The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-13

The mansion grand and great
The hands that laid their hearthstones
sol. MILLER.
Asparagus is on the market.
The Leonard Stock company will be
at the Crawford tonight
The college at ST. Marys advertises
Poland China hogs for sale
The government thermometer ranged
between 50 and 65 Thursday
H0yts old favorite "A Trip to Chi
natown" IS headed for Topeka.
The spring vacation at Washburn col
lsEe begins March %, and lasts one
week.
A Topeka bucket shop did s85.000
worth Of business in February on $12
600 capital
The Democratic city central committee
sas avenue.
Those who are experts at the indus
try are planting the annual crop of
sweet peas.
The catch basins ana automatic flush
ing tanks for the Washburn college sew
er are now being built
This is that unlucky day; Friday and
the 18th. Don't add to the i'll omeus by
walking under ladder.
sunny Jim viii be the next cereal"
comedy to De on the road next season.
III has been booked for Topeka
The crows are beginning to cav down
ON the Shuugauunga. This IS one OF the
numerous sure signs Of spring.
Two cases from the Shawnee county
district court have gone through the
Supreme court at Washington
The county commissioners met today.
Now THAI they set 500 month they
feel willing TO meet most every day.
There hasn't been a serious row be-
tween the faculty and the students at
Washburn college for several weeks
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Gilman Nichols bet George Burghart $50
that Bergundthal would have 1900 ma
jorty-
Baseball practice is now in fun swing
ct Washhurn college. The college eX-
poets to have strong men for its team
this year
Kansas avenue ives swept last night
hy the street sWeeper5 but YOU wouldn't
know il except for the line of dirt in
the gutter
one new house is being built near
Washburn college. II is expected that
TWO on three more viii be built there
this spring.
Two or three of the newspaper men
who work about the state house have
gone into the potato raising business as
Dr. Countermine of the First Preshx-
terrain church. VIII preach next Sunday
ON THE Gospel as illustrated in Shakes
reare's Macbeth.
thing of boxer and amateur prize
fighter is afraid 70 let his wife know Of
it when he has bout
III. W. Page. secretary Of the Ber-
guudthal central committee. was sick
Thursday as a result of his strenuous
life for The past week.
~. L. Dickey, secretary and treas
urer OF the Western Ice Manufacturers
association. has been in Kansas City
attending the meeting
An old colored man has wagon and
one side OF the box is made from an
old sign. What is there reads as fol-
lows Ding and livery
a Topeka man wants his Office boy to
be able TO spin tops and laugh out loud.
He SAYS an office boy without those two
requirements is worthless.
The enthusiasm in bowling is on the
wane. In some of the clubs where four
alleys were crowded few weeks ago
one alley is not crowded
The railroad embarrassment at Lake
View is being strengthened. The high
water is warning A year ago ths
embarrassment was washed out
Fred Nandegrift often says: IF
owned newspaper Office. but I never
WIN. so viii make my threats now I
would have an anti-tobacco rule
Iilierman James Washington, Of. the
hook and ladder truck, who was hurt
last Wednesday, Is reported to be get
ting along well and sill recover.
Complaints have been made concern
ing the condition of the Auditorium. II
seems to be considered unnecessary &c
sweep and dust the room occasionally.
The big thing for the Central parH
sewer has arrived. and work ON the CON
structlon of the sewer through the Tarh
VIII be commenced within a few days.
The river is very high and is covered
with blotehes of Curded froth which
come swirling down from the western
tributaries, where the ice is going out
The sign painters are behind with
their orders One reason is because SC
many joint windows were smashed and
new and elaborate signs had to bs
made.
A man who wished to call a grocery
store by telephone but by mistake go
q cigar dealer and ordered tsrae cab
bages is now afraid to talk to the c-eai
man.
The Scottish Rite bodies meet tonirh
and the sixteenth degree VIII be giveI
i'm style so elaborate that il VIII nu
TO shame the first part of % kara
minstrel.