The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-09
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Aside from the fact that flowers are
in bloom and the trees are in full
dress there is little to indicate that
summer is here.
Natural gas is having a tryout this
week and by the time the contest ends
viii have demonstrated its adaptability
as winter fuel.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Dental association will open IN
this city Thursday morning and last
the remainder of the week.
The real true boy got up extra early
this morning and went down to the
railroad yards to watch the circus I'M
load and follow the wagons to the show
grounds.
The Wendell orchestra which will
furnish the music for the benefit at
Rochester school house Saturday even
ing is composed of ten members Of the
Wendell family.
A play, MEN, Maids and Match
makers, will be given by the mem
bers of the subsenior class of the To-
peka high school at their auditorium
Friday evening.
Fred Mayors ball team defeated a
team captained by Douglas Buck yes
terday afternoon by a score of 10 to Z,
the batteries being Mayer and Kerl
and MacAtee and Hamilton.
The man who took down his stove
under the belief that summer was real
" here has been sitting around since
shivering in an overcoat and thinking
seriously at times of putting back the
stove.
Mrs. C. E. Orman. matron of the
Crittenden home has returned from
Boston where she attended the ma
tional meeting of the matrons of Crit
tenden homes as a delegate from
Kansas.
The convention of the Kansas State
Temperance union will close this
evening with an address by Rev. Faith
er James NJ. Cleary, a well known
priest of more than ordinary oratorical
ability
A carload of medicine donated by
the citizens of Providence. r. L, passed
through Topeka yesterday consigned
to the relief committee at San Fran
cisco by way Of the Wells Fargo Ex-
press company.
Punch Wheeler, press agent for the
Sells and F'loto show, says that the
polar bears Of the aggregation have
been holding a jollihcation for the last
two days. evidently believing that they
are nearing their native land.
The energy which you expended in
digging the dandelions out of your
lawn is now being rewarded by having
the seed from the -dandelions which
the fellow next door refused to dig up
come floating into your yard.
The State Journal telephone began
TO ring DIlZnl anu early THIS MORNING
and most Of the early enQuirers
wanted to know either. What time
VIII the parade commence?" or
where have the show grounds been
located?'
The Sells show arrived in the city
at four o'clock this morning and was
Immediately surrounded by small BOYS
who had received tip of the early ar
rival of the train and were on hand
to assist in the unloading; with their
presence.
Topeka is really confronted with
very serious famine. It strikes deep
down in the grass roots. It consists
Of a great crying demand on the part
of femininity for long black gloves and
an impossibility to fill the demands on
the part of the stores.
Some one who wants to earn the
everlasting gratitude of the people
who are compelled to use lower Kan
sas avenue might accomplish the de-
sire by devising some mode for sup
pressing the tin pan varieties of
monographs which seem to run day
and night.
Horne planning mill on Van Buren,
street, lost the middle finger of his left
hand in peculiar manner yesterday.
A heavily loaded wagon was being
backed against the curb and Williams
was endeavoring to place q block in
front of the wheel to hold it in place
when the team started and caught the
finger between the wagon tire and the
wooden block, crushing it off at the
second joint
A half asleep colored man drove one
of the wagons belonging to the Amer
lean laundry directly in front of an
eastbound street car on West Sixth
avenue at the intersection of Polk
about half past this morning. The
motorman reversed his car and yelled
at the driver but he did not seem able
to wake him. The wagon was slightly
damaged and the sleep Of the driver
broken, which is about the sum total
of the damage done