The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-26
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

+ And you think Of your barefoot davs.
When you ort to work and you want to
And you and your wife agrees
It's time to spade up the garden lot
Wen, work IS the least Of my IDEAS
When the green, you know, gifts back
in the trees.
When the green gifts back In the trees
Is buzzin' round agin,
In that kind of a ''lazy-go-as-you-p please
Old gait they hum round in;
W men the grounds all bald. where the
And the criclz's riz, and the breeze
Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood
And the green gifts back in the trees
| like, | say, in such scenes as these
The time when the green gifts back in
james whitcomb Riley.
The Salvation Army will observe Self
Denial week, March 81 to April g.
Frank Brown, clerk of the United
States district court, is in Wichita.
/ Geo. R. Lugston, the man who runs
the elevator in the federal building, is
sick.
A new photograph of Governor Bailey
photographers in this city.
Blue post, North Topeka, has gone on
record as for P. H. Coney for depart
ment commander of the Kansas G.
a. r.
A full-page picture of Jane Oaker,
Mrs. Hale Hamilton when in Topeka.
is published in this weeks issue of
Harper's Weekly.
This is house cleaning time again.
Co1ored women who get dollar a day
for washing demand Is cents an hour
for housekeeping.
The faculty of Washburn college
will meet next Wednesday to formally
adopt the baseball schedule prepared
by Manager Frank Leach.
The cold weather has temporarily
stopped the preliminary tennis prac-
tice which the enthusiasts commenced
with the beginning of the week.
w. J. Stage has been appointed clerk
in the department of live stock at the
st. Louis exposition by F. D. Coburn.
He assumes the duties April l.
VIM T. Macarthur, superintendent of
the Northwestern Christian alliance,
stopped yesterday on his way from
Denver to Chicago for a short visit
with s. Stanton and family.
H. c. Lindsay was elected as a dele
/ gate to the Democratic county conven-
ton from the Second ward, but his
name was accidentally omitted from
/ the list published in the State Journal
a few days ago.
A crowd of High school boys were
busy Friday afternoon clearing the
chairs from the parquet of the audi
forum, and hanging the baskets for
the dOuble-header basketball game
which they play tonight.
On next Monday night the trustees
of the First Presbyterian church will be
elected, and on the following Thursday
night the deacons and elders will be
chosen, and action will be taken upon
DR.. Countermine's resignation.
Manager Gus Alberts of the Topeka
Missouri Valley League association
team has been unable to secure games
with the Kansas City Americans, be-
cause the latter team has all of its
preliminary dates filled
Some of the prime movers in the
Semi Centennial plans are in favor of
duplicating the fireworks display
given at the time the Twentieth KAN
sas was feted and dined in Topeka
after the return from the Philippines.
]. e Nissley entertained thirteen doc
tors of this city at banquet at the
Throop hotel last night, to meet and
listen to J. Moldenhawer of the edi-
torial staff of Hoard's Dairyman, who
spoke on the pasteurization Of milk.
Mayor Rergundthal has called upon
the heads of the various city depart
ments for an estimate on the running
/ expenses of their departments for the
coming year. The estimates will be
used by the ways and means commit
tee.
BY the time the Washburn baseball
team completes that schedule of 50
games, played in four different states,
Washburn will be so thoroughly adver-
tised throughout the west that it will
draw another $4,000 building from
somebody.
c. V. Wolf is said to be making the
UNPLEASANT discovery that he will not
get the solid" women's vote in the
Third ward. It would not be surprIs-
ing TO find that the women are about
equally divided between Green and
Wolf on April 5.
Here's the first baseball game of the
season. The Clay school baseball team
defeated the freshmen of the Topeka
high school by the lopsided score of
II to 6. Batteries-Clay school, Q. Weed
and Malcolm Smith: freshmen. Cope
land, Risteen and Hobart
Lawrence Journal Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton walked down the main street of
Topeka yesterday and all the joints
Immediately closed their DOORS The
police walk up and down the street
every day, but the violaters OF the law
have no fear of their action.
Rev. ]. D. Countermine will address
the city Y. M. c. A. 1T East Eighth
street. at O'Clock Sunday afternoon,
on the subject "An objectionable
SIM The musical part of the pro
gramme will be chorus singing, solo
by Mr.. Harry Pribble and selection
| by the Y. M. c. A. quartette.
T. E Dewey lectured on Sidney La
nier at Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldonss church
last night to the Chautauqua circle OF
that neighborhood. Mr.. Dewey is one
of the best authorities in the west on
Lanier, and during his excellent dis
course stated that the poem Spring
time" was the best ever written by the
/ famous southerner.
Carrie Nation yesterday formally gave
the three houses and the property on
which they stand on Kansas avenue,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets,
to the state w. C. 7. U. for a College of
/ Prohibition. While the union will not
get actual possession until June l. its
/ members are at liberty to go on with
their plans for the education of young
girls to preach prohibition.
ON THE WAY.