The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-28
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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Good-by. summer shirt. forever,
| ] must send thee to be tubbeds
/ To be rent and torn a-sever
| When the laundryman has scrubbed,
| Fiends will rip YOU with a scream,
| When they've sprinlSled you with acid
And have wrung you out by steam.
They will tear you in your anguish
] Through a misunderstanding press,
/ Gummed with starch and left to languish
| In unmerited distress,
\ Till your fabric, ripped and rotten
| Shrinks obedient to their skill,
| CBut remembered in the biID.
Time there was when grandpa's daughter
Ignorant of cleansing DOPE
| Put her simple faith in water
Highly fortified with soap
Shirts Elysium. vaiIay pondered:
In an age where shirts are 'laundered''
New York Globe.
A new modern house for rent at
107 f. 18th st. Call evenings.
E. c. Smith, Santa Fe agent at Stat
ford, is sick at the Santa Fe hospital
here.
Captain I. F. orner. of the probate
judges office, is away on account of
sickness.
Street Commissioner Snyder will soon
start out the Woodworking gang on it's
second round of the city.
marshaTs Office went to Leoti Wednes-
day for a weeks vacation.
Saturday evening Steinberg's orches-
ira will be at Swift & Holiday Drug
Co.'S fountain from to IL.
Mrs. Frank Flenniken, daughter
Marian and son Frank. left Wednes-
day for Colorado Springs to spend the
summer.
There was no high ball nor red flag
displayed at the weather bureau this
morning but the indications were for
hot weather.
games with the Saints at the new
park this afternoon. Pittsburg will
play here Sunday.
Food Inspector Farnsworth says he
will give a prize of IS for a sample of
embalmed milk purchased from any of
the regular milk dealers of the city.
The county commissioners meet to-
morrow Some one ought to go be-
fore the board and make great Dig
roar" The commissioners have been
doing for some time. Nothing has
been doing.
There is more interest in tennis in
Topeka this summer than for many
years. Topeka will no doubt send some
strong representatives to the state
tournament.
The drain tile which the street COM
missioner is moving from Biddle creek
to Chesney park are so big that only
three sections can be loaded on a wagon
at one time. They weigh over half
ton apiece
nv mistake the name of Augusta L.
Waite was omitted from the list of
teachers who successfully passed the
teachers examination, she having re-
ceived a professional certificate of
very high grade.
The paving contractors have been
rushing their work during the past two
weeks, and by the end of the month,
practically all of last years work VIII
be cleaned up. Then the contractors
can begin on this years contracts
Sheriff Lucas is going to Atlantic
City or Asbury park or Old Orchard
beach or some other seaport for a
prisoner and he isn't particular who
the prisoner is just so he can go be-
fore the weather gets much hotter.
The people who live out in the Yicin-
ity Of Washburn college are celebrat-
ing today. The Topeka-Fort Scott base
ball series is being played at the new
ball park in East Topeka. People who
live close to the college don't like base
ball crowds at Washburn park.
President L. z. Myers of the Street
Railway company took special pains
to congratulate Bert Patten superin-
tendent of the city railway, on the
work he did in keeping the bridge in
the Kaw river from being swept out
by the flood. Patten anchored the
structure with heavy piles. .e-@r
The other evening one of the con-
ductors on the Vinewood line took
ride on the Figure 8" at the park
while waiting for the time at which
his train had to go back to town.
While about half way over the Fig
ure s." the car in which he was
riding got stuck. 1t took him some
time to walk the ties back to earth,
and make explanations to his passer-
gers why his train was late in getting
started.
County Attorney Hungate has re-
piled to Bent Murdock's fish story as
follows: 1.-The bass was not filled
with shot and it weighed as much as
was reported. If Mr.. Murdoch wants
to have some good fishing he should
get away from the muddy waters OF
the Walnut and come I'D and spend
a few days with me. 1 can show him
what real fishing is He may not
catch a five pound bass, but he Will
catch something besides catfish and
perch"
City Engineer McCabe is opposed 10
the dyke plan for North Topeka unless
the dykes are built in the most sub
stantiaI manner, and that means Dig
expense. Mr.. McCabe says: Cheap
dykes would be a menace to North To-
peka instead of a protection. People
can get out when the water comes up
a few inches an hour, but they couldn
get out if a dyke should break and let
seven or eight feet of water down on
them all at once