The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
SNAP SHOTS Al HOME NEWS

tonight.
Yearly sale of Washburn $3.50 and
81 shoes at S2.65 at The Palace to-
morrow.
There viii be social dancing at
Everybody is invited.
Annual offer at $3.50 of SIS and
$3.50 suits and overcOats at The
Palace tomorrow.
About geo seats were sold before 9
O'Clock when the chart opened up this
morning for the kubelik concert.
a fancy vest is the go. All 81, $3.50
and So finest wash vests only S. at
The Palace tomorrow.
we all must work together If we
want to make this town city of 900
population says Mayor ". H. Davis
The Republican city central commit
tee viii meet this evening in the city
1 court room at the county court house.
EHphalet Patee is the name worn
by one of the Topeka delegates to the
state Y NJ. c.. A. which is now in ses-
sion at Chanute.
1t was the Kansas Athletic associa-
ton, not the Topeka Athletic associa-
tion that gave the tournament at the
Grand opera house last night.
The penalty on the dog tax goes on
after .ApE1l l. The owners Of dogs are
coming in rather slowly at the city
treasurer's Office at the city hall.
ne Ola w nee NOGtAky 4 TUT Growers
association Will hold their regular
monthly meeting at the court house
! Saturday February 10, at , O'Clock.
Twenty young ladies' employed in
the car accountants department at
the Santa Fe Offices viii go to Kansas
City saturday to witness Ben Hur."
The snow storm prophesied by the
weather department last night failed to
materialize and its place was taken by
a dust storm which lasted for an hour.
J. r. Koontz, general freight agent of
the Santa Fe, and r. G. Merrick attend
ed the regular monthly meeting of
! TransAIissOuri Rate association in Kan
sas City yesterday.
Don't fail to see Marshall Jack. the
worlds champion fancy, trick and silt
skater, at the Rink tonight and Sat
urday afternoon and evening Mar
shalIs band viii play.
If you have moved your residence
during the last year, and care to vote at
the spring election, it viii be necessary
for you to call at the city building and
get a registration receipt.
1t was a rather strange audience
which filed the Grand opera house last
night to witness the bout between John
son and Mccormick, there being about
1000 men present and not a woman in
the audience.
Weather Observer Jennings makes
/ less than fifteen mistakes out of every
| 100 guesses, and everybody finds fault.
The doctors cannot compare with this
record yet no one has the temerity
to say a word.
There were doctors. lawyers, mer-
chants and a chief of police at the op-
era house last night to witness the ath-
! letic exhibition besides a miscellaneous
collection of about every other calling
which is represented in this city.
A fash light of the audience which
witnessed the boxing match at the OPP
era house would probably start some
thing if exhibited in some of the homes
in the city where hubby was Supposed
to be attending to business a his. office
The entertainment committee of To-
peka council No. ~ Of the u. c. T.
will give an old fashioned Vermont so
cial at the K. of P. hail. 1872 East Sixth
/ street, February 10. The customary
dance will follow the programme of the
! evening.
A meeting of the managers of the
athletic departments of the various
/ colleges of the state viii be held in this
/ city on the nth of February At this
/ time the schedules for the games to be
played between the various colleges
will be arranged.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
! Commercial club viii be held this
I evening, when considerable important
/ business is to be transacted. The Off
/ GERS of the association are particularly
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| club be present as possible.
A chess tournament seems to have
about the same effect on mankind as
a circus does on the boys There are
| d dozen men, old enough to know
better, trying to learn to play chess
since they read the accounts of the
chess tournament held last week.
A young bachelor of this city who
I prides himself on his standing with
| the ladies was recently referred to by
a lady of his acquaintance as a f'shot-
/ gun" "Why do you call him a shot
gun?" asked her auditor. ooh, he is
such smooth bore was the reply.
These boxing contests are interesting
/ people all over the stafe. Anyone who
claims to be a real hot lover of sport
keeps tab on the movements, one man
phoned into the State Journal Office
from Big Springs this morning to learn
the outcome of the events of last even
ing.
The judiciary committee of the city
| council does not look with favor on the
! contention of W. ". Webb that the
/ Webb tract east of the Santa Fe shons
was not taken in legally into the city.
1t is up to Mr. Webb therefore to spring
his lawsuit which he threatens the cOun-
ell to bring.
Judging solely from the number of
requests that are made of Judge Hay
den asking him to see that the fact
that he has issued a marriage license
is not made public one would nat
urally suppose that the contracting
parties are ashamed of the step they
are about to take
There will be a meeting at the Audi
forum next Sunday afternoon under
the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A and the
| order of Gideons, which is the tenn
perance auxiliary of the U. c. T. The
meeting viii be addressed by c. H. Pal
mer of Chicago on 1.-THE Awfulest
Thing in the World"
The Mead controversy with the city
council over the use of a stri~ of land
streets as street has reached the su-
preme court Mrs Mead lost in her
suit in the district court and her attor-
neys have now filed suit in the supreme
court against the city.
Chimney fues which burned out
caused t1.-cA anil fro-. # s,r-ar,ir,c. A