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

1t sat on the track
And the girls lamenting it yuette
Look out for the assessors. They are
worse than dog tax men.
The government thermometer ranged
between q and IS Monday.
The summer session at the Kansas
State university will begin June H.
Miss Ellen NJ Stone will lecture to-
night at the First Methodist church.
Mr.. and Mrs H. A. Auerbach are the
parents OF daughter. born Sunday.
Fred McGiffin has gone to Leayen-
worth. where be viii be a clerk IN
shoe store.
The board of education began doing
business last night without d quorum
being present.
President Wilkinson of the State Nor
NAL school was in Topeka in the role
Of a lobbyist Monday.
Arthur Macarthur, the perennial book
agent with the everlasting smile, is IN
Topeka renewing old acquaintances-
The Y. NJ. c. A basket ball team viii
play the Indians from Haskell Institute
at the Topeka gymnasium Friday night.
The total number of liquor sales re-
ported to Probate Judge Pagan for Feb
ruaTy was 1871 The January sales
amounted to 1887.
Harold B. Fraser of Topeka and Eliza
beth Vowel of Richland were married
last night at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Siias Rain, 1ll8 Van Buren, street.
The Y. M. c. A. bowling team defeat
ed the Santa F'e bowlers by II pins last
night and thereby won the tournament,
taking two out of the three games.
The board of education last night al
lowed j. Willis Gleeds bill of $500 for
his services in fighting the anti BIZ
ble' case brought in the district court
by J. B. Billiard.
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson,
lot Ia If 41s1 Got he,
swimming pool at Santiago harbor, viii
lecture i'll Leavenworth tonight and To-
peka tomorrow night.
As Communicated Stewart is
expected in the city tomorrow after
noon, all members of the @. A. r. are
requested to meet at Lincoln post hall
to meet him at 1870 p. m.
Otis E. Hungate was in Kansas City
Monday When in the billy city he is
referred to as the man who managed
the Republican campaign in Shawnee
county in 1900 and the man who fell in
the water at Lake View in 1901.
w. Y Morgan has made so much
out of the state printing plant in four
years that he has reduced the sub
scription of the Hutchinson Daily
News to 10 cents a week. It had been
Is cents a week.
The state oratoriea1 contest will take
place at Atchison Friday night W.
Thompson will represent Washburn and
Malcolm Garrard will represent K u.
Garrard won college contest or two at
Washburn while he was a student there.
W H Wilson. chairman of the build
ing committee of the board of education,
reported last night that janitor had
become obstreperous. The board was
shocked at such audacity. and ordered
the head fireman to fire" the janitor if
he caused any excitement again.
H. Peppmyer attended the meeting of
the board of education last night. At
the meeting month ago the board held
UP his coal bill of $l13. When they saw
him in the room last night the board
members unanimously voted to pay him
all that was coming to him.
The board OF education met last
night The session lasted about thirty
minutes. About eighteen minutes was
consumed in reading the minutes of
the last meeting and ten minutes were
devoted TO jollylng, and about two
minutes were used in transacting bust
ness and adjourning.
Charley Finch says in the Lawrence
Gazette. A lot of business men of
Topeka have been writing of what
they would do should they be elected
mayor of that town. Our idea IS that
what a man ought to do who is elected
to that office is to go cunning for the
men who elected him.
DR.. F. H. Snow of the University of
Kansas has figured out that the time
spent by him in the last forty-five
years in taking the observations and
compiling the weather record that has
been kept by him since he came to
Kansas has amounted to five years
and six weeks, calling eight hours
day and six days week. 1t IS proba-
bly, worth it.
E. E. Roudebnsh. the new member of
the board of education is a sticlzler for
minutes and he demands at each meet
ing of the board that the minutes of
the last meeting be read. While the
minutes were being read at the meeting
last night he absented himself from the
room. and when he returned the mem
brs who had been bored by the naonot-
onous reading polzed a good deal of fun
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