The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
SNAPSHOTS At ii OMENEws.

SNAPSHOTS AT HUME NEWS.
Guess if was tn man t name,
An had t appint an suggest,
Who should live in tn Hall o. Fame
I'd jes' try fer t. do my best.
Know right now if twas circus day
An 1 happened L be in town,
tn men I'd pick. tn ones I'd say,
Was desarvin' Nv that renown.
When peep o. fife an roll O. drum,
Are mixed with tn roars an tn
I'd choose t head tn list by gum,
With ALI. T., Al, John, Otto and
Charles.
But then p'rhaps there's other ways
Fer tn people t read O. fame;
Think uv tn months, an weeks an
Thet posters can hold a name.
Think O. tn thousands who pause t
look,
/ An t. stare with wonder an awe,
T. read tn tale in open book
i Nv wonders they never saw.
Think o. tn picte NV yarmints wild,
An tricks O. tn clown an bar'ls,
That tell o. tn name an fame so wide
! Nv ALT. T., Al, John, Otto an Charles
Think o. tn crowds t. left an right
That mark tn. line NV parade.
Ringling's ridins as lordly knight
At tn head O. tn cavalcade.
Caesar returned frum victor's field
With triumphant entry t Rome,
Never possessed tn wealth I'd yield
T. be ridin' like that at home.
Bigger t. me than pres dents chair
TIL crash of bands, tn white tents
An ALT. T., AL, John, Otto an Charles
! PHIL EASTMAN.
Mr.. Harry PribbIe will sing at the
Baptist tabernacle Sunday morning
The first on the street this morning
were the fakirs selling souvenir but
| tons.
Wild blackberries are plentiful along
the Calhoun Bluffs road towards Grant
vile.
The baseball game at the new ball
park will be called at 3 O'clock on Sun
day.
good high price at Vinewood park last
night.
Another prize fight is scheduled for
the benefit of the Topeka sports week
from Sunday.
Tom L. King expects 1900 people
to go to Wichita Sunday on the Santa
Fe excursion.
Ringlings didn't bring bad weather,
anyway. for today started out well
and propitious.
G. w. w. Yates who is now living in
Chanute is in Topeka looking after his
property interests.
Bob Robinson is pitching for Topeka
this afternoon in the game between the
Saints and Orioles.
Charles Samson has entered his
horses, The Pope and Wilkesbar, at
the st. Louis exposition.
Rev. John A. Bright is at Aarons-
burg, Pa, where he vent to attend
the funeral of his mother.
The Topeka Business college placec
ten students into good positions during
the first two weeks of this month.
United States Attorney Dean return
ed to his home in Marion Friday. He
is planning to put up a $4,000 business
block there.
The first wagon from the Ringing
train to come up town this morning
man rode on it. IEs
These are great days in Topeka.
The baseball team won two games in
one day. the circus came the next
day; and then Sunday ball - sf}J4
A. B. Smith who has fruit farm
three miles south of Topeka is going to
give a picnic and reunion for his cherry
pickers at his farm Tuesday afternoon.
: The teachers and pupils of the
Standard shorthand school had a pic
mic supper at Vinewood park last
evening. There were over a hundred
present.
There will be meeting of the
faculty of the Homeopathic night
school at DR.. Eva Harding's Office, 7O4
Kansas avenue, Monday afternoon at
4:30.
There is one unusual thing about
today's circus. There will be no row
about the payment of the license. The
advance man paid the license about a
month ago.
The court house basement, which
was partially flooded by the rain
Thursday, is dry again, but the eIe-
vator is still not running. That's the
court house joke. The elevator never
did run.
Chief StabI vvaS o,, hand +0 xuaIooy,oa
the first of the circus grafters this
morning, and tell them some of the
rules of the town. One Of the rules is
that every fellow who has anything to
sell must pay a license.
An admission of ten cents will be
charged to the grandstand at the ball
game Sunday afternoon instead of 15
cents as at WashbUrn park. This re
duced rate" is made tomorrow because
no roof has yet been put on the stand.
There is one Topeka business estab-
lishment so located that its back door
is a convenient retreat from a neigh
boring drug store. Every morning the
"empties" piled up against his back
door.
The first of the circus wagons ar
rived at Eighth and Kansas avenue at
s o'clock this morning. These wagons |
came to town on the special fast
train, which the Ringlings call their |
flying squadron" They contained the |
tents and poles.
The Kansas State Good Roads asso- |
citation will meet at 10 a. m. August 2.
at the Commercial club rooms in this
city. There will be speeches by Presi- t
dent w. H. Moore of st. Louis and /
Secretary r. w. Richardson of Omaha !
representing the national association.
Here is a fish story: Street Com
Frank Snyder says that +
while his gang was putting in a box
culvert at Central avenue and Soldier