The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs.
Tonight at Theaters.
Observation-Disclosures.
Crawford=Vau1eville.
Star=Burlesque.

There viii be fun at the rink to-
night. A boxing contest on roller
skates.
The last masquerade ball Of the sea
son given tonight by Harry Steinberg
at his hall
a few more new hacks Of respectable
appearance IN Topeka wouldn't be a
bad innovation
There viii be a sparring match at
the rink tonight between two masked
boxers on roller skates.
A permit for the erection of a $1,000
residence on Polk street was granted
to c. w. Snyder yesterday.
The architects of the city are not
finding very much local work-the
building fever has slumped badly.
The voting place in the fourth pre-
cinct in the Second ward has been
changed from 1903 East Sixth avenue
to 1904.
Ned Wilder, of Kansas City, formerly
of Topeka, was the architect of the new
First National bank building in KAN
sas City.
The ice man is wearing a smile that
will not come off as each day he adds
another customer or two to his list
for the summer.
The Woolverton residence. 1884
Harrison street, has been purchased
by Mrs Fred Nelson. the considera-
t4Ou DElHS 94s4UU.
The third story of the Crittenton
home is to be finished Immediately and
the cottage hospital moved and annex
ed to the main building.
A defective hue at 524 West Gordon
street caused the fire department to
make a run to that number last night.
The damage was slight.
Mrs. Sarah Long is expected to ar
rive the first of the week for visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Louis Cart
side of 821 Madison street.
Ladies are to be admitted free by the
management Of Athletic park to all ex-
hibIuon games which Will precede the
opening of the baseball season
Postmaster Rogers has just finish I'd
Issuing checks to the amount of $92,-
600 as salaries for the rural mail car
riers Of the state for last month.
The claims and accounts committee
OF the city council met yesterday az
ternoon for the purpose of auditing TIE
bills Of the city for the past month.
Don't growl about the number Of
dogs there are in the city as their
owners have enriched the city by pay
ing taxes on more than 1900 Of them.
The members of the Third Christian
church are preparing a programme for
Wednesday evening, April 4, when they
will burn the mortgage which they re-
Gently paid.
A squirrel which played about all
avenue lawn brought visions of the
good old summer time to the hearts of
the observers.
The weather conditions have been
such this week that a few advance
sales Of Easter headgear were on ex-
hibition on Kansas avenue by their
proud pOssessors-
The ladies of Lincoln Post G. A. r.
will give musical and literary enter
tainment at their hall this evening to
the friends and families of the mem
bers of the post
Fifty-two signers to the paving pc
tition, to repave Kansas avenue, have
been secured by r. G. Dreaming, city
attorney The sisners are all unani-
nous for asphalt.
L. r Myers, vice president of the
Street Railway company, promises that
he will decide by the LIST Of May
whether the extension Of line viii be
made to Seabrook.
Exhibition Sunday is but two short
weeks away and then Easter will be
referred to as an affair of the past and
the Easter hats viii lose their attrac-
tiveness to their owners.
Having completed the cleaning
process which has been in progress on
the side streets all week the city force
is at work on Kansas avenue today
trying to get that thoroughfare in pre-
sentable condition for Sunday.
H Hotchner, of New York, theos-
ophist, will be in Topeka the week Of
April 8 the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Green, 1921 Monroe street, and viii give
some free public lectures at Lincoln
Post hall.
A West Tenth avenue couple arrsv-
ed at the Santa Fe depot this morning
too late to catch the st. Joe train.
Honestly now, what would you think
Of q person SO slow as to let the St.
Joe train get away from them.
B. F. Pankey, president of the indie
pendent Telephone company, who has
been seriously i'll at his home, s12
West Eighth avenue, with diphtheria,
was released from quarantine this
morning. Mr.. Pankey is weak from his
siege and viii not be able to be at his
Office until some time next week.
j. M. Mcfarland after witnessing the
first ball game of the season at the ball
park yesterday announces that the To
peak team will finish in first or second
place this year. But then that is the
same prediction that he made last sea
son and backed with a wager which
his wife paid
About thirty members of the Com
mercial club listened to a talk at the
club rooms last night by Luther c.
Wells on Health and How to Keep
It." Al the speaker has lived the
three score years and ten allotted to
man and yet appears TO be young and
hearty, he is well qualified to handle
the subject chosen.
Harry Warner. the press agent for
the Sarah Bernhardt aggregation
which will appear at the Auditorium
on the It'll of April, is in the city
closing up his end of the business It
might be added incidentally that he
does about every stunt known to the
up to date press agent, but does not
speak French.
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