The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-14

The city Improvement bonds are be-
ing snapped up in quick order.
DR.. C. r. Menninger has returned
from his vacation at Winona Lake.
The Robinson & Marshall store is
soon to be remodeled and enlarged.
Every hotel in the city is now equip
ped with metallic outside fire escapes.
The Y M. C. A contemplates the re-
decoration of their building on Ninth
street.
s. H. Thompson of the st. Louis Gen.
trail Y. M c. A was in Topeka on
Thursday.
A water carnival is an attraction
scheduled for Vinewood Park next
Tuesday night.
F. NJ. Drake is seriously i'll with
West Sixth avenue.
Maynard Dibble, one OF TopeKa
grocers has returned from a vacation
trip to Colorado.
H. S. Morgan of the Shawnee In
surance agency has left for five
weeks vacation in the east.
City Clerk Burdge turned over LIZ 16s
balance of the paving and sewer nonos
this morning to the state for reglstra-
ton.
The DibbIe baseball team will play
the Hall Autograph ball team at
Skene Park. Game called at z'oo
p. m.
There will be no baseball game IN
Topeka. Monday as that is an off day.
The next series will open Iuesody
with Sioux City.
Evangelist Romig will give stereop-
ticon lecture. using 100 slides. on Iues-
day night at the Thlrd CIrls lisAIi
church.
Registration for the August "a bond
election closed last night. The people
of the city took but little interest IN
the election.
The secretary of the Commercial club
RADIO a bundle of Topeka Ran
peka WIFI literature.
M. w. Gilmore, who contracted Tor
the bridge across Wards creek on
Grove avenue, expects to commence
operations on Monday.
c. A Cain, state house reporter LOT
the state Journal, has returned from
vacation spent in the woods of Mis-
souri,. His family accompanied MIN.
As a result of friction between the
carriage, the pavement and the 1anl!y
horse, w. A. Neiswanger OF TINS Guy -
bruises.
D. o. Coe of the Commercial club is
boosting Topeka at Seattle and other
points in Washington. He has with
him a number of ToQeka advertising |
The new FOUNTAIN IN the OIllOn d
,ific park in North Topeka has been |
completed and the water has been
on. This makes quite an I'M
Captain ]. G. Waters is always the
1appiest man in Topeka, but just
1ow he is happier than usual. A
client has presented him with a $4,000
The state officials are planning
high jinks' for the entertainment of
he high New York legislators who are
DING to spend a week in the city
tudying the Kansas primary laws.
Frank Snyder, street commissioner,
ook a force of men to North Tope-
"a this morning and put them to work
weeds. Let the good work
xtend to other portions of the city.
E. L. Hopkins, the architect, has
ust completed plans for a $4,000
IAN The building will be modern in
f 7 7So, respect WIN a SeA''"S capacity
c. E. Strauss at the state house is s
uthority for the statement that there :
ere never so many visitors in the city :
no have climbed the state house dome :
5 this summer. They come to the !
uide in parties.
opeka not only along Kansas av-
nue. but in the residence districts
sign of prosperity.
Three Sunday double headers are n
cheduled for Topeka in the near fu- S
Ire. Lincoln will figure in two, one 7