The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-09

III OOAA
DR.. Esterly has moved two doors
north of his old location.
F. w. Swearingen lost his Spitz dog
Prince near Huntoon and Polk. Reward
for return at jewelry store, 819 Kansas
avenue.
County Superintendent Carter is re-
spOnsible for the report that two-thirds
of the country schools have been closed
for the summer.
Eighteen hundred people attended the
ball game at Athletic park Sunday be-
tween the White Sox of this city and
the Kansas City Blues.
Members of the Salvation army here
have begun a special ten days battle
for souls" and one of the advertised
features of the struggle is musical
blizzard.
This week will finish the examina-
tions of the medical department of
Washburn college. The graduation ex-
ercises viii be held il the college chapel
on the evening of April 10.
Watch the fourth geisha from the
left end when the chorus lines up at the
japanese fete next week. said the man
who knows, land you will be able to
tell just who has her heart
The more hardy of the flowers in the
beds at the state house are commenc-
ing to bloom. The plants are being re-
set and it will be but a short time until
the bare beds will be in full bloom
The Washburn quartette. accom-
panied by President Plass, will start on
their western tour of the Santa Fe lines
this morning. The quartette will sing
at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms of the railroad
company.
The county normal will open on the
fourth day of June at the High school
building and will continue for four
weeks. It is expected that the attend
ance this year will be something over
two hundred.
The temporary stage which was con-
structed in the auditorium for the bene-
fit of the Bernhard aggregation was re-
moved today and will not interfere with
the program to be given this evening by
Madame Gadski.
A meeting will be held at the Com
mercial club rooms at Auburn Tuesday
evening to discuss the feasibility of
consolidating the country school dis
tricts with a view of improving the ex-
isting conditions.
A notified pup, pedigree unknown
but whose name is Ginger" has as
signed himself to the duty of following
one of the fair equestriennes of the
town whenever she appears on horse
back Lucky dog to have this mere
privilege.
Dick Cooley. and the White Sox base
ball team attended the thea ter Saturday
to hear Nat NJ. Wills in the Duke of
Duluth. Wills was formerly a, member
of the team on which Cooley played
and Cooley and his team were the
guests of Wills.
Christy, the famous minstrel tenor
singer. who has been one of the stars
with both the Docksta6er and Primrose
minstrels, has been engaged by Man
ager Hagen to sing illustrated songs at
the Novelty theater. His engagement
begins next week
If one is at all sensitive as to color
schemes he had better keep OF the
streets on a fair day for some of the
conglomerations of tints worn by wom-
en- just now are startling to say the
least. One combination noticed yester-
day was a salmon hued hat and a dark
green silk gown.
Otis Atherton and wife of Russell
came down to hear Bernhardt, bring
ing with them their son, a youth of
eighteen. After they had arrived in
the city some one told the youth that
full dress suits would be the proper
thing for the evening. and as he had no
suit with him he refused to see Bern
hardt.
Our stickler for politeness in the Of
fee remarks: IT'S bad enough to have
your work interrupted forty-eleven
times of an afternoon when a ball game
is on to answer the phone and tell the
stay at homes the score. but what
makes it most disagreeable and makes
me feel like cussing is the fact that not
one person in five has the decency to
thank you for your trouble