The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-26
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Or watched her labors there.
But crocus buds are in her breast
And blossoms IN her hair
She weaves. upon her magic loom,
The tender tint of April boughs,
The meadows velvet green;
The lilac and the daffodn
Beneath her fingers grow.
And as she tolls from day to day
About her melts the snow.
So. what if clouds are dark with storm.
And windows white with frost,
In icy wales are lost;
What if the wondrous Northern lights
Still nature in her woodland weaves
The bridal robe of spring.
A class of II was initiated into the
Elks last night.
County Commissioner Haynes mas
planted his corn field on his farm west
of North Topeka.
The Hawthorne and Longfellow So
cieties of Polk school will hold a con-
test this afternoon.
Assistant United States Attorney
Mckeever was in LeavenWOrth Tues
day and Wednesday.
The use Of the state house grounds for
the Semi-Centennial attractions is
causing considerable talk.
The graduating exercises of the High
school senior class will be held tomor-
row night at the Auditorium.
Father J. F. Leary, of Chapman, will
offer the prayer at the Taft meeting in
the Auditorium Monday afternoon.
Rev. NJ. H. Frank of Kansas City
will fill the pulpit of the Westminster
Presbyterian church Sunday morning
and evening.
Judge WeIlhouse estimates his apple
crop this year at coo bushels. This
will be about 10000 bushels above all
previous records for his orchards.
The ladies of the Home Missionary
society are planning to hold a picnic.
Before deciding on the date they con-
suited cider" Smiths forecasts. The
picnic will be held next week.
Grant Thornburg, district freight
agent of the Rock Island, was initiated
into the Elks last night and he remark
ed today: I guess it will hold me
for awhile"
The recent rain has caused the ditch
where the Washburn sewer was laid to
cave in in a great many places, causing
lot more work for the street commits
SiOner.
The fire department has secured the
wagon and line equipment owned by
Nels Anderson, late member of the fire
department. The wagon Will continue
to be used as a lineman's wagon.
Wild columbines, which are about the
in this part of the country, are now in
bloom. They are to be found in only
a few places along the Kansas river.
Charles A. Greenlees, who graduated
from Washburn in the class of 1886,
will deliver the alumni address at the
college on June IA this year. Mr.. Green
lees once represented Washburn in the
state oratorical contest.
1t has been decided by Chief VIII
marth to allow the regular hose wagon
the floral parade. The old extra reel
will be in service while the wagon is in
the parade.
L. f. Bishop. the man who has been
one of the leaders in the fight on the
Sixth ward sewer is in Kansas City on
business, but before he-left he was sat
isfied that the Sixth ward sewer pro-
ject is dead.
The washburn Senior class has not
yet definitely determined whether it
Macbeth Some of the stars" are
suffering from sore threats and that
may upset the plans.
The old George D. Hale residence at
the southwest corner of Tenth and
Van Buren, streets has been bought by
P. J. Clevenger, of Lawrence, who is
preparing to remodel the entire house
and make it his home. Mr. Clevenger
is q. capitalist.
Nature is doing it's best to prevent
more damage to the banks of the Kan
sas river. A perfect thicket of cotton
wood trees is growing up along all the
banks which were washed, and if peO-
pie are wise, they will let the trees
grow.
Twelfth street between jackson and
Van Buren, street needs paving. Yes
terday afternoon a team of horses
hitched to an empty wagon on which
between Jackson and Van Buren,. The
wheels sunk to the hubs and the horses
to their shoulders.
Since all the criminals have pleaded
guilty in the district court and have
not given County Attorney Hungate
a chance to display his oratorical pow
erS in prosecuting them, the friends of
the county attorney nave suggested
that a mock trial be pulled off to give
Hungate a chance to get rid of some
of his pent up oratory.
For the benefit of the participants of
the State House Newspapermen's base
ball game to be played June 3: Article
agreement between Washburn col
lege and the Topeka Baseball associa-
ton: No Intoxicating liquor of any
kind is to be permitted on the grounds
at any time before, during, or after a
game"
The senior class annual of the High
school which is just out from the press
of Adams Brothers is the handsomest
ever printed in Topeka. It is II inches
long, five wide and has "a pages There
is an excellent half tone of the grad
uating class and it is attractive and
artistic.
Congressman Phil Campbell of Pitts
burg who will be one of the orators at
the annual dinner of the Saturday
Night club at the Hotel Throop Satur-
day night evidently appreciates the
task before him for he says in a letter
to a friend: IT am a lamb for the
slaughter Anything the Saturday
Night club sees fit to impose goes for
one night. 1 shall await my oppor-
tunity later"
Some people are wondering as to the
amount of "stand-in'' which Major An
derson has with Mayor Bergundthal.
The Semi Centennial committee wants
all of the building material for the new
Baptist church removed from the cor
ner of Ninth and Jackson streets. A
request was made to the city that the