The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
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w. c. Shook of 1915 North Quincy
street reports a case of diphtheria in
his family.
E. W. Hughes has bought the vacant
site at 623 Van Buren, street from the
Strauss Agency.
Eight new switch engines are in
course of construction at the Santa Fe
shops in this city.
The board of directors Of the Lake
View club held their quarterly board
meeting yesterday.
E. D. McKeever entertained the Sat
urday Night club last night with one Of
his inimitable addresses.
E. b Atwood purchased the block at
119 West Fifth street yesterday through
the Strauss Agency. Consideration
$4,000.
B. Lewis who was so severely in
jured in an accident at the round
house last Sunday, is recovering
rapidly.
Most of the chess players from over
the state have returned to their homes,
having completed their play at the state
tournament.
Archie F. Williams, United States
commissioner, is in Kansas City for a
few days, on business appertaining to
the affairs of his Office.
The school taught by Miss Helen Ing
ham, at Overlook. has. been closed on
account of the. epidemic of diphtheria
which is prevalent in that locality.
Rev. Otto Irelan, a Washburn gradu-
ate of the class of SO, has accepted a
passionate in the Twenty-fourth Street
Christian church, in San Francisco
Rev. Eugene J. Hall picked two dan
| delion blossoms while walking across the
asylum grounds this morning. How is
! that for February in sunny Kansas?
Ten delegates as local representa-
tives will attend the meeting of the r.
| R. Y. NJ. c. A. at Chanute, which COM
mences on the eighth of February and
| lasts three days.
Mrs. o. H. Danner will erect a mod
ern eight room dwelling on Clay street
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets and facing Central park. The
cost viii be $500.
F. FerulIo, the leader of Ellery's band;
who created more or less of a sensation
| in Topeka last summer, is to be mar
ried to the daughter of a Kansas City
fruit merchant on May 1.
The grounding business was worked
! overtime yesterday. About every other
person you met sprung that grounding
tale. The tale of the grounding and his
doings is about the most tires0me thing
that ever happened.
Judge Urmy turned $7S0,30 into the
| city treasury for fines collected last
month. Five hundred dollars of this
amount was collected from the women
of the city who are supposed to live
! below Fourth street
Jack johnson has given out the re-
port that he sprained his elbow while
/ wrestling preparatory to his bout with
| Mccormack. He may not need an ex-
/ cuse, but good generalship necessitates
having one on hand in case of an emer-
! gency-
A small fire which is supposed to
have had its origin among some cleo
trio wires was responsible for the fire
: department making a run to a store
/ house owned by Frank Raynor at 413
4 West Curtis street yesterday. The
damage was trifing-
Gordon Cron, the Topeka boy who is
with the Ben Hur company was well
coined home by his landlad9S Mrs.
Emma Keener. who presented a board
bill which she claimed had been sighted
by Cron complaint to this effect
has been fled in the city court.
There are a great many out of town
/ people shopping here and also attend
ing the Ben Hur performances. Ticket