The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


/ s'Oh, no. he cried. my hairs so thick,
couldn't do that if / tried
| 4ou'd keep it longer If you did. -
/ Inc Daisy with smile replied.
A1as. her words were all too true:
FOR, left uncovered day and night
The sun and rain beat on his head
And turned his golden locks to white.
And soon a dreadful thing occurred.
/ At which the Daisy looked appalled,:
A clustering wind swept by, and 10!
He left the Door old fellow bald.
Lillian Howard Cort in Lippincott's.
Easter Sunday is one week from to-
| morrow.
DR.. n. l. Allzire returned from Chi
| cago Friday.
Oakland is talking Of organizing a
The Scottish Ritera viii be in To-
peka next week.
Snipe are plentiful around the
ponds near Topeka
President Lincoln died 40 years ago
! today at 1922 a. m.
A. S. Rankin is spending this week
at Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
Look out for mumps. They are
prevalent in some parts Of the coun-
/ try
Mr. william NJ. Hershey is quite
sick with grip at his home, 512 Quincy
street.
Next Monday and Tuesday the Tope-
| Aa Turner'S viii hold forth at the Audi
| toriUm.
The Philamena club met Thursday af-
ternoon with Mrs. Wells, at 632 Chand-
Ter street.
The Shawnee county orchard own
ers are still worrying about frosts and
with good reason.
Charles D. Welch, of CoheyvilIe, for
merly auditor of Shawnee county, is
visiting in Topeka.
George E. Bell is now the stenog-
rapher in the Office of the county at
torney at the court house.
Representative John HOwerton will
be the architect of the new band stand
to be built at Rossville.
| At this rate the cold weather signal
/ flags will not have to be packed away
in moth balls for some weeks.
Employees at the state printing Office
are working nights. The session laws
of 1905 are occupying their attention.
Ringing Brothers circus is now
/ showing in Chicago. The opening spec
teele is the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
There was a short meeting Friday
( evening of the ways and means conf
mittee. Only three members were pres
| ent.
Miss Ona May Miller won the Dem
crest medal at the Shawnee county
W. c. T. .. institute at Oakland yes
terday.
Rev. s. c. coblentz arrived from
Danville. Ill. last night and will re-
main here until after the general con-
ference.
The Usage City Free Press says:
Mrs. Fred Cole, of Topeka, came to-
day to be the guest of Mrs. F. B.
Bonebral1e.
The Usage City Free Press says:
Miss Villa Rodgers came from To-
peka yesterday to visit with Miss Flor
ence Miller
! W. A. Granteer, formerly in the
! grocery business, has bought farm
t-,1 NT.,-a Il,
there to live.
Rev. NJ. c. Long, the first pastor of
the Third Presbyterian church, will
preach at that church tomorrow morn
ing and evening.
Justice Henry F. Mason Of the SUI
i preme court will read a paper on THE
Settlement of the County Seats of the
Frontier tonight
The work of exeavating for the
West Twelfth street paving has begun.
The paving of the street car tracks is
nearly completed.
The state camp of the Royal Neigh
, bors, the womens auxiliary of the
Modern Woodmen of America, will
meet in Topeka June 8.
If Soldier township is divided into
. a North and a South Soldier there
will be one more country precinct to
hear from at election time.
William YanSciver brought suit in
the district court Friday afternoon for
divorce from Carrie VanSciver. He
charges her with frequenting joints.
On account of a juror being sick
and the absence of County Attorney
Hungate. there has been little work in
) the district court this week.
Now that there is more of a strike
, at the Santa Fe shops Tim Donovan
may wish that he had taken the more
peaceful job of sergeant of police.
In a few weeks it will be warm
enough for Colonel Sam Radges to
put his theory of d fur overcoat in
l summer. to keep the heat out in
practice.
Charles Samson, secretary of the
State Fair association, has already
commenced the work of carrying out
the plans for the fair 10 be held next
September.
There is a lone patch of wild straw
: berries near the fair grounds ana pre-
emption claims are being hled against
I it by those who claim the right to pick
F by discovery.
Last nights snow was announced in
advance by PrOgnosticator Cox, of the
: weather bureau forecast office at Chi
f cago. Some one ought to box Cox for
2 such a weather joke.
I Omar Mehl, the ex-Washburn foot
{ ball and baseball player, is not the
: only member Of the Mehl family to
r gain distinction. His father is now
mayor of Burlingame.
Ben johnson has boom on for
4 county clerk next year. At present
: ! Johnson is bOokkeeper in the state
treasurer's Office. He wants the Re
publican nomination.
The Ralph Parlette lecture, which
was to have been given in the Auditor
/ Jun April Is, has been postponed until
May and will be the last entertain
+ ment of the pipe organ series.
S Probate Judge Hayden is ready tc
receive orders for the new styles ii
J. marriage certificates which he ha:
= lust put in stock at the Office Of tbs
probate court for the spring demand
}. Word has been received by the To-
pelxa free employment bureau that q
farm hands are wanted at once at Min
4 L.