The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-05
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS


That no fear was in his BOSOM
Johnnys living, though.
Twas giant hrecracker,
| Big enough to blow
Johnny's foolish head to pieces
Never hurt him. though.
When the fuse had burned up nearly
Where the thing would go
Fate or something came and snuffed it
Johnny grumbled though.
The board of education meets to-
night in regular session.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nagel are the
parents of a boy, born Wednesday
June 20.
Now that the Fourth is past a slumr
in the price of watermelons may be ex-
pected.
The county commissioners attempt.
ed to hold a meeting Monday. Il
didn't last long.
A meeting of the Topeka Baseball
association will take place tonight al
the Copeland hotel.
The court house lawn is in the lawn
mower trust. 1t grows so fast that it
has to be cut every week.
The board of education will meet this
| evening, and some discussion of the
plumbing ordinance is likely to occur.
There will be no federal court
cases tried in Topeka until Judge Pol
lock returns from his vacation Sep
| TENDER Is.
Monday night, failed to materialize.
There was no quorum. The meeting
will be held this evening.
Mrs. A. G. Lord, of Topeka, is speak
| ing in the interest of the Crittenton
Mission work at various Kansas towns.
She was at Salina Sunday.
The city offices were nearly all
| closed yesterday. City Clerk Squiras
and City Attorney Spencer were on
duty while in the morning.
Oft
can love feast, a Sunday and a Fourth
the court house crowd is having trouble
in getting back to work-real work.
The Woman's Missionary society of
will meet with Mrs. Plass. on Wash
burn campus, Wednesday, July 6, at 8
p. m.
Did you and the small boys of the
neighborhood take part in an Indian
fight yesterday, and were you the In
dian? Nothing like providing fun for
the boys.
When the batteries of regular artil-
lery passed through Topeka Monday
morning one of the horses attached to
siege gun fell dead in front of the
Chesterfield hotel
Gus Alberts, after seeing the big
crowd on Washburn field at the ball
game yesterday, said: lingo, but a
ball is worth something" AIberts is
umpiring the Topeka-Fort Scott series. |
l.. M. Crawford was in town July 4. |
He makes his headquarters in st. Louis |
now and he came to- Topeka on the |
Fourth because any other day would |
be too slow. too quiet after his sojourn
in st. Louis.
Bob Watson, a colored light heavy
weight, who backed up Terry Will !
liams of Denver when he knocked out |
Nate Kerns last Sunday, is looking for |
a match with some one of his class. |
Some of the promoters are trying to |
fix up a mill.
Charles Bowers, of the Santa Fe pas
senger department whose resignation
was announced week ago, left the |
road today. Mr.. Bowers will take a
much needed rest, until fall when he |
will go into business for, himself.
A good many hats and number of
coats were sacrificed Monday. People |
who crowded too close to the fire steam
ars during the test found that the "cof-
fee pots belched red hot cinders which
burned through what they lignted on
IN the way of clothing.
A bunch of hoodlums at the corner
Of Eighth and Kansas avenue lit giant l.
last night about o'clock
and rolled them across the sidewalk
while people were constantly passing.
It is a wonder someone was not badly
lurt. There was not a policeman in
sight.
Prof. Geo. H. Penny has returned
rom the exposition, with his wife. He
spent Il BOOQ zeal OF MS Tune WINE :
here in inspecting the big pipe organ
n festival hall. which will be placed in
hall, Kansas City at the .
lose of the exposition. He says the
,rgan is a splendid instrument
C. f. Johns, of Chanute, Kan, is ser :
ously ill in Topeka as a result of blood !
poisoning. Mr.. Johns is proprietor of : :
lumber yard at Shaw, and while at :
work. bruised his leg. The bruise be-
anne infected in some way, and it was =
necessary for Mr.. Johns to come to To- !,
eka for treatment. His coT6ition is T
ow so serious that his mind is affect I
d.
DR.. J. c. McClintock has been elected q
uperintendent of Christ hospital at a 7
leeting of the board of trustees. There ',
as been no regular occupant of this r
osition since the resignation of DR.. 6
. D. Eastman, almost a half year ago. =
,r L. S. Chamberlain mas been acting #
/ that capacity but quit on account T
E his health. DR.. McClintock'S cleo n
on was without opposition. The work
t the hospital was unusually heavy n
uring the month of June. II