The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Last dance tonight al vinewood

Last dance tonight at vinewood.
The Automobile club will meet tbi
evening at the Commercial club quar-
tiers.
vinewood closes next sunday will
special programme of day and nigh
The board of directors of the Y. w. c
A. met this afternoon to discuss plari
for the building fund campaign.
On Fifth street from Jefferson stree
on south the heavy wagons have Gu
into the pavement badly along tn
tracks.
| Judson c. Fisher. the new
| physical director of Washburn col.
| lege, has arrived in Topeka to take
| up the years work.
The membership committee of tn,
Commercial club will meet tomorrow
There will also be a meeting of the
board of directors of the club.
Prof Whitehouse of Boston. the
new dean of the Washburn school OF
fine arts, arrived in Topeka today
! He is the successor of Dean Klingen-
| berg.
| If some of the shrubbery along the
edge Of Central park were cut out
| TINS pleasure ground would make e
better impression upon the minds Of
strangers
The building committee of the Y. w
| G. A. will meet at 1880 o'clock on Fri
day evening when a numbers of plans
| for the proposed $4,000 building will be
| submitted.
Maj. John M. Burke, publicity agent
| for Buffalo Bills and Pawnee Bill,s
wild west show, was in Topeka today.
| He doesn't look a day older than he
| did ten years ago.
The Dairymen's association will
meet saturday evening at the Com
mercial club quarters, when the cues
ton of adopting paper sanitary single
service bottles will be discussed.
The city street car right of way along
Central park has been allowed to grow
up to grass and weeds. This condition
is not conducive to setting off to ad-
vantage the beauty of the park
The Washburn Medical college will
have morning Y. M. c. A. session
during the coming season when promi-
will be asked to speak before the stud
entS.
Miss Ella Cowgirl, membership and
educational secretary of the Y. w. c.
A.. who has been on an extended vaca-
ton at Lake Geneva and other points,
will return on Friday to assume her
duties.
At the meeting of the streets and
walks committee of the city council
held last night it was recommended
that A. A. Knapp be given additional
time in which to remove the old waste
paper boxes.
The Santa Fe shops are still short
of carpenters, and employment is
now offered to at least two hundred.
The present complement of men is
$500. the largest in the history of
the Topeka plant.
The Topeka baseball team plays in
Omaha again today and tomorrow.
Saturday three game series will be
opened at Des Moines. after which
the team will return home for a
ri x1Tff1 iRp
John Robb, captain of the Wash
burn football team last season. has
returned to school. and will continue
his studies at the Kansas Medical col
lege. Robb will play his last year
of football this season
The rain has worked a. remarkable
transformation in the appearance of
the lawns of the city. A week ago
they were dry and parched, but now
they present a very attractive aspect
where they have been kept properly
trimmed.
The lot Immediately adjoining fire
house No. will be filed in by the
city from dirt taken from the grading
on Fifteenth street. This property was
condemned by board of health as be-
ing uuhealthful on account of stand
ing water.
The work of the paving contractors
has been considerably retarded by the
rains, and those who are particularly
eager to see the work go ahead are be-
ginning to wonder if the streets will
remain in torn up condition through
out the winter months.
David Bowie. Harold Chase and
Elon S. Clark of the state Y. M. G. A,
will assist the local central branch's
ranging for the grand opening re-
ception which will take place on
September II.
The directors of the State Wide
Fair association are expecting bet
ter weather next week. In fact the
rain is expected to be all over this
week, and the track left in excellent
condition No horses have been al
lowed on the track this week.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council yesterday afternoon
made a tour of inspection of the por-
tons Of the city where there are re-
pairs III contemplation The committee
v as accompanied by Mayor Green and
Street Commissioner Snyder.
M A. Nelson of this city brought in
to the State Journal office this morning
four ears of corn ranging in length
from ten inches to a foot which he had
plucked from one stalk of corn at the
Hollum farm near Menoken. He said
that there is a great crop on their
farm.
County Superintendent of instruc- |
ton John F. Eby has announced that
Prof RAYMOND A Schwegler of Kan |
sas university will address the Shaw
nee county teachers at their first meet |
ing of the year at 10 O'Clock a. m. Sat
urday in the grade room of the court
house.
The first regular monthly meeting
of the Commercial club for the fall
will be held Friday evening. The va |
rious committees will make their re-
ports and plans for the ensuing
month will be discussed. If there is |
time two or three short booster talks
will be given.