The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
SNAPSHOTS ATHOMENEws

Back in the golden days of youth.
On a farm in Ioway.
Happiest days of all were they,
If you don't care what you say.
Nothing to do but milk the cows
And feed the gentle stock
And work like a Turk from early morn
TIL nearly eight o'clock.
And the only joy to the country boy
To I'LL his soul with glee.
On a frosty night, when the moon shone
Away to the husking bee.
l long and sigh
For the days gone by,
And pine for the rustic charm
OF those dear old games,
Those queer old games,
We played down on the farm.
Oft L recall the girl loved,
In the days of long ago;
Muscular maid of SIX feet two
With a cheek of rosy glow.
would escort my Genevieve
To many a husking bee:
And she at the call Of ladies' choice,
With sudden swoop.
And a merry whoop,
Shed mop me round the floor.
AR MAS fh aIWaSs * Sis resisf'
Sing hey, for the days of yore.
From George AIDES latest comic opera,
The asphalt pavements are rapidly
becoming disgraceful.
Fort Scott will play the Saints in
Topeka on Labor day.
The new baseball park will be
known as Saints Rest.
Nat Black, of the Santa F'e passenger
department, is at st. Louis.
A. A. Hurd and j. D. M. Hamilton of
the Santa Fe were in Kansas City Mon
day.
The weather this morning began with
indications of approaching warmer
weather.
A. E. Cooper, of the Rock Island pas
senger office, has gone to Chicago for
few days.
The baseball team returns home for
a game at the new association park on
Thursday.
F. E. Fellows has been appointed
manager of the Harvey eating house at
La Junta.
U. S. District Attorney Dean was in
Kansas City Monday on legal or politl-
cal business
ing the executive household supplied
with vegetables.
The annual watermelon feast given by
Harry Wright for the K. P. AS Will
take place tonight on his lawn at 1928
Tyler street
engineers who are doing the prelimi-
nary work for the Union Pacific double
track to Kansas City.
The rain interfered with the Y. NJ.
C. A tournament in doubles Monday,
and the preliminary sets were sched-
uled for this afternoon.
Vice President L. E. Myers: Il
wish we had the carousel up in Vine
wood park, so that there would be
music going on all the time"
Probate Judge Hayden finds life
rather strenuous now that he has to be
the probate court and also the district
court while Judge Hazen is away
Nearly all the corn fields in the
vicinity of Topeka are filled with
weeds. The wet weather kept the
farmers from working in them.
The Womans Home Missionary soci-
ETY. of the First NJ. E church will meet
at o'clock Wednesday afternoon, July
81, at the home of Mrs. Whitcomb 200
Woodlawn avenue.
Young Americans play baseball at
management does not object SO long
as the cherubs let the property
alone and do not destroy anything.
County Attorney Hungate was in
New York recently and while there he
secured a receipt to make fish bite. He
is going to try it on the Dragon soon
and go after record breaking catch.
The pavement between the car tracks
at Tenth and Topeka avenue is still
torn up. 1t has taken about a week
and a half to repair the switch at
that place, and the repairs seem not to
be completed yet.
The journeymen BARRIERS beat the boss
BARRIERS on Washburn- field yesterday
by a score of to 3. Only five innings
were played when the game was called
on the account of rain. They will play
again next Monday.
The threatening weather last evening
and the light showers prevented the
LORRAINE Buchanan stock company
from giving a performance at the Park
theater. The play will be given tonight,
as previously announced.
Bent Murdoch of Ell Dorado would
better keep away from Topeka since he
has called "some members of the Skat
club" old soaks. Nearly every county
officer and several state officers are
members of this organiza ton.