The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-19
Chicago Chronicle.

Till twilight fell and day was gone,
And as in mud he sank from sight
He yelled once more with all his might;
Chicago Chronicle.
This is the day the weather bureau
set for snow
The spring vacation at Washburn col
lege begins next Wednesday,
The government thermometer ranged
between so and 70 Wednesday.
This is the time of the St. Patrick
equinoxial storm. So says Cider
Smith.
L. NJ. Crawford has not bought or
leased a theater for two days. Business
must be dull
Since Monday the registration has
thousand a day.
Some Of the early bulb plants are two
and three inches above ground IN the
state house grounds
There are thirteen members Of the
Kansas Medical college senior class
which graduates this spring.
The Rev. D. NJ. Fisk is having a resi-
dence built for himself on College ave
nue., a block from Washburn college.
The Colorado cold wave must have
been DETECTED by the large number OF
hay stacks it encountered in Kansas.
Fred T. Lyman of Scribner's Sons in
/ Chicago has been in Topeka for the past
4 four days on business He returned to
/ Chicago today.
Roy Benner has taken a position with
the Matthews & Drechsel shoe house
and will be glad to have all his friends
/ come in and see him.
W. W. Aber. the Undertaking. medi-
UNI, is located at 30 Clay street for a
few days. Seanees by appointment.
( Telephone No. ABB.
After the wind of Wednesday and
( Thursday and the rain of last night
I r1qN6H streets nTIfP
clean this morning.
The graduating class and the faculty
and students of the Kansas Medical
college will hold a commencement ban
quet at the Throop March q
The Banda Rosa is playing hide and
seek in Kansas all around Topeka To-
peka will be tagged. and it will be
reached some time this summer
Tom McNeal has returned from a visit
to Arkansas. He says that the natives
down there haven't heard that Jackson
defeated the British at New Orleans.
How to Become a Competent Motor
man is a new book just published. c.
/ c. Baker might buy a few copies for
the city railway free circulating library.
The Ladies Aid society of the First
Christian church viii have their March
! birthday social Friday afternoon at
Mrs. Durien's home, us Topeka avenue.
If Evangelist Williams wants to start
/ a crusade which will have the solid
1 support OF the public, he should go
after the smokers of perfumed cigar
I cites.
Tomorrow is the date set by the
weather bureau for the mercury to ger
down to 20 degrees above zero. Your
ice box may not need filling for few
days yet.
This is the season of the year when
men, whose days of aspiration for pub
lie Office are over, congratulate them
selves that they are not candidates for
/ anything.
Several Topeka people have seer
Francis Wilson in The Toreador' and
George AIDES Peggy from Paris il
Chicago recently. and they give the
medal to Peggy"
Speaking of car tracks. One of the
sn0othest places on the West Sixth
street line is at the place where ii
crosses the track of the Vinewood COM
pany on Van Buren, street.
Henry Reisner of this city. attended
family reunion at Atchison yesterday
The reunion was at the home Of hi:
brother John Reisner. who is one Of th'
oldest settlers in Atchison.
The recital of the pupils of Carl Wood
at the Baptist church last night was
well attended Some of the numbers
showed unusual skill in violin playing
on the part of the performers.
z. D. AIcKeever, assistant United
States attorney, is certain that Frida!
the 18th is a hoodoo- The combination
last week is held responsible for thu
loss of all his railroad passes.
George AIDES income is now rated a
S5c. 900 a year. Topeka contributed Z
] part of that for the present fiscal yea
when The Sultan Of Sulu' was at th'
. Grand Topeka viii contribute more i
more AIDE operas will come
Colonel F. S. Savage of the Santa
F'e passenger department is the only
man in Topeka besides the auctioneer,
who has won the brevet of colonel be
cause of his faculty for making people
believe he is interested in their welfare
The Civic Improvement association i
2 busy right now planting its flowers ant
shrubs. A neighborhood society witt
similar purposes has been formed OF
s Clay street between Eighth and Tent
streets.
At the hearing of the telephone rat
case in Kansas City Wednesday, it wa
brought out that the Missouri & Kansa
Telephone company paid $40, 900 for tn
Topeka, st. Joe. Atchison and Leaven
+, worth exchanges, and $200,0 900 for tn
Kansas City exchange
Department Commander LOOMS o
: the G. A r. is making an unusual eff
! fort to increase the membership of tn
4 organization of which he is the head
Z Only about one old soldier in seven il
Kansas is a member of the G. A. R.
: Mr.. Geo. B. Harrison. of Topeka. ha
been appointed to q. position in the d
vision of live stock at the worlds fai
by Chief Coburn of that division. MI
Harrison viii attend to sending to tn
agricultural press of the country sue
matters as will interest stockmen.
Martin Mohler. who was thought to b
slightly better, is now believed to hav
had no material change in his conditio
for the past three days. He is 70 year
of age, but has up to this time Away
been in good health. The doctors hav
small hope of his recovery.
Councilman II. S. Nichols is a goo
Indian" He stated in a speech at tn
oil la :,