The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-16

J. D. Brusel of Amarillo. Tex, is Wis
iting in Topeka.
Sweet peas are backward on account
of the late spring.
DR.. and Mrs. James Hayes. of Dayton
Ohio, are visiting Mrs. J. R. Hayes
The ministerial union will meet in
regular session Monday morning at 10
O'Clock.
E. A. Merrill. a Seventh Day Advent
ist elder from Topeka is holding meet
ings at Emporia.
The w. c. T. u will meet Monday
afternoon at 8 o'clock at the First
Methodist church
DR.. A. c. Sloan has been in Emporia
attending the meetings of the State
Dental association.
ALBERT Cook, a high school boy, has
gone to San Francisco where he expects
to enlist in the navy.
The season for cheap strawberries has
arrived. The finest kind of berries were
on the market today for 10 cents box
Five Kansas counties win be repre-
sented at the annual high school ora
toriea1 contest at Wellington tonight.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Topeka district Epworth League will
be held at the Lowman chapel, May 2
to q.
The Blue Rapids Lumber company
has been Incorporated by the state
charter board with a capital stock Of
IS. 900.
NJ. E. Younkin will probably be ap-
pointed dog catcher of the city of To-
peka, and viii begin work within few
days.
Pancoast Kidder. the ping pong
champion Of Topeka, used to play in the
same theatrical company with James
K. Hackett-
Mrs George E. Tucker of Eureka,
who has been visiting friends in the
city, returned yesterday to her home in
Eureka, Kas-
City Engineer McCabe is sick with a
severe cold. He has never fully reeOv-
cred from his dangerous illness with
grip last winter
The Port Huron Machinery company
of Michigan has been granted authori-
ty to do business in Kansas It has a
capital of $4,000
The health department is sending out
notices to doctors asking them to report
all births and deaths more promptly
than in the past.
Rev. N. f. Thayer of Topeka, state
superintendent of home missions. will
preach Sunday at the Congregational
church at Wellington.
There are one hundred or more new
applications for positions in the city
schools. It is two weeks yet before the
new eachers are selected
The Ladies Aid society of the First
Wednesday Afternoon with Mrs. William
Green at 925 Quincy street.
The council will meet Monday night.
Owing to the fact that the railway
franchise is not in shape to be consid-
cred, the meeting is likely to be brief.
Prof. Lewis Lindsay Dyche of Law
renee, caught ten pound fish at Lake
View yesterday. This ought to make
business good at the lake tomorrow.
The examination in professional
branches for state teachers certificate
will be held at the various accredited
colleges in the state on May 20 and 81
Several members of the Washburn
baseball team were observec yesterday
before the game hunting for four leaf
clovers. Maybe this explains the out
come.
Washburn is already showing the eff
feet Of the reorganization. The baseball
team defeated Nebraska university Fri
day-something that has not happened
for many years.
In addition to measles and smallpox,
diphtheria is said to be getting a start
in Topeka under City Physician Storrs'
system of suppression of news but non
suppression of disease.
A supper was given at the Y NJ. c. A.
rooms last night to the men who were