The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25


Grows dim in thine ears ane deep as the
deep dim soul ; Of a star 81 Fbv f.cs nnaar
heavens untrod by the sun.
Let my soul with their souls find place.
and forget what is done and undone
Friday is ladies' free day at the
baseball park.
Joplin began series of three games
with the Saints today.
Republican primaries will be held in
Topeka township Saturday.
A. B. Quinton has returned from a
trip to Chicago and Cincinnati.
The volunteer soldiers have left the
city and returned to their homes.
Don't regard the man with a red nose
with suspicion. This is the hay fever
season.
Governor Stanley was in Topeka Wed
nesday. He called at Republican head
quarters.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give a social settlement kindergarten
benefit at 720 Clay street Friday even
ing.
w. J. Black, general passenger agent
| of the Santa Fe, has been making a
trip through the Southern Kansas oil
fields.
The trustees of the Orphans Home
will meet at the home of Mrs. L. S.
Woolverton, lib Van Buren, street, to-
night.
| H. J. Bone is back from Ashland.
He says that his cowboy ball team
| will be here September z to play the
| Topeka league team.
/. L. Dayhoff who is evidently labor
ing under the delusion that he owns the
state house has made no proposition to
sell it SO far as is known.
| The Lorraine Buchanan stock COM
pany is still playing at the Vinewood
park theater. Good crowds are at
tending the performances.
City Engineer McCabe is making
up the estimates on work done by
paving contractors SO that the bills
can be paid for the season
Ottawa Herald: State Superintend-
ent Dayhoff indicates that he will sue
the Topeka State Journal for libel as
soon as he can find day when he is
not busy.
One of Councilman Luther Nellis'
pet diversions is to fill his pockets
with lump sugar and then go down to
the fire station and divide his sweets
with the horses.
City Clerk Squires was granted
vacation by the city council on Mon
day night. He will not go, however.
until he hands out the regular month
ly pay checks on September 1.
The Y. NJ. C. A. building fund cam
paign will be started out with vigor
about September Is. Little has been
done during the last month. The to-
tai sum of the subscriptions now
amounts to $4,000.
The work of rebuilding the Park
hurst-Davis wholesale block at First
and Kansas avenue is progressing rap
idly. The workmen are finishing the
floor and framework up to the fourth
floor of the building.
Miss Emma Kelly, of Topeka, drew
No. SO in the DeviPs Lake land opening
in South Dakota. That means she will
get very good quarter section of land.
Miss Kelly is about the luckiest girl in
Kansas as well as the nerviest.
The insurance men and the lawyers
of Topeka are fixing up trouble. They
have decided to play a game of base
ball. or the nearest thing to it that
they can devise. The proceeds are to
be given to the Associated charities.
Frank G. Dreaming went to Cold
water, Kas., today to make speech at
a picnic at which 5000 people will
be present Mr.. Dreaming was sent
to Coldwater by the speakers bureau
of the Republican state central COM
mittee.
The state house custodian has not
yet cut off the limbs which hang from
the trees over the walk at the south
west corner of the state house grounds.
Some of these nights there will be
pruning party and the custodian can
haul away a tree or two the next day.
Coach John Outland of the Wash
burn football team will bring about
twenty men to the college this fall
who will be candidates for the team.
One of them Outland denominates as
an equal of Joe McCracken, the ia
nous Pennsylvania star of several
years ago, who was a Kansas boy.
People living at Alma, Bradford,
Halifax, HarveyviIle and Eskridge are
making an effort to have postal
clerk placed on the 40 mile run on
the Alma branch of the Santa Fe. The
mails are irregular to those points
now. Petitions are being addressed to
J. M. Miller, asking him to take up
the matter with the postoffice author1-
ties.
Charles E. Eldridge, rate maker for
Topeka fire insurance men, is at work
making out individual ratings for the
business buildings in Topeka. No
fixed rate of insurance will be charged
for this city any longer. Mr.. Eldridge
thinks that each risk should stand on
its own merits, and the rate of insur-
ance should stand on the buildings
construction and its exposures. THAT
is the fairest method" says Mr.. Ed
ridge. 1.-The result of this plan will
be to raise the rates of insurance on
many buildings in the city, but viii
also result in many cuts being made
in other localities"
been selected by the grocers and
butchers for their big picnic on We'd
nesday of next week at Garfield park:
General picnic committee-aarry
John Green. John Sheet, william
Dransfield, Theodore Mueller and A
d. Stump. Amusements- Charles
Myers and William Dransfeld. Clos
ing of business houses for the day
Kirk Myers G. S. Dreisbach, Fred
Morns, Maynard Dibble. Will Eckart,
Walter Hindman. Frank Newland,
and H. A. Hebb. Barbecue. d.
stump, A. B. Mueller, and AL Schmidt.
vileges-Theodore Mueller and
William DransfieId. Ice-Frank Berry.
Baseball at Emporia.
Emporia, Kan, Aug. 25-In a slug
cling match here, Marion won by