The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12

to be built through the city, renem-
bered this time.
| Naturally this keeps the citizens up
| on hope and expectation. However, the
main business of the merchants is to
sell goods to farmers who have become
nearly independent by raising wheat
! Salina is in the heart of the wheat
country.
The majority of the farmers are
| Swedes. They are much given to music
| and automobiles. 1t is a very common
| sight to see an auto come "honking
down Santa Fe avenue-the main bust
| ness street-with a load of light COM
| plexioned agFiculturists in front and a
| sack of grain in the back.
| Besides it's commercial attractions.
"Salina is an educational center" as
| the city's prospectus has it. Salina
boasts of st. Johns Military academy,
where boys learn military tactics and
are instructed in the way in which they
| should go, a business college which
| turns out crops of blond and otherwise
| stenographers nearly every month, and
| the Kansas Wesleyan university where
| boys learn to preach and other useful
| accomplishments. Girls also attend
| and generally marry the men students
| a little before or after graduation.
The last named institution is a
Methodist school The NJ. E. church is
the church of Salina. Perhaps this is
| because Senator Bristow is one of the
main pillars of the church-f1guratively
speaking of course, although his height
| might warrant a literal Interpretation
| of the expression.
| His interest in the church comes
natural as he graduated from Baker
university at Baldwin, which is con-
| sidered one of the best M. E. preachers
| factories west of the Mississippi.
AS to its physical features, SaIina is
built on very fat ground. The entire
| locality is very level. painfully so, to a
person who is accustomed to seeing
| the hills near Topeka.
have been writing in a beautiful
park on the east edge of the city, but
as it is growing dark, I will close. 1
will try to tell more of the most inter
esting things about this home of Bris-
tow, when 1 write again. c. NJ. r.
"The Noise in the Stove Pipe" or
''The Adventures of a Pigeon" might
| be the title of story told by Charles
Berry of 1907 Quincy street.
For day or two we have heard
futtering. noise in the chimney and
stove pipe" said Mr.. Berry. ''Our
| chimney extends through the upper
story of the house to along the wall
| down stairs, where it is connected
with the stove by an elbow in a pipe
The other day we again heard the
noise and finally I removed the con-
nection between the chimney and
| the stove. To my surprise a pigeon
stepped out of the pipe onto my
hand. 1t was as pretty as the pigeons
in the advertisements for gun powder
| The bird didn't seem at all fright
ened, but appeared to recognize me
as its rescuer. I kept it for few
hours and gave 1t food and water.
The little thing seemed nearly dead
for want of drink and for lack of
food. When I let it go out of doors
1t flew to the top of a neighbors
roof and that is the last I have seen
of it. I suppose it must have fallen
into the chimney and on down to the
stove"
Notes and Personals.
The Argonaut club met last night
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. c. c.
Nicholson.
Charles sweenson has returned to
his home in Hayes after a visit with
friends in North Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Newton of En-
poria are visiting friends in North
Topeka.
The Union Pacific depot is dec
GRATED in purple and white in honor
of the EIks convention.
A special communication of Golden
Rule lodge, No. 90. will be held at
D. m. Thursday. May 18th. work in
the third degree. Master Masons re-
Mrs NJ E. Connolly of 517 Grant
street went to Harrington yesterday for
a visit
see me for bargains in buggies.-
Henry hardware.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edison of
Menoken were visiting in North To-
peka yesterday.
Mrs. H w. Daub is visiting friends
in SeabroOk.
w b Baxter of Auburn is spending
today in North Topeka
George Dister of East Indianola is
working in Sheetz's grocery.
and driven by flute playing driver
passed along Kansas avenue yester-
day afternoon and attracted much at
tention. The flute player refused to