The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-19

rot done the right thing for this sec
ton Of the country.
There is one Topeka man who boasts
/ Of the fact that he has met the recent
White House bride. but he has nothing
/ of which to boast as many a woman
meets a man she cannot avoid
Now that it is all over and no To-
pekans were included in the invited
/ guests, there can be no jealousies in
i the upper set and they may look else
/ where for social distinction.
i There is a newspaper nlan-in Topeka
I who smokes three for five cent cigars
/ because he cannot afford anything bet
| ter, as he says, yet the bartender of one
joint says that his patronage is worth a
dollar a day.
As an indication that Topeka mer-
chants are up to date, an uptown
music dealer had q copy of the latest
song in his window the day of the we'd
ding. The title Of the selection was
Mick and Alice"
Despite the fact that Topeka IS
streets are wide and long there was
barely enough room on them for the
accomn odation of the pleasure loving
portion of the population who were
driving Sunday afternoon.
It took sixteen columns of the State
Journal to tell about the wedding of
Alice, of Roosevelt fame, and she
probably occupied more space in the
Saturday issue of the paper than she
viii ever again.
A day like Sunday makes the average
man who does not own a horse and
buggy wish that he had saved his
money and bought some kind of a con-
veyance which could be used as a. means
of loconlotion on fair days.
A young man walking down the
sunny side of Kansas avenue with five
handsome young ladies Sunday after
noon led many an envious man to
wonder II the pork department Of the
Wolff Packing company is closed
temporarily,
A Topeka bachelor who has shown
a decided preference for a west side
girl, announces that there is positively
nothing in the talk of an early spring
wedding. But when one Is in his pres
/ ent condition 1t is very questionable If
he knows what the next move will be.
c. L. Scott was exhibiting to his
friends list clipped from a Sunday pa
per which he said was list Of the
guests invited to the Roosevelt wedding.
Upon closer inspection the list proved
! to be the names of the men who signed
! Tom Kelly's bond and are being sued
for his shortages.
The weighing Of all of the mails han
! died in the state will be commenced to-
morrow and win continue each day for
/ the next los days. An estimate will be
made on the weights taken during this
/ period and the contracts for carrying
4 the mans IOf LuG next Two years VIII
4 be made on these weights.
/ Two of the aristocratic bulldogs of the
/ city engaged in a passage of arms Sun
! day afternoon. Chas. Eagles white
/ bulldog and James Chappelle's brindle,
1 Shamrock, met in front of the Palace
clothing store. A large crowd soon
| collected and after some difficulty the
/ dogs were separated.
A young lady who has been more
/ than friendly with the owner of an
automobile all winter long has broken
/ off the friendly relations and is posing
as a heroine. She claims that one who
1 can take the stand that she has taken
with an automobile owner just when
! spring is opening is entitled to Car
negie medal.
/ The following civil service examina-
lions will be held IN Topeka soon al
/ the federal building: Copper and brass
4 worker, departmental service, March Z;
medical clerk (maiel, March 21-22;
marine firemen, March IA; aid, coast
and geodetie survey. March 14-15; as
4 sistant examiner, patanta Offices Febru-
airy 27-28; laboratory assistant, March 4
Two earboys of ammonia concentrate
/ exploded yesterday in the rear of the
/ Gatlin drug store, 702 Kansas avenue
/ The rise in the temperature caused gas
1 to generate in the carboys and the ex-
plosion followed. About fifty gallons OF
/ the ammonia was spilled on the floor
and as consequence the dense fumes
! pervaded the whole store. Three car
/ boys were standing close together but
/ the one remained intact. The loss will
/ amount to about $50.