The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


AN ELK.s EPIsILE TO PING PONG
PAN.
Oh! Pancoast, Pancoast, Pancoast!
Your imported York state style
Of w PLAYING I'M winning ping Inf t pons xn,,e
But you rather like to tease US,
For you smile when we are beat,
And you plot for our defeat.
E ISut VEL lay for YOU ar my f man.
Ping Pong Pan.
Oh! Pancoast Pancoast, Pancoast!
There upon your manly chest
I see medal shining,
A no. 1t marks you as the best
That you're just awful. awful mean.
For. you play SO staid and steady,
And you are always ready;
But we'll beat you If we can.
If we have to hire player.
Ping Pong Pan.
Oh! Pancoast, Pancoast, Pancoast!
You won't Illustrate not bit.
Our rooters try to phase you, 80
But you're not ratified, not whit.
But We'll rob you of your glory,
If that is another story.
Well lay for you at dances.
f And you'll not get many chances.
Wen exclude you from our clan, ~
Ping Pong Pan
Judge and Mrs. Hazen have gone to
Colorado to spend the sumner.
..
ported to be getting along very well.
The regular meeting of the Civic I'm
provement society will be held Tuesday
evening, August IL.
MarshalPs band will play Sunday
evening, instead Of in the afternoon. at
Garfield park tomorrow.
Frank Long and family accompanied
the knights of Pythias excursion to the
grand conclave at San Francisco.
Good meals: excellent service: fine
music This is what you get at the Gre
merle restaurant on Sundays from 1915
to 2:15.
The coal operators of the Usage val
ley have made the price of soft coal rs
cents ton lower than the regular price
during the warm weather.
Mrs. Amy Mcfarland, who has been
nursing her sister, Mrs. Higgins, of sos
East Sixth avenue, left today for two
weeks outing in Colorado Springs.
B. F. Pankey has Just purchased
equipment for 800 more telephones which
will bring the Independent exchange In
Topeka uD to a total of 800 phones.
The Elks put their flower covered
chair in dark corner last night and
failed to use it when Dan Eammatt
met defeat at the hands of Pancoast-
Postmaster John Guthrie of Topeka
has received instructions to provide
push carts to transfer the United States
mail from the pOstoftice to the street
cars.
The Haskell Indian baseball team
playing in Topeka today is not the or
iginal aggregation. 1t is the second
nine. The first nine is playing in north
ern Kansas.
The sales ladies at Barnum'S store
held a hemstitch party last evening at
the home of Miss Porter at 1900 West
Sixth avenue. Miss Porter is to be
married soon.
murderer has been lodged in the Shaw
nee county Jail because it is thought the
Jackson county bastile is not strong
enough for him.
Balm, the left fielder CT the Haskell
Indians baseball team. is the star foot
ball half back who played with the Car
Isle Indians and scored a touchdown
against Harvard in 1900.
James Barton Adams, the brilliant
paragrapher who has recently left the
Denver Post to make his home in south
ern California, has relatives in Topeka
and his mother died here a month ago.
Owing to shortage of cucumbers
this year there will be a shortage of
pickles and Otto Kuehne, the Topeka
pickle man says the price will be al
most double this year what it was last
year.
The Smith concern of Topeka has
turned out the first of their automobile
order for the Parkhurst-Davis Whole
sale Grocery company. 1t made the is
mile trip to Richland yesterday in 55
minutes.
City Engineer McCabe, Councilman
Wolf, and several other councilmen are
planning to go to Grand Rapids, Mich.
| for the convention of the League of
American Municipalities on August q,
| 2S and 20.
| The rails which the city railway
| company used in building it's double
| track line along the west side of Cen
| trail park are SO old and rusty that they
look as though they had suffered witA
smallpox.
Rev. A. NJ. Reynolds, pastor of the
| Westminster Presbyterian church, ie
spending a few days at the home Of a
| daughter in Jefferson county. He is
| just regaining his strength after an at
| tack of fever.
Two hundred fiat cars are to be built
! by the Santa F'e railroad in the near
| future. It is not known when their
| construction will take place, but the
CANUCk WISDOM.