The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS


Ice has been harvested this week
from the small streams.
The Plymouth Rock club held a meet
ing last night at the Auditorium
The Farmers institute will be held at
Berryton Tuesday and Wednesday.
This weather win fill the ice houses
z the natural ice men will help a lit
In the city of Oakland candidates
for the city council are coming for
Scores Of kansas papers are printing
notices tbout the Melba concert in
The Rock Island has a force of men
cutting ice in Wabaunsee county on
In the city of Oakland it will cost
81 ana SO to register CANNES in the
canine directory.
thing for the thermometer to bring
this sinking spell to a stop?
Mrs. J. W. Rhodes of Fostoria,
kan. who was operated on at Christ
hospital, is reported improving.
Did you know. before you saw a
thermometer. that it was colder this
morning than yesterday morning?
State Treasurer Kelly gave as part of
his bond of $1,150,0 600 a surety bond for
$5OO,O90, which viii cost him 81 200 a
year.
w. q. Weaver and Miss Emma, Lit
tie, of Alma are arranging for a party
of twenty-five to come to the Melba
concert.
A Wabaunsee item is that Charlie
Fearon contemplates a removal to To-
peka in February where he will enter
the Santa Fe car shops.
The Mayetta News says: Lew New
ell, who lives at Elnont, had his horse
stolen from a hitch rack in Topeka on
Tuesday evening.
CT
have registered at the commissioner of
elections office while but % registra-
tons are credited to female voters.
Thomas Kelley broke the record ON
the r. R. Y. M. C. A. bowling alley
yesterday. registering 247. Louis
Griley formerly held the record which
was 235.
James r. Henderson of Alma,
chosen to take the Kansas presidential
vote to Washington, left Topeka yes
terday with the official vote in his
possession.
A proposition has been made the
residents of Oakland to have their
mail delivered to them daily for five
cents month. An individual and not
the postoffice department makes the
offer.
The selni-annusI revival of the story
that c. J. Devlin carries the third
largest insurance of anyone in the Unit
ed States has been started. Mr.. Devlir
is credited with carrying $1,250,00o in
surance.
There were but two applicants for
the position of chaplain of the senate
and both of them were Presbyterians.
The senators had no choice in the
brand of blessings they should receive
during the session.
County Clerk Newman, who is
quietly campaigning during the ses-
sion of the legislature for state aud
itor. has to stop making medicine for
a. while, for he is quarantined at home
with his little boy who has scarlet
fever.
If you want to hunt rabbits and not
be arrested do not go to the Highland
Park neighborhood but go to Mayetta.
The Bayetta News says: Noble Chase
says (and no one doubts his truth
and veracity for a minute,) that during
the past six weeks there have heHn
five hundred rabbits killed on his farm.
Troy Chief: Here's to the knocker,
the faint hearted knocker, the knock
er so helpless and blue, who always is
crying and never is trying some good
for his town to do No use to correct
him, nor need we expect him, to get
to the front like q man; for while
others rustic, he'll sit down to hustle |
objections to raise for each one. So, |
why need we care, for so long as they
make hammers, We'll have knockers |
to spare.
The Alma Enterprise says: stChas |
has bought the Usage City |
Free Press. Charlie is one of the best I
allround newspaper men in the state I
and in addition he Will make a mighty ]
acceptable candidate for superintend-
ant of insurance two years from now.
Never has that office been better handl-
ID than under Supt. Luling and Barnes
deserves a whole lot of the credit for
t. Insurance companies that are not
disposed to play fair are brought to
ime with a short jerk and every man
,ets a fair deal for his money"
The Alma Enterprise says: s'News
anne from Topeka that our presiden-
fal elector. J. r. Henderson. had
,een elected to carry the Kansas re-
urns to Washing ton. A number of
he ten electors wanted the honor and
he pay for carrying the returns, but
i'm won on the sixth ballot, the with
travail of Dr. Little, of Manhattan.
living him the necessary votes. Be-
ides the honor of dining with the
president and hobnobbing with aris-
ocracy, the messenger gets % cents
/ mile for the work, out of which he
will have to buy a dress suit and pay
lis ice cream and other bils.'