The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS

| Why should l cen his tone of voice,
/ If low or high, forget;
| When phrases studied not, nor choice,
| In memory linger yet?
The wisdom of a sage or seer
! He oft let idly fall,
And yet the words: Il love you, dear,
Are those I best recall.
I can not recoIect his face
When looked he ne Worn worn OF WISE
When love shone in his eyesi
Such trifies these, the world effete
VIII say. and seornful laugh;
| But Memory always strews the wheat
| And treasures up the chan;
BY Roy Farrell Greene
L. W. Ormsby, of Topeka, is buying
farm land near Goodland.
| D. P. Paxton and Will Connors have
returned from a trips to the east.
The total registration up to the pres
ent time is 1858. Last year it was
16, 900.
The Y. w. c. a. basket ball team
will play the girls team from the high
| school tonight.
| Herman Grow and L. Biscoe returned
| today from Mcpherson basin, where
they got 2O6 ducks in three days.
| The Commercial club will hold its reg
ular meeting for the month of March
on Wednesday night of next week.
President Plass of Washburn and
President Murlin of Baker addressed the
students at the State university Friday
morning.
The cost of furnishing the Kansas
building at st. Louis, the contract for
which has been awarded to Crosby
Brothers, will be $1,000.
The judiciary committee is meeting
| this afternoon to consider what will be
done with the Parkdale claims for dam
age done by flood water
Mrs Lucy Smith, of Lawrence, presi-
dent of the oldest w. C. T. union in the
Mo in the Shawnee
county Jail with Blanche Boies-
James Ramsey, John Richie and
| James Hanley all bid on the Ottawa
paving contracts this week, but the con-
tract went to N. E. Sucker of Red Oak,
Iowa
The city attorney has been instructed
| by the streets and walks committee OF
| the city council to draw up contract
for the use of the new haymarket on
Quincy street.
Mrs. L. ]. Wingert, Mrs. ]. G. Rode
never Mrs. E. A. Felkner and Mrs.
A. B. McGin entertained the members
of Triple Tie council No. "A. at thimbles
Friday afternoon.
Miss Genevieve Moore, of Kansas
City. a niece of Carrie A. Nation, who
has been travelling with her 1llustrlous
aunt, now has charge of the five build
lings at Twelfth and Kansas avenue.
The eighteenth replevin suit has been
filed in the district court against Chief
of Police McCollum. A. H. Fisher
claims that Doctor McCollum seized
the police raids.
Captain p. H Coney addressed the
members of Mcpherson post, G. A. r.,
at Kansas City, last night. Captain
Coney is candidate for department
commander of the Grand Army IN
Kansas and he has a good start. too
Election Commissioner T. S. Williams
announced that the registration DOCKS
will be taken to the various wards dur
ing the week beginning Monday, Marcf
IA This is the week of the primaries
1t is not necessary to register 1or the
primaries, however.
The sessions of the United States cir
cult and district courts in Kansas City
Kansas, were closed yesterday and most
of the federal officers have returned to
their headquarters in Topeka. Ihey WI
leave next week for Wichita Where
court opens on March IA
The Smith County Pioneer says
carl Johnston. son of ]. H. Johnston
of Topeka, is to be married this even
ing, March 3, to Miss Helen Turner, OF
Fort Scott, Kas. Carl was a Smith
county boy, having lived with his par
ents at Cedarville and here until he en-
tered Washburn college. He has good
position with the Fort Scott Hydraulic
Cement company, with which ne ma mas
worked since his graduation from col
lege two years ago..
Colonel Hughes black horse which
he sold to Gen. j. F. Bell has been re
sold by General Bell to Secretary OF
War Taft. and is now being ridden by
the head of the United States war de-
partment. A special commissioner from
the war de-artment was sent out tc
Fort Leavenworth by the secretary OF
war to select for him the best horse
obtainable. Out of all the horses at the
fort he selected the one owned by Gen
eraI Bell, and bought it for a fancy
price, said to be in the neighborhood OF
81 600 Colonel Hughes sold the horse
to General Bell during the maneuvers
at Fort Riley last fall, and got about
$500 for the animal. Hughes thought
he was getting a big price for the
horse at that time but evidently Gen
eral Bell is a better horse trader thar
was General Hughes.