The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14


And the maker buried.
Low as the singer lies
In the field of heather,
Songs of his fashion bring
The SWANS together
And when the West IS red
With the sunset embers,
The lover fingers and sings
And the maid remembers
Robert Louis Stevenson
]. w. Going is in Chicago.
w. Y. Morgan, of Hutchinson, is in
town today.
Mrs. Grant Prather, of Hutchinson, is
visiting her parents here.
Chinese incense or joss sticks will
keep away mosquitoes.
CLYDE Hamlin and Harry Mason left
today for Cleveland, o.
There is some desirable furniture for
sale at 500 West Tenth street.
Frank Edwards has returned from
visit with relatives in Abilene.
State Treasurer T. T. Kelly is visiting
Senator J. r. Burton at Abilene.
The hotels and boarding houses are
filled with summer widowers now.
Homer Ray is recovering from
threatened attack of typhoid fever.
The Associated Charities in this city
is still supplying food for 225 flood SUI
ferers-
Labor Commissioner johnson has re-
turned from a visit to Pittsburg and
Fort Scott
Harry E. Gavitt has returned from a
business and pleasure trip to Manhat-
tan and Eureka Lake.
The body of Samuel Shute, the color
ed boy who was drowned at the Reform
school last Friday, has been recovered.
A marriage license was granted in
Kansas City yesterday to Owen E. Ber-
Der of Kansas City and Clara Merkle
Of Topeka.
!
tary of the Y. w. c. A. will leave for
New York for an advanced course in
/ Bible training.
The Emancipation day picnic will be
held in Fort Scott on September %
There will be no Emancipation day fes-
tivities in Topeka.
William Beecher, aged so years, who
was overcome by heat While he was
working on the Eighth street paving
Friday, is recovering.
A meeting of the Ladies' Aid society
of the First Congregational church viii
| be held Wednesday afternoon at 2
O'Clock in the church parlors.
Charles Graves of the Wells Fargo
Express company has been promoted
from night man at the Santa Fe office
to day man at the uptown office.
George Heatherington has returned
home after visit to Mr.. and Mrs. a. c.
Hoagland at Hutchinson. Mrs. Heath
erington remained for d longer visit.
There is a vacancy in the office of
chaplain at the Soldiers home at Leav-
enworth, Rev. Walter S. Priest having
resigned. The place pays $50 per month.
The Baptist new church workers will
sew Wednesday morning, July Is, with
Mrs. J. r. MulVane al the Jewell resi-
dence, 800 East Sixth street from till
II.
Dell Small and Mapes Solomon, o:
Atchison. We're in Topeka today on
their way to the Small ranch west of
town. where they will spend several
weeks
A special dispatch from Washington
states that the First National bank of
! Boston has been approved as reserve
! agent for the First National bank of
Topeka.
After today, according to Cider
Smiths forecast of last week, we may
I expect warm and clear weather again.
His representation provided for rains
until the 14th.
The state house flower beds and lawn
/ look better this summer than ever be-
fore. Among other things, Custodian
Neale has in bloom a large bed of
purple lavender.
A request for the use of the Audi
forum on September 3, 10 and IL for
the annual convention of the Kansas
/ Photographers association was grant
ed by the council Monday night.
The Masonic bodies are still busy with
| their plans for the erection of a four
story Masonic building in Topeka. 1t
will be located al the corner of Eighth
and Quincy streets, near the city hall.
A request for more money for use in
restoring North Topeka has been made
by the special committee of the Com
mercial club appointed for the purpose
of distributing $1,000 appropriated for
the work.
Fred Geiser, who was formerly en-
ployed in the press rooms of the Crane
/ Publishing company, is now in charge
| of the press room of the Hutchinson
Bee. Mrs Geiser has joined him in
Hutchinson.
w. S. Fulton formerly assistant city
engineer, has returned from Alva, Okla.
Mr.. Fulton has disposed of the Alva
Review of which he has been proprietor
for about two years. He will go into
other business.
The best preventive of heat prostra-
ton is frequent bathing. The sun is not
necessary to "sunstroke." Many vic
tins are stricken in factories and Of
fees, while out of door workers are less
frequently afflicted.
Jess Harper, a negro who figured con-
! spicuously in the John Collins murder
trial in 1898, is in trouble in Lawrence on
! account of a fight Sunday with a colored
/ barber named Hubbard. Harper used
Hubbard up badly.
The regents of the State Agricultural
| COlleSe nave rejected all the DldS on
the construction of a 900 chapel and
$4,000 dairy building. The bids were
| too high. New bids have been adver~
tised for and will be opened July 81.
The Chicago Tribune says that in the
Springfield-Cedar Rapids baseball game
Saturday, Gill pitched a brilliant game
and with fine support succeeded in
/ shutting out the visitors. who played
poorly. Score: Cedar Rapids g. Spring
seld. 0.
The people who live in the suburbs
beyond the paved streets have all the
/ best Of il at this season. Driving in
/ from the country these warm evenings
the heat of the pavements is like the
/ breath Of furnace after the cool
zephyrs off the clover fields.
The c. A. r. people are planning a
reception for Department Commander