The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-29
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WatermiIlyun wifi hits stripe
Throo' de fiel's am ober ripe,
Corn am rank an high:
Beans erway up on hits stick,
Sweet pertater CROWN thick
Summers slidin' by.
Il Wheat am noddin' in de breeze,
II Red am all dc apple trees,
II Purple am de sky;
Soon be time ernuff guess,
Summers siidin' BY
Nights am growing kinder cold,
| Trabbel throo' de rye;
Bob White whistles all de day.
SPittsburg Post.
Tube roses are in bloom.
Today was Ladies' day at the ball
game.
John F. McManus has sold his tall
oring business to John Baumgartner.
Labor Commissioner johnson will
speak at the Labor day celebration at
Wichita.
Judge Pollock of the United States
court will return from his vacation on
September /.
There will be a meeting of the streets
and walks committee of the city coun-
ell this evening.
The family of W. p Bishop is now oc-
cupying their large new residence at
1902 College avenue.
Gus Alberts, the former Topeka base
ball manager, is thinking of starting
pool hall in Topeka this winter.
This has been such a wet season that
grass is growing up between the car
tracks on some of the paved streets.
The annual meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary of the r. r. Y. NJ. G. A.
will be held on the first Monday in
September.
The Whiting-Bowman camping party.
which has been out on Mill creek for
the past fortnight, returned the latter
part of last week.
H. C. Root went to st. Louis Sunday
to take in the big show. He had 20
tickets to the pike shows which he pro-
posed to squander.
]. Ware Butterfield left today to
visit relatives in Logan county. He
will drive from there to Lawton, Okla,
a distance of $50 miles.
DR.. S. G. Stewart has received a tele-
gram from xenia, Ohio, saying that his
brother-in-law was killed in an automo-
bile accident Saturday.
The work of putting in the large new
windows at Crosby Bros dry goods
store was completed Saturday. The
windows will soon be ready for use.
The new natural gas company at Gar
nett will furnish gas for all the churches
of the city free of charge, and for the
city hall and waterworks plant besides.
z. w. Hoch and Congressman Curtis
will speak at the opening meeting of
the Shawnee county Republican cam
paign at the Auditorium September 10.
Judging from the big crowd at the
ball game yesterday it must be con-
cluded that Topeka does not like Sun
day baseball. The attendance number
ed 2,033.
Ex-senator John Chaney's son Wal
ter takes care of the Saints bats when
they play here. Abbott manages the
field and my boy manages the bench
says Mr.. Clancy
John H. Ooutland, coach of the Wash
burn football team, is expected to ar
rive in Topeka the early part of next
week. He will at once get his squad
out for practice.
early fall. In his Commentaries Mr.. |
Julius Caesar once said this: People !
believe that such things will come true
as they wish to come true"
J. c. Holland, the Topeka architect. |
has drawn plans for some extensive i'm |
provements to the First National bank |
building at Manhattan. A new front |
will be put into the building.
w. c. Riggan, assistant secretary of |
the Commercial club at st. Joseph, was |
IN Topeka Saturday to look at the |
Auditorium. The Missourians are plan |
ming a convention hall. Your building |
IS a beauty said Mr.. Riggan. But |
hey all say that.
With the Kansas Derby, Dan Patch, |
Topeka Day, the Banda Rosa, Mar |
Shalrs band, Thomas Bass and his |
horses and the pumpkins and fine
stock at the fair grounds and baseball
games in the morning of the week of
Il to II there will be
good deal going on in Topeka.