The Topeka state journal., 1901-08-26

cants at Topeka, Paola. Fort Scott.
Wa-Keeney, Lawrence, Emporia4 Beloit,
Holton, Hutchinson Manhattan Sal1na
and Lyons.
Manager Crawford wishes several
more children to take part in the school
| room scene in Lovers Lane" Those
| who wish to try their histrionic talents
should notify him at the theater at
| once.
NJ. @. Campbell, a member of the live
| stock sanitary commission, says that d
| part of his ranch in Clark county has
| had no rain since May He says the
| southwestern part of the state needs
| rain badly.
Many people believed that the maxi
| mum temperature of the summer was
| reached about Sunday noon. 1t was
| very sultry, and the great humidity
| was backed up with sweltering breeze
| from the south
z. r. Brown has appealed to Super
intendent of Insurance W. V. Church
| to revoke the license of the WOOdmen
| of the World Accident association be-
cause it has not paid him a judgment
secured for injuries received.
The Buchanan street paving, from
| Fourth to Tenth, has been completed
When Buchanan is paved from Fourth
/ to Twentieth, it will be the longest
paved street in town. Sixth avenue viii
be second, and Kansas avenue third.
Thorp Buttolph Jennings. weather
forecaster and meteorgraphist, left yes
! CeEQdy TO attend the weather men
! convention at Milwaukee. where he
expects to pick up few new ideas on
the latest styles in winter storm effects
and hot weather plaids.
The Topeka Athletic association base
ball team took its revenge on Valley
Falls Saturday afternoon, beating that
team by the score of IL to 4. The To-
peka team batted the ball hard. The
game was played at Washburn baseball
park.
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ed its $1,000 appropriation for its pay.
The work has been much bigger task
than anticipated The board has de-
cided to meet every three months
henceforth "A deficiency bill will have
to be passed to pay their salaries.
Dinkelspiel. the German dialect
writer of the New York Journal. had
a Life of Mrs. Nation in last Thurs
days Journal He concludes; From
der life uf Carrie We learn der lesson
dot a sharp hatchet is half der baddIe
und a gOot press agent is der udder
half
ming out of Denver, and his sister and
mother, Miss Alice and Mrs. Carrie
Dyer, both of Red Cloud, Neb., have
been the guest of Miss Pearl Sample
of SO9 Topeka avenue, for a week. To
morrow they will leave for a visit in
Rushville, Mo-
The members of the city council are
nearly all planning to go to Wichita
hearing the trial of the dollar gas in
junction suit before the United States
court The councilmen expect to have
no trouble in touching the railroads |
for passes to Wichita
Mayor Hughes will go before the |
county commissioners on Tuesday and |
explain to them just what the city |
wants the county to do in the matter !
of paying taxes on city property held |
by the county. The mayor will be
armed with a lot of statistics collected |
by Ed G. Smith, assistant city engi- /
neer.
NJ E. Younkin, the last of the dog |
tax collectors, Will quit his work this |
week, and go with his family out into /
the western part of the state, where he I
owns farm He will stay there till |
September 16, when he will return to I
Topeka to collect lot of dog licenses
which are promise him Immediately |
after Santa Fe pay day.
City Engineer McCabe says that he
expects to notify Ritchie & Ramsey,
the pavement contractors who laid the
College avenue pavement, that they
must make good the defective work on
that part of their contracts with the
city The brick along the car tracks on
College avenue are coming out, because
they were not properly laid
Nels Mcconnell, the dog tax collector
under Mayor Drew, paid $12 to the city
treasurer last Saturday, which makes
good all the deficiency which was
charged against Mr.. Mcconnell He |
says he notified the mayor when he
turned over the office that he would
pay the amount as soon as the receipts
he gave were accounted for.