The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-01
SNAPSHOTS AT HOMENEMS

| The captain shouted loud.
| Out STROBE the stately officer,
| With martial step and proud
..Attensshunl Haiti" His first command
Made all the privates roar,
For they were standing hard and fast
Upon the polished floor.
| Zach lieber! Vases dis?'' he cried,
His face all white with .n, rage;
A rehearsal by de stage?
IT want you all to get move,
Und get it kvick, you bet;
Und doan't you StOhp till say march,
Are you alreaty yet?
| Straight for the wall the soldiers went,
And, when two yards away,
That voice rang out; March! March!' it
Did those brave men obey?
They did. They marched till 'gainst the
wall
Poor weber was squeezed fat,
And many an hour went by before
He knew where he was at.
County Treasurer Bowen collected all
most $4,000 in taxes Wednesday,
A. G. Smith has filed suit for divorce
from Jessie M. Smith on the grounds of
neglect of duty.
c. w. Jones, division superintendent
of the Rock Island, was in BellevilIe
Kan, yesterday.
The twentieth annual reunion of
Sloan lodge No. 225 A. F. & A. M. will
be held December 10.
Topeka Chapter No. 5. Royal Arch
Masons, will hold a general Masonic
reception December II.
Nettie Roberts has asked Judge Ha-
zen to divorce her from w. E. Roberts.
She charges non-support.
The Avondale country school east of
Topeka has been closed on account of
an epidemic of scarlet fever.
County Clerk Newman has promised
that he will not forget to draw the
grand jurors from the jury box
This evening the city council will
meet as committee of the whole to
talk about the Edison franchise.
If you have read THE Sky Pilot"
you will enjoy DR.. Evans lecture Fri
day night, First Methodist church.
At the regular board meeting Friday
the county commissioners will act on
the North Topeka levee proposition.
A Kansas Medical college graduate is
practicing medicine and running a
country store in a small Kansas town.
City Attorney Spencer is digging into
the abstracts of title furnished by the
water company to their Topeka prop
erty.
]. c. Gilchrist, who has the contract
for carrying the mail between the trains
and the postoffice, is sick with pneu,
monia-
Twelfth street between jackson and
Van Buren, and Jackson street between
ing paved.
William Curtis, who has been i'll two
weeks, is now able to attend to his du-
ties as travelling passenger agent of the
Santa Fe.
At the meeting next Monday the
board of county commissioners will for
mally advertise for bids for the Sardou
avenue bridge.
The Methodist 'Parson" will give you
a new vision of THE Sky Pilot" Friday
ferA% lTNAl
and Harrison.
After another week the Mills Dry
Goods company will fly a weather sig
nal flag each day over it's store on
Kansas avenue.
It is officially announced that Mrs.
Nations meeting to have been held at
the Auditorium tonight has been in
definitely postponed. atst
Lew Dockstader's, minstrels are COM
ing to Topeka but Lew knew enough
not to come until the Elks got through
with their performances.
Many gridiron enthusiasts would like
to know if the new minister of the First
Methodist church ever played football.
If he did he must have been a Won
der.
bate court yesterday afternoon on an
insanity charge. The testimony was
that Baker is a heavy drinker but that
he is not insane.
The Commercial club directors are
again agitating the old question of
putting an electric sign in front of the
Curry building in which that organiza-
ton is located.
Col. Maj. Fred Ledger Jeltz, who was
arrested in Kansas City on the charge
of assault furnished $500 bond and re-
turned to Topeka last night. He will
go back to Kansas City next week for
trial.
w. L. Osborn of the Topeka Desic-
eating company wants the council to
give him some sort of a franchise or
contract SO that he will have a recog-
nized right to continue in business in
Topeka.
chapter Royal Arch Masons of the
United States and the grand high priest
and officers of the grand chapter of
Kansas will attend the reception by
the Topeka chapter No. December H.
Another athletic record has been es-
tablished at Washburn. The Review
says: "Knudson holds the pie eating
record. He dropped in to the Two Min
ute restaurant the other day and ate
nine pieces of pie"
The pipe organ recital-concert which
(Friday) night at the First Lutheran
church has been postponed till next
Monday night, December 5, on account
of so many attractions this week.
Brooks & Gilmore have resumed
work on their sewer contract after be-
ing tied up two weeks. They put up a
$1,000 cash bond to protect the city.
pending the arrival of their $4,000
guarantee bond, which has been de-