The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-11
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thereby the jasper sea,
the angel she's goin' to bel
I'd ruther hear her singin' over the fields
of dew,
Than the harp of the. handiest angel.
back o. the bendin' blue!
I make no doubt, when it's over-this life,
with its songs an signs,
Wen change the green o. the clover for
But give me a little cabin. where the
dear. earthlights | see,
ny TO welcome me!
I'll say, when l reach that shore:
Don't want no change in Jenny forever
To think Of her as a spirit-au made out
o the mist
The smile that made my neaVen-the red
lips have kissed!
Let EN- take the shinin' palaces, an keep
JennV's lest all O. heaven that the arms O.
me would hold.
An stead of a thousan' angels. Jenny TO
Frank i. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
President Plass of Washburn col
lege is in Ohio.
Col E. c. Little, of Abilene, was IN
Topeka Wednesday.
William Martindale. of Emporia. was
in Topeka Wednesday.
Governor Bailey spent Wednesday at
his farm at Baileyville.
w. w. Mills left on Wednesday night
for the east on a business trip.
B. F. Golden left Wednesday for a
trip to ST. Louis and the Worlds fair.
Repairs are being made on the gran
lite paneling in the court house cor
ridors.
Charlie Crittenden of the Taylor
Grain company is spending a few days
in Pittsburg.
Charles d. WEIGH left Wednesday for
Cove county on legal business. He will
be gone week
D. A. Valentine, clerk of the supreme
court, is home from a vacation spent
on Georgia Bay.
A steam pumping station has been
put up at Vinewood park to supply
the K. n. G. with water.
The Smith Automobile company sold
Charles Wolff one of its big Veracity
observation cars Wednesday.
l.. H. Thompson, OF Norton, we'll
known Sixth district attorney, was in
Topeka Wednesday on business.
f. A. Byrne has resigned his position
as florist of the city parks, to accept
a similar position in Cincinnati, o.
The new power house at Vinewood
park is about completed. The ma
chinery will be put into it this week.
Friday is ladies' free day at the ball
game. Pittsburg and Topeka play.
They began a series of three contests
this afternoon.
Mrs. ]. II. Noble received telegram
from H. ]. Page confirming the report !
that Harold B. Page was killed in
the Colorado wreck
Lawrence is one step nearer towards |
its postoffice building. Congressman |
BowerSock has received the plans for |
it from Washington.
DIR. ]. NJ. Hamme, J. H. Mercer and E. |
G. Croker of Cottonwood Falls were in |
Topeka Wednesday for the ball game |
which Risley stopped in the third in |
ming.
A short grass politician says the only |
instructions given to one western Kan |
sas delegation to the recent Democrat |
sober.
colorado weather in Topeka" is the I
premier subject for discussion now
among Topeka people who call on each |
other for no other reason than to |
talk.
Evangelist Neal Overman will prs.ch |
tonight at the Christian church taber-
nacle, at Sixteenth and Clay streets. /
His subject will be "Demetreus the Sill
Versmith.'
station has 1900 tobacco coupons, and is
trying to get 1900 before the time limit
on the coupon proposition expires in
November.
John Strickrott, the view photog-
rapher, will leave soon for Kansas
City, where he will locate permanent
ly to engage in commercial and Stereo-
scopic photography.
The new carouseI at Vinewood park
is running. The music box which 1t
has somewhere in it's ''innerS' sounds
like the clown band which was here
with Ringling's circus
John Marshall says that it will take
$500 to build the kind of grand stand
which this city ought to put up for
the free open air concerts which his
band is willing to give.
Food Inspector Farnsworth condemn
ed a cheese brought to him for inspec-
ton yesterday. 1t was manufactured
by a Topeka concern, and was TOO
strong, so the purchaser thought
W. I. Jamison, the deputy county
attorney, and his wife will leave today
for an eastern trip to the principal
cities along the coast Ihey Will re-
main away until the first of Septem-
Der.
E. R. Simon, secretary to Chief JUS
tice Johnston, who was operated on for
appendicitis a few weeks ago, is able to
be back at his desk IN the state mouse.
He was in the hospital only twelve
days.
Ed Bass. gardener on the state house
grounds, found nest OF young rap
bits among his flowers on the west size
Of the state house yesterday. Think +
IF it; wild game in the state house
Iungles. Il
Bessie NJ. Wall filed a suit for a di-
vorce in the district court "Wednesday
afternoon from Edward G.. Wall, to
whom she was married in Little Rock
n 1897. Abandonment is given as
he cause.
eff you would clean your streets,
said a travelling man yesterday, who
makes Topeka and cities of it's size
through the middle west, you would
have one of the prettiest towns in the {
country"
William Connors, manager of Cros-
by Brothers carpet and furniture de-