The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-25
Tllls Is Ash Wednesday.

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This IS Ash Wednesday.
D. J. Small was in Kansas City
Tuesday.
Browns in Town" was in lola Mon
day It viii be here soon.
The government thermometer ranged
between 26 and 80 Tuesday.
The green house men are forcing
flowers Tor the Easter trade.
There was d heavy frost last night.
There was no political meeting on
either.
The next theatrical attraction viii be
Barbara Frietchie' at the Crawford
Friday.
Miss Caleb, of Topeka, has gone tn
lola to become matron of the Orphans
home there.
DR.. Clearinghouse. of lola, is in Topeka
on account of the sickness of his father
at his home here.
Lent begins today but the. indoor cir
Gus ought to be exempt because it
started before Lent began.
Easter Sunday viii by April T. This
is positive and all previous erroneous
statements to the contrary are hereby
rescinded.
Any day between now and Easter
that doesn't have a special name ought
to be christened by a special act of the
legislature.
It seems from the testimony in the
Client vs.. Client case that Mrs. FRS
bic didn't hold her hands behind her
in the hail.
The Galena Times says: Evangelist
Vllllalns. VINO turned HlaWatha UPSIDE
down, will try Topeka, which will be
found dead easy
The fire Tuesday afternoon was at 722
West Eighth avenue, a house occupied
by Mrs. NJ H. Deason, being damaged
to the extent of $50.
of San Toy" is IsobeI Hall but the
printers have insisted on spelling it Isa-
bel, which is the way it ought to be
spelled.
The candidates who will be initiated
into the Mystic Shrine will take the
work. Friday night at the Masonic
building and eat afterwards at the
Throop.
The stage at the Crawford was not
braced nor propped to hold the 285
and the 800 pound men. The press
agent ought to have used that story in
advance.
General Funston. who was visiting at
his parents home in Carlyle. has re-
turned to Denver and will soon go to
Washington to take command of his
new post in the Northwest.
A Topeka man who went to the in
door circus Monday night and San
Toy Tuesday night says he saw two
of the best things, hand running, that
he ever saw in the city.
The fact that the bachelor lieutenant
governor and a Topeka society young
lady kent uD an animated converse tior.
in a box at the Crawford last night fur
nished diversion between the acts of
san Toy"
Paul Morton, second vice president Of
the Santa Fe, passed through Topeka
today Third Vice President Kendrick
is in the city. President Ripley is in
California Who is running the Santa
F'e she-bang back in Chicago2
Mrs. Bruno plays "Unora" at the Toler
in Wichita February 81 She was to
have been in Topeka but could not
agree on terms with Manager Crawford
and therefore Topeka loses one of the
best attractions on the western circuit.
The indoor circus orchestra is still
having trouble It plays when it
shouldn't play, dispenses waltzes when
it should dispense marches. But then
any musician to play circus music
would have to take a post graduate
course.
The state of Kansas seems to be so
anxious to get rid of its money that it
allows the electro lights on the state
house steps to burn day and night. The
lights on the west steps were burning
at o'clock this morning, after an all
night run.
The Lawrence Journal says. THE To-
peka municipal campaign has reached a
stage where it is getting notices on the
I first page of the daily newspapers
there; but it is one of the things that
{ reporters are hired for in Topeka, to get
up a rousing local campaign SO that
there will be something to talk about
The Atchison Globe says: Judge
Hudson this afternoon granted James
! Botkin a divorce from Annie BOtkin.
on the ground of cruelty and neglect of
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