The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-25

from this disease in New York since
December l. an increase of 80 per
cent over last gear.
Washburn and EmDoria Normal
will meet in Topeka on May 10 to play
the game of baseball postponed from
last Saturday because of the rain.
The Izaak Waltons who went fishing
Saturday to stay over for Sunday nib
bles, believe that the rain came to
show them the errors of their ways.
A medical journal tells of the case
of Helen Williams in Florida who was
sent to the penitentary for a year and
a day for practicing absent treatment.
Washburn college and Paramount
We're to have played baseball in To-
pel1a this afternoon, but the game was
called off because of the wet grounds.
An attempt viii be made to arrange
another date.
The Washburn college authorities
expect to extend the south fence of
the athletic park out 100 feet, so as to
De able to gut a cinder track around
the gridiron for track athletics. The
improvements viii cost about $500.
DR.. J. D. Mcfarland. of the First
Methodist church announced yester-
day that he would be absent from his
pulpit for the next four weeks. and
that one of the preachers who viii
supply for him is Bishop John H. Vim
cent, who formerly lived in Topeka
There may be some dispute as to
WleIHeT the IOS)Gka DdA4 team. the
Washburn ball players, the Sells &
Downs circus. ST Plunkard or the con-
StructiOn gang on the city railway
brought the rain. but from the
amount that has fallen all can claim
a gOOdly share
Ed Howe's lecture on 'sSome People
Have Known" will take place at tn
Auditorium, May TO- The lecture is
for the benefit of the pipe organ fund.
Mr.. Howe does not charge anything
criX
be no free tickets issued. Everybody
who goes Will have to pay a quarter
DR.. ]. d. Countermine. of the First
Presbyterian church, preached his
farewell sermon yesterday and will
leave the city this week. He will first
go to Beatrice, Neb.. for a few days
visit. and then east to take a pulpit in
a city of one of the coast states. He
refuses to state definitely where he
will be located.
The Shawnee County News lists the
attractions as follows: Topeka is pre-
pairing for the Kansas Semi Centen-
NAL celebration to be held during the
last week of May. The Chicago
symphony orchestra has been engaged,
Secretary of War Taft will speak and
Indians from the reservation will
whoop. 1t promises to be an interest
ing week.
The Shawnee County News. pub
lished at ROssville wished to give the
! advance. and this was the way it was
done; The great Whoop-enl-up-L liza
Jane circus with its phenomenal pha-
lanx of Dhantastical performers, more
stupendous and startling. staggering
and stunning than ever before, will
appear in topeka tomorrow.
Clyde Blair. the Fort Scott boy
who IS ca9tain of the track team at
the University of Chicago, got a poor
start in the intercollegiate games at
Philadelphia Saturday in the hundred
yard sprint, and finished third behind
Schlck of Harvard. who took second
Hahn of Michigan breasted the tape
first Blair holds the western record,
9:4-5. The run SATURDAY. was made in
0 tat
Laura Alton Payne has received in
formation that she has been awarded
the third prize of $50 for her poem
sey's topical poem competition. Miss
Payne viii have an article soon in
Scribner's literary journal, The Lamp,
formerly The Book1over, entitled
What Is Your Name p Miss Payne's
home is in Hutchinson and she is en-
ployed as sratistician in the office of
the state superintendent of instruc-
ton
The Enporia Gazette in telling about
a Topeka man who went to Emporia to
compel G. L Johnson to make good a
check he had given the Topeka man
and which the bank would not cash,
said: THE Topeka man has been
waiting to have his check cashed for
several days. A few days ago. while
johnson was in Emporia the Topeka
man came here to make him dig up
the money for it, but it is said that
johnson got him to go out for u good
time During the evening they got to
drinking together and the Topeka man
got so good-natured that he let john
son off.'
Itching hemorrhoids were the
plague of my life. Was almost wild.
Doan's Ointment cured me quickly
and permanently. after doctors had