The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

-Minna Irving. in May Lippincott's.
At 1880 O'Clock tonight the fireworks
display will be given from the dome of
the state house
Judge Pollock is not expected to fin
ish the Blair case in St Louis for at
least another week.
The county commissioners will have
the walls of the halls in the court house
painted this summer.
There viii be six league ball games
in Topeka next week, three with Jop-
lin and three with Springfield.
People who have not yet paid their
pledges to the Topeka baseball associa-
ton are requested to do so at once.
Steinberg's dance will be at the hall
/ tonight instead of at Vinewood. There
will be an intermissiOn during the fire
works
Captain Orner, clerk of the probate
court, will go to Excelsior Springs
Monday for two weeks. Mrs. Orner will
accompany him.
Fireman Thomas Kelly of the Santa.
Fe has just been discharged from the
company hospital. after a two months
sickness with typhoid fever.
! For coyote scalps captured during
! May the county has paid $31 in boun-
ties of 81 per scalp. Not a s. bounty
for wolf scalp has ever been claimed.
! Rain-checks were given out at the
Parker shows on the Pike last night.
One of the best crowds of the week
was on hand until the rain began to
fall.
There will. be a called meeting Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
/ Prescott, 1922 Buchanan, of the Willard
w. c. T. u, for the purpose of ar
ranging for flower day.
A G. Goodwin was driving an auto
mile Friday afternoon and in rounding
the corner at Fifth and Van Buren,
streets the front axle broke and let the
machine down. Mr.. Goodwin was go
in oil nd h1Tf off
escaped any injury
! George Washington Dewey, a small
negro boy with large name, viii go
to the Reform school. He came to To-
peka on a freight train from Kansas
City to loaf and spend the summer
Until there is room for him in the Re-
form school he will be kept at the
county jail.
DR.. Herbert L Alkire. dean of the
Kansas Medical college, left Saturday
morning to attend the meeting of the
/ Association of American Medical Col
/ leges and of the American Medical as
ISOLATION at Atlanta City, n. J. He
will return about June 20
Bishop John H. Vincent. who has re-
Gently returned from Zurich, Switzer-
/ land, will address the Y. NJ. c. A., III
East Eighth street next Sunday after
noon at 4 o'clock. A special feature OF
the musical programme will be bari
tone solo by David Bowie. All young
men are cordially invited.
The Semi committee have
a number of souvenir official programs,
giving all the exercises in detail for the
week. They are handsomely gotten up
| with an Illuminated cover ana are just
| the thing to send to eastern and out OF
town friends. They cost 5 cents each
and are for sale at the Commercial
| club rooms. The receipts for their sale
will be used to defray expenses
W. /. Dickey was Dusenberried by
Officer Dusenberry because he drove
his pony cart on the sidewalk Of
Twelfth street, between Jackson and
Van Buren streets when taking his
pony to the barn by way of the alley.
4 The mud on Twelfth street is variously
estimated to be from two to four feet
deep and more and as the pony is only
eight hands high what else could Mr..
/ Dickey do if he didn't carry the pony
/ in his arms?
The following pupils Of the Polk street
1 school who were promoted" this week
/ from Miss Zimmerman's room to the
next higher grade presented the grade
/ which they were leaving with a large
! picture for the school room walls. The
1 donors were Marian Lerrigo. GenevieVe
/ Whitfield. Andrew Baird. Archibald Jar
rell, Lloyd Benner, Arthur King, Ed
ward Clark. King Lane. James Lindsay
Avilda Millison, Rudolf Molz, Leslie
! Stamey and Roger Savage.
| County Clerk Newman may establish
next year a school for township asses
| sors at the court house. At present the
| township assessors are doing their
work as it mas been done for a good
/ many years. Every assessor has his
own plan of making up the returns. II
| all assessors reports were the same the
work would be better done and would
be much easier to handle in the clerk
office. Next spring all the township
assessors may be brought together at
the court house for instructions.