The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-17

aAllA nlte4A We nave "a AIAA~ st+NR
And keep some mummy slot machines
And Parker joints to SHOVE
George Burghart is talking Of moving
his cigar factory to Alma
II D. Ryman, treasurer Of Mon
Snouth township, has resigned
Dandelon greens are for sale. Thes
are considered delicacy-by some
people.
The senior class at Washburn college
has challenged the faculty to game OF
baseball
John Gardiner and J. E Lucas, plain
clothes police officers. have been made
deputy officers
Clay Center Dispatch: Mr.. and Mrs.
William r. Dennis and family have
moved to Topeka.
April "a is Arbor day, but the best
time to set out trees is a month or SO
ahead 81 that date.
Clarence Scott of the Cremerie res
taurant is house cleaning and he is do
ing a good job Of it too.
The cases against Blanche BOies, for
smashing joint windows. are set for
trial in the district court Tuesday.
George A. Clark was in Kansas City
Thursday, presumably to buy the --latest
styles in fishing rods and fish lines.
Mrs. Aaron Robbins. of Highland
Park is slowly recovering from q ian
RIB.
A charter has been granted to the
Hazelton Elevator company of Hazel
ton Barber county. 1t has capital
stock of $4,000
There will be a Saturday matinee at
the Crawford this week 1t is She
Stops TO Conquer by the Washburn
Dramatic club.
Next to the aerial truck and the cir
Gus wagons the vehicle which attracts
the most attention in Topeka is the new
automobile drag.
Or. y. d. Countermine of Topeka has
been elected commissioner to the gener-
al Presbyterian assembly at Los An
geles on May q.
A Chicago professor says he has dis
covered frost on the moon. Had he
been in Joplin, Mo, he would have seen
blood instead of frost
Three more wagon loads of choice
roses and shrubs were hauled IN from
the city greenhouse at Gage park yes
terday for use in Central park.
The Teachers Reading circle will
meet at the court house Saturday night
at 7.4h o'clock. VIM. Van Orsdaie and
c. NJ Morrow will conduct the exeT-
cises.
The Washburn baseball team wiz
open the season in Topeka Saturday
afternoon if it doesn't rain. There is
not weather prophet in Topeka who Is
a baseball fan. and the chances are
that it viii rain
Governor Bailey has paroled Beverly
Lincoln Payne who was sent to the
penitentiary from Shawnee county for
two years for stealing from a freight
car in November, 1901
1t looks as though there might be
chance for an argument between the
Sells-Downs shows which open here on
April rs, and the Sells-Forepaugh shows
which arrive on Nav g.
Washburn and ottawa will play base
ball tomorrow afternoon at Washburn
athletic field So far this season. both
Washburn and the State university
have defeated Ottawa.
Baker university has a professional
baseball player coaching their team. He
played second base for Denver last
season and his name is Ebright, and
still they We're afraid of Washburn.
William Sells CBilly" Selis). the
circus magnate, WAS in Lawrence
Thursday Perhaps he wants to en-
gage a state university graduate WHO
never played football. baseball golf on
sennis as a sideshow freak
Governor Bailey has granted parole
to Frank Martin, who has been serving
a sentence of two Years and four
months in the penitentiary for grand
larceny. He was sentenced from king
man county.
Governor Bailey's staff won't make
much of a showing at St Louis by the
side of the retinues of the governors
from some other states. The governor
OF Georgia, it is said. will have staff Of
$50. and a number of governors have
from 30 to SO on their staff.
Miss Matte Mckee, a clerk at Crosby
Brothers, has gone to Livingston. Mont,
where she will be married to Earl Van
SAINT who was formerly employed in
Reisner's candy factory in Topeka. Mr..
van SAINT recently had the pleasure of
making fifty pounds of chocolate creams
for President Roosevelts party.
The South Shawnee correspondent of
the Mail and Breeze took his pen in
hand and this was the result. To the
voice of the turtle and whistle of the
blackbird the click of the chschrOWer
is now heard as an accompaniment as
81 elides across the field, depOsiting the
embryo corn crop that is expected to
break all previous records The early
birds have already begun planting and
AZ they do not get the Worm-the cut
vOrm-then surely there is no truth i'm
the old adage.
The United States department of agri-
culture immediate" climate and crop
report for last week. has just been re-
cciVed in Topeka and says: Kansas
Topeka: Spring work much retarded by
rams but ground in good condition:
wheat i'm good condition and CROWNS
TaII0ly, Oar sowing finished in many
counties, early sOWn coming up; corn
planting delayed in many eastern anI
southern counties progressing else
wheres early apples blooming; peaches
blooming i'm south; grass starting
nicely"
The Topeka All Star bowlers went to
Lawrence Wednesday night but they
didn't have much to say. This from
the Lawrence. Journal viii explain why:
1.-THE bowling match between the Law
renee and Topeka teams occurred last
night and was an evenly matched con-
test Great interest was manifest from
the beginning, as it could be seen that
the winner would have Il hard battle to
fight While the highest score was
made by a Topeka man. the best aver
age team work was done by the Law
renee men. The highest score by To-
peka was made by Kirkpatrick SCI. and
the highest for Lawrence by Stanford
5S1 The total score stood: Lawrence
2.245; Topeka. 2,237'