The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-07

This is Ember day
One of the horses sold at the Lee sale
was % years old.
County Clerk A Newman is in Kan
sas City on business.
Some people are already preparing
their spring gardens.
The government thermometer ranged
between 80 and 81 Friday.
Creatore and his band will play at
Atchison Tuesday afternoon.
It is rumored that a few spears Or
grass are making their appearance
The poorest hall in Topeka to hear
anything is the district court room.
Barney Sheridan, the only Irish-E Ed
tor-Democrat extant in Kansas, is II
Topeka.
One of the horses in the R. I. Lee sale
was named ALBERT Parker in honor of
the mayor.
This is quiet day. No one has de-
nounced Funston or Metcalf for twenty
four hours.
Clay Center and Topeka will soon be
connected by a new long distance tele-
phone line.
Trapped by Treachery" will be 1.-The
educational Offering at the Crawford
Sunday night
'.Finnigan's Ball. one of ollie Ndacl<s
farcicial shows, will be at the Crawford
tonight. 1t has been here before.
The Topeka Business college placed
twelve students in positions last month.
Some at $50 and $50 per month.
J. c. Hyde, aged so years, and Leila
Z. Raper, aged three score years. were
granted marriage license Friday.
1t is six years since Kansas university
has won state oratOrical contest, but
K. u. keeps to the fore in football.
Cider Smith has been sick with grip
but he is now able to be about and give
/ his personal attention to the weather.
/ Power Behind the Throne" in Lawrence
Monday night and in Topeka Tuesday
night
There was lightning last night and
this morning the state mouse walks
were covered with fish worms The
/ combination means spring.
Get some sulphur, molasses and sarsa-
parilla mixed I'D in a bottle ready to
take BOYS are playing marbles and
spring fever will be next.
/ The regular semi-monthIy prayer
meeting will be held at the Cumber-
/ land Presbyterian church, corner Fifth
and West streets. Monday at ; p m
Prof w A. McKeever of the State
Agricultural college is in Topeka. Be
sides being the brother Of e. d. Nc
/ keever he IS a very successful teacher
The Haskell Indian institute band
/ went to Kansas City to hear zCreatOre
The Injuns might have come to Topeka
next Monday night for the same pur-
pose.
Charles L. Holman and family viii
move to St. Louis soon. Mr.. Holman
I has a position with the worlds fair. and
/ will be in the sanity city until after the
/ far
/ George E. Lerriso desires to meet all
who are to act as ushers at the revival
meeting next week, at the tabernacle at
Sixth avenue and Monroe street this
evening al O'Clock.
The hunters are loading shells, greas-
4 ing guns patching Wadlng boots, gum
ming up holes in canvas boats, painting
decoys and making ready generally for
the spring flight of ducks.
notice in the Clay Center Times
which would apply to Topeka just now
is as follows: .Leather-line your but
4 tonhOles the spring candidates for city
offices will soon be doing business"
Judge Hazen viii be busy for two on
three days with the antitrust insurance
cases brought by County Attorney Mich
OILS against ifty-six companies who are
charged with violating the Bush law
No natural ice was put up by ice COM
panies this winter. The insane asylum
and reform school filed their ice houses
with a very poor grade of natural ice
which viii do for refrigerating purposes.
Evangelist Williams will begin ope1a
4 lions in Topeka tomorrow He IS the
man who inserted his scaIpel between
the quick and the cuticle of the Elks in
southern Kansas and removed the hioe.
Miss Helen Kimber is making ar
engagements for the Equal Suffrage