The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-12

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| ed home from the east and will remain
| in Topeka until the middle of Septem
| Der.
Lawrence is forming an Ad club
They have called on ]. w. Robinson
of this city to give them valuable ad'
| vice.
The Dairymen's Association will hold
| q meeting in the parlors of the Com.
| mercial club at o'clock tomorrow af
! ternOon.
But for the Y. NJ. c. A. swimming
pool this warm weather would be almost
Unbearable, remarked a business mar
| this morning.
The Colorado Interstate Fair and ex-
position to be held at Denver from Sep
TENDER II to Is, is advertising as far
east as Topeka
c. L. Wood, formerly of Topeka, now
| manager of the Sexton hotel, Kansas
| City, has sent some large pictures OF
his hotel to his Topeka friends.
The 200 employees of the Independent
Telephone company will enjoy picnic
this evening at Vinewood. AT 6 o'clock
the special cars will leave Kansas ave-
nue..
One of the Kansas City papers ad-
Vertised this morning that the thermom-
eter registered as high as ITO degrees
yesterday at the warmest point in the
city.
Topeka's streets present a much
neater appearance to the visiting pOpu
lation since the new pavement has been
laid on West Eighth and West Tenth
avenues.
W. H. Renick. of Garden City, stopped
in Topeka today on his way to Phillips
burg to take possession of general
store for which he trade Finney coun-
ty farm.
The watermelon social given on the
lawn of the First Methodist church last
night by the Intermediate League of
that church, proved to be a most en-
joyable affair.
Work on the new athletic field at
Washburn is progressing rapidly and
will be completed in time for the coach's
whistle to sound the first football prac-
tice Of the season.
Neither the Topeka nor Wichita teams
reached Topeka this afternoon until
nearly time for the game to be called.
The Topeka team had to come from
Colorado. Wichita got here first.
The baseball team is back and the
state and federal offices will be
vacated in the afternoons once more.
The startling influx of funerals among
the Office force will also appear.
William o. Anderson. one of Topeka's
western vacation trip. He will visit
Colorado, the Grand Canyon, and the
Seattle exposition before returning to
Topeka.
The Topeka baseball team will be at
home for 20 regularly scheduled games,
besides two postponed games. After this
series is over the Topeka team will
play but ten more games on the local
grounds.
The work on the new grandstand at
the fair grounds is progressing rapidly.
It will be completed by the time the
fair opens. Most of the newly con-
structed boxes in the stand have been
sold OUT. -.t al aar-. --'-
s. Wistar Williams, the former WASH
burn football star, who has been con-
fined in local hospital for several
days, has entirely recovered and is
back at his desk in the Santa F'e gen
eraI Offices.
New men are being added to the
Santa F'e shop force every day. The
demand for additional skilled labor is
very great, and there is no excuse for
carpenters or other tradesmen being |
out of a job.
Work on the College Hill paving is
progressing rapidly and in a few |
weeks this part of the city will look
like new. The prettiest spot in To- |
peka is the Washburn campus this
time of the year.
Walter Boles. a graduate of Wash |
burn and the original Topeka base |
ball and football player is back again, |
and says that he was never SO glad !
in all his life to come back to the |
'old homestead"
Albert Hoskinson. a Garden City at
tcrney, was in Topeka today looking |
after the interests of H. V. Lawrence, !
county treasurer of F'inney county, who |
is engaged in a controversy with the
commissioners of his county.
Washburn college will open the next
school year, September IS. The field |
representatives of the school, who have |
been out over the state during the va
cation, prophesy much greater en- |
Iollment than ever this fall
There is a girl in a certain Topeka
reighborhood wEo has been taking vocal
lessons for three years and during that |
time has added no more than one song
to her list each successive year. She
MARBLES the whole evening long.
The asphalt paving along Kansas aV-
anue is getting soft and mushy during
this hot weather and the horses and /
heavy traffic is putting it to the bad.
Topeka people still insist upon hitch
ng their horses along the curbing.
The Topeka Commercial club isn't
making as much noise as it did about
.wO months ago, but maybe it is do
ng much more good than it did then.
Dr. it may be that business has been
weather.
Topeka's "Petticoat Lane has been
all astir today on account of the re-
port that a real count was in the city
AS general rule the Topeka girls
would rather have a cigar store fix
ture than a count but this one is out
of the ordinary.
A Topeka fan says the only way To-
0eka can have good baseball team is
% put the bunch under municipal own /
ership and then the continued sales of
he only good players would be stop I
ped. The revenue should help reduce
he taxes also.
Great interest is being manifested on
every hand over the state wide fair
which will be held at the fair grounds
Turing the week of September 1913.
The agricultural and live stock exhibits
will attract 5n unusually large num-
Der of out of town visitors.
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