The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-02

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SNAP SHOT HOME NEWS.
Yonder come my lover
De Rabbit let her pass,
De dewdrap en- der River
Say deyu be her lookln glass;
| Oh, my honey,
All de wOrl is sunny;
! I'll swim de river fer yo sake, en- give
20 all my money.
Yonder come my lover
LAX a summer holiday
De river stop his talkin'
Fer to lissen what she say
Oh my honey,
All de worl' is sunny:
I'll swim de river fer yo' sake en- give
Frank L Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The new banquet room at the Mason
ic quarters is complete.
The regular meeting night of the
school board is next Monday. Labor
Dag.
H. German, head of the Santa Fe
detective force, was in Kansas City
| Tuesday.
The Shawnee Horticultural society
will meet Thursday at the home of A.
L. Brooke.
Coach Bert Kennedy of the Wash
burn football team was in Topeka Tues
| day afternoon.
Lawrence Banks who is now employ
ed by the Santa Fe at Galveston is in
/ Topeka for brief visit.
Flower lovers are beginning to lay in
their winter supplies of bulbs and seeds
for winter blooming plants.
Mrs. Laura E. Thorpe has returned
from Holtor where she accompanied a
niece and nephew who entered Camp
bell university.
nd
w. F. Lake of Topeka have gone to
Oklahoma on a few days chicken hunt
and land deal.
Ed w. Brown, formerly of Bradbury s
| Construction company here. is reported
to be dying at lola where he was en-
ployed by one of the cement companies
The Grand and the Crawford will be
open fair week. The Grace Hayward
company will be at the Crawford and
Reuben in New York; and I'm New
York Town" viii be at the Grand.
The officers of the court house are
urging Judge Hazen to dismiss court
every afternoon of fair week. Judge
Hazen thinks two afternoons without
court will be sufficient
The City railway has made a new
rule that passengers must ask for
transfers as soon as they pay their
fares and that unless the transfers are
taken then they will not be given
The school board I'm deciding that the
city schools should open Tuesday. Sep
TENDER 10, had no sympathy for the
school children as the state fair begins
the day before, Monday, September H.
Special services will be held at the
Reformed Presbyterian church Thurs
day night. Friday will be fast day
and services will be held at o'clock.
Rev. J. S. McGaw, of Mt Clark, Neb.,
will preach.
The Crawford management is going
to try one or two high-class shows on
Sunday nights. The first will be I'm
der Southern Skies" Sept. 20, and the
next, when Johnny Comes Marching
Home" Nov. l.
Judge Hazen has refused to grant
new trial in the Chris Roof damage
case against the Rock Island railroad
in which Roof got judgment for 81, 900
for injuries received by being thrown
in a passenger coach.
f. l.. Whitaker brought to the State
Journal office three ears of corn from
his place west of Washburn college
that are as fine specimens as ever
produced in Kansas. They are al
ready fully matured.
'Florodora" will do some apid jump
ing across the country. 1t opened its
season in Auburn, New York. Monday
night and will reach here September IL.
There is but one company playing the
musical comedy this year.
Friday morning will be the closing
:
Topeka Social Settlement building at
Fourth and jackson streets. Mrs. June
Chapman, in charge, has invited the
friends of the school to attend the Fri
day morning exercise.
Two hundred children are to be taken
to Vinewood park Thursday for the
fresh air day picnic of the industrial
school. Police Matron Thorpe has re-
quested that cakes or other dainties for
the children be left at her office at
the police station this evening or early
tomorrow morning.
Some of the notes in pipe organ at
the Church of the Assumption have re-
fused to play during the past few
weeks. A representative of the Kim
ball Piano company, which built the in
strument made an examination and
found the refractory pipes filled with
dead moths.
DR.. +. H. Snow in his weather report
for August says: August of the pres
ent year has an interesting and in
many respects an exceptionable record.
The gale which blew from the north
east on the evening of the 9Th, lasting
one hour. from 7:30 to $780, reached a
velocity of 60 miles for the hour of du-
ration, and it was accompanied by an
electrical disturbance and a fall of rain.
It's force was spent locally, causing,
however, considerable damage to build
ings. trees. fruit and crops
Colima's Activity Increases.