The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16
SNAPSHOTS ATHOMENEWs.
HIRAM HARDACHRE SEES THE
SAINTS.


HIRAM HARDAcHRE SEES THE
SAINTS.
Pa, 1 jes' been to Topekie.
Seen them fellers playin ball;
Goshl We orter been. there with me.
Twould an made We ge Laugh en- n. squall
Fenced in with high board wall.
Didn't git there very CARLY,
| But / got to see it all -
Well sir. them there baseball fellers
Had on store bought suits en- caps;
Than our scrubby country chaps
Worked P1i d into ft1' their hen pocket fiaps.
The others had the name Topel1ie
I'm a-goin' down tomorrow
! Fer to see our ap'ain Brown.
En- eff we kin git nun fellers
Thro' this country roun' en- roun',
BY goshl I'll buck Topekie
Fer a game down there in town;
En- eff we can't beat them feIlers,
- mn nov S. t Willard.
~! A OFT has returned from a
| weeks trip to the worlds fair.
t. W. Thompson is building a new
eight-roomed house in Highland Park.
The w. c.. T. U. will meet at the
First Methodist church on Monday 1T
3 p. m.
Mrs. P. H. Wood. who is at Christ
hospital, is recovering from a serious
operation.
There will be music tonight by Stein
berg's orchestra at Swift & Holidays
soda fountain.
| At Kansas City Friday, a marriage
license was granted to Robert r. Wells
of ST. Joseph and Ruth Flodenberg of
Topeka.
! The street railway tracks at Tenth
and Topeka avenue are torn up. The
company is putting in heavy rails at
| the turnout.
The Topeka Orphans Home asso-
| citation will hold their regular meeting
at the home on Fillmore street, Mon
day afternoon. at $3.50.
Lorraine Buchanan and her COM
pany open a weeks engagement at
the theater at Vinewood park tomor-
row night, in 1.-The Billionaires.''
Frank Blanch and T. ]. Smeddick
were in Lawrence Friday to submit
bids for the building of the new law
library building for the University of
Kansas.
bishop Millspaugh will officiate at
early communion at Grace cathedral
Sunday morning and also at IL
o'clock. There will be no evening
service.
City Clerk Squires has completed mis-
report on city finances for the month
of June. 1t shows an excess of dis
bursements over receipts for the month
of $3,377.31.
Miss Irene Williams and Miss Iva
Williams, daughters of Election Com
missioner T. S. Williams, have gone to
Wichita, Newton and Kingman for a
two weeks visit.
A. w. Bronson has purchased the
house at 1920 Harrison street where he
lives and the two adjoining lots and
will either rebuild the house or put up
a new one this summer.
The members of the Topeka baseball
club will be guests at a smoker to be
given by the Topeka Baseball associa-
ton and the Topeka Park asSocia ton
in the Copeland hotel ordinary tonight.
Incidentally there will be some heart
to-heart talks.
On next Tuesday a special election
has been called at-which the voters of
Rock Creek, Wilmington and Mission
townships will vote on the proposed
electric railroad bonds of 81, 900 for each
mile traversed through these town
ships. The line is the Topeka, Essk-
ridge G Council Grove railroad.
The old steam fire engine, borrowed
by the city for use during the time the
new engines were being built, was
shipped back to Cincinnati yesterday
on the freight car which brought the
new engines to Topeka. The old en-
CINE was not called into use while it
was making its four months sojourn
in this city.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
carl stewart, OF az west street, ndd
a narrow escape from death last
night The child swallowed a wire
fence staple which lodged in it's ira
chae. He was taken to Christ hos
pital in an almost dying condition,
and DIR. w. F. Bowen opened the
windpipe and removed the staple. The
child will recover.
Charles Crawford, a Kansas man
who beat Fred Funston to an appoint
ment to the United States military
academy at West Point about ten
years ago, is a second lieutenant at
Fort Leavenworth. His unsuccessful
rival is a brigadier general in COM
mand of the Atlantic division with
headquarters in New York city, the
most important and desirable assign
ment in the army
In the city league today, North To-
peka was scheduled for a game with
the asylum at the latter's grounds, the
Santa Fe Reds to meet the Tenth
Street SlCggers at Washburn field, and
the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Santa Fe audi
tors were scheduled for Lowman Hill.
All the games were called at 2 o'clock
so as to give the players time to see
the league game between Springfield
and Topeka, with Bob Robinson, a city
league pitcher, in the box for the