Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-06
TUE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
weduesda1 evening, Juno 8, 1927.
LEDGER LINES.

Public examinations are progressing
at the city schools.
Light felony cases are On trial at the
Criminal Court to-day.
New wheat and the first pickings
of the raspberry crop have arrived in
market.
The colored folks will present a flag to
the Mcclellan Guards at the Exposition
building tonight.
The city fathers, a body OF wise and
good looking men, will meet at the court
house this afternoon.
A special meeting of the school board
will be held tonight at the trustees
room. Odd Fellows hall.
The cheapest place for fruit jars, jelly
tumblerS, cages, ice-cream freezera, water
coolers and filters is G. N. Erich's.
All the nonjury cases on the Shelby
county Circuit Court docket were called
and disposed Of to day by Judge g. W,
Heiskell.
Police motto at present--"All discord;
harmony not understood" This is what
Mr.. Pope, the poet and philosopher, has
to say on the subject.
At the Chancery Court Margaret Erb
has filed a bill for divorce against Jacob
Erb, on the grounds of abandonment,
failure to support, etc.
Next Friday night the graduating class
of tho city schools will give an exhibi.
ton at the Memphis Theater, and will
De presented with diplomas.
The three'story brick building ad;
joining the City Hall, which building
tumbled down a few months since, is
being rebuilt by Colonel Bickford.
The Mutuals and Buckeyes, juvenile
baseball clubs, played a game yesterday
afternoon, which resulted in a victory for
the Mutuals by a score of 10 10 IL. q.
The remains Of the drowned Horace
F. Smith and Emile BaerfuS have not as
yet been rescued from the terrible river
although a constant search is being made
daily.
You can take any three successive
days at present and say hot, hotter, hot
test. For the fourth day polite language
fails to give proper expression to a cor
rect description Of the subject.
The old city hall has undergone a
transformation. Now that the tin tower
has been taken down, the city govern
ment will 1901 move back to the old
quarterH from the courthouse building.
/ In Diminishing peelers in order to Sc.
cure harmony in police circles, the police
commissioners should consider Lord
Dundreary's %conundrum, docs the dog
wag the tail, or does the tail wag the
dog2"
A ladies' entertainment was given at
the Chickasaw Club.rooms last night
Music and refreshments were INDUCED
in and a most agreeable time was en-.
joyed by the club.men and their lady
friends.
Last night Rev. Father Kelly perform
ed a marriage ceremony between Mr.
Robert Kumpf, a we'll known sttache #
the German National Bank, and Miss
Mathelda Werkmeister, in the presence
Of quite d number Of friends.
Those unwise young men who stand
about church entrances at the coming
out of young women, and who have
brought upon themselves the %unpleasing
desigation of church l%oafers," are the
source Of ome amusement as we'll as
much disgust,
The local politicians Of a certain stripe
are already making up a slate for the
January municipal election. On the
slate their " anne appear conspicu-
ously for either election or reelection
but the best laid schemes Of mice and
men oft gang sglee.
The smallpox is prevailing through.
out portions Of East and Middle Ten