The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
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"BATTLESHIP KANSAS
Where, o where, is our vessel going,
See her now on the waters blue:
All her sails in the breezes are floating,
Hear the songs of her gallant crew.
Ed Hoch says, :" IT'S the gunboat Kan
yreeland is her captains name;
We shall hear of her noble fame.
Water from spring in Kansas above
Lemonade in the punch bowl of late;
She shall cruise the waters of the wide
Always commanding respect from her
state.
rs Kansas Avenue
William Taylor made a run today to
Manhattan in his auto.
The street commissioner sent out
the weed cutting gang for the first
| time this year yesterday.
F. G. Dreaming, city attorney, has
parted with a valuable possession-he
has had his moustache shaved off.
Everyone appears to be happy over
the fine weather but no one is more
joyous than the farmer with a big
acreage of corn.
Or. A. H. Sherman of Pinos Altos,
New Mexico, stopped off in Topeka a
few hours today on his way east to
y
It is said that one of the teachers in
the city schools will be married be-
fore a great while to a Garnett man
who is now in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Fred Dunn, of Garden City, who fin
ished at Kansas university the first of
the month, is in Topeka taking the
state examination for admission to the
bar.
Superintendent and Mrs. White
more and family leave tomorrow for
Wisconsin where they will spend two
weeks with brother Of Mrs. White
more.
The assistant postmaster is a firm
believer in patronizing home industry
and in following this out purchased a
new straw hat in Kansas City this
spring.
The bill boards in the vicinity of the
city bear the Information that John
Robinsons circus which is billed as an
antitrust aggregation will be in Tope-
ka on July l.
= A mad dog scare in Lowman Hill
was nipped in the bud yesterday by
the dog being shot Immediately with
out summoning the officers and the
humane society.
The cantaloup season in Topeka was
opened yesterday by a return engage
ment of some diminutive specimens
about the size of a quarter which retail
at 1212 cents each.
Catalpa trees seem to have been
benefited rather than injured by the
late frosts and freezes judging from
the abundance of the bloom which is
just now appearing
The city engineers force is getting
up plats for the repaving of West
Tenth avenue and North Kansas ave-
nue.. The estimates for the work have
not yet been prepared.
The attendance at Vinewood Park
during the past few days has been
twice as great as it was during any
similar period of last year or any 9TH
er year for that matter.
While making some excavations on
the east side of the Vesper bakery the
walls of that building were under
mined and fell. The bakery is tenn
porarily out of business.
Charles Samson has a string of
eight horses in training and he styles
four of them as the fastest horses for
their age and class that were ever
raised in Shawnee county.
Mr.. Elon S. Clarke, manager of the
Mutual Life Insurance company for
Kansas, has recently returned from a
business trip through Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio. He was gone week.
DIR. H. B. Hogaboom has moved his
Office from 513 to SIS Kansas avenue
where he and John Strickrott have
formed a close partnership along lines
where their interests are mutual.
The party which will place the mark
er for the Santa Fe trail which will be
located near Burlingame, will leave over
the Santa F'e road Wednesday morning
at 10:30 returning at 1855 in the even
ing.
The old skat g rink on Jackson street
has been turned into garage and the
Eonk, honk of the gasoline wagons has
taken the place of the wheezy notes of
the mechanical organ in that section
OF the city.
The sale of Jack Henry to the Okla
homa City team will be the occasion
of a great deal of regret among the
fans, as Henry was one of the most
popular players who ever wore a To-
peka uniform
One is led tie believe from reading the
signs on the trash cans about the city
for judge of the city court despite the
fact that he was elected some six or
eight months ago.
E. w. Ellis, of the Topeka State
Journal, has returned from a two days
fishing trip at Cottonwood Falls, and
Of fish, but modestly admits that part
Of the cat IN came as gifts from friends.
Today is ladies' day at the local ball
game and large number of the fair
admirers of the game are at the park
this afternoon. This is the last ladies'
day game until a week from today, |
when Wichita will be the opposing |
team.
An automobiles, driving a big ma
chine painted red, went across West |
Seventh street early last evening at a |
speed that was easily greater than |
least three streets at this dangerous /
speed.
An old Irishman with a sense of |
humor akin to that of his country |
men was at the ball game yesterday |
In the fifth inning Captain Hurlburt |