The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-15
sNAP sHOTs AZ HOLE NEWs.


Ladies free at the Rink tonight.
Work on getting the Midwinter fair
ready commenced this morning.
Holland & Squires are drawing plans
for a $4,000 court house at Newton.
The w. C. T. u. met this afternoon
at g O'Clock at the First Meth odist
church.
Mr.. Samuel Steele has sold his farm
near ElmOnt to Roy Marker and re-
moved TO town
A number of land fraud cases will
be called uD at the federal court in
this city this week.
Some of the crossings in the western
part of the city are almost impossible
on account of mud.
Councilman Joseph Griley returned
Saturday from Kansas City where he
has been serving as a juror in the fed
eral court.
The drilling rain turned into snow
q about 1880 this morning This will
not help out the condition of the street
crossings any
A W. Waters. an old resident of To
peka, who formerly lived at 51f Lincoln
street, died at the home of his son in
Holtcn Sunday.
The street department was out this
morning with sWeepers trying to sweep
off some Of the mud on the downtown
business streets.
Albert T. Reid left for lola this morn
ing where he Will deliver an address be
fore the Publishers association which is
meeting in that city.
Orr Kerns, the Topeka boxer, is train
ing at the Topeka Athletic club rooms
so that he viii be in condition TO meet
all Corners this winter.
After the streets have been a sea
of mud for nearly a week the street
department is at work washing them
this morning, in a snow storm.
hort half of the ar1fov7o1fTn co10Tly
of this city expect to attend the auto
mobile show in Chicago which COM
mences the week of February 8.
J. H. Leonard's automobile is at
home again after having spent some
time in the automobile hospital under
going a series of slight operations.
All day Sunday the expressmen
were kept busy hauling crates of fowls
to the various depots, preparatory to
their journeys back to the farms.
1t is expected that between two and
three hundred delegates viii meet in
this city January %. to discuss the
Semicentennial exposition proposed for
1911.
The subscribers of the Topeka High
school went to HoltOn Saturday and
gave their play. "a Romantic Runa-
way" with the hold-up feature elimin-
ateG.
The city council meets in an adjourned
session this evening. The taking in Of
certain outlying tracts into the city is
the principal item Of business to be pre-
scented.
The Washburn Dramatic club will
''WoOdbarrow Farm" at the Grand
opera house the afternoon and evening
Of February p.
The FIoto shows in which Willie
Sells has bought an interest, viii win
ter in Topeka. Feed is cheaper here
than in Denver where the headquarters
of the shows are maintained.
Rev. Thomas s. Young of the First
Baptist church will assist Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson of the First Baptist church
at Lawrence in a series of revival serV-
ices which viii be held there.
William Taylor. who has been so
seriously i'll at Stormont hospital for
several weeks, is able to sit up for a
short time, and it is hoped that he can
leave the hospital the last of the week.
Roger Van Hook, formerly of the
Rock Island offices in Topeka, has
been promoted to the position of chief
clerk in the division superintendent
Office at Colorado Springs at a salary
of $1,000.
The price of lumber is still advancing.
THE white pine siding which used to
be so common is so expensive and
scarce nowadays, said one dealer. that
you don't see much of it used; it is all
this yellow pine now"
The members of the city council are
contemplating a trip to Fort Scott in
body the latter part of this month
to represent Topeka at a meeting Of the
representatives of the cities of the
state which viii be held there at that
time.
William Cross. a 16-year-old boy
who was arrested last night for steal
ing brass in the Santa Fe yards. was
fined $40 this morning. Cross was
charged also with carrying a dangerous
weapon, which consisted of an old
razor.
IF 1 had my way I would pension
all good fellows" said Eugene Ware
to number Of friends in Kansas City,
Kan, Saturday. Il think when a man
has been buffeted about in this old
world until he is past so years or 55,