The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-04
SNAP SHOTS ATHoMENEws.


The art Of counting or the trick of max
ing goo goo> eyesr
For if teacher chooses not to sidestep
the caress
carry off the prize.
The maiden who can teach the young idea
| Can also teach the old idea a thing or
| two, perhaps,
Can frame up any recipe for keeping of
the chaps.
The teachers lot is hard enough at best.
we must admit;
She works with fine Italian hand, and
draws a draymans pay.
If she can land a sweetheart with her
beauty and her wit,
What right have trustees to butt in and
brighten him away?
| o Kansas, bleeding Kansas; You're an in
consistent state;
The like of you exists not here. nor yet
in foreign lands.
| Against the matrimonial game you let your
school board pirate.
lack of harvest hands,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
f. W. Cline was in Kansas City Mon
dax.
fishing at Lake View today.
Major T J. Anderson has returned
from a months vacation at Manitou.
1t may be mentioned incidentally that
cider" Smith said this week would be
hot and dry.
of deaths among babies this summer,
the doctors say.
| When people meet you and say How
are you?" they mean anything but that
you should stop and tell them.
The six rural mail carriers for the
/ Topeka postoffice handled 50, POP pieces
of mail during the month of July.
Prof. l.. D. Whittemore and his two
| daughters are expected home from New
England the latter part of the week.
o. H. Coulter was in Lawrence Mon
day making arrangements for the state
reunion of the G.. A. R. to be held there
this fall
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
States circuit court, will go to Leav-
enworth Wednesday morning on court
business.
Street Commissioner Snyder now has
succeeded in opening most of the streets
in North Topeka, and making them
passable.
The Dougherty Success club will not
meet tonight. On the 18th lawn social
will be given by the club at the home of
| Mr.. Dougherty, 1927 Western avenue.
The city of Topeka spent about $4,000
last month in repairing damage done to
the streets in North Topeka. 1t was
| nearly all used in hiring extra laborers.
Councilman Weber and his son will
will spend a month. Their time will be
divided between Colorado Springs and
Fairplay.
A cruel Topeka father requires his
daughter to get up every morning at
IL o'clock and eat her brea kfast at the
same time that the rest of the family
have their dinner
This is pension day, and the usual
press of business at the federal build
ing is The halls of the building
a IfsaoI rrritE old sold
to receive their quarterly payment.
The report that Joseph Artzer, a
cigarmaker, had dropped dead on his
way to work. was a mistake circulated
by some one whose idea of joke would
do credit to an insane asylum.
]. w. Newell and his mother have
gone to Salt Lake City for months
vacation. They may visit California
before they return. Mr.. Newell is with
the firm of Rossington, Smith & Histed.
The board of army officers to meet at
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. to exam
inc officers for promotion, includes Cap
tain Frank H. Whitman, of the Second
infantry, who was major in the Twen-
tieth Kansas.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the Central Congregational church will
meet with Mrs. J. p. Wahle, at 1858
Clay street, at p m. Wednesday. Mrs
E. A. Fredenhagen will read a paper
on Prison Work.
~
meet all of it's principal buildings with
the city sewers, provided it can get per-
mission from the city council so to do
The college is outside of the city, but it
owns a great deal of property in the
sewer district.
The people of Topeka would appreci-
ate it if the council would establish
a reliable gage to measure the rise and
fall of the Kansas river. There is
nothing of the sort here now since the
gage on the old street car bridge has
passed out of existence.
Michael Wall has decided not to give
up his contract for laying new sidewalks
in the city. He filed his bond with the
city council Monday evening, and will
go ahead with the work. For some time
Mr.. Wall intended to forfeit his 500
guarantee check, and let the contract
60 He thought that the increased price
of material made it impossible for him
to do the work al the prices he had fig
! ured on.
A boxing and athletic tournament is
to be given tonight at Metropolitan hall
under the auspices of the Western
, Athletic club, colored organization.
The principal exhibition will be given
by Edward Courtney. of Kansas City.
formerly trainer for Tommy Ryan, ana
Charles Caldwell. champion of Kan
sas." Preliminary bouts will be given
by Posey against Curry, and Edmonds
against Eagleson.
A party which will leave tonight for
; Colorado to camp near Manitou for
four weeks includes Mrs. E. Hamilton
Mrs. Sarah Anderson. Mrs. Carl Tom
linson of Wakarusa, Misses Minnie
Stewart, Bessie Betz, Hester Hamil-
ton. Bertha Mcconnell, Lena Davis,
Mamie Morrow. Mabel Tulloch, Minnie
Reese. Verra McLatchley, Jennie Cook,
Berdie Brown, Mary Bunker, May Car
ter, Hattie Cox of Granville, Grace
Tomlinson of Wakarusa, Katherine An
derson, Charles Snyder and Isaac Car
ter of Wakarusa, ]. S. Banks of Grant
VILE John F. Eby, John Reese, r. S.
Brown, S. c. Bushous Clarence Vaw-
ter, Roscoe Manley, George Freiderling.
Their camp will be called Camp Shaw
nee. Some of the party join the others
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