The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
SNAPSHOTS AT HOMENEwS.
My dead love came to me, and said:
God gives me one hours rest,
10 spend with thee on earth again:
How shall we spend it beSt?"

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why as of old" I said; and SO
We quarEeled, as of old;
That onesshort hour was told:
Stephen Phillips.
The roof trusses on the manual
training high school are being placed
| in position.
The w. c. T. U. will meet at the
First M E. church at 3 o'clock Mon
| day afternoon.
Steinberg's orchestra will play at
Swift & Holidays soda fountain to-
night from to II.
This weeks issue Of Leslie's Weekly
| contains a picture of the cruiser Tope-
| ka now used as training ship.
Robert Pond, Washburn gradu-
ate now teaching at Marietta college,
Ohio, is visiting his parents in this
city.
There are still a few Topeka people
come out of the box in the Rosebud
lottery.
Thirty members of the Christian
Endeavor society of the Presbyterian
church held a picnic north of Potwin
Friday.
The revival meetings in a tent on
Elmwood avenue, Potwin, are being
continued. There will be two services
on Sunday.
Some of the city officials are be-
during August. Mayor Bergundthal
will go to the worlds fair
There will be no baseball game Sun
day. Now that Sunday ball playing is
held to be legal the greater difficulty OF
securing games is encountered.
w. w. Fisher viii deliver the princi-
pal emancipation address to the colored
people at Paxico, Monday, August !,
also at Frankfort, Thursday, August 4.
The board of county commissioners
,eaf or In
enough to do to interest them nor
fill a quarter of a page of the book
of minutes.
There should be a good sidewalk
built from the car tracks to the gate
of the baseball park. 1t will be bad
place in wet weather without a side
walk.
The delegates to the Good Roads con-
vention in Topeka next week will be
given an automobile ride Tuesday
land hotel at o'clock
The chief of police ought to sup
press the fiat-wheeled stone car used
by the city railway: 1t makes more
noise than a continuous procession
of Fourth of July torpedoes.
Capt. Robinson, of fire department
headquarters, is one of the most skill
full burnt wood artists in the city. He
has made great many handsome
pieces of burnt wood furniture
There are to be a large number of
memorial windows in the new First
Baptist church. The cost of the win
dows will be $4,000, and $1,000 worth
of the glass has already been sub
cribed for.
Some people, were unkfnd enough,
in a moment of fun, to inform Judge
Hazen that the people charged with
playing baseball on Sunday would
prove an alibi, as they could prove
that the Saints had not played ball,
but PLAYED "at it
Gage park being transformed into
a real park under Mr.. Reinisch'S care.
He is not neglecting the other parks,
either. Topeka is building up a fine
park system and it is one of the best
investments ever made by the city.
Jerry Owens, of the Holden ranch
near Silver Lake, appeared before the
county commissioners Friday to urge
the building of a levee on the Wagner
farm. He says a levee to cost $3.50
would protect 1,50G acres from floods.
Tom Costleys who drives a State
Journal mail wagon, went to Denver
today to visit relatives. This is the only
time that he has ever been out of
Shawnee county excepting the time
that he went to Kansas City to get a
cork leg after an accident.
The street cars which haul the fans
back to town from the ball games, |
the track just south of the
park, and not down further where the |
people have to fall into a ditch and |
climb an embankment to get into the |
train.
One of the prettfest and most elab-
crate pieces of burnt wood ever seen |
in Topeka has been on exhibition in |
the Mills show window this week 1t |
is a divan which has been Skilfully |
carved by hand and burned by the |
topographic needle. A modest use of |
paints was used to complete the eff |
feet. 1t is the work of Mrs. F. H. |
Jones of GA West Eighth avenue.
Supt. H. K. Goodrich of the city |
electric light plant says that the spar |
rows use the electric street lamps as
incubators. They build their nests |
in the cap of the shade, where it is |
kept warm at night by the electricity |
and in daytime by the sun. The only |
thing the mother sparrow has to do |
is to CAD around and have a good |
time while waiting for her eggs to
hatch. Nothing like modern improve
mentS.