The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-04
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And it will smell as wheat;
| And I, too, an early rose,
! And you I've come to see,
But spinach at with me"
7 do not carrot at an to wed.
| The modest onion meekly said.
And lettuce, pray, have peas.
Go. think that you have never sean
Too long a maiden l have been
| For favor in your rye
..Ahl spare a cuss.'' the tuber prayed;
My cherished bride you'll be:
You are the only weeping maid
| And as the willy tuber spoke
| He caught her by surprise,
| And. giving her an artichoke,
| DevOured her with his eyes.
Florida Parishes.
HazeInuts are plentiful this fall
The first voters will meet in Oak
land Thursday night.
| Colonel Jeltz announces that his
State Ledger now has a subscription
\ list of 10000.
The Topeka market is plentifully
supplied with tomatoes of a fine va
| riety at the present time.
City Engineer James f. McCabe has
| been granted a leave of absence and
will visit the st. Louis exposition.
/ Elmer Hill, the Wasnburn football
! player who went to st. Louis to sing
with the Odeon quartette, has returned
/ to Topeka
superintendent H K. Goodrich of the
city electrical light plant will go with
his family to st. Louis next week. They
! will be in ST. Louis about a week
Commissioner of Elections T. s.
Williams received word yesterday
that his father, who is seriously i'll at
Holton, is considerably improved.
Councilman L. NJ. Nellis has returned
from his trip to California He con-
! firms the story about Judge Burch
catching a couple of $50 pound fish
W. ]. Coleman Of Lawrence is here
building and equipment. The Law
renee railroad people are talking of
establishing a Y. NJ. c. A building.
Football attention this week is cen
| tered on the struggle between K. U.
and Haskell at Lawrence
This ought to be a game equal to that
! between Washburn and K. L. for
ferocity.
amounts to S8s,I5O. Several big
sums are expected to be added to the
fund within a few days. A total of
| SIS, 900 is wanted.
| Miss Winnie Fox and her sister. Mrs.
l. D. Rankin who were badly burned
last Thursday night at the home of ].
w. Rankin, 51S West Tenth, are slowly
recovering. They will be confined to
their beds for three weeks
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas Midwinter Ex-
position association will be held at the
Copeland hotel at o'clock Wednes-
| day afternoon, for the purpose or
eIecting a board of directors for the
ensuing year.
The lead which the Omaha man.
ayers took to get Topeka into the
Western league seems to have been
| lost in the present attempt of that city
to get into the American association
which is now occupying all the at
tention of the Omaha sporting pages
Topeka Post No. IL and Topeka
| funeral of Comrade Samuel Hindman,
from his late residence, corner of Sew
| enth and Polk streets, tomorrow after
noon at $50. The post and corps will
meet at the hall at 1870.
The ways and means committee of the
city council has recommended that the
council appropriate $641.S9 to pay the
cost of raising the Central avenue
imburse the city of one-half this
amount. The bridge will have to be
raised to keep it out of the high water.
A committee from the city council.
headed by Mayor BergundthaI, ap-
pearSd before the board of county
commissioners Monday afternoon and
asked that the county spend $500
to build a new span on the north end
of the Melan bridge on Kansas avenue.
The commissioners declined to build
any spans.
City Engineer James F. McCabe is
one of the distinguished citizens VINO
received complimentary tickets to the
Priests of Pallas ball to be held in Kan
sas City October s. That was not all.
The management of the ball sent him
a handsome and massive German silver
flower receptacle to be used as place
for growing ferns, etc.
While on the way between Lawrence
and Emporia, the Parker shows lost
a big black bear. The bear was being
led under one of the wagons and got
away. Now is the time for Mr.. Kent,
the gorilla artist, to light mis- pipe and
dig up some hot newspaper stuff about
the adventures of the bear.
More than 500 people attended the
Crary illustrated lecture and travel
church on Monday night Most of
the views were of European countries.
Tonight the pictures will be of the
worlds fair, Yellowstone park, Grand
canon, and other western scenery.
Mrs. Rosa Hubbard of Emporia has
come to Topeka to substitute for Miss
Rosamund Horton in the state library.
Miss Horton is I'll at the home of her
ton and Mr.. Albert Horton, in Colo
RADIO Springs. Mrs Hubbard is max
ing her home with Mr.. and Mrs ]. W.
Davis, Seventh street, west.
The Topeka Athletic Association at
the annual meeting last night elected
the following directors: w. A Nor
ton, H. F. Guthrie, James Clarke, w.
D. Goodwin, DIR. J. H. Solecki, A B.
kirkpatrick, E L. Pierce, Charles
Stewart and William Taylor. Next
Monday night the directors will meet
and elect a president to succeed J. W.
Thurston, resigned.
The morning paper makes the start
ling announcement that Chairman
Philips, of the Shawnee county Re
publican committee will make a sworn
statement of how he expends his big
campaign slush fund as required by
law The law does not require any
such sworn statement and no such
statement was made by Philips after
the last campaign or by another chair