The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-07
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS


She has. fixed me a smoking ROOM" pam
with settles Severe" Of outline.
And wreatned oak tables (outrageously
And couch covers. Persian design.
The pipes grimy hends to invoke;
So I ask, with sigh, as I pat my pipe
where the deuce is a fellow tosmoie2"
she has fixed me library. splendid ana
cdahogany's frightfm to scratch.
There are shelves fun Of novels and
she bought for their bindings (they
There's a grand antique chair, at a
which frowns at the comfort I need
When ask with a roar al the library
Where the deuce is a fellow to read?'
She has fixed me a living room, low
browed and deep,
With hand-hnished doors and such beau
That you shudder their sheen to denIe.
Such careless simplicity neatly ar
Mere Iounging could never forgive,
So moan as I fade from the living
Where the deuce is a fellow to live?"
New York Globe
Pop corn is coming to town by the
wagon load.
The next holiday viii be St. valen-
tines day.
A. 3. Ouinton will return from New
York city tomorrow
J. E. Hanway editor Of the Horton
Commercial, is in Topeka today.
Doesn't the present political crowd do
the AFTER you, Alfonso stunt to a fin
fish, though.
George Davis of Lawrence is at a
Topeka hospital and he win undergo
an operation.
The ground space about the new
Manual Training school is being clear
ed and leveled off.
The Midwinter fair begins at the
Auditorium on Monday, January so.
It Will last two weeks.
Bishop Minspaugh viii speak in
North Topeka Sunday morning and at
st. Simon's in the afternoon
Rev. A. Wynan viii read a paper
before the Saturday Night club to-
night on Literary Standards
Topeka now has cross town street
cars. East Sixth and West Fourth
avenue line cars cross Kansas avenue
at Sixth street
Edwin BAILEY. who has been with
the Wells-FargO Express company for
some time, has gone to Washington,
Ind, to spend the winter.
Advertising bIotters of the Topeka
Typographical union are being sent
n n.
They are neatly gotten up.
Chief Stahl wants a private score
tary." He says that he has too much
clerical work to be able to give
proper amount of time to outside duty.
Born. Thursday afternoon to DR..
and Mrs I. w. Bean of NOrtOnville,
a son. Mrs. Bean was Miss Kate CAT
1erty of Topeka before her marriage
General Manager H. q. Nudge of
the Santa Fe viii return this evening
or tomorrow from a two weeks in
spection trip throughout the south
west.
z. c. Cook. managing editor of the
St Louis Railway Journal, was in To-
peka this week to secure material and
data for an article on the Santa F'e
chops
A glass IN the window Of Shannon's
grocery, on West Tenth street. was
broken last night, the window opened
and there were other evidences of a
small burglary.
Did you know that Councilman
and IL B. after his name2 He grad
uated from Washburn college in 1882
and afterward from Harvard.
Next June Washburn will celebrate
the fortieth anniversary of her found
ing At that time the Carnegie IL
brary Will be ready to dedicate. and
prominent speakers will be present
The baseball writer on the Capital.
who always finds out the news after 1t
IS published in the State Journal, has
at last admitted that lola and Fort
Scott won't be in the league this year.
The Oakland Blade says: we
think we can get a lumber yard in
Oakland if some one viii furnish the
grounds. and the street car company
will put in a switch" The only other
thing to be furnished would be the
lumber
The past two weeks have brought in /
almost $1,000 into the building fund Of
the Topeka Y. NJ. c. A. The entire Z
total is now Ss9. 700. At the next meet /
ing of the board of directors the matter /
of canvassing viii be thoroughly dis /
cussed-
During the year 1904 the total /
amount of stamp and stamped paper I
sales at the pOstoifice aggregated $780, /
SSO.S1. This was an increase of S6.126.59 I
over 1903. The sales for December. 1904 !
We're something enormous, a total of /
sI7.34O.5S
The Independent Telephone COM
pany does not bother subscribers by (
calling up every morning to, Hello. /
good morning" The Bell company
bOthers every subscriber every morn /
ing with that needless statement that