom.
This evening the Authors club will
hold its meeting at the National hotel. |
Spring vacation at Washburn begins
tomorrow, and continues for one
week.
The members of the retiring city
council had their pictures taken last
week.
A case of diphtheria has developed
in the family of George Brandon, 1914 /
Quincy street.
In making his campaign for state |
auditor County Clerk Newman will visit I
every county, almost in Kansas.
The Shawnee county w c. T. U. in
stitute will be held at the Methodist |
church. oakland Friday, April IA.
Central Park is becoming one of the |
interesting points for persons who take |
Sunday walks or drives about town.
The city council has approved the |
/ bond of $1,000 furnished by S. S.
| Urnay, the newly elected police judge !
Paderewskis piano arrived today
| by Wells-Fargo express. The local
/ Office didn't know what to do with it.
J. E. Worthington, the insane man
who threatened Governor Hoch, viii be
] sent to the OSaWaConaie insane asylum.
Washburn and the Topeka profession
| ais will play game of baseball on
Tuesday afternoon at WashbuTn park.
Look out for showers. The preliminary
| baseball season has commenced. When
the regular season is on look out for
rains
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Golf club will be held this evening at
8 o'clock in the Office of c. B. Mer-
riam.
The Washburn Review has issued a
ing a story by the Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon.
The city railway will soon have the
car tracks on Twelfth street between
: Clay and Tyler ready for the pavement
to be laid.
The spring reunion of the Scottish
Rite. Orient of Kansas, Valley of To-
J peka, will be held at the Masonic build
ing April 25 to 27.
Strawberries sell for S. cents a box
2 in New York and for 20 cents in Topeka
at the present time. Some advantages
in living in Topeka after all.
Charles Sessions is now editing the
Kansas Topics in the Kansas City
Journal. This is the column which
the late Frank Montgomery edited.
L. w strain, the new GlHlSlOls
: freight agent Of the Kansas division
of the Rock Island, has reached To-
peka- He came from Colorado Springs
DR.. H L. Alkire has gone to Chicago
n to attend the meeting of the Association
{ Of American Medical Colleges and to
e attend the meeting Of the Eye and Ear
n Clinics.
d Mayor Davis visited the city hal
9 Saturday afternoon, and made himself
y acquainted with the city officers. He
will have regular Office hours at the
y city hall
". c. Taylor, division engineer OF
{ the FL Paso division of the Rock
! Island, who has heretofore been sta
u toned at Topeka, spent Sunday il
:. Kansas City.
e The Lincoln Post Flambeau club ii
e drilling a squad of men preparatory
n to going to Denver next September fol
= the G. A. r. encampme nt. A. NJ. Full
Ter is in charge.
This evening the city council vii
meet and it is expected that a bis
crowd will be on hand to hear wha
Mayor Davis has to say about ap
I pointments of new city officials.
While in Topeka w. M. Davidson
superintendent of the Omaha schools
visited the new Quincy building II
Il North Topeka. He said such building
: in Omaha would cost close to 100000
! Charles Sutherland, president of the
= Topeka Typographical union, said today
e that there is no truth in the story thai
4 the unions will oppose the installation
of typesetting machines in the new
4 state printing plant
Il The following birth reports hav'
been announced at the office OF tn
e city physician: Mr.. and Mrs A. r
Stoneking, 1885 North Kansas avenue
o boy; Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Schwartz
n 1414 Central avenue, girl
If The telephone poles at the corner O
Seventh and Eighth streets have be
come great billboards for Auditorium
entertainments. Six different signs nave
been ON the posts since the first of thu
year, and an of the signs have been O
Is the box variety.
At the next meeting of the board o
directors of Christ hospital DR.. j. c
McClintock will recommend that new
le wing be built. The hospital has beer
&c crowded almost beyond capacity lately
m so that the nurses quarters had to b.
+ given up to patients.
r A basketball tournament will b
" held by the high school at the Audi
ce forum on Friday evening, April Il
sy The boys team will play the St. John
u Military academy team and the girls
~ team will play a similar team 1roI
at the Fort Scott high school.
Madame Ernestine Schuman-Heinkf
ne who has been heard in Topeka in con
~ cert, is this year starring. in conn
opera. She will be heard IN Love
Lottery at the Willis Wood theatr
IN Kansas C1ly next AOlluay GNSiliii
n, land the remainder of the week.
lg Kansas City people are exhibiting
IS, great deal of civic pride in regard t
d the Sunday closing of the saloons
10 The. Kansas City Star and Times in a
n editorial says that the city mas place
k. a higher estimate upon itself on &C
OF count of the law enforcement move
ed ment. Topeka should take notice Q
Se. ~ poo,- Tsiand railroad mad a
n ills - 1raS,ess Citv vasterda
at taking about $50 persons to the cit
at the mouth of the Kaw. The indica
tons are that Sunday closing OF tn
lei ssltoOi19 - 49, sunday excursion