The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

someday;-so many. fearful eyes,
So many faces toward the skies
Are weary Of the night
So many failing prayers that reel
And stagger upward through the storm.
And yearning hands that reach and feel
NO pressure true and warm
So many hearts whose crimson wine
And blurred and sfreaked with drops of
Upon the lips Of Pain.
Or if thou still must bide a while,
Make stronger yet the hope that runs
Before thy coming SMILE
And haste and find them where they wait
Let summer winds blow down that
And ali they long for, soon or late.
Bring round to them. Someday.
lanes Whitcomb Riley.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
society met today at the state house.
The annual meeting Of the Railroad
Z. M. G. A. will be held tonight and
OFFICERS elected for the coming year.
Registrations are coming in rapidly at
the Auditorium, in fact, considerably
faster than at the beginning of last
year.
County Treasurer Bowen received
$SE, 41S.22 in taxes yesterday. Much of
1t was in large checks received days
ago and which had been allowed to ac-
cumulate.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders OF the Topeka Fskridge and
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take place on the evening of January
TO- at 8 O'Clock. at the Commercial club
rooms.
Frank Foster said that w. M. David
son, who came from Omaha to Topeka
to attend the Saturday Night club ban
quet in honor of Governor Bailey last
night, came all the way to Kansas to
get a. square meal.
Judge Pollock returned from st. Louis
on Wednesday He has been holding
court at the Fair city for Judge Adams
He Will hear cases in Topeka the re-
mafnder of this week and on next Mon
day will open court at Kansas City.
A meeting of the committee appoint
ed by the Commercial club to arrange
for the inaugural reception will take
place on Saturday afternoon at the
Commercial club rooms at o'clock, at
which time the final details will be ar
ranged.
| Secretary Logan says that he thinks
the Topeka Baseball association will he
able to secure Dutch" Pertsch from
/ Springfield in exchange for Freil and
nation that Pertsch has not been sold
or traded to Joplin.
The rural mail carriers who work out
of the city of Topeka did a great BUSH
/ 42SSS 004A1S lnS past 44Gy Qe-
! hVered 1928 pieces Of mail and sold
$40S.21 worth of stamps. This is the
greatest amount of business the rural
carriers have done since the establish
ment of the routes in the county. The
/ heaviest route is No. T. On this one,
1926 pieces were handled.
Col T. B. Murdoch, of Ell Dorado, has
/ been hobnobbing in Washington with
/ the vice presidents cabinet officers and
postmaster generals. He told the Wash
ingtonianS that they didn't know what
real life was on a lobster-oyster basis.
He is visiting in Topeka where he will
tell the people that they can accomplish
more on a bacon grease diet than the
Washingtonians can on theirs.
/ Topeka council No. 9 Triple Tie hos
| installed the following officers: 3. w.
Mcclure. past president; D. G. Tillot-
son, president; Rufus Horton vice
president; Alice Eyer, chaplain; Helen
J. Moore, 3 corresponding secretary; J.
/ M. Miller, financial secretary; II. o.
Austin, treasurer; Mary Anderson, con-
ductor; Josephine SCHUYLER, guard; Cal
vim Harrup, sentinel: John Nicol, EN-
ma Bailey and DR.. Mary Stewart, trus-
/ tees.
The Democratic Flambeau club will
Members and their families are expect
ed to be present. The officers are: H
G. Frazer, president; B. Marklin, first
vice president; G. P. Donahue, second
vice president; James Bartell, financial
secretary; John Zamlowsky, recording
secretary; G. H. Hartman, steward
Henry HeiSe, treasurer; Q. E. Clyde.
James Wunderly, Owen Callahan, trus-
tees; Charles Cox, captain; Charles
| Smith, first lieutenant; August Hansen,
second lieutenant.
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