The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Friday is arbor day.

Friday is arbor day.
Tt is close to lawn mower time.
Never mind, Phoebe-theylI forget
it for two years after today.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Albright are the
parents of a girl, born Sunday.
The opening of summer will come
when Judge Doster dOns his straw hat.
It's getting near the time when the
Whats the score" fend gets in his
work.
Washburn lost the baseball game
Saturday to the Nine Bees by score
of to 4.
J. S. Parks, of the Continental
City Monday.
The next regular meeting of the
Commercial club takes place a week
from Friday night.
There was a good deal of scare and
not SO much reality in Weatherman
Jennings cold wave warning.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
society will meet Thursday at the hoti-
cultural rooms in the state house.
N. ". Van VaIkenberg, B. F. Girls
well and J. W. Going were in Kansas
City Monday on insurance business.
At any rate, the licked fellow cannot
say tonight that he couldn't get out
his vote on account of the weather.
Cal Heck, charged with assaulting
and attempting to kill w F. Kunz,
viii be tried in the district court April
10.
The first practice game which the
Topeka team viii indulge in will take
place next Saturday with Washburn
college.
Paderewski. the great Polish pianist,
comes to the Auditorium next Tues
day. Seats are now selling at STAINS
fields.
f. ]. Lynch left Sunday on a bust
]
Joplin, Mo. He will return the last
of the week.
General Manager II. U. Nudge, of
the Santa Fe, is making a tour of in
spection of the lines Of the road in
southern Kansas.
The troupe of performing dogs at
the vaudeville theatre this week are
proving a big hit The act is one of
the best of the kind ever seen in To-
peka.
II. seems as if very few people have
vet learned how to get through the
revolving doors at the postoffice. About
ever half hour somebody starts the
wrong direction and gets stuck
The Dutch VS. Irish contest at the y.
M. c. A. closes Wednesday night. The
closing of such a contest, a mixture of
/ Donneybrook fair discussion with sticks
+ and a Heidelberg roushmitum, ought to
beat a 2O-round prize fight.
Now that the county commissioners
/ have had the entire interior Of The
/ court house painted and decorated the
offices in the building are as attractive
as any in the city. The commissioners
decided year ago to take care of and
preserve the court house instead of let
ing it go to rack and ruin.
Two rnonstrous gobs of green and
white paint, covering space of about
ten square feet at two different places,
decorate the asphalt pavement in
front of the high school building. They
are supposed to let the passing indi-
vidual know that there is a class in the
school which will graduate in Janu-
airy 'o7.
DR.. H. W. Roby's address on Early
Shorthand and Typewriter Days in the
Northwest" under the auspices Of the
Dougherty Success club, next Wednes-
day evening, April 5. Will be of unusual
shorthand. as the doctor was the
first official court reporter in
the United States and one of the men
who invented and perfected the first
typewriting machine.
The board Of education knows a good
deal, or knows nothing about hot air.
For the past six years heating contrac-
tors have given the board plenty of
hot air" promises that their systems
were excellent and the board has or
dered them put in school buildings.
Then the board would find that these
hot air. furnaces, rightly named.
would not be at the buildings and they
have been torn out. All this hot air.
business has been mighty expensive to
! the taxpayers.