The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Anniversary services are TO De netu
at the railroad Y NJ. c. A. this after
The lobby of the Copeland hotel re-
minds one of primary day in country
town.
Another resort of the "choD house"
variety has opened up on lower Kan
sas avenue.
in. Devlin. son of James Devlin, is
sick at his home, BIS Monroe street
with tonsilitis.
Another crop of the Kansas plains is
ripe and is being brought to market
This time it is rabbits.
Red is to be the predominating color
in the decorations for the Auditorium
for the Midwinter exposition.
The 8-year-old son of F. S. Savage
was operated upon for appendicitis
Saturday at Christ hospital.
The September term of the district
court adjourned at exactly 81 minutes
past 4 O'Clock Saturday evening.
A week has passed since you made
them, and it is about time that you
make a set of new resolutions.
Prepare for a storm of some sort
blizzard, perhaps. There was great
big circle around the moon last night.
Some of the street railway cars are
actually equipped with heaters Here's
hoping that all of them Will be before
long.
Things are so scandalously quiet in
council circles that the clock has
stopped running up in the council
chamber.
A new. beginners class in dancing viii
commence tomorrow evening at Stein
berg's, Masonic building. Admittance
25 cents d person.
With the advent of natural gas into
the city it might be we'll to announce
that some heat has been turned into
| some street cars.
The weather has been so decent
this winter that there has not been an
opportunity to complain about the
conduct of nature.
Again it is announced on the authori-
ty of every attorney who has been con-
suited: 1t is not necessary to have
license to hunt rabbits.
From the zvay that people flock to the
Novelty theater every evening a strang-
er would suppose that there IS nothing
else doing in the city.
Now that Christmas, Thanksgiving
and the New Year is past there will be
quite rest spell before the holidays
come in a bunch again.
James Butler of this city will make
an effort to organize Farmers Edu-
cational and Cooperative association at
Pennington on January TO-
Members of the recently organized
mems social club of Grace cathedral
will have their first banquet at the
National hotel on January %.
Mrs. Myron Blackburn is spending
today with her daughter, Mrs. Sanuei
Baughman, who is recovering from
an operation at StormOnt hospital
Governor Hoch will speak at a
banquet to be held at the Eldridge
/ house, in Lawrence, Tuesday evening,
! by the Lawrence Commercial club.
It would be a safe wager to make a
bet that ninety-nine out of every one
/ hundred persons in Topeka is suffer-
| ing from a cold of more or less IN
/ tensity.
The candidates for places on the coun-
/ ty ticket favored early primaries SO as
/ to get away from the suspense, and so
/ do the common people as far as that IS
concerned.
BY the cynic who doesn't skate:
Some of those indulging in that rather
strenuous pleasure, roller skating, are
about as graceful as a hippopotamus
| on dry land.
A person who would complain of the
weather conditions so far this winter
would complain if they were dropped
/ into an eden filed with the choicest de-
/ sires of their heart.
There has not been enough snow
/ this winter to test the validity of the
/ ordinance which provides for the re-
movaI of snow from the sidewalks by
/ property owners.
Ralph Brigham says that there never
has been such a rush for advance sale
/ tickets to a Midwinter exposition as
/ there is to the one which will open on
! the pod of this month
Pratt county feels as badly about the
acquittal of Mrs. Null who was charg-
/ ed with numbering her husband as
/ Shawnee county did of the verdict as
the jury in the Heck case.
State Printer Tom McNeal is not
Worrying about his mansion in the
skies, but he is fretting little about
4 the sIowness of the contractors in
/ completing the state printing plant.
The medicine makers of the Repub
lican party of Shawnee county met a.
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, ard trans
acted business at the court house, of
vital Importance to the Office seekers at
least
By the poor reporter: If one is poor
and unknown and says sarcastic things
they are referred to as mean" If
/ they are rich and well known and say
/ mean things they are referred to as sar-
castle.
There is one consolation about the
natural gas which is being fed through
the Topeka mains. No one will be
blown up with it unless more gas is
mixed with the decoction than at
| present.
About the only people who are
| finding fault with natural gas at the
new rate are those who have not re-
ceived their bills for their first month;
they are still in doubt as to what the
bills will be.
By one of the Tilted ones: A Topeka
girl who has fished in the matrimonial
sea for many long and weary years has
a nibble and if everybody is quiet there
are those who hope that he may take
the cork under.
Manager Hagen of the Novelty
theater has paved the balance of his
theater license and the troubles be-
tween the license collector and Man
! ager Hagen have been settled. He
paid the license as soon as it was due
The Kansas State baseball league
will have six clubs this year The
managers think that it will pay better
than an eight-club league. 1t gives
each team more Sundays at home. Week
day games hardly pay expenses in that
| league.
It is fntimated that wedding Of more