The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Judge Pollock. of the federal court, is
IN Kansas City, Kan, holding court
VIM. Taylor's bicycle shop IFS East
seventh street, IS now open for business.
Mrs. Eliza Phillips of 51S Western av-
enue is quite sick with asthma at her
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor of Tennes-
see will lecture at the Auditorium to-
night
The Kansas State Veterinary Medical
society viii meet in Topeka next We'd
nesdav.
Owing to the storm Tuesday work
temporarily suspended.
The Scottish Rite bodies of Masonry
Will meet Friday, January u, for their
annual election OF officers.
There was slight snowfall last ev-
enlng. Just enough on the sidewalk to
show that there had been a fall.
'Kinzo.'' the marvellous japanese Jug
gler, will be seen at the rink tonight;
also tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Allen of 1929
West Sixth street are the parents Of
daughter which arrived at their
home yesterday.
Electric lights have been installed
IN Boswell hall at Washburn college
SO that the building may be used at
nights in the future.
The members of the state board of
control will start out on their annual
New Years calls on the state insti-
tuIons the first of next week.
This is one season of the year when
the average merchant does not care to
be bothered with shoppers. as every one
In the store is busy invoicing.
The snow which fell Tuesday melt
ed and filed the lakes on Kansas ave-
nue. so that this morning the small
boys are enjoying a fair grade of skat-
ing.
This is just to let you know that the
council has passed an ordinance fixing
a fine of from SO to $50 for failure to
keep your sidewalk free from snow and
ice.
The latest automobile number issued
by the city clerk is "a which will hang
from the rear axle of Chester Wood
wards new four-cylinder Franklin
car.
The regular monthly meeting of the
shawnee County horticultural society
will be held at the horticultural rooms
in the state house January at
| O'clock.
The city detention hospital is empty of
patients again. Three smallpox patients
who have been confined at the hospital
ed today.
By the marriage of Miss Judith
Hagan who has been at the general de-
| livery window at the postoffice for a
number of years that position will be-
come vacant.
All of the members of the state
! boar dof control have returned from
| their holiday visiting and will start out
! this week to visit all the institutions
in their charge.
The real sports around Topeka are
still entertaining some hope and making
some plans to have Bob (Orr) Kerns and
John Johnson get together for a six
round boxing bout
Professor E. ]. Hoenshel, of Des
Moines, Iowa, and author of the state
text book bearing his name spent New
Years with his son, E. E. Hoenshel, of
61S West Eighth avenue.
Clarence Keller, clerk in the Office of
the United States marshal is back at
work flssr3fae been out for several
weeks with appendicitis. After his op-
| GRAFTON at Christ hospital he went to
his home at Wichita for two weeks for
| recuperatiOn.
According to the reports of the
deaths and births Topeka is losing in
population if these reports for the
month of December are to be taken
as a criterion. During the month of
| December fifty deaths were reported
and only forty births
VIII Taylor, who has been so ser
iOuSly Ill at StOrmOnt hospital for the
past week that his life was dispaired
of, is improving and the doctors feel
that he will be about within a short
time unless some unIoOked-for com
picatiOns should arise
The prospectus for the seventeenth
annual state poultry show which will
be held in the Auditorium January to
Is has been sent out. The last session
of the legislature appropriated 81, OUU for
the show and it is expected to make this
years show the greatest ever held in
Topeka.
The trial and motion dockets will be
called Monday n 10 icf
court and a reassignment of some of
the cases on the docket viii be made.
For their own convenience as we'll as
that of the court Judge Dana has re-
quested the presence of all interested
attorneys at court on the opening morn
ing of the term.
A tailless dog is running about some
where in the west part of town, the
said dog has also a wholesome fear of
automobiles since the loss of the tail.
He came in contact with D. H. Martins
automobile and the amputatiOn was
speedily performed by the drive chain.
The trouble came when the dog tried to
chew the auto up, the vehicle pa ssed
free of the dogs body but caught the
tail.
The holiday vacation of the Kansas
Medical college ended yesterday, one
week earlier than is customary. This
change in the length of the vacation
was made on account of the American
Association of Medical Colleges increas-
ing the length of the term for medical
colleges to thirty weeks. The holiday
vacation has been cut down one week
so that it will not interfere with the
plans already made for the midsummer
vacation.
The Monroe free dispensary which is
attached to the Kansas Medical college
gave 375 treatments during the month
of December The free dispensary is
located at 204 Monroe street. OF the
over 300 reatments one hundred and
thirty-five were as the result of person
al visits made to the home of the sick,
who were unable to come to the dispen-
sary. A number of the students togeth-
er with several practicing physicians
are in charge of the dispensary.
The second term of the night school
Al the cnInred Y M. @. A Opened up