The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-05
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS.
Gould you let me have a fiveT2'
Said Jones, my pile is spent
Said Smith, I'D gladly do it.,
But it is already Lent.

but II IS already Lent
st Paul Dispatch.
The Republican primaries viii be
next Wednesday.
THE White Slave" viii be at the
Crawford tonight.
The government thermometer ranged |
between 81 and AZ Wednesday,
The sale of seats for the Creatore /
band concert began this morning
The legislators are wearing a. jaded air
probably because they are now work
ing for glory.
T. J. CoughIin has returned from
Perry, where he spent several days vis- |
iti1g relatives.
About 80 Washburn students went to
Atchlson today to attend the state ora
torical contest.
The regular guard of politicians
are now calling on the candidates to
borrow a dollar till election
c. E. Roach, of Fort Madison. has
moved to Topeka to be a machinist in
the new shops of the Santa F'e-
City Engineer McCabe has engaged a
new draughtsman named Arnold TO as
sist IN getting out the paving plats.
Arthur S. Kane has returned from
Colorado where he went to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. L S. Dolman. who is very sick.
The tabernacle at Sixth avenue and
Monroe street which will7be used for the
Williams revivals is nearing completion.
Do you know man in Topeka named
Mr. Hill and -Vallev2 Translated into
plain Dutch it would be BergundthaL"
This ic the day of the breaking up of
Prairie Dell farm r. l. Lees horses
are being sold at auction at the fair
grounds.
These are the days when the man with
a small coal pile begins to have hope
that the glorious summer is not so very
far off.
The Commercial club got $500 for its
! 81 0f oil
is better than losing $500 as they did on
Pains Pompeii
Carl S. Kiene, an engineer on the
Kansas City Southern railroad, is in
Topeka today to attend the sale of r.
I. Lees stable.
Topeka girls who saw Hobson say
they don't understand why Kansas City
young women should have made them
selves ridiculous over him.
W H Barnes, formerly city engineer
of Topeka, but who now lives on Long
Island, is report to be recovering from
serious attack of pneumonia.
The monthly meeting of the Shawnee
I County Teachers Reading Circle will be
/ held in Superintendent Wrights Office
/ Saturday evening, March I, 7:45 p. m.
If you want to know the record of
candidate ask the first loafer you see
on the street corner He can tell you
all about 1.-THE is probably being paid
to do it.
triple hitch of the aerial truck is being
made. When it is ready, the active
training of the three new horses viii
commence.
A Topeka man who is trying to emu
late the "Addicks' regime in Delaware
has announced that he will be open for
bids for his vote until noon on the day
of the primaries
The city hall is swarming with Doliti
cal grafters this week. Every house
holder who is candidate for reelection
4 is being Systematically touched for fin
ancial contributions.
The woman's Municipal league held
! meeting this afternoon at 2 o'clock at
Lincoln Post hall The meeting was for
/ the purpose Of turning over the Hughes
organization to Bergundthal.
Two of the old timers are back in Jail
for plain drunks. John McCrow color
ed, and John Woody, members of the
ATnaIgamated Association of White
Horsemen, for five and twenty-five days
/ respectively.
c. c. Flock of salina. who is a mem
Stewart of the G. A. r, came down
from Salina Wednesday to meet Gen
eral Stewart and his party on their way
to San Francisco
There is no demand for men who use
intoxicating liquor to excess. A bright
Topeka young man lost q good position
as bookkeeper because his brain was be-
fuddled with liquor and he went home
leaving che door of the store open.
Here is about the limit on the City
Street railway. A conductor on Wash
burn car this morning was rendered a
quarter by a woman in payment of
her fare. and he didn't have enough
nickels and dimes to make change.
There will be a law and order meeting
this evening at the home of w. G.
Tandy, 1912 Buchanan street in the
Fifth ward. The Fifth ward expects to /
give Bergundthal about 800 majority.
Hughes carried it two years ago by 80.
One man who didn't receive any
credit in connection with the newspaper
as secretary and reading clerk His
job was the most exacting and he filed
it like a veteran of a dozen real legis-
latures.
R. Rowson, an old colored preacher
who was arrested last night for being
drunk, conducted prayer in Jail this
morning, and mentioned the police force /
in his list of those who needed mercy
and salvation. He was fined the usual
entrance fee of So.
The committee of the coordinate and /
pbilanthrOpic and charitable associa- /
ton win meet Friday at the home of
Judge T. F. Carver, us Harrison street |
to arrange for a large meeting in the |
interests of charity.
Charles Bauman, the young man ar
rested Tuesday upon advice from Leav-
enworth, was turned over to Sheriff
Myers yesterday and taken back to