The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-20
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KEEP lip YOUR GRIT.

Best way to get there is by keeping up
your grit.
Don't give I'D hoping when the ship goes
rrab a spar or something-just refuse TO
DosIt think you're dying just because
you're hit. .,
Smile in face of danger and hang on TO
your grit
Folks die too easy-they sort of fade
Make a little error and give up in dismay;
Kind of man that's needed is the man Oh
ready wit 49,,
his grit. -Ex'
Social dance tonight at Vinewood.
For shingles of all grades. ]. Thorn
as Lumber company.
II the electric light connections can
be made the first concert of Marshalrs
band will be- given at City park next
Monday night.
Fred M Stonestreet has been
elected manager of Jackson's military
band to succeed Louis Slaughter VINO
has left Topeka.
Reports from the city engineers Of
flee indicate that the work of repav1ng
West Sixth avenue will be commenced
In about five weeks.
The receipts for "The College
Chaperones"- last night amounted to
$425 which will be turned into the
college Y. NJ. C. A. fund.
The new mutual fire insurance COM
pany organized here by merchants last
fall has already written about $1,000
600 of insurance in the state.
Quite a bit of interest is attached to
the coming series between Wichita and
Topeka, the first game of which Will
be played Saturday afternoon.
The Topeka fans today can rejoice
over the fact that the local team is in
first place and that they have moved
from third to first while on the road.
While home grown strawberries
fhave. been on sale at the home mar
kets for a week past the out of town
price of fifteen cents box prevails.
Josephine Norton, owner of the
building occupied by the Hindman
grocery store, will erect similar
building this summer at 900 Kansas
avenue.
The washburn college and Kansas
university teams will contest for SUI
premacy on the WaShburn diamond
Friday afternoon. This will be the
next game in Topeka.
"T-he care of alfalfa" is the subject
for discussion at the meeting of the
Shawnee County Alfalfa club which
will be held at the Commercial club
room Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. w. A. Sloo, 1112 West
Thirteenth street complains that her
flower beds have been robbed re-
peatedly of late and will offer a re-
ward for the perpetrators.
A book agent yesterday attempted
to sell his wares to man who is on
the eve of going to Europe. 1t takes
some nerve to tackle a man to buy
books in case of that kind.
Miss Irene Nye who is instructor of
Latin in Washburn academy has re-
signed her position and will attend
Yale during the coming year where she
will take post graduate work.
The work on the remodeling of the
postoffice building will commence on
June 10th. Lundgren and Carlson are
the contractors The cost of the i'm
provements to be made will be about
$1,000.
Sloan lodge A. F. and A. M. No.
225 will confer the second degree upon
a class Thurs day afternoon commence
ing at o'clock. Refreshments will be
served in the Masonic temple at 6
o'clock.
George Beard, driver of hose COM
pany No. 2, who was taken sick as
the result of exposure at the Rock
Island depot fire last winter, and who
was i'll for several months is back on
duty again.
Morton Albaugh is back from Pratt
and Hutchinson. At the latter place
he read a paper before the Editorial
association meeting. This reveals the
fact that Albaugh still claims that he
is newspaperman.
M. M. Rice, general store keeper for
the Santa Fe system, will deliver an
address this week at the meeting of
the Store Keepers Association of the
United States, which will be held at
the Auditorium hotel in Chicago.
Chester P. Crawford. son of L. NJ.
Crawford, is one of the incorporators
of the Sunderland Skating Rink COM
pany of England. an organization cap
italized at $4,000, for the purpose of
establishing skating Kinks in England.
Yesterday was the hottest day of
the season and is in all probabilities
responsible for the first mad dog
scare of the season, when an officer
was called to the home of ]. R. Stitt,
1872 Chandler street to kill dog that
was acting queer
BY a mistake in the advertisement
of the Green & Son Grocery company
In Tuesdays evenings State Journal,
asparagus which was quoted at three
punches for cents should have read
10 cent, and turnips which were quo
ted at punches for 10 cents should
have read 5 cents.
eff there is a bit of hard luck 1
am sure to get my share of it," COM
planned a man who lives in a cottage.
1.-The water commission has reduced
the water rate about fifteen per cent
and 1 am not benefited in the least
because my bill each month is below
the minimum charge"
Locust street from Eighth avenue
to Fourth street will probably be paw
ed this year. Petitions are being cir
culated for this pavement right now
and an effort will be made to returu
the petitions to the council next Mon
day. The paving of this street is t +,
act as a spillway to take care of the
flood water from Biddle Creek, hence
the rushing of the petitions through
at this late date.
BLEW UP THE HOUSE.