The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
SNAPS HOTS AT HOME NEWS.


This is pay day for the employees of
the government in the postoffice depart
ment.
Most of the business places on kan
sas avenue were busy yesterday remov-
ing decorations.
It may seem to be rushing the season
a little but the merchants of the city
have placed their stock of valentines on
sale.
Work on the bridge across Soldier
creek on Kansas avenue has been COM
pleted and the bridge is now open to
traffic.
r. W. Hoskinson of Garden City,
who has been in Topeka this week
seeing things, returned home We'd
nesday.
The next athletic entertainment of
the Kansas State Athletic association
will take place on the night of Feb
ruary at the Grand opera house,
Yesterday was pay day for the rural
mail carriers over the state who received
about $4,000 through the Topeka office,
which is the distributing office for the
state.
South Topeka who cali themselves the
"Antigraft club will hold a meeting
this evening at 433 East Seventeenth
street
Ex-Congressman J. D. Botkin of Win
field was in the city yesterday looking
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Insurance company, of which he is pres
ident.
Charles Wolff who has been i'll at his
home on West Tenth avenue is slightly
improved and viii leave at once for Cal
ifornia in the hopes that the trip will
benefit him.
The Washburn college basketball
team played two games in Wichita yes
terday and defeated the team from
iF'airmount college and che team from
the Friends university.
The audience was. so we'll pleased
with the Britt-Nelson fight pictures,
arrangements have been made to re-
produce them tonight at the Rink.
They are the best ever seen.
Secretary Coburn of the state board
of agriculture has gone to Waukesha,
wis. where he will deliver a lecture
association on the value of Alfalfa as
a Butter Fat Producer
on next Monday the Commercial
club will go to Onaga on the Union
line. The railroad furnishes special
train. The Onaga merchants expect to
return the visit some time soon.
The next regular meeting of the
Saturday Night club will be held Fri
day evening at the Office of Ferry &
Doran in the Columbian building.
John Hay will be the subject of the
address delivered by z. d. Mckeever.
The chief of police has been asked
to abate a nuisance at the corner OF
Sixth and Kansas avenues. The null
Sance consists of two cOlOred preachers
who work in relays on the corner, try
ing to save the souls Of those passing
T. A. McNeaI will deliver lecture
to the cOlored department of the Y M.
c. A 400 Kansas avenue. Friday even
ing. February 2 This is the first of a
series of lectures and practical talks
to extend over about two months on
Friday evenings.
Secretary Anderson of the CONNER
cial club had a unique request yester-
day. A suggestion came from man
who will be so years old in 1871. the
year of the Semicentennial He wants
to start a club Of semlcenterians. the
major viii help him all he can.
There will be a meeting of the To-
peka Sunday School Teachers union
Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the Y. w
G. A rooms. Mrs. Sloo viii give an
exposition of the lesson to the teachers.
Primary and beginners lesson will be
given as usual. All are welcome.
In one of Pat Groves recent inter-
views he says that he stopped off in
Topeka for a few hours while the detec-
in hopes of landing the $4,000 reward
offered by the father OF young Cudahy
who Grove was supposed to have kid
mapped.
The money paid out to the depositors
of the First National bank does not
seem to have gained a great circulation
since nor have the deposits in the other
banks increased to any great extent
The presumption naturally is that it is
being carried about in stockings or else
buried back of the barn.