The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
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Another "a hours of weather as cold
as 1t was last night and there will be
skating on the lakes Of Central park
MarshaITs band will have a re-
hearsal at 10 O'Clock Sunday morning
The proposed concert has been aban-
doned.
The Saturday Night club will hold
the regular meeting tonight A pa
per has been prepared by Robert
Stone on the Constitution of kan
sas."
A dispatch form Hutchinson indi-
Gates that city will send train load
of representatives to the L. C. T. con-
vention which will meet in Topeka
May 10 and IL.
Judge ]. c. Pollock Of the federal
court returned from st. Louis yester-
day. where he has been holding court
for Judge D. P. Dyer of the eastern
division of Missouri
The next regular monthly meeting
of the shawnee County horticulture F1l
society will be held at Vinewood park
May 9, which will include the first
picnic feature of the season.
The city has repaired the bridge
over the Shunganunga on Davis
street. The bridge is used by a large
number OF people living in Quinton
Heights. The cost amounted to 500.
Twenty thousand yards of bunting
will be used in decorating Topeka
for the United Commercial. Travellers
convention which will be held here
next week. The coiors are blue, white
and gold.
Captain Richmond p Hobson of
Merrimac as we'll as osculatory fame is
on the programme for lecture at the
Chautauqua meeting which VIII De
held in Topeka the week commencing
July Is.
John Strickrott. one of the best
known scenic photographers in the
west, has purchased the interest OF
= = e-~r 4 n
at SIS Kansas avenue. and Will con-
tinue the business at the old location
There's an old saying Every dog
has his day. But if the ordinance
fathered by c. K Holiday, alias the
Duke of ParkdaIe, goes on the city
statute books this saying will not be
applicable to the future of the pups
IN Topeka for they will have had
theirs.
Cheer up girls. there is mud on the
doOrsteps.'' is another catch phrase
floating around 1t is applied chiefly to
old maids and is interpreted as mean
ing that there is still hope for them
for fellows have had the temerity of
coming as near making a call as to ap-
proach the front door.
A petition signed by many of the
taxpayers of North Topeka will be
presented to Mayor William Green
asking that F. o. Morns, president of
the North Topeka Civic club, be ap-
pointed a member of the board of
park commissioners as a representa-
tive of that section of the city.
Authorization folks ought to
cheer UP considerably for it is said
that the snow stom Of yesterday and
the cold weather incident to it de-
stroyed the seed that had already
formed for the purpose of scattering
itself broadcast and thereby increas-
ing the crop of dandelion plants.
The law providing for the commits
Tifzfrl
won't be in effect until July; at that
time the statute books Will be pub
hshed- This naturally means that the
commission plan Of government can
not be voted on here in Topeka be-
fore August. The law is an optional
one.
A city ordinance making 1t man
datory that mice and rats shall not
run around loose would be welcomed
by a great many Topekans. These
rodents have a habit of digging up
the roots of plants and bulbs to far
greater extent than do dogs. and espe-
cially bulbs and plants of the more
perishable kind that are started in
pots and boxes in doors.
The snow of yesterday may be taken
as natures final rebuke to Governor
HOch- Prior to the storm the grand
fathers and grandrn others of the dan
delion kingdom had grown hoary
headed and the snow of yesterday
shaved them of the fluffy white seed
pods and beat them into the damp
earth, where they will remain until
they again mat the earth with their
broad leaves and yellow blossoms.
A meeting of the members of the
Topeka City Troup is called for Tues
day evening at the Commercial club
rooms when arrangements will be
made to participate in the C. A r.
parade Wednesday and Thursday. An
effort will be made to reorganize the
troup along different lines from those
governing the old body. The uniforms
will be of the khaki grade. such as