The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-26

AUToBEE.

AUToBEE.
Beside a garage grew a rose,
Wind-tossed, with stem atilt:
One night unseen
Some gasoline
Onto this rose was split
Adulterated flower juice
A bee did sip next morn;
And now he does
No longer buzz,
But honks just like a horn
F. P. Pitzer in Harper's Weekly
meeting of the w C. T. U. work.
ers OF Lowman Hill church will be
held at o'clock Thursday afternoon.
r. G. Nichols will reopen the Olym-
pic Thursday evening with a five cent
moving picture show and Messic
Bros. orchestra.
Now that the different parties have
completed their platforms, the politi-
clans and shortgrass statesmen have
returned to their homes.
Already many of the merchants and
business men have decorated their
places of business in honor of the visit
of Mr.. Bryan to Topeka tomorrow
r. ]. Hopkins. Republican nominee
for representative Of Finney county,
has been in Topeka for two days mill
ing with the politicians who are here
attending the party councils.
The Enid team will make it's last
dppCdl dLCC VI Lie SSdSOh III 1OPChd w.
morrow afternoon. Five other teams
have yet to make their farewell ap-
pearance, and the Oklahoma City team
will follow Enid.
D. F. Charles. of the Guthrie Real
Estate company, who was operated on
at Stormont hospital two weeks ago
for appendicitis is improving rapidly
and expects to be able to return to his
home Sunday.
Judging from the number of coun-
try newspaper men to be seen in To-
peka during the past two or three
days. the adjustment Of the pass
privilege has not worked such a great
hardship after all.
A meeting of the committee OF
Twentieth Kansas men will be held at
the office of DR.. S. A. Hammel Mon
day night, to complete arrangements
for the sham battle which will be CIV
en- at the fair grounds during state
fair week.
A meeting of the Bryan club will be
held at the Throop hotel this evening
to complete arrangements for the en-
tertainment of William j. Bryan, ma
tional Democratic candidate for the
presidency who will be in Topeka
Thursday.
Seventy-five dollars has been ap-
propriated by the entertainment and
advertising committee of the Com
mercial club for the use of the Demo-
cratic committee which will look after
the entertainment of William j. Bry-
an, who will speak in Topeka tomor-
row.
1t has been suggested by a local fan
that Dick Cooley have William Jen-
noted college player. pitch the first ball
lover the plate in the Topeka-Enid
game tomorrow, which Mr.. Bryan has
been invited to attend. This would GER
tainly prove a drawing card.
The street railway company has
made arrangements to unload all pas
sengers for the Bryan meeting which
will be held at the fair grounds
Thursday evening at Twentieth street,
instead of at Seventeenth street, at
the entrance of the grounds as has
been the custom in the past.
IF this blooming fall weather is not
discontinued shortly complained
representative of one of the railroads.
1--WE will have to commence advertis-
ing early winter excursions to FIor1-
da. No one is going to leave topeka
with such weather as this for the
lakes or Colorado points and l can't
say that l am blaming them much.
The act of the Martinez Bros. which
opens the Novelty bill this week is one
of the best of it's kind on the stage.
The two brothers are hne musicians
and play with skill on the violin, man
dolin, guitar and banjo. Besides they
play a number of homemade instru-
ments and their big hit is made when
they play the Miserere chorus from II
Crovature on a single string stretcheu
along the side of a big sugar barrel,
two parts being played on one string.
Interest in the Topeka Motor Boat
club is on the increase, two fine boats
having been added during the past
week, and the prospects are that the
fleet will be further increased within
the next few weeks by at least two
more boats. One of the latest acquisi-
tons in the boat line is one construct
ed during the past year by f. J.
Lindamood, an employe of the Santa
Fe offices, who has worked on the
boat during his leisure hours and
evenings. DR.. r. S. Magee this week
launched ten-horse power craft
which he recently purchased while on
a visit to Chautauqua Lake. N. Y.