The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-04

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With kindly and admfring speech,
We recognize the twain
With some weird secret do engage,
Hence mutual praises sing
Perchance each knows the others age
Or some such sort of thing.
Town Topics.
Valentines are appearing on the mar
ket.
After the Midwinter exposition comes
the indoor circus.
The city railway right of way on
West Sixth avenue is still unpaved.
Bert Green, who has had a slight at
tack of pneumonia, is rapidly improv-
ing.
Pneumonia is prevalent in Topeka
now. Every physician has one or more
cases.
President Norman Plass is planning
another trip east for the latter part of
this month.
The jury in the district court has had
less to do this term than any jury before.
for several terms.
The Washburn girls basketball team
is scheduled to play the K U. team at
Lawrence February II.
City Engineer McCabe was in Kan
sas City Wednesday interviewing the
Midland Bridge company officials.
Sheriff Lucas expects to keep his
force at work for week or two longer
collecting unpaid personal property
taxes.
The Washburn College Dramatic club
will probably present a dramatization
of 1.-THE Cricket on the Hearth some
time after Lent.
A. j. Byrnes of Wagner, I. T., ar
rived in Topeka today to visit his son,
Roscoe Byrnes, who is attending
Washburn college.
The telephone hnemen who are
stringing the new cable on Kansas
avenue have been taking their usual
vocal exercises again today.
The weather this morning was chilly.
The forecaster who announced Wednes-
day that the weather would be colder,
scored a bulls eye on the guessing
target.
Q. It. Crawford, formerly of Topeka
but now of st. Louis, has gone into
business for himself. He has started
Ten Nights in A Bar Room company
on the road.
Tomorrow night there is to be a big
reception at the Washburn college OBJ
servatory, given by the young women
of the college. About 1000 invitations
have been issued
The boom" for NJ Snattinger for
councilman from the Third ward has
started again. A good many people for
quite long time have been urging Mr..
Snattinger to make the race.
The music department of Washburn
college pre- scented the retiring violin in
structor, Miss Lu Celia B. Clark, with
a gold watch at the time she drilled her
orchestra for the last time.
A Coffeyville paper says that Hy-
man d Chambers of Topeka have pur-
chased a lease on so acres of land two
miles north of that city and are plan
ming to drill for oil and gas at once.
At the close of the prayer meeting at
the First Methodist church tonight the
trustees of the church will be elected
and also a lay delegate to the annual
conference to be held at Lawrence in
March. a .s
The junior classes of the railroad Y.
NJ c. A. have elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President,
Tom Butler; vice president, John Muir;
secretary, John Kusherry; treasurer,
Galen Crook.
Prof Ralph Wylie, concert master of
the Carl Busch orchestra who has been
department of the Washburn music de-
partment will be in Topeka Wednes-
days and Saturdays to attend to his
pupils.
The last pile bents for the street car
bridge over the Kansas river are being
driven Some difficulty was experienced
in getting the pile driver over the ridge
between the river channel and the deep
hole cut near the north bank by the
flood.
Topeka had colder weather than
Dodge City in January. The report of
Observer Emigh, in charge of the Dodge
CITY weather station, shows the lowest
temperature to have been two degrees
below zero while in Topeka the coolest
was 10 below.
F. NJ. Leach the athletic manager at
Washburn. thinks he will have a good
crop of gray hair when the basket ball
season is over. Managing a girls baS-
ket ball team is a task to which foot
ball management pales into insignifi-
canoe.
A survey of the right of way Of the
Topeka, Frankfort & Northwestern
railroad has been completed from To-
peka to the Jackson county line, and
Engineer p I..Wise has gone to Frank
fort to commence the survey south
from there.
A. Newman, the new Curtis manager
in Shawnee county, has the reputation
of being the best vote getter that ever
visited Tennesseetown. It is rumored
that Newman may be put forward for
D. w. Mulvane's place on the state
committee.
There is only little more time in
which to pay dog tax before the pen
atty goes on. Till March l the license
is 81 on male dogs and So on females.
After March 1 it is 81 on male dogs and
have been issued by the city clerk,
and big rush is expected to begin
within a few days.
The Topeka board of plumbing exam
liners have examined six out of town
applicants for licenses. and will prob
ably grant them their clearance
papers, under the new state law. The
applicants are: A. P. Elder and w. A.
Anderson. Of Ottawa; VIM Rowan. of
Arkansas City: Claude Farrell and A.
NJ. Sands. of Atchison: and c. W. Bur
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