The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-21

II. E. Reisman has also been employed
by the centennial people to send out
some advertising matter to all the
country weeklies of the state.
Prof. Penny, dean of the fine arts
school at Washburn, will lecture to
the Young Peoples society at the
Unitarian church on Sunday after
noon at O'Clock, on the subject,
What Music Means to Me"
Sheriff Lucas has accomm odations
in the county Jail for fifteen more
summer bOarders. Front rooms, sec
ond floor, board furnished, are to be
had for SO cents a day What is more,
the county pays the board bill.
The Northern Shawnee Develop
ment company, which is drilling it's
second hole for oil or gas in North To-
pelSa, has put on two shifts of drillers
now, and the spudding continues day
and night. The hole is down 800 feet.
Otis Hungate spent yesterday at
Lake View fishing. He felt that after
getting the gamblers in jail and de-
cision from the supreme court against
the coal trust he was entitled to go
fishing. He says that he caught a FIVE
pound bass and other things too nu-
merous to mention.
The county commissioners hope
that the matchmaking of the West
Sixth avenue road will be completed
in two weeks if the weather remains
favorable and the machinery keeps in
repair The commissioners have been
entertaining this two weeks hopes for
two years.
Two weeks ago Judge Hayden IN
earthed his Panama hat He walked
two blocks northward and a blizzard
met him. He went home, put away
the Panama and got out his overcoat
Hayden again brought out his Pana-
ma. Look out for storms.
Pope Schrader of the Divine Cath
Ole church announces that on Satur-
day May %, there will be a meeting
held of the members of that church
in Topeka for the purpose of perfect
ing a local organization and making
arrangements to build a house of wor-
ship for the denomination.
The Saints played at Springfield to-
day, have another game there tomor-
row, and then return home on Mon
day to open up a series of three games
with Pfttsburg on Washburn field, to
be followed with another trio with
lola. It is confidently expected that
with the breaking of the toboggan
slide yesterday, that the Saints will
once more find themselves in the first
division.
At the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms, III East
Eighth street. next Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, there will be an echo
meeting of the Buffalo international
convention. The returned delegates
will make brief addresses. The spe-
cial features of the musical pro-
gramme viii be a soprano solo by Miss
/ Vida Wood, and a violin solo by Prof
Carl Wood
| The prizes offered by the Topeka
chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
! lean Revolution in memory of Mrs.
Fannie G. Thompson. for the best two
essays on the subject of the f'Old San
| ia Fe Trail will be awarded at the
! High school Monday morning at ten
! O'Clock. The winners of the first and
I second prizes, Mr.. Howard Berret and
]
essays, and Mrs. A. II. Horton, repre-
senting the Daughters of the American
/ Revolution, will make awards.
A movement is on foot among the A
Q. L. w. lodges of Topeka to build 9
home of their own. The proposition
will be brought up next week before
the four lodges on the south side Of
the river and will be voted upon. There
are several plans being formulated to-
wards this end and if is believed thai
one win be adopted which will give
the order home of its own in Topeka
within the next year. On next Monday
night a union meeting of the order
will be held at the corner of Sixth
and Jackson streets, in the hall Of
lodge No. IL. At the same time, the
date of the annual picnic will be set
Emporia Gazette: Did you hear Fl
G. Pribble. the tenor singer from To
peka, who sang the tenor solos for thu
college chorus at their concert las
night. w nat Oiu you lIlIlk Oh MIN
The people who sat near the reporter
who wrote the account of the concer
liked Mr.. Pribble, but they weren
aware that they were hearing anythinf
remarkably beautiful. But all over TIT
remainder of the house it seems tina
the audience was delighted with Mr.
Pribble's singing and many people
whose musical taste is unquestionable
SAY he sang all around any arnateu
singer and many professional teno
singers who have ever appeared II
public here