The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-27

He sighed, as reStleSsIy he tossed
When his vacation days were done,
- Twas I, alas, who paid the cost
While the mosquitoes had the fun
D. w. Mulvane was in Kansas City
Wednesday.
Justice J. c. Pollock is home from his
eastern trip.
cider" Smith expected the rain
which fell last night.
Judge c. E. LobdelI came in from
Larned Wednesday.
Representative ]. C. Starr, editor Of
the Scott City News, was in Topeka last
night.
The hose company at fire station No.
9 is now the senior company in the fire
service
Carpenters are at work on the new
sheep pens being built at the fair
grounds.
Miss Elizabeth LaBar. secretary 10
Justice Pollock, has gone to Colorado for
her vacation.
Rev. A. NJ. Reynolds. who has been
visiting in st. Joe for several weeks,
came home today.
Under Sheriff Belts is at work on the
itinerary of Sheriff Lucts' next
junket after a prisoner
A marriage license has been granted
to Ralph S. Babcock and Geneva c.
Giles, both of Topeka.
Lawrence by Charles r. Blair of Topeka
and Miss Grace Baker of Lawrence.
Otis B. Thayer in Sweet Glover" was
booked at the Crawford for August 81
but cancelled in order to fill a date at
Omaha.
Governor Bailey made a speech at
lola Wednesday at the Gas Belt reunion
of the old soldiers and Twentieth Kan
sas veterans"
LIarrxy I2rant Of tho orox-aryo,.,e office
is in lola attending the reunion of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment. He is adj
jutant of the regiment.
The suit of s. E. Lux against w. O.
Anderson to prevent Anderson from
using his name in the commission bus
mess has been taken to the district
court for trial.
A Topeka man who is about to marry
the sweetest girl on earth" has ap-
preciative relatives. He has just re-
ceived two one hundred dollar drafts as
wedding presents
Rocky Ford cantaloupes from Colo
RADIO are selling at Is cents each. Can
taloupes from Missouri are selling at
two for Is cents. They may be just as
good as the Colorado melons but they
are from Missouri.
At the T. A. A bets are being made
and much interest is manifested in
guessing how Ed Mcbride will finish in
sports refer to him as 1.-The Shamrock
in the tennis tournament"
The labor union men have decided to
change the place of their picnic on Sep
TENDER Z. from Quant's grove west of
town, which will be unfit for use on ac-
count of mud. to the Markham grove
north of North Topeka.
Mr. and Mrs. w. G. Dickie left to-
day for the north on a vacation of two
or three weeks. Mr.. Dickie will repre-
sent the Jensen Manufacturing com
pany of this city in the dairy depart
ment of the Minnesota state fair to be
held at st. Paul.
The county commissioners will have
the small room at the court house used
by the tanitors renovated and painted
and it will be used as retreat for the
clerks in the treasurer's office. The
clerks are annoyed so by people that
they can not make Roadway with the
work of preparing the tax roll when
in the larger office. They will be locked
and guarded in the new room.
The management of the Topeka wool
en- mills in Oakland have aVerted what
threatened TO be a difficulty with their
employees over a proposed increase of
working time from ten to eleven hours,
by rearranging the time of employment.
After this, until a rush is over. the mill
hands will work from Z a. m. until D.
m, and on three nights in the week
from 7 D. m until $50.