The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-01
SNAPSHOTS ATHOMENEWs.

SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
An astonishing shrub is the bamboozle
bush, as it grows in the summertime
For its fruit starts to ripen as soon as
the spring has escaped from her wor-
| risome tether.
And from then till late autumn there fa I
from its boughs such a crop tbs
amazing to see
Let us stand for awhile where the things
! may be seen they drop from the
Damboozle tree.
There's the ice man who comes with his
| bamboozle weight and the hzzman
bomboozling the kid
By supplying him soda that's half an inch
| deep meath a seven-inch bubble-form-
There's the lager beer merchant purvey-
These are only few of the fruits that
| lie tree.
There's the shrewd summer boarder bam-
boozling the man who is rural in
Nv becoming indebted a hundred or more
and from needful remittance refrain
There's the Reuben who knows vastly
more than you'd think and who cap
lures the sharpermf9trh Pm ne he a,,es ~
the fruit that is shed by the bam-
boozle tree.
So wet sit meath the boughs of the bam-
boozle bush that in summertime
And We gorge on the fruit that descends
from its limbs. though it nauseates
There is Scarcely a soul meath its world
shading top but is daily bamboozled,
such an endless assortment of fruitage is
borne by the versatile bamboozle tree
l. r-Leslie's Weekly
The board of county commissioners
met today.
The city council will hold its regular
monthly meeting this evening.
I. s Curtis. clerk of the district
court. is spending his vacation in
Charles H. Samson was in Kansas
City Saturday on business connected
with the state fair.
1t is rather quiet in the district and
the probate courts now that Sunday
baseball is settled
]. S. Vincent filed suit in the dis
trict court Saturday afternoon for di-
vorce from Jno. w. Vincent.
The families of Homer Bowman and
H: L. Whiting are planning camping
trip to Mill creek in about week.
Mayor Bergundtnal will go to st.
Louis Tuesday to look over the EXPOSE
ton If he likes it he may bring it
home with him.
There will be revival services to-
night at the Christian church taber-
nacle at Sixteenth and Clay streets.
Preaching by Evangelist Neal Over
man.
Atchison Globe: Judge Hazen has
decided that they could play baseball
in Topeka on Sunday. In course OF
time every question in Topeka reaches
the courts save that of a man kissing
his wife on Sunday.
The campaign in Shawnee county
ought to be interesting if the love feast
held by the Republicans and the ses-
sion of the Democratic convention
have any influence toward enthusiasm
on the local statesmen.
The Y. NJ. c. A. tournament in dou-
bies was not completed last week The
fourth round commenced this afternoon.
The wise ones say that Mohler and Lux
will be pitted against Sheldon and |
Shumway in the finals.
There will be another meeting of the |
ways and means committee of the city !
council this evening for the purpose of |
formally adopting the proposed tax |
levy of p mills, which Will be recon- |
to the council for adoption
Some amateur prognosticators who !
claim to know by the color of the
breast bone of the chicken served on |
what the weather for the COM
ing week will be, say that during this
week the heat record for the summer
will be broken.
The brick pavement on Jackson /
street between Tenth and Twelfth /
streets was laid in record breaking |
time. The people in the neighborhood
about four months but two weeks was
a closer estimate.
The streets and walks committee did /
not meet Saturday to discuss the gas
franchise, as it was planned to do. The |
committee will meet this evening at z |
o'clock, and it is thought that some !
sort of report to the council will be |
agreed upon.
The story which the State Journal |
published a few days ago to the effect /
that the Santa Fe would move its Fort
Madison shops to Topeka, and gradual |
ly concentrate it's shop work at this
Chicago date line.
When the Populists held their state
in the Auditorium, they spit
more tobacco juice on the floor than
any other body of men that ever used
the hall. The custodian of the building
IS specializing now on whether the
Democrats will be as bad.
The Saints will begin their regular
league games in Topeka again next Fri
day with lola for six straight games ill
this city. wednesday and Thursday are
open dates and it is planned to get UP
exhibition games with either the news
paper men, the lawyers. or the council
men There is little choice.
Charles Finch in the Lawrence Ga
zette: A Salina preacher is going to
Topeka, although he gets 5000 a year
less salary in his new field. The urgent
need of missionary work in Topeka |
must have appealed strongly to this
man." For Mr.. Finch's
received 81. 400 a year at Salina and will
receive 81, 700 at Topeka.
j. r. NISSIFY RESIGNS