The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Some one with the authority should
/ correct Webster's definition of escrow
The weather Saturday was sufficient
! excuse for the appearance of Easter
gowns.
Hampton Steele. IA Topeka newspaper
man. has taken a position upon the lola
Register.
Dog tax is now due and there is a good
rebate if the license is paid before elle
first of April
Jack johnson, the colored pugilist,
has the really remarkable reach of
eighty-one inches.
An adjourned session of the city
council viii be held next Monday even
ing at seven o'clock.
Next week you wiz have chance to
lunch off from free food samples secured
at the Midwinter fair.
The Shawnee county Democratic cen
tral committee will meet on January
% in odd Fellows hall
Colonel w. F. Sapp and his plug hat
are in town, and the hat is attracting as
much attention as ever.
City Engineer McCabe lost his over
coat while at TT. Scott attending the
Municipal league meeting.
| There will be four vaudeville shows
in Topeka this week. oh, we are get
ting metropolitan all right.
Ironquill says that an escrow is one
of the most wonderful things a man
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There is no record that there ever
/ was warmer day in this section of
the world than last Saturday.
OF course you did not lose anything
! by the looting of the state treasury,
that is unless you are a taxpayer.
Topeka is due for a two months
| hand shaking spell and after the pri-
maries in March, it will get worse.
4 The man who did not suffer from
spring fever Saturday is liable to die Of
I overwork if winter ever arrives in earn
est
All that a pretty woman has to do to
/ spoil her beauty is to appear in public
more than once since with cotton in her
ears.
The next meeting of the Interstate
4 Oratorical society will be held in this
city some time in the earlier part of
May.
The winter has been so mild so far
that there has not been even thin ice,
and the undertakers are beginning to
protest.
Sheriff Lucas spoiled the possibilities
of a mighty good story when he rushed
Julius Pritchard to the penitentiary
Friday.
Councilman Simms of the First ward
/ proposes to plant flowers along the west
side of the north approach Of the Melan
bridge.
From the present indications it ap-
q
about $4,000 to say nothing of its self
respect
There are thirty-nine candidates try
4 ing to make noises like winners, and 1t
is certain that less than third of them
will succeed.
The travelling man who arrived in the
city Saturday selling advertising fans
certainly had the goddess Of fate work
ing overtime.
General Hughes and his uniform are in
( Washington attending the national
meeting of the adjutant general of the
various states.
Taylor Belcher, employed by the San
ia Fe, has been transferred from the
Leavenworth ticket office to the one
at Kansas City.
Little scrubby apples bring thirty
/ cents a dozen, While the choicest pro-
1 duct of the hen may be purchased Tor
twenty cents dozen.
Valentines have made their appear
4 ance on the counters in the city, which
indicates that st. Valentines day is but
| a short distance away.
The Kansas State Athletic associa-
ton have opened negotiations for the
4 use of the skating rink for their future
| athletic entertainments.
With the weather conditions such
as they were Saturday the "Midwin-
! ter" seems a missioner for the expo
sition which opens Monday
so similar to those of spring of late
that the sparrows have been fooled
! and are building their nests
W. H. England. secretary of the Kan
sas Day club. said yesterday that he
! has sold about 20 tickets for the ban
quet to be held on January 29.
Speaking about the location of an
automobile paradise, how would it dc
to locate it right here in Kansas, and
build the big track in Topeka.
Have you heard the story of the
drowning of the little girl in one of the
lakes on Kansas avenue There is
1 nothing in it for the lakes are dry.
The new trades building of the West
ern University of Quindaro viii be dedi-
Gated with appropriate exercises on the
afternoon of Wednesday, January "A.
There are three vaudeville theaters
running three shows a day each in
Topeka and yet there are some who
say there is nothing doing in Topeka.
1t may be all right for the state to
let the author of the Kelly shortage
go unpublished, but the state ought to
burn a rag for the benefit of pOsterity
A well known Topeka man is labor
ing with his wife to convince her that
the conversation which he holds with
himself in his sleep is without inspira-
ton.
A new 81 900 electric military organ
has been placed in the skating rink, to
take the place of the orchestra which
has furnished music so far this sea
son.
What has become of the weather
prophet who said early in the season
that the winter of 1906 would be a Sc
we're one because the corn husks were
thick.
Governor Hoch will address the Y NJ
c. A. convention at Chanute, February
8. on Thoughts I've Been Thinking.
The subject doesn't seem to be exactly
appropriate.
Mrs. Pearl Lawrence Of 316 West
Seventh street is spending a few weeks
in her old home at Garden City where
her father
The city park board is composed Of
two men and ore woman, and it is an