The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Baby drank the lamps all dry,
To see if oil would make him die;
ana, his eyes agleam with fun,
He told his daddy what he'd done.
Father answered with a pout:
Thanks to your COMPOUNDED tricks.
Wen be in a frightful fix"
Then baby bit a match in two,
And was waited up the fue.
now he's waiting in the skies,
w lille st. Peter briskly cries:
Front. One sheet and harp, boys size!'
Harvard Lampoon.
Frank P. Lindsay went to Kansas
City yesterday.
P. L. Wise, formerly city engineer
went to Kansas City Thursday.
Judge Frank Doster was in Kansas
City yesterday on legal business.
Geo. W. Crane has two pet squirrels
that make their home in a tree in his
yard.
The report of the police judge for the
month of June shows collections
amounting to S366.05
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P. Adams have
gone to Colorado for a vacation of sew
eral weeks duration.
Watermelons are now on the market
BY the wagon load. First they appear
ed in half dozen lots.
The Dougherty Success club is issu-
ing invitations for a social and reunion
The June payroll of the police depart
ment was $Z6S71S. This is below the
estimate. The estimate was $2.S59.O9.
Mr.. c. Abbott of Lyndon had one of
his eyes removed in Topeka Thursday.
He was hit in the eye with a twig ten
weeks ago.
In publishing the state ticket the Sa-
betha Republican-H Herald has the fol-
lowing: For State Treasurer-Some
Honest Man.
lice here, is in town selling securities
of a marble company in which he is in
terested out in Colorado.
People who think they know, say
that County Attorney Hungate bears
strong facial resemblance to Folk,
the terror Of the Missouri boodlers.
City Engineer McCabe will file q
batch of estimates with the council this
evening amounting to about $4,000 on
paving and other work already done.
Anybody want a big Newfoundland
dog? Dog Officer Younkin has one at
the pound which will have to die un-
less some one wants to claim it and
pay the tax.
City Attorney Spencer has just dis
covered that the suit filed by Laura d.
Root against the city June is for $4,000
damages claimed to be due on property
in the Biddle creek district.
The supplies for Camp Bailey will
be bought by the adjutant general on
advertised bids and Judge Huron and
H. NJ. Phillips who are to have charge
OF supplies will draw them by requisi-
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Samson and
children will go to Minneapolis next
week for a two weeks visit. While in
Minnesota Mr.. Samson will interest
northern live stock breeders in the To-
peka state fair
The Topeka Christian Endeavor con-
vention delegates are going to try to
capture the state convention for TOpe-
ka next year and for this purpose 4
rally Will be held July 10 at $50 at the
First Congregational church. The state
convention meets at Wichita July IL.
Judge Hazen will make a trip to tho
exposition and east during the two
months this summer that the district
court is not in session and Bailiff John
Coyne will pick the bugs off the vines
of his potato patch in Pleasant Valley
and Court Reporter Ralph Cav will be
left to get out volumes of testimony in
cases already heard.
Query and comment by the Holton
Recorder: "Wnat is that state account
ant doing? The taxpayers of this To-
caIity are interested in knowing some
thing of that Smith county bond deal
in which it is charged the state suffered
a loss and the secretary of state made
a gain of some two thousand dollars in
coupons, to which he certainly had no
moral right and probably no legal right.
The light ought to be let into the secre-
tary of states office"