The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-31

| ant executive council meeting set for
| that date several weeks ago.
State SUPERINTENDENT Frank Nelson
/ is holding one of the score of teachers
| examinations for state certificates IN
| his Office in the state house this week
The city dump is now in operation,
but the machinery is not working as
well as it might. The workmen say II
is too old and rusted TO do good service
w r. F'risbey, who has been with the
Rock Island engineering service in OK
lahoma. has returned and VIII attend
the Kansas Medical college again this
winter.
The members of Company A, First
regiment K. N. G., will leave at 100
Monday morning over the Santa F'e for
the Twentieth Kansas reunion at OF
tawa.
VIM. Supple who has been a resident
of jefferson county for forty years has
moved to Topeka and has begun the
manufacturing of brooms at 1894 Kan
sas avenue.
jackson 5 Twenty third regiment band
played at Garfield park last night
There were seven Sousa marches on the
programme. If Sousa could have only
been therei
The street roller used by the Barber
Asphalt people resumed business yes
terday afternoon. The engineer had re
covered his health. The work on Quincy
street is progressing.
At the meeting of Irwin lodge ESQ. of
the A O. H. w Thursday evening. IS
candidates were initiated. The exer-
cises We're elaborate, a concert being
given by the K P band
one of the attractions on Harrison
street last night; A young lady about
5 feet s inches tall, with hair 50 long
that it touched the heel of her boot as
she walked down the street
A new short story by Rev. Charles NJ.
Sheldon has just been published by the
Advance Publishing Co of Chicago. 1t
is called 1.-The Wheels of the Machine,
and it treats of machine politics.
J H Simmons, of the Santa F'e gen
eral offices, has gone to Albuquerque
N M, for a ten days visit. With him
went his daughter, Miss Maud, and
granddaughter, Bertha Barnett.
Dan Carpenter, brother of Sergeant
Carpenter, an invalid, was given a long
buggy ride Friday evening by Mrs. Car
penter They drove out to Shorey
where Mrs. Carpenters parents live
1t is a lucky thing the baseball sea-
son is nearly over. The pile of marble
tiles at the north steps of the state
house would be most tempting to small
boys for a home plate" when the fever
is on
Congressman Chayles Curtis an
nounces that he viii be sufficiently. re-
covered from mis- recent sickness 50
that he can deliver his address to
Funston's Fighting Twentieth at OF
taswa next week.
A NJ Mccormick has been appointed
master mechanic of the Southwestern
division of Rock Island. east of Mis-
souri, river, with headquarters at Tren-
ton Mo. John Gill, formerly master me
chanic. resigned
The gospel meeting Of the Y. w. c. A.
Sunday. Septem Der /. 4.45 o. m. will
be prayer and praise service. led by
Miss Harriet Broad. the new general
secretary The assistant secretary,
Miss Davidson, will also be there.
Miss Hattie Holman, assistant city
clerk. will take her summer vacation
on September Is. On her return, Miss
Grace Miller, who has been assisting in
the office during the rush of preparing
the assessment rolls, win be relieved of
further duty.
It isn't safe for respectable young
men to drive by themselves into the