The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-17
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Wild columbines are in bloom.
The Knights of Pythias are planning
! TO hold a memorial service soon.
Mrs. Charles Figg was taken to
Christ hospital yesterday for appended
It's.
D. w. Mulvane has gone to Wash
ington with Congressman Phil Camp
bell.
The state dental board is examining
applicants for licenses at Steinberg's
4 han.
A new telephone box is being con-
structed in the corner of the Copeland
hotel Office.
Leroy Barnes, an old Topeka boy
who has been visiting IN Topeka, has
returned east.
J. W Radford, the state grain in
here Tuesday afternoon.
The demurrers to the Kaw river OBJ
! struction suits will be argued in the
federal court on Thursday.
General Manager J. E. Hurley of the
Santa Fe, was in Kansas City Tuesday
afternoon on company business.
| Mrs. Charles Jacobs of Enporia who
was operated upon in Topeka for appen-
dicitis is reported out of danger.
President D. NJ. Shiveley of the West
ern Association, will be in Topeka the
latter part of the week, Saturday or
| Sunday.
II. W. Travis ETdlL. was III 10
peka yesterday Travis is state fish
commissioner, and hopes to be ap-
/ pointed state game warden.
After all this talk, how many peo-
pie are there who know what a spit
BALI is, or would recognize one of
them if they should see it pitched?
! Street Commissioner James Ramsey
has moved his office from the second
floor in the city building to the third
! floor in the room formerly occupied by
| the janitor.
! People who will furnish vehicles to
/ take the visiting club women on a
drive over Topeka on Friday morning.
should notify Dell Keller, chairman of
! the Commercial club committee at
/ once.
The Commercial club meets on Friday
i night. J. c. Mcdowell, general mana
ger of the Kansas Natural Gas COM
pany will deliver an address. The pro-
/ position of a. trade extension trip will
also be discussed.
Miss Aline Lamy. of Highland Park,
has a collection of miniatures on exhi-
/ bition in the ceramic exhibit at the
| manual training school. The exhibit
was a feature of the Kansas building
at the St. Louis exposition.
Mrs. Josephine Blattman has fled
| suit in the district court for divorce
| from George Blattman. Mr.. Blattman
filed suit a few days ago against Mr..
| and Mrs. J. H. Morrison and Roy Best
for IS, 000 for alternating his wife's affec-
tons.
While Sheriff Bert Lucas was in Los
Angeles he mailed to several of his
friends in Topeka leather postal cards
Some Of the friends now say that Lucas
used leather cards because his fist is so
heavy that he jabs a pen right through
an ordinary card.
James Clark Hughes, the son of
Col. J. W. +. Hughes, will leave today
for Annapolis, where he will study for
a month in the naval training acad-
envy, preparatory to taking the exaIn1-
nations for admission to Annapolis.
Hughes has been student at Wash
burn academy for three years.
Clarence Cole, the Topeka boy who
recently passed successfully the final
examinations at Washington, and is
now Fl full-nedsed Z. ). army surgeon,
was in Topeka Tuesday. He is now
waiting for the seyernm tent to assign
him to duty. He will probably be sent
to Alaska or the Philippines
Mrs. Hazelrigg, the Christian evan
gelist, returned from Nebraska today.
She dedicated the new Christian church
building in Bloomington and held a two
weeks meeting resulting in so addi-
lions. She win speak morning and ev-
ening of next Sunday at Fort Riley in
the interests of the z. NJ. Q. A. work
among the soldiers.
NJ A. Low, general attorney of the
Rock Island, has gone to Belleville.
Kan, where he met the executive and
operating officials of the Rock Island
who are touring the system with Presi-
dent B. L Wincheu and H. u. Nudge
the new second vice president. The
heavy stockholders and directors of the
road are also with the special train.
The ottawa Herald says: 1.-The coun-
ty officers have decided that Oliver
Walker shall go back to the state re
form school. Walker Is the young man
who was arrested for stealing a buggy
wheel last week. He is also chaa ged
with a theft in Topeka. Walker was
sent to the reform school about two
years ago for forging a check which
was cashed at the Felix clothing store.
He has been out on parole for nearly
a year" He stopped at the home of a
friend in Topeka and stole SIS
w L. Taylor, chairman of the trans
| pOrtation committee of the Commercial
| club, has asked General Manager J. E.
Hurley of the Santa F-e, to meet with
| the committee to discuss the matter OF
| establishing gasoline motor car ser
vice on the Topeka and Leavenworth
| branch with a schedule which Will per-
NIT citizens in the small towns near to
Topeka to come to Topeka in the morn
| ing to do business and return to their
homes in the evening.
The Ottawa Herald says: Ottawa is
soon to become the home of another
school. A class in card writing has
been organized and work will begin
Monday The instructors in the art are
all men of practical experience in the
business and can give the principles as
well as any school in the country, The
members of the faculty are Fred Virs-
cent G. A. Pearce and J. W. Neale, OF
Topeka Mr.. Neal will arrive from To-
peka this evening. The lessons will con-
| sist of work in backgrounds, lettering
and fundamental principles of the work
Fifteen or twenty young men from the
Heading stores of the town have already