The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-19
TALK 1T OVER WITH
Shawnee Building & Loan Assn

Monday instead of Tuesday evening as
was previously announced.
1t is expected that tomorrow the
preachers all over the country will
draw upon the Gould case for ma
terial and once more condemn the
stage and it's lack of morals.
Mr. l. D. Graham returned last night
from Manhattan where he attended
the commencement exercises of the
State Agricultural college. He reports
that they had a big time there.
Ohio Battles has been sent to
Leavenworth. A few years ago the
same officials sent him to Washburn
It's q hard matter to pump out the
old blood and fill the veins with new
The streets and walks committee
under Chairman Tandy met at the city
hall last night and passed on thirty
sidewalk petitions. Topeka VIII lay
many miles of brick and cement SIDE
walks this summer.
Wallace c. Richardson of New York,
representing the Kansas Farmer Com
pany, was in the city this week. He
will stop off in Topeka on his return
from Oklahoma City where he Will
make a business call.
A business man who is interested in
the identifying of the city, suggested
idea if some of the merchants would
clean up some of the trash adjacent to
their places of business.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekas OF
Topeka will hold memorial services at
the First NJ. E. church on Sunday,
June goth at 3 p. m. Rev. f. N.
Lynch will deliver the address; Miss
Ona May Miller will sing.
Down in South Topeka some of the
small boys are frightening tinid pc
holding them on the end of long
stick from behind brick piles. A police
officer should investigate.
Joe Mercer, state live stock inspec-
tor, came in last night from western
Kansas where he had been spending the
live stock conditions N that part OF
the state as exceedingly bright.
Tomorrow at 3 o'clock a Junior Ep-
worth League rallv will be held at the
Walnut Grove Methodist church, Mrs.
Nellie Magee of Nebraska leading. In
the evening Mrs Magee will speak to
the League on Formation VS.. Refor-
nation"
1t is about time some one was ar
| ranging a secret dance in the Wash
burn gymnasium and thus receive the
| frowns of the august faculty A
greatest capture-but not an accom-
plishment.
The stores are giving the annual
| fireworks display in their show win
| dows and the small boys are crowding
the sidewalks with holes in their
pockets. The usual advance cele-
brations are in order-a direct viola
| ton of the city ordinances
"I'Il never kick on Topeka as long
as she refrains from adopting a
| China town-and the subsequent re-
| suits" said a prominent business
man today Topeka is not troubled
with the abduction of girls. The girls
| abduct the men.
A prisoner at the district court
asked the judge to send him to the
penitentiary in order that he might
| overcome the cocaine habit. If all
the fiends would follow suit the
| pen" would be a more valuable in
stitution to the state of Kansas.
The boatman at Vinewood says
that if he finds the reporter who
wrote the snap shot about the sand
bars in the canal. he will put him in
sink him. A telephone call would
give him the desired information.
The City Federation of Women's
: Clubs will hold their annual field day
on Tuesday next at Vinewood Park.
The ladies will receive percentage
on the concessions. the proceeds going
towards their building fund. During
the day business meeting will be
held.
The Central National bank is pre-
pairing to enlarge its headquarters. The
first floor of the building just south,
will be used, giving the bank a Kan
sas avenue frontage of so feet The
entire front of the building will be
changed and the entrance placed in
the middle of the building.
There is one newspaper man in the
| city hall who really has a nose for
news The city milk inspector, DR..
D. NJ. Campbell, was reelected editor
of the official organ of the Missouri
Valley Veterinarians association at
the meeting in Omaha Friday DR..
Campbell has given them a great
paper during the past year.
President Lux of the Manufac-
turers' and Jobbers' association has
received over 100 requests for plates
at the big merchants week banquet
Thursday evening next week. The
other officers are also receiving many
out of town reservations. Over 1000
Kansas merchants will be in Topeka
next week if indications count
The Topeka District Epworth League
convention came to a close last night
Rev. w. E. Doughty, of New York
giving the closing address. "A Mes
sage for the Homeward Way" Both
| the attendance and the spirit of the
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