The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15


One moment she is cold. and then
Her smile returns. her look is gay,
And all is glorious again.
My love is like an April day,
All sunshine for little while,
And then her gladneSs blows away
Ana leaves no veStige of smile.
My love is like an April day,
Please note the burden of my text:
wouldn't care If 1 could say
Exactly what she might do next.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Skating tonight with music
The Topeka Grocers' association Will
hold its regular meeting at the Com
mercial club rooms tonight.
The Washburn baseball team and the
Santa Fe Office team will play at Wash
burn park Saturday afternoon.
A. G. Lakin of Emporia was brought
to Topeka yesterday where he will en-
ter one of the local hospitals for an op-
Grafton.
Two automobile licenses were issued
yesterday. No. 159 was purchased by
A. L. Jaenicke and No. 100 went to E.
E. Feurt.
j. A. Nelson will Immediately COM
mence the erection of $4,000 residence
on Western avenue between Fourth
and Fifth streets.
The Ohio club will hold its regular
spring meeting this evening at Lincoln
Post hall to which all natives Of the
Buckeye state are invited.
According to the plans now being
made, the new Euclid school building
will have fiat roof instead of Span
ish gable as was at first planned.
Roy Crawford announces the opening
of the new Air Dome theater May 1t.
The theater will be devoted to stock
company performances as formerly.
The annual meeting the membership
of the Central Y. M. G. A. will be held
at the association rooms Wednesday
evening when five directors will be
elected.
The grand jury started in on Its de-
alterations Monday afternoon and are.
hard at it today The indictments will
probably be returned by it during the
latter half of the week.
Chandler and Nelson have been ask
ed by the board of trustees of Wash
burn college to prepare plans for the
reconstruction of Rice hall which was
practically destroyed by fire about six
months ago.
J. c. Payne & Co. are today celebrat-
ing the twenty-first anniversary of
Payne's shoe store. the oldest shoe
store in Topeka. Mr.. J. G. Payne is
distributing handsome embossed SOU
venirs in honor of the occasion.
Twenty-Five cases are set for trial in
the district court next week in which
the city of Topeka is the plaintiff and
the defendants q residents of the city,
the twenty-second defendant being
"One Barrel of California Wine"
1t is rumored that the state house
baseball fans are clamoring for game
with the newspaper men of the town.
If bee of that character is really buzz
zing in their bonnets the newspaper
men are only awaiting challenge.
Three wagon scales have been found
Iof@ ut I'D ST. tn, vnf rt1 hyy
Weigh Inspector Hamilton. These three
scales have been condemned and the
proprietors will be given a reasonable
length of time in which to correct them.
Prof. Henry Coe Culbertson, presi-
dent of the College Of Emporia, will
deliver the commencement address at
the annual commencement of the Kan
gas Medical college which will be held
in the college chapel Thursday, April
Emory Olson, the popular second
baseman of last years White Sox, will
go to Denver this season where he will
take the place of Lauterborne who was
in charge of the second station when
the Denver team was here a couple OF
weeks abO.
The state fair fund was increased $50
yesterday by friend whose modesty
will not permit the publication of his
name at this time. The fund now
amounts to $18,830 not including the
receipts from the COHCeTI given ny
MarshalPs band.
The Metsker tract consisting Of 81
acres and lying between LOwman Hill
and the Washburn college district has
been placed on the market for sale.
It is owned by County Commissioner
Sterne. An effort will be made to sell
the tract as a whole
D. w. Pitts, a Garden City capitalist
who is interested in the Wolff Packing
company and the authority on pray
do. in his home town spent a portion
of Tuesday in Topeka on business con-
nected with the firm Which he repre-
sents in western Kansas.
The game between the Washburn
and K. U, teams as we'll as the relay
race between the teams of the two
schools will take place Friday at As
ISOLATION park, and not Thursday at
Washburn park as was enormously
reported in the morning paper
Enough Fort Scott blue sandstone
has been received to finish out the curb
ing of West street, but the remaining
paving contracts left over unfulflled
from last year have cement curbing
used, Webster G. Tulloch subletting the
contract for the cement curbing.
Robert Fullerton has on exhibition in
his sporting goods store handsome
silver trophy which VIII be awarded to
the winning team in the Topeka City
league. The trophy is In the shape OF
three silver bats arranged In tripod
form supporting a large silver ball.
The George Bieler Sons brewing
company of Cincinnati were assessed
fine of 800 on each count. the min
imum and costs amounting to ABOUT
500 more for selling liquor at Dodge
City and Larned without having re-
tail liquor dealers license. The Bielers
did a mail order business.
The case of the state against Clar-
ence Young, the Topeka druggist, who
is charged with the sale of cocaine and