The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-21
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jeanne dare BY Alfred Austin. poet
laureate of England.
Goddess Of battles. with the maiden
And biameless banner. when to France
Not ali her gallant manhood. helmed and
To drive from of her soil the alien horde.
You with your unarmed innocency. scaled
might had failed,
Growing. enthroned the Amounted Of the
And should France yet again be called TO
The stranger from her gates, and hurl
Feet that would violate her frontiers fair,
Not meretriciOus sycophauts of sense,
But the pure heart and patriotic prayer.
Once more would prove her rescue and
defense
This is the longest day of the year
From now on the days grow shorter
Senator Pestana, an old Ohio man.
made the address Monday night be-
fore the Ohio club.
Mr. Charles Keys has moved from
920 Tyler street to the pleasant little
cottage at 5OT Tyler.
The city railway has gang of men
at work relaying the switch at Clay
and Huntoon streets.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building fund is now
almost $4,000, or one-third OF the
amount which it is desired to raise
Mr. William w Whitney and family
of $50 Tyler street Will move in a few
days to their new nome at 419 East
Eighth avenue.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City Monday to c. Richard
Hellwig, of Kansas City, and Sophia
Dickmann, of Topeka
Local dealers report that they are
having a heavier advance sale OF fire.
crackers this year than ever The
boys can't wait for the Fourth.
The Kansas Democratic Flambeau
club, which conducted an excursion to
St. Joseph on last Sunday, is complain
ing of lack OF hospitality on the part
of the Missouri hosts
The Burlington paper says: Rev J.
Ira Jones of Topeka has been hired as
pastor of the Christian church and will
move here this week with his family
He viii preach Sunday morning and
evening
Cider Smith predicts that the Topeka
Saints viii win a game from lola dur
ing the present series. good many
of the fans hope that Mr. Smith Will
become as good a baseball pTognostica-
tor as q weather man.
Truant officer L. T. Gage, who before
he assumed that position compiled the
school census of Topeka each year for
the board of education, has been in
structed to employ his time this sum
mer in the preparation of the census
for the board of education.
On next Sunday afternoon, June rs, at
$3.50 o'clock the laying of the corner
stone Of the First Baptist church VIII
take place at Ninth and jackson
streets. The entire cost of the church
with the pipe organ and complete fur
nishings is 1000.
From the Ottawa Herald: 1T is an
nOunced in the Topeka papers that NJ.
c. Holman will direct the fortunes OF
the Topeka Choral society. 1t is I'M
derstood that Manager Alberts will
continue to have charge of the mistor-
tunes of the Topeka baseball team
r. B. Nelson has gone to Milwaukee
to represent the W. l. Taylor cram
and Commission company at the Ma
tionaI Grain Dealers convention MI
Nelson is a total abstainer and MI
TAYLOR dared to- fly in the face of prov
idence by sending him 10 Milwaukee
The state house and other institu-
tons have been getting to the front
with fsh stories Now comes the
caught a Z pound mud cat on
hook and line in Soldier creek sun
day.
Charles Elder. president of the Los
Angeles Loan and Trust company,
passed through Topeka Monday on
his way to St. Louis to meet his sister,
Miss Bessie Elder They viii both
come to Topeka to visit their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E Elder
w F. Franzen and family, of Pot
win, will leave today for a two
months visit in Waldemarsvik, Swe-
den. Mr.. Franzen's old home They
will stop at Chicago and Niagara
Falls, sailing from New York Satur-
day Mr.. Franzen came to America
p years ago, and has lived in Topeka
continuously since
The building in Kansas City. No,
which collapsed Monday, as reported
in the State Journal, was occupied
by the branch house of the Otto
Kuehne Preserving company. Mr..
Kuehne was in St Louis at the time
of the accident He had rented an
other building at Kansas City and was
planning to move into it
/ Clarence Smith, the six year old son
/ of J. R. Smith of 627 Locust street. was
quite badly burned early Monday morn
Z ing by. escaping steam from a Santa Fe
locomotive The little boy was playing
near the tracks when the engine pass
ed and the escaping steam struck him.
The left side OF his body and the left
arm and leg We're scalded- The in
juries viii not result seriously
August Freitag, who has been an
inmate of the asylum at Topeka for
twenty years has just received an in
| crease OF pension and back pay
amounting to 1913 This patient also
owns a farm near Ottawa and has no
relatives From now on he viii be
listed as a private patient at the
asylum and the state will collect So