The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-09
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last so as to keep the IS book agents
here as long as possible in the interest
of the hotels.
Joe Waters played chess at the T. A
A. Thursday afternoon. This morning
the fire might have been started under
the boiler in the cellar of the building
with the chips and splinters of the table
and the chess men,
w. H. Leib, who is the leader of the
Joplin chorus, which won the Kansas
City festival prize, was the leader of the
Washburn college glee club in 1895. The
club that year was one of the best in the
history of the college.
The track team OF the Topeka high
school will go to St. Joseph tomorrow to
contest for honors in the interscholastic
contest that is to be held there between
the high school teams of the principal
cities of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and
Nebraska.
There is one good thing about the
present contract of the city with the
Barber Asphalt company. The company
gets pay only for what it does, and does
well. Under the old contract it got pay
for everything it was supposed to do.
and didn't.
According to a Washington dispatch.
Permie, the 16-year-Old daughter of
Congressman Charles Curtis, of Topeka,
participated in a concert at the Wash
ington club last night as piano solist.
and received high praise for her excel
lent playing.
A man who wants to put a flag pole
on the tower of the court house IS
starting an agitation to have the
stars and stripes float over the temple
of justice Hurrah! That sounds pa
triotic. but the man who is full of pa
triotism wants to erect the flag pole at
so much per.
J. H. Barry and ]. S. Bewley, who are the
managers of the Atehison brick plant,
recently destroyed by fire. are in To-
peka Inspecting the Topeka brick
southern Kansas to inspect other brick
plants, preparatory to rebuilding their
Atchison plant on a more extensive and
modern plan it has been.
Literary note from the Atchison
Globe: F. D. Coburn, the favorfte Kan
sas author, has not lately been able to
duplicate his first great success.
which was entitled The Beef Steer
and His Sister" We hope Mr.. Coburn
will be able to write the Great Ameri-
can Novel this fall, and call it The
Story of Four Hundred Million Bushels
of Corn in Kansas"
The State Journal has received the fol-
lowing poem" from former Topeka
man:
A Jayhawker statesman named Bur
Thought he was the whole thing for GER
tain;
But the Prince of the Kaw
Hit Teddy's buzz saw.
And the place where 1t struck is still
hurtin' SCUD-
The popularity of the Cremerie res
taurant continues to grow. Clarence
Scott the proprietor, says many new
families are coming each Sunday for
their dinners, and that they often
speak of the delightful change they
find in getting away from home for a
good meal, to say nothing of the relief
and rest for the wife. Besides this he
has the tables decorated with flowers,
an orchestra OF four pieces to furnish
music from 1915 to 2:15 on Sundays.
and everything else TO make your visit
to the Crenerie a pleasant one.
The following is dispatch in a
Kansas City paper from Topeka:
Murray Myers. steward of the Topeka
insane asylum. says that IN his opinion
the Kansas City packers are not ship
ping any 'embalmed' beef to his insti-
tuition, as was intimated at the beef
trust hearing at Jefferson City. No,