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

Young Short was only five feet two,
His girl was six feet one,
And. though they oft would bill and coo
No kissing e'er was done
The parting he would ne'er prolong,
But hastily would say: so lOng."
Philadelphia Record.
DR.. Ruskin Lowe was in Kansas City
Friday
H. E. Mayer. of Wichita, is visiting
In Topeka.
Judge r. F. Hayden has returned
from Holton.
B. H. Tracy. of Wamego, is in town
for a short visit.
Edwin L. Bailey wishes to be divorced
from Maggie Bailey-cause desertion.
G. S. f. (Gavitt's Stock Exchange)
certainly advertises Topeka and is the
great society game in the east
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Rain left last
night for Colorado Springs where Mr.
Rain will stay a month for the benefit
of his health.
James L. King. state librarian. will
be home next week from Baltimore
where he represented the Topeka Elk
club at the national cOnclave.
One hundred people were caught in
the rain at Vinewood park last night on
account of a car leaving the track and
staying off until midnight The safest
way to go to Vinewood is by carriage.
The Beloit Call saws: Mr.. John p
a visit to his father Mr.. G. w. Fritts
and her mother Mrs. NJ. NJ. Garwood,
who are both on the Industrial school
staff"
Monte Campbells blind trotting horse,
Jim Underwood" took first money in
race at Joliet. Ill, Friday. The fastest
heat was trotted in Pill q. Jim Under
wood has been entered in his class
races at the Topeka fair.
Neva McCurdy wishes the district
n divorce he Tobr Mr-
Curdy. She claims the marriage cere-
mony was performed in a mock manner
and that her supposed husband deserted
her Immediately after their marriage.
Ralph Mckinney. formerly Topeka
newspaper reporter and since with the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, is visiting in
Topeka on his way to Beloit, where he
viii farm. Mckinney is one who has
discovered that some farmers make
more money than some newspaper men.
The season of play going Will start
one week from tomorrow night at the
New Crawford. Arrangements have
been made to chill the house by ice and
electric fans. Many of the theaters in
the large cities are now open. An
Orphans Prayer" in which Nettie De-
Coursey. the petite soubrette, is seen to
advantage, will be the first attraction
here.
The Shawnee County News. pub
hshed at Rossville, says: -Rossville is
now the headquarters for two new nur-
sery farms. Mr.. Tom Oliver. of To-
peka, has leased eighty acres of the
DeVinney land, and Mr. Taylor, also of
Topeka, secured eighty acres from Tim
Emert. and the land which lies Just
west of town. is being put in condition
for the nursery stock. Both gentlemen
have had years of experience in the
nursery business in Kansas and have
never met with failure"
The following little jingle has been
composed and dedicated to Kansas by
the New York harvest hands" who
have been drifting into the state the
past six weeks looking for soft snaps. ="
1t is not particularly classical but IL is
expressive of the feelings of the youths
who expected to be supplied with fans.
umbrellas. ice cream soda and lager
beer while they watched the sheaves of
golden grain drop from the reaper
tables:
when the harvest days are over. Jessie
dear.
Wen have had enough of labor. never
fear
And you bet well never wait
Till were back in old York state.
When the harvest days are over. Jessie
SeaS."