The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-03
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEws.

SN AP SHUTS AT HOME n VS..
The harvest moon has dwindI ed-they have
housed the corn and rye
And now the idle reapers lounge against
the bolted doors;
Without are hungry harvesters, within en-
chanted stores
10! they had bread while they were out
a-toiling in the sun;
Now they are strolling beggars, for the
harvest work is DONE
They are the gods of husbandry; they
gather in the sheaveS,
But when the autumn strips the wood,
they're drifting with the leaves.
They pillow and SOW and gather in the glory
They know the noon, they know the pitt
less rain before the morni
They know the sweep of furrowed fields
that darken in the gloom
"A little while their hope on earth, then
''' EDWARD MARKHAM.
Harry Guthrie is in Chicago.
T. j. Myers wassin Kansas City Sun
day.
DIR. C. E. Carpenter went to Chicago
SATURDAY..
o. A. Foster and wife were visitors
to Kansas City Sunday.
Congressman Curtis visited the festi-
val at Stockton last week.
George Hart has returned from
months vacation in California
The council will hold it's regular first
Monday -the-month meeting this
evening.
The members of Lane chapel are hold
ing meetings in a tent near the Monroe
school house.
Henry Ruff attended the Atchison
Globes party at Forest park, Atchi-
son, Sunday.
w. H. Davis has gone to F'airplay,
Col, on business connected with the
mines there.
There was a thirty-five minutes gap
between cars on the West Tenth avenue
line Sunday evening.
G. w w. Yates. who has large inter
ests in the Chanute oil and gas fields,
expects to move to Chanute.
Yesterdays rain filed all the hollows
in North Topeka and made the town
look as though there had been a second
food
Mr.. and Mrs ]. s. Thompson. of OF
tawa, have moved TO Topeka Mr..
Thompson is with the Santa Fe auditing
department
A Topeka man observes that Watch
my smoke" has ceased to be a slang ex-
preston since the college of cardinals
met at Rome.
Two Topeka BARRIERS. working as
pair claim to hold the record for a team
by earning between them $32.55 in II
hours work.
DR.. and Mrs. H. B. Hogeboom. Miss
Hazel Mulvane and Paul Mulvane were
at Lake View Friday and Saturday and
caught 80 fish
N. ]. Holum, president of the Scan
dinavian Independent club, has called
meeting for the Chesterfield hotel
Tuesday evening.
The corner stone of the Waterville
/ IT..
peka Masons will help in the work, and
in the attending ceremonies
The corner stone of the new church
to succeed Lane chapel. colored, will be
laid August and colored Masons from
Kansas City and Lawrence will assist
Mrs. H. l. Miller. who has been Wis
iting in Topeka this summer, will leave
Tuesday for Meridian, Miss, to resume
her work as principal of Lincoln school,
JF Alfred has been in Chanute dur
ing the past week making arrangements
for the development of piece of oil and
gas land for syndicate which he repre-
sents.
The Mickey Mercantile company, of
Morrill,, Kan. has applied for charter
1t has $4,000 capital. and proposes to
go into the merchandise business at
Morrill,.
Frederick Lewis. who played "Os-
valid" in Ghosts in Miss Mary Shaw
company in Topeka last spring, Will be
With Miss Henrietta Crosman's COM
pany next season.
When w A. Brady's Uncle Tom s
Cabin company gees to England next
season a brass band will accompany 1t
| to the steamer and plav God Save the
King" says a Topeka wit.
The happiest boys in Topeka Sunday
! seemed to be the dozen urchins who
were swimming and rafting in the
deep pools left by the overlooking
Shunganunga under the Vinewood rail-
way viaduct
The rain made little change in thu
elevation of the river at topeka,
Heavy rains have been reported in va
rious places west of here along the kaW
bottom, whose effect will likely be seen
in the river today.
Prof. Eli G. Foster, who has been in
/ Indiana all summer introducing his
history charts in the public schools. is
! expected home next week. Rand. Nc
Nally & Co, of Chicago, publish the
| charts, which are to be used in the Bos'
ton schools next year.
John MacVicar of this city, secretary
of the League of American Municipali-
ties, has an article in the last issue OF
| the Municipal Journal and Engineer
| giving the preliminary program of the
| convention of the league to be held ir
Baltimore, Nd.
A Kansas City paper says: Reginald
NJ. Grist, of Kansas City, and Miss Amy
L. Kearney, of Topeka, Kan, were mar