The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Ladies free at rink tonight.
The chicken show began at the
Auditorium today.
Topeka post c. "A r. held its me-
mortal service sunday
The hat carnival at the rink We'd
nesday night viii be very amusing.
The January term of the district
court opened this morning at 8 o'clock.
The dates for the Kansas Mid
winter exposition are January p to
February 8.
The Commercial club meets on Fri
day night. new board of directors
viii be elected at that time.
A new dancing class for adults will
/ commence this evening at Steinberg' 5.
Admission IS cents. You are invited.
There is really little use for one to
| go hungry for meat as twenty-five
cents will buy an even half dozen
rabbits.
The gas company had force of men
working all day Sunday on the mains
which they are laying on West Sixth
avenue
Federal court commenced in Kan
sas City today. Most of the officials
at the Topeka building are in at
| tendance.
There are over one thousand entries
of fowls at the chicken show, which
viii be in session all week at the
| Auditorium.
Several dozen people called up the
! State Journal office this morning to
/ find out the lowest temperature dur
] ing the night.
1t was not so frightfuIly cold this
/ morning, excepting by contrast. The
/ thermometer marked five degrees
/ above zero at Z o'clock.
/ Leslie Wallace, editor of Charles F.
/ SCOTS paper, the lola Register. was in
/ Topeka Saturday on business. He was
accompanied by his wife.
There is to be a meeting of the
Shawnee Building & Loan association
/ this evening, for the transaction of the
| annual business of the association.
The advance sale of ten cent tickets
/ to the MidWinter exposition opened
this morning. The tickets are on sale
at about fifty of the stores in the city.
Indications are that there will be a
very large attendance at the Kansas
/ Day club banquet The application for
4 rooms at the Copeland is even larger
/ than usual.
This is to be farmers week They
are coming from all over the state to
attend some one of the conventions of
interest to them, which are being held
this week.
1t may be just a coincidence. but last
winter the cold spell struck the city at
the same time that the poultry show
/ opened at the Auditorium. and it is
here again to welcome the fowls.
The chicken show at the Auditorium
opened this morning by a. growing Sc
/ lection by the prize roOSters of Kan
sas and there has been one con-
1 tinuous medley as an encore ever
since.
Paul A Masheter. captain of Co G
| of the First regiment of the Kansas
National Guard, has resigned his COM
mission. Co. G is located at Sabetha-
/ Mr.. Masheter has moved away from
/ the state.
The first story of the old Adams no
/ tel in North Topeka which was re-
Gently purchased by Con Chumos. has
/ been papered and replastered and the
work of repairing is being pushed on
! the remainder of the building.
Topeka post, number II; Woman s
Relief corps, number 81 and Old Abe
camp, Sons of Veterans, viii hold a
public installation of officers Thursday
/ evening, January II, at the Grand
+ Army post hail. e16 West Sixth
Iavenue- s..ss-..---..
The mercury dropped about twenty
five degrees Sunday and. the price of
coal advanced twenty-five cents per
ton Monday. The two seem to be
working in harmony all right. for the
coal men, and all wrong for the con
Sumers.
David Page of North Topeka has a
( collection of more than 1900 souvenir
postal cards which he has collected
during the past two years Nearly
| every state in the union is represents
ed as well as many of the foreign
I countries.
There is but one murder trial set for
the January term of court. Henry
Music will be tried for the murder of
/ Christian Getty on the 23d of the
month. Music killed Getty while in a