The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-08

How many rats to make rattle!
How many folks to make focusZ
How many croaks to make a crocus?
How many quarts to make quarter
HOW many ports to make a porter
How many fans to make phantomF
How many banns to make bantam?
How many aches to make an acre
How many fakes to make faklrt
How many ps to make rapture2
How many caps to make a capture?
How many sums to make a summer
How many plums to make a plumber?
How many hicks to make nickelY
How many picks to make pickle?
How many capes to make a caper2
How many taps TO make a tapiry
How many tons TO make a tunnel2
And how much fun to make tunnel!
Justice Ingerson in ST. Nicholas.
J. w. Going of this city went to KAN
Sas City Tuesday.
d. w. Nellis has gone to New York
to be gone month.
P. l. Bonebrake went to Kansas City
on business Tuesday.
An inspector examined the elevator at
the federal building yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Geurdom are the
parents of a boy born last night.
The price of the watermelons on the
local market is neck and neck with ice
and coal
There viii be a meeting of the To
peka Orphans Home society Thursday
afternoon.
ATarshalls band will give another con-
and Harrison streets
The Elks of St Joseph are having
antics" and number of Topeka ElkS
will go there to help.
Rev. c. S. Morrow. secretary of the
CITY Charities association is in Ottawa
attending the Chautauqua.
This is the season when the girls bor-
row their brothers half-hose as we'll as
their collar buttons and ties.
A new descriptive song of the "weeper"
variety is entitled Now J Have Come
to Claim You For My Bride"
A quartet OF Topeka boys who play
mandolins and guitars have been play
ing at Eureka lake, Manhattan.
There is so little to do evenings in
Topeka that people have commenced
taking car rides on the Oakland line.
Topeka Business college and the State
Normal baseball teams will play on the
Normal field a Emporia this afternoon.
The winter supply of coal is being
laid In at the federal building. 1t con-
Eists of $50 tons of Pennsylvania an
thracite.
a marriage license was issued Tues
day afternoon to Herman L. Page, of
St Joseph, Mo, and Maud H Smith of
Topeka.
Some Of the men who have been work.
ing for the city street force in North
Topeka have quit and gone to the har-
vest fields.
About 300 tickets were sold for Prof.
Harvey WorralIs benefit concert for the
flood sufferers held last night at Sc
curity hall.
According to reports received at the
state auditors office. pianos are assessed
at $40 in Cheyenne county and $74 in
Clark county.
The Charities association headquar-
ters is being kept open all day this
week. The short hours will not begin
until next week.
Orders have been issued by the post
office authorities establishing a rural
free delivery route on July Is at Palmer,
Washington county.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
has a field of rye on his farm south of
town from which he expects to reap
an unusually large crop.
Material for rebuilding the lines of the
street railway company is arriving this
week. A shipment of 15-pound rails
reached town Tuesday.
A Topeka wholesale liquor establish
ment is said to have disposed of six car
loads of beer in the two weeks immedi
ately following the flood.
There will be no regular meetings of
the Topeka Commercial club through
July and August. in accordance with
the usual summer custom.
The state board of equalization is in
session at the state house and will prob
ably reduce the assessment of counties
The grave and melancholy Georgia
watermelon has made his appearance on
the local market The Texas canteloupe
has been here several weeks.
Frank McCabe. son of City Engineer
McCabe, has been appointed principal
of the Lyndon schools. He has just
graduated from Emporia college.
The state board of railway commits
siOners have ordered the Missouri Pa
cific to establish a station and station
agent at Jefferson, Montgomery county.
The three boys, Arthur Dahlene, Frank
Rossetter. and Ralph Chute, who were
injured It the Continental creamery
building last Monday, are recovering
slowly
Roy Johnson, theatrical traffic man.
ager for the Santa Fe, announces that
the coming theatrical season of 1903 and
1904 will be one of the best in the his
tory of the west.
Judging from the repeated calls for
harvest help received at the Topeka
free. employment agency. there viii be
good wages in the harvest fields
throughout the season.
1t is now so hot that the ice man feels
eafe in casting off the garb OF an ac-
commodating gentleman and INDUCING
in few "grouches" when he makes his
rounds in the morning.
F. H. Webster. of Topeka, has been
elected vice president of the Mid-States
Wholesale and Retail Coal Dealers as
sociation which met in Kansas City yes
terday in its fourth annual session.
Miss Myrtle Stamms who was acct
dentally shot in the right lung by her
brother Monday night, is still in a crit
ical condition. DR.. Keith, the attending
physician, has hopes for her recovery.
Councilman Samuel T. Howe is car
rying around a vial containing $1e
worth of gold ore and free gold taken
from his placer mine near LeadyiI1e.
Colo. He says it showed twice on July
and froze that night where he was in
the mountains. He wore suit of win
ter underclothing back to Kansas and