The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-02


And laughing brings increase of weight,
As misery. makes people thin.
Let those who wish to take their seat
Upon the doleful mourner's STOOL
For me, I'd rather laugh than eat
love at times to play the fool.
Chicago News
The barber shops will close at noon
Saturday.
Del Valentine was in Kansas City
Wednesday on business.
Cyrus Leland, jr., returned Wednes-
day from a trip to his home in Troy.
new automobile has not been
launched in Topeka for two weeks. Is
the craze on the wane?
The bicycle riders will have a meeting
at the T. A. A. rooms on Jackson street.
tomorrow evening, July 8, at p. m.
Three thousand people will buy fresh
fish Friday for the Fourth at J. A. Da-
Wis &Co.'s, Sixth and Jackson streets.
A case of typhoid fever at 129 North
Madison street has been reported to the
health authorities Moral: Boil the
germs.
The county commissioners have re-
eeived six large sacks of clothing and
bedding from Jewell county for the
flood sufferers.
County Commissioner Harrison re-
ports that the rye fields in the western
part of Shawnee county will make 20
and 80 bushels an acre.
The crack bowlers are going to take
a vacation. The Elite alleys will close
Saturday night for month while they
are being rebuilt.
The promise made by Cider Smith
that it Will not rain on the glorious
Fourth goes as a guarantee with every
bunch of firecrackers sold.
When in North Topeka keep moving
If you allow your horse to stand he is
likely to get mired in the quick sand.
This has happened frequently.
the market at eleven and one-half cents
per pound. Dreisbach & Wallace, 933
Kansas ave. Both phones POI. have it.
The book. 1.-The Overlooking Waters
by Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, pub
lfshed by the Topeka federation. is now
on sale a the book stores and dry goods
stores.
The best the board of education
could do last night was to get five
members present. two less than 4
quorum, and the special meeting adj
iourned.
According to the pay rolls at the office
OF Adjutant General S. H. Kelsey, it
cost 81. 0S7S7 to order out the militia to
protect North Topeka, besides board
bill of 1872 80
The ways and means committee of
the council has decided not to purchase
the street sprinkle-s and sweepers that
it wanted and intended to purchase be-
fore the flood.
At tonight's council meeting the emer-
gency board of health, which has had
charge of sanitary work in North To-
peka since the flood, will be relieved
from further duty
A party of young men from Potwip
have gone to the harvest fields to work
till school begins Wagers are being
made in Potwin that they will be home
in a week or less.
1t was warm Wednesday afternoon
with the mercury up to 81 at 4 o'clock.
The prevailing conditions stopped few
Topeka young men who were bound for
the harvest fields
A number of Topeka Masons will go
to Lawrence Saturday to take part in
the ceremonies attending the laying of
the corner stone of the new Douglas
county court house
1t is estimated that about 5000 men
have been sent to the wheat harvest
through the free employment agencies.
Many thousand others went without re-
porting to the department.
City Clerk Squires says he will take
his vacation in September. He knows
of place in. Colorado where mountain
grouse run wild and can be shot. He
will spend two weeks there.
The city water was turned into the
mains at full pressure about s O'Clock
last evening after having been cut off
ali day while the eighteen inch main
was being replaced near the asylum
c. T. Young holds the record Tor the
number of liquor sales by druggists re-
ported to Probate Judge Haydeo for the
month of June Young recorded 746
sales. That was before he lost his per-
init.
John c. Lowe, who will be tried the
second time in the district court next
week on the charge of numbering his
wife. Fanny Lowe, is in Topeka ready
for trial. His father, Crandall Lowe, is
with him.
The Rev. Canon Burke. of Grace
cathedral is in South Bend. Ind.
called there to conduct the funeral
services of tie mother of Robert E.
Wuth, a former parishioner of the
canon's-
Hev. John A Bright has returned
from a two months lecturing trip in
South Carolina and Georgia After re-
naming two weeks at his home here
Mr.. Bright will leave for Pennsylvania
to visit his aged mother.
The state has sent in it's order to the
war department for Calling gun and
Colt rapid fire gun to be added to
the K. n. G. equipment. These guns
are supposed to be held fo- use in case
of riots and insur~ections.
BY the almost too conscientious dis
charge of his duty of enforcing the side
walk bicycle riding ordinance Policeman
Dusenberry has gotten a lot of people to
thinking that the ordinance is a bad one.
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