The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-23

Most always sound forlorn.
want tn kind O. music
That swells so mighty grand,
And s got lot O. volume
OF the cal-li-ope kind.
I'd like to hold camp meetin's
In big circus tent,
I'd fill it full to Dustin
At every place | went
I'd have a Thousand voices,
With no music notes reaod,
To the cal-li-opes lead
The government thermometer got up
to "a Monday.
Mrs. A. Rosanders has gone to Hall
fax, Kan. for visit
The red lemonade man is a most i'm
portant parsonage today.
The lawns which are not watered reg
ularly are turning yellow.
The Wallace circus showed to 14,000
people at Kansas City Tuesday.
| Auction of household goods Thursday
morning at 900 Topeka avenue
Governor Stanley is out at Stockton
| attending harvest home picnic TO-DAY.
| Three colored men with silk hats
| came to town today with the Wallace
| circus.
Cider Smith says we are in storm
period but he appears to have miscalcu-
lated.
| Mrs F. M. Grover has arrived from
| Overlook, where she has been three
weeks.
| Wallace circus carries a big. band
which gives a concert before each per-
| Torrance.
| Workmen are getting ready to lay
! the thing for the ground floor or the
| state house.
! ord of bringing rain. Ringlings are tine
| rainmakers."
! p. l. Bonebrake has been reappointed
| treasurer of the Republican state cen
| trail committee
w. H. Davis, of the Parkhurst-Davis
! Wholesale company, left yesterday TO
/ go to New York
| General Wilder S. Metcalf. and his
Panama hat, have gone to Alamosa.
| Col, on business.
! H. A. Auerbach of the Palace Cloth
| ing company is in New York City TINS
| week on business.
| The Topeka Business college baseball
| team will play the State Normal team
| at Emporia today.
A man who gives his age as SO years
| has applied for admission to Mrs.
| Thorpe's mission school.
| Methodists of Oakland gave an Ice
| cream social at the church in thai
| suburb Tuesday evening.
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
States circuit court. has returned from
| a trip to Houston, Texas.
If you want prompt and regular ice
! deliveries ana Cl6du ice every ILL e
| phone 857 Peoples Ice Co.
Observer Jennings had nothing to do
| with the circus coming, but he man
| aged to have good weather.
Work is going forward slowly on the
new iron stairways in the north and
south wings of the state house.
| Congressman Long and Congressman
Curtis are both at the Cloverdale re-
| union in southern Kansas today.
The real estate firm of Moore & West
erfield has been changed to r. B. Moore
real estate, at 600 Kansas avenue.
DR.. Fisk will preach at the First Con-
gregational church next Sunday DIT
Hayes is away on months vacation
/ Rev. Homer E. Wark, pastor of the
Walnut Grove M. E. church, is spend
ing his vacation at Excelsior Springs
| Mo.
Topeka is to have a Wild West show
| August Is. The Santa F'e railroad
handles it from Chicago to Purcell
l. T.
There was a picnic on the Washburr
school of the Walnut Grove NJ. E
church.
The population of the suburbs was
greatly decreased this morning by the
exodus for the avenue to view the
parade.
rival at the Santa Fe hospital yester-
day. He is to have an operation per.
formed.
Congressman Curtis will speak at the
celebration of the twenty-first anniver-
sary of the founding of Downs, at thai
place next Monday.
Mary Wade, the frequent, got a fine
of SIS in police court last evening fol
fighting. For a wonder Judge Reed
did not take an appeal.
Students and teachers of Strickleri
business college took a hay rack rid
into the country six miles north o
| town Tuesday evening.
The circus grounds today are at JET
ferson and Tenth streets. The circus
| pays a license fee of $3.50 to the city TO
its two performances
A hint to the park commissioners: II
Denver there are ping pong tables IL
the parks free to the public. There i:
room in the city park for several
Secretary Coburn has gone to Hay:
City today to look after the work OF
the big experiment farm there. ovel
| which the regents of the State AgricuI
tural college have supervision
1t is expected that the new elevator
in the south wing of the state house viii
soon be in running order. 1t is just out
side the door leading to the prva.,
, Office of State Treasurer Grimes.
Il A charter has been granted to tn
Southwestern Grocery company of For
Scott, which is capitalized at $4,000. Al
, | in all other big Fort Scott concerns
| | Grant Hornaday is the chief financia
man in it.
w. H. Vernon. of Larned, has beel
| employed as stenographer for the Re
/ publican state central committee -ant
4 | will be in charge of the headquarters a
II the Copeland when Secretary Rane.
II and Chairman AIbaugh are not there.
President Nichols and Regent Fair
: | child of the State Agricultural college
; | have gone on a trip to Iowa and Obi
: in quest of man to succeed Prof. Cot
trell as professor of agriculture the mos
important chair in the college.
R. T. Herrick, who is the general at
n torney of the Kansas Mutual Life In
: surance company, has very hafterin
il offer to accept similar position wit
$ Chicago insurance company. He ha
r not decided to make the change as ye