The Topeka state journal., 1906-01-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

washburn and Kansas university
play basketball at the rink tonight
Any man needing a pair of trousers
should look at page 5-The Palace ad.
The ways and means committee of
the city council meets this evening
Tom McNeal viii read a paper be-
fore the Saturday Night club tonight
IS and 81 finest mems shoes will go
for $2.65 at the Palace sale of Richard
sons stock.
81. s6, IS highest grade French Shriner
& Urner mems shoes are selling for $3.50
a The Palace
The smallest automobile in the city
has two sets of numbers suspended
from its rear axles
Beautiful Fressia and Cyclamen
plants in fun bloom on sale at Mrs.
HOllcraft's Saturday.
The city officials who attended the
Municipal league meeting at Fort
Scott returned today.
The basket ball game at the rink to-
night decides the state championship.
Skating after o'clock
The inevitable blizzard will be all the
harder to bear when it does come
after all this pleasant weather.
Superintendent Albert Patton of the
street railway is in Chicago this week
comforting with officers of the road.
Two fires were extinguished by the
IRE department yesterday. The net
damage of S35 resulted from the fires
Commencing next Sunday the skat-
ing rink viii be open on afternoons
and evenings the same as on week
days.
seriously i'll at Stormont hospital for a
month past, will be taken to his home
today.
The annual meeting and banquet of
the Shawnee County Medical society
will be held on the 5th day of Feb
ruary.
Private dancing lessons can be tax
en- now al any time and at reduced
rates at Steinberg's Dancing academy
Bell phone, 2071 black.
You are invited to attend social
dances at Steinberg's dancing academy
every Wednesday and Saturday even
lngs. Gents soc; ladies' free.
Some of the merchants haven't
completed their invoicing. This
means to the merchant what house
cleaning does to the average house
wife.
It will pay you to visit Mrs Holl-
crafts store Saturday and see the beau
tiful display of Freesia and Cyclamen
plants. Also the new varieties of ferns
just received.
Mrs. T. D. Humphreys. who has been
confined to her bed for over two weeks
past with severe congestion of the
lungs and other complications, is now
able to sit up
A benefit concert for the First Cum
berland Presbyterian church will be
given this evening at the church by
the Amphion quartette, assisted by
Miss Lincoln, reader.
Mrs. E. W. Cline will leave for Du-
buQue, Ia, today to attend the funeral
of her brother. Dr.. M D. Cole, who
was so severely injured in a runaway
last week that he died.
There is an epidemic of infected
throats in the city. It is little owing
to the physician called whether the
case is said to be diphtheria, tonsilitis
or just plain sore throat.
DR.. Milo SIoo, a Santa Fe physician
who has been attached to the local
hospital here for the past two years,
has resigned and will enter private
practice in Portland. Ore.
The Kansas society of Sons of the
American Revolution will meet at 8
p. m tomorrow at the National hotel
to elect officers. J. M. Meade is presi-
dent of the Kansas society.
The new term of the public schools
opens next Friday. This is the day
when new seats are given out and
there is considerable bitter weeping
on the part OF those who fail to pass.
A B. Quinton, a member of the
the lakes in the city parks with water
from the city hydrants so that when a
freeze comes there will be skating for
the children
The Topeka Whist club will hold a
reunion tonight at their new rooms in
the Copeland hotel. All former mem
bers and their friends who play whist
are invited and the big game will start
at 8 o'clock.
Workmen were engaged one solid
month in putting in a glass front in a
small building on Kansas avenue
Judging from the way the work prog
ressed, the men must have been en-
ployed by the day.
The one story frame dwelling al
1920 Lime street was set on fire at
o clock last evening by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp. The house was
damaged about S25 worth. The house
is owned by John Kap-
The first big fire which Topeka ex-
perienced was in 1870. A couple OF
stone and frame buildings standing al
the~corner now occupied by the fed
eraI building were burned There
was no paid fire department in those
days
This is what was overheard coming
down town this morning: Say, aim
this the finest weather you ever saw
Gee I hone it stavs this yvay Dom