The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Thanks to you. sun and moon and star.
And you blue level with no cloud
Thanks to you. splendors from afar,
For a high heart, neck unbowed-
Thanks to you, wind, sent to and fro,
To you. light pouring from the dawn;
Ihanks for the breath and glory-foW
The steadfast soul can feed upon
Thanks to you. pain and want and care.
And you, baked phantons of despair;
I battle on, and 1 believe.
Thanks to you. ministers benign,
IN whatsoever guise you come:
Under this fig tree and this vine,
Here 1 am master, and at home.
john Vance Cheney, in Atlantic.
The jury will assemble in the dis
trict court three weeks from today
Mrs. Frank A Root is dangerously
sick with pneumonia at her home near
Washburn college.
George II. Evans was removed from
Christ hospital today to his home at
1888 Oakland avenue, Oakland.
In enumerating the automobiles Ar
thur Capper's peanut rooster takes
just as much ink and type as the tour
ing cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. O'Connor of Nee
dies Cal, stopped in Topeka Friday
afternoon on their way to Kansas
Citx.
The corn husk representations says
that the cold wave of last Saturday
was the final break betwSen winter
and spring.
The county commissioners are still
hoping to have the West Sixth avenue
macadam road completed by summer.
The public hopes so, too.
The theme at the evangelistic services
at the North Topeka Baptist church
tonight will be, "Beefsteak and Liver;
or, Lean and Fat Living"
The small boys have just begun 10
know what they lived through the win
ter for; the Sells & Downs circus viii
open the season next Saturday.
Frank Stahl says that the mayor has
not offered him the job of chief of po-
lice. He intimates, however, that he
is being considered for the place.
A great many people went to the fair
which is on exhibition there. The cam
el is about the size of a yearling steer.
The Morse Construction company
viii commence work this week on the
new Carnegie library at Emporia. The
Morse company is a Topeka concern.
woolly west show are headed toward
Topeka. This is an official warning to
all who don't know Buckskin and his
gang.
Five sanitary policemen are en-
ployed as guards for the tent in which
the Sells circus employees are quaran-
tined at the pest house. There are
five men in the tent.
I<laLch 6 Heating, the Topeka firm.
which has secured the contract for
building the Normal Model school at
Empolia. are planning to begin work
Oh the building at once.
John Larson has been appointed as
pavement reDairer, and is now at
work with a wagon and one assistant
patching up the brick pavement
wherever it needs attention.
People who use the Twelfth street
cars will be thankful when the curves
and tracks are all completed. At pres
ent it is an even break between get
ting a car in three minutes or o.
County Attorney Hungate is plan
ming a trip to the Cottonwood for fish
and County Clerk Newman is going TO
the Indian Territory for jack snipe and
other large game, if he can get away.
The Foster Humane society objects
to the way which Dog Catcher Toun-
kin hos of killing impounded dogs.
They want him to use chloroform. He
uses q revolver, and it is said it takes
several shots to kill some of the dogs.
The old driveway from the chapel to
HolbI ook on the Washburn campus,
has been enclosed and planted to ce-
OARS. People now drive into the col
lege grounds at College avenue, and
out past the observatory ana the pres
idents house.
The Clay school team received it's
first defeat of the season Saturday by
the Lime Kilns, the score being 26 to
13. The game was played at Ninth
and Fillmore streets. Dugan and
Martin were the Lime Kiln battery;
Weed and Smith the Clay school bat
terry. Weed the Clay school pitcher, is
the step son of Governor Bailey.
Saturday County Clerk Newman
cancelled warrants amounting to S237
which have not been taken by the
parties to which they were made out.
According to law warrants remaining
uncalled for for three years are can
celled. These county warrants were in
payment for jury and witness service