The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26
SNAPSHOTS ATHOME NEWS


When a man amt got a cent, and he's
feelin' kind o blue,
An the clouds hang dark an heavy an
won't let the sunshine through.
It's a great thing. oh. my brethren, fer
His hand upon your shoulder in a friend
" sort of way.
1t makes a man feel curious: it makes
the tear drops start,
An you feel sort O. hutter in the re-
You can't look up an meet his eyes; you
don't know what to say,
When his hand is on your shoulder IN a
friendly sort o way
Oh, the worlds curious compound, with
its honey and its gall,
With its care an bitter crosses: but a
good world. after ALL
An a good God must have made it
leastwise. that's what 1 say,
When hand rests on my shoulder in a
friendly sort o way
james Whitcomb Riley
Judge Hazen called the motion dock
ct in the district court this morning.
The averages for the Missouri Valley
League baseball players will not be
out until November L.
The weather bureau people do not
seem to understand that the football
season has commenced
Councilman William Green of the
Third ward returned today from a
Probate Judge Hayden is at the ST.
Louis exposition this week There will
be no probate court this week.
There are still more Kansas visitors
at the St Louis Worlds fair than from
any state in the country outside of
Missouri.
The state house grounds are prettier
right now than they have been this
year The Roosevelt piece on the
northeast side is a beauty.
Charles Ffgg, who for many years
has been employed as a clerk at
Greenwald's clothing store, has taken
position with Robinson Marshall
Clothing company.
At the Hutchinson fair last week on
White Plymouth Rocks, w. L. Bates.
Topeka, received first premiums on
hen and cockerel and second in cock,
hen, pullet and pen.
]. S. Warner left Friday night for
Boise City and Thunder Mountain
Idaho. This is business trip for the
Kansas & Texas Mining company
which has large claims in Thunder
Mountain.
The Kansas City, Mo-, coal dealers
say that there will be no further adj
vances in the price of coal until real
cations are that this is a long time
in the future.
The Master Plumbers defeated the
Journeyman Plumbers on the baseball
held Saturday by the score of IL to
8. The batteries were: Master Plumb
ers-Doran and Shaffer; Journeymen.
Mills and Ellis
City Engineer James F. McCabe
owns some bulldogs, which he keeps
chained up. One of them got away
Few days ago and made business
pick up for some of the residents in
the west part of town.
The Woman's Home Missionary socj-
ETY. of the First Methodist church will
meet in the church parlors on Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock The annual cleo
| ton of officers will take place. Origi-
nally the meeting was scheduled for
Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary Cowen, an elderly woman
from Howard, Kan, was run down by
changing cars. The Santa Fe officials
brought her to the hospital in Topeka
for treatment. She was on her way to
Kansas City to visit her son.
w T. Lawless has started his bus
and hack line at Fort Scott in opposi-
| ton to the Terry bus line. Mr.. Law
less has put in a fine line of rubber
tired vehicles and seems to have the
good will of the people down there. He
will continue his Topeka business.
Contractor Morse of Topeka, who
has the job of building the new public
library at Emporia, will transfer a
large gang of men there from the To-
peka high school building this week.
EmpOrla people are worried for fear
their building will not be completed
within the contract time.
Chanute Sun: Frank Edison, of To-
peka, and Vet Lake and L. o. S. Clary
of St Paul, were in Erie Wednesday
and drove out and looked over our oil
and gas field They We're greatly i'm
pressed with the activity <If the old
development, especially in the old field.
Mr.. Edison is associated with other To-
peka men who propose to drill for gas
near st. Paul and put in a plant there
for the purpo2e of lighting and heat
ing the town. They are now after a
city franchise and own several leases
west of the town which they propose
to go to drilling on as soon as the
franchise is granted.
A Kansas City paper says: an. w.
Savage has written Secretary Murray
Moore Howe asking for the same sta
BILE room this fall that he had last,
as he intends shipping Dan Patch and
a few others to the Memphis track
about October 1. He says that Dan
has rounded to from his recent sick
ness and that the reports regarding
the health of the champion were
greatly exaggerated and that he is
! confident that Dan will be able to re-
duce his mark of 1:56A. Mr.. Savage
was frightened about the condition of
his horse while in Topeka but he
seems to have forgotten that now that
he is trying to get other exhibition
dates for Patch.