The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-30

you II ma It mighty cTdmp1n
To get down upon your knees
When the snow is on your onions
And the ice is on your peas
J. A. RAMSEY.
Merry Christmas
Chilly weather, this. for circuses.
w. W. Robinson was in Kansas City
Wednesday.
One touch of winter makes the whole
world SILVER.
Mrs Lee Jones who has been very
sick is slightly improved.
The Auditorium, 629 Quincy. serves
the best meals in the city for Is cents
The latest colored man in Topeka
had to run this morning to keep warm.
G. Webb Bertran. of Oberlin, stopped
in Topeka today on the way home from
Chicago.
Cider Smith really didn't say any
thing about a snow but he said this was
a stogm period.
The Business Women's club will not
meet Friday on account of the hotels
being crowded.
One plain drunk in the past four days
is the startling record made by the po-
lice department.
Lots of people were wearing garments
saturated with the rich aroma of mota
balls this morning
The regular monthly meeting of
Christ hospital guild will not be held
until Friday, May s.
The Al G. Field minstrels arrived in
their cars from Hutchinson before day
break this morning.
F. NJ. Lutz tried in the district court
Wednesday on the charge of defraud-
ing installment houses, was acquitted.
This is chilly weather for a minstrel
but Al G. Fields jolly aggregation will
parade and perform today despite the
snow.
Two Jolly Rovers' will be at the
Crawford Friday, but there will be sew
eral thousand on the streets during the
day.
Several Topeka people are going to
Parsons May L to IA to attend the thir-
ty-eighth annual State Sunday School
convention.
If the assessor hasn't visited You there
is no danger that you will be sighted.
He is on his. rounds and never over
looks anyone
Work on the Ranney-Davis building
at Arkansas City has commenced. This
is a branch of the Parkhurst-D Davis
company of Topeka
Two Jolly Rovers'' will give a special
matinee at the New Crawford tomorrow
to amuse the crowds in town for PTesi-
dent Roosevelt's visit.
1t was five years ago tomorrow that
the little incident occurred in Manila
bay which was the means of making
Dewey and Ware famous.
Rev S. c. Coblentz left today for
Dayton. Ohio. TO attend the annual
meeting of the board of missions and
church erection Of the United Brethren
church.
The petit jurorssef the United States
court have finished their work and gone
home. The grand jury is also through,
but the list of indictments is not yet
made public.
DeNIoss & Penwell. undertakers, have
just completed an immense dust-prooT
4 Low
csskets at one time The case is fitted
with electric lights
The ways and means committee of
the council will meet Saturday after
noon and will decide, among other
things how much increase in pay shall
be given to the city attorney.
The Kansas City papers take most
kindly to Henrietta Crosman's perform
ance of The Sword of the King" there
this week. She comes to the New Craw-
ford a week from tomorrow night.
w L. Gordon chief oracle of the
Ananias club explained this morning
that vegetation would not be injured
4 by the cold last night, because the snow
acted as a poultice to draw the frost.
It was 3S years ago today that W. H.
Wilson, of the board of education,
reached Washington after marching
with General Sherman from Raleigh, n.
c., where Joe Johnston had surrendered
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
4 Presbyterian church VIII meet TINS week
Friday afternoon with Mrs J. F. Nc
Leod 1105 Harrison street A full at
tendance is greatly desired as the work
for the year will be outlined.
The case of Frank Schmittendorf who
was to be tried today in the city court
for failure to support his wife and fam
ily was continued to May Il. It seems
from the com plant that Schmittendorf
had all he could do to support his name
superintendent W. NJ. Davidson was
in Lawrence Wednesday inspecting the
manual training features at the State
university. looking for features to en-
body in the new manual training hle n
school building TO be erected at Eighth
and Harrison streets
Last evening Frank Hendricks. the
heavyweight Of the police force. picked
up a stray pony weighing 42I pounds
and led it down to the station When
what he was going to do with the beast.
ne said he intended to ride 1t in the pa
rade de Roosevelt
The city engineer is another one Of
the city officials who would ike to have
1 an increase in pay. number OF years
ago Topeka paid its engineer $1,000 }
year A man came along and offered to
take the job for 81 200 a year, and his
offer was accepted. Since then the sal
airy has remained at $1,000
There is now about $4,000 in the fire
mems relief fund which is contributed
to every year by the fire insurance COM
panies of the state. Nearly $4,000 was
turned into the city treasury this wear
by Insurance Commissioner c. H. Iu-
ling to be applied to this fund. The in
terest on the fund is used TO pension in
jured firemen or their families.
BIoclAd nv a Wreck.