The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-29
SNAP SHOTS ATH0ME NEWS

The spuds he says are luscious,
And the best he ever saw.
His honor's gone a fishing
In a cooler northern CLINE.
And there's simply nothing doing
In the strictly legal line.
The city water this morning re-
sembled lime juice.
The government thermometer got up
to Sc Monday afternoon.
Pension Agent Wilder s. Metcalf has
returned from business trip to Ala
mosa, Col.
A swimming party of small boys from
the Y. M. C. A Junior department went
OUT this morning.
A Potwin woman says she is about
to try the vandegrift recipe for getting
rid of chiggers: Give a lawn social.
The members of the board of health
went out to the site, purchased for the
new pest house yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff Porter Cook spent Monday in
Topeka. He returned to Excelsior
Springs. Mo-, where he has been for
week.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team will play the team from Scranton
on the Washburn grounds Saturday at
ternoon.
The uniform rank Knights of Mac
cabees will give burlesque degree en-
tertainment at their hall tomorrow
evening.
Charles A. Baker, of Hutchinson, has
been commissioned first lieutenant OF
artillery in the Kansas National GUARDS
by Governor Stanley.
Office boys philosophy: There is
an automobile in town that is out OF
tune. The whistle makes less noise
| than the escape of steam
S. S. Bandy, who is serving sentence
of two years in the penitentiary from
| Cowley county for assault, has applied
| to the governor for a parole.
Probate Judge Pagan has postponed
| the S. Klein habeas corpus liquor case
until the district court is in session
| Then Judge Hazen can handle it.
| A recent letter from Justice Ellis, of
| the supreme court, who is in Michigan
| for his health, to his secretary, C. r.
Jones, states that he is getting better.
| The administrators of the estate of
| the late G. G. Gage have filed the
| district court. The estate was worth
| $95, 267.67
| Office boys philosophy: A chess
| player in the international tournament
at Hanover is named Tschigorin. That's
| where many of the American chiggers
| are now
| Office boys philosophy: If you talk
back to the umpire you are put out OF
| the game, but Fftzsimmons was put out
without having spoken word to that
| official.
| Prof and Mrs. L. D. whittemore and
! their three children, Laurens, Martha
and Margaret, will leave Wednesday for
Green Mountain Falls and other Colo7
RADIO points.
Lodge No. so. knights Of the Pro-
| tected Ark will give a social and en-
| tertainment this evening at Knights of
! Pythias hall, corner of Sixth avenue and
| Quincy street.
! President Norman Plass of Washburn
| college is having great difficulty to find
| a suitable residence near Washburn col
1ege, and may be obliged to build
house this fall.
| E. r. Henry, who graduated from
| Washburn college this year, leaves for
| his home at Cameron. Louisiana. to-
morrow. He expects to enter Harvard
university next fall
| There is to be a big acreage of rye
| sown along the Kaw valley this fall,
| if present prospects carry. 1t will be
put In on the land where the high water
ruined other crops.
! Christ hospital for a number of weeks
for a recovery from difficult opera
ton. has been removed to her home.
1912 Van Buren, street
| The city officials are beginning to
| scheme on when to pack up and leave
for their summer vacations There will
likely be a Settlement after the next
| council meeting on August 4.
Office boys philosophy: Cider Smith
| isn't the only man who can tell what
| is going to happen. The San Francisco
| Bullentin goes so far as to say that
Parrot flied out tomorrow. Diagram~
1t turned out that the felder's name
| was Morrow.
Governor Stanley has gone to Chilli
Gothic, Mo-. today. Tonight he will get
out his commencement speech and air
it before the high school graduates at
| that place. This speech has been pack
ed away in moth balls for several
| weeks.
Prof. f. w. Blackmar, president Of
the Kansas Society of Charities and
| Corrections, was up from Lawrence last
evening comforting with Rev. Edward
Fredenhagen regarding the programme
for the annual meeting of the society
next winter.
The Sixth Ward Civic Improvement
| society has opened war on weeds in the
vacant lots. A social is to be given
Wednesday evening at the home of N
H. LOOMS to raise funds to carry on
the work. Steinberg's orchestra will
furnish the music.
| e. N. Gum. former councilman
from North Topeka. says that when he
was in the council ten years ago. the
Water company promised him that il
would lay its mains to North Topeka
on the bed of the river. He claims thai
this is the only way of giving NORTH
Topeka safe system of fire protection
The Topeka club has accepted the
Elks' challenge for a ping pong tOurn-
ament. The contest will be pulled of
at an early date. The police have beer
fixed and no outside interference is ex.
pected. The ElkS' players will be ex
!, amined by physicians before the match
M. L. Campben's horse Lady Evans
and H. C. Lindsay's horse Dixie
, paced a race on the fair grounds trc RI
Monday afternoon. Dixie" paced cir
:; cles around the Lady The purse wa'
! for $50. A bunch of heavy sports at
tended the race in a coaching wager
: with case of beer under the seat. Thu
T,c<,y rod xxyo1 hot low,
TALLY Impaired to a bystander when tn
case was half gone that the race woult
. be run over for $500 a side and whel
they had finished the case they an
, | nounced that they had $1.170.15 to bet OF
Dixie in the next race.
Deputy United States Marshal Franz
McGrath and F. B. Hollenback are el
: route to Washington, D. c., where the.