The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

CtH q + CnU1O Al AVME NEWS.
Polo at the Rink tonight. Admis-
sion Toe, skates 15c.
The ice on the Kansas river has reach
ed that stage which makes business
good for the undertakers.
All Sunday school teachers in To-
peka are expected to meet at the Y.
w. G. A. rooms Friday at 800
Roy Johnson OF the Santa Fae offices
/ is confined at his home but is not serf-
ously Ill; just "fussy'' as his wife ex-
presses it.
Just enough snow fell last night to
make the sidewalks as smooth as glass
and early morning pedestrians received
the benefit.
The Ladies' Aid society OF Unity
church viii meet with Mrs. T. F. Doran,
I 125 Western avenue Friday afternoon
4 at o'clock.
! To a man with q mercantile business
/ on Kansas avenue, the good roads agi-
/ tation should be matter Of more than
/ passing interest.
/ Valentine day is past but the mail
/ will be loaded with the vitriOIic brand
! for a day or so yet, by parties who are
/ trying to get even.
/ Samuel Alexander, merchant of
! Rossville. was brought to the Keith
/ Rhodes hospital this morning for an op-
/ GRAFTON for hipjoint disease
Regular daily announcement from
the district court: Two more jointists
were found not guilty, and the costs Of
the prosecution will be assessed against
4 the county
An effort is being made to recruit
I company A, K. n. G., in Topeka up
4 to its full strength Applications are
/ to be received at Metropolitan hall
/ Tuesday evenings.
AS long as the mercury stays about
the zero point one feels safe to attempt
/ to cross Kansas avenue without being
frightened by the driver Of some auto
mobile, or possibly run down.
The violets which are sold by the
local florists are shipped in. They
are too much trouble to raise, and
there is not enough demand for
them" said one of the florists.
The weather department has seen fit
/ to infliets Topeka. with a scrabled week
of weather.. One day the mercury is
| flirting with zero and the very next day
making 0vertures with the three figure
mark.
The numerous broods of young spar
rows whose parents have been deluded
/ by the spring like weather of the past
yesterday, and few of them survived the
change.
Eggs are selling now at Is cents
a dozen. This is as cheap as the
| cheapest prices which prevailed last
summer. This indicates that eggs will
/ hit the lowest rungs in prices this
| coming summer.
a woman called up the State Jour
nal Office this morning and when a re-
/ porter answered 1.-THE phone she said:
! II will have to- ask you to hang up the
| receiver and wait unail think of what
/ I wanted to say-5s7
Councilman Simms of the First ward
came near losing his life yesterday
when his coat was caught in the eogs Of
4 one of his laundry machines and torn
| off. Democratic councilmen are entire
ly too scarce to run through laundry
mangles.
Registration books for the voters
| in the sixth precinct of the Second
| ward will be at the State street school
/ house for the registration of the voters
1 there on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
| day of this week. The books will be
open from / until o'clock p. m.
oyster soup was the first entree of
1 the bill at the Authors club banquet
4 last night butstt syas missing as were
81 most Of the speakers who admit that
! they are authors. Included in this list
of missing besides the oyster soup are
w. Y. Morgan and J. Elmer House.
Here is rank treason for you. A
/ Topeka man who has met Miss Alice
/ Roosevelt in an informal way says
that there are hundreds of girls in
Topeka who are prettier than the fu-
/ ture Mrs. Nick Longworth. "She is
/ what you would call plain" said he
IAGNs MC0lUEEs OF THIS CITY,
| who is one of the pioneer Presbyterian
ministers. has been visiting in Girard.
/ He held the first church services in
4 Girard in May of 1869. For a period
of four years he organized churches
/ and preached through that section of
/ the country. sisiiJ ~
"A telephone alarm was turned in at
/ the fire department yesterday by an ex-
( cited telephone central who made a mis-
take as the person calling simply want
ed to talk. The depcss tment made the
run in record breaking time and when
they reached the nun5er named found
everything serene.
All members Of the United CONNER
cial Travellers who are in the city Sat
urday are invited for trip in the See
ing Topeka" car which will start from
/ the National hotel at 2 o'clock. The
invitation Is extended by the CONNER
cia1 club and the trip will include stops
at as many Of the manufacturing in
I stitutions as possible.
BOSTON FIRE CHIEF DEAD.