The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
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A late commercial magazine received
at the Commercial club is the Mid
western, published at Des Moines, Ia.
Miss Daisy June Trout. the newly ap-
pointed secretary of the Y w G. A,
will be in Topeka on July 80 to take up
her @-kies.
Two scores in thirty-six innings is
the record made by the Topeka
Cooleysox last week. What's the use
In having pitcher?
The Commercial club is having de-
signs drawn for a neat and attractive
little Topeka Kan-Topeka WIZ pin
which will be really an ornament.
The Topeka baseball team wiz return
home a week from Friday for an eight
game series with the Denver and
Pueblo teams.
Superintendent L. D. Whittemore re-
turned this afternoon from Denver,
where he has been attending the N. Z.
A. convention.
There will be meeting of the
Dairymen's association in the parlors
of the Commercial club Saturday
morning at IL o'clock.
A reporter Is the only man in
town who never gets his name in the
paper. He isn't good enough for
society. and is too good for the police
records.
The Commercial club has a number
OF booklets similar to the ones gotten
up for the State Sunday school conven-
tion which will be given away to those
who apply for them.
There is an item in late edition
of Printers Ink in regard to the To-
peka Advertising club. 1t is interest
ing to note that the club is making
reputation for itself.
Interest in the State Wide Fair which
will be held in Topeka during the week
of September 1918, is intense and tbs
demand for space is almost twice as
= it was a wear ago.
1t looks as though August was go
ing to be a better month for mar
riages than the proverbial June. The
engagements announced seem to
cause a number of tturries.
With the use of the Topeka Pure Wa
ter Co.'S water, and the Topeka Edison
Co.'S fans-two local products-the
quarters of the Commercial club are
kept fairly comfortable this hot wealth
er.
The street commissioner says that
the windy sweeping rain Sunday
morning did more for the pavements
than a months work by the street
force. Nature is a good old soul after
all.
Robinson & Marshall expect to get
possession of the rooms now occupied
by the DrechseI Shoe company by Sep !
TENDER l. It will require several weeks |
after that to get the alterations COM |
pleted.
Commercial club. is in correspondence
with a firm in Missouri which manu- |
features farming implements The firm
may decide to move their headquarters
to this city.
How are they going to build base !
BAH parks when the aerial navigation /
becomes common in the country? The /
old casey at the Bat stories of the |
disappearance of the hard hit ball can
then become true.
Nearly every noon bunch of ball |
fans congregate in corner of the !
Commercial clubs parlors and discuss
the probable outcome of the after
noon games. Saturday there was just |
an even of themi
The city officials are planning their /
vacations The city officials never |
have a summer vacation but they al |
ways spend their time planning them /
and there is more pleasure in pur-
suit than possession.
The different fire stations over the J
city held an alert series of fire COM
panies during the shutting off of the
water Sunday. All of the chemical
engines were "horsed' and ready to
go at a seconds notice.
No tickets are being sold on the
roads east of Kansas City today as all |
Santa Fe and Rock Island trains have
been annulled through Missouri. The !
easternmost point for which tickets can
be purchased is Kansas City.
Twenty delegates from Topeka will |
attend the state Christian Endeavor
convention at Wichita, "Wednesday,
tion will be given an invitation to
hold their next meeting in Topeka,
The hosiery tariff win do one good
thing--it will give the girls to un-
arm themselves with the darning
needle. and not depend altogether
upon their future husbands "hfteen
a week"
Councilman Jordan of the First
ward is authority on the statement
that the coIored people of this city are
willing to vote for the commission
form of government 1t looks as
though Topeka was scheduled for the
new system.
Darn the city waterworks,' groan-
ed a man Sunday morning as he
finished shaving with a bottle of Pc
runa- some unfortunates sat GROUND
the house all day with half their faces
smooth and the other half wavy with
underground.
1.-THE recent actions OF the city
council are going to be the greatest
thing in the world in favor of the
commission form of government" said
a prominent Topeka man the other
day The Topeka motor league should
also be in line for the commission.
This morning the Commercial club
received a letter from the secretary OF
the Alaskan Yukon exposition request
ing that Topeka send two delegates to
the first annual conservation associa-
ton meeting Mr.. H. W. McAfee will
probably act as one of the delegates.
The railroad officials of the city viii
doubtless be the happiest residents of
the city when the present rainy spell
is over. This is especially true of the
operating department officials. who
have been compelled to work day and
night during the periods of high water.
It is now time for the city officials
to receive flood of letters from
nrohibitionistS over the country who