The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-20


high school is being retinted.
A city force is at work clearing out
the manholes which the recent rains
have choked.
The Pleasant Valley and Newman
baseball teams will clash Sunday aft
ernoon at Newman.
Masons have started the brick wall
of the new Mills building on the west
side of the structure.
When school begins, September 20,
there will be ten new instructors on
the high school teaching staff.
Miss Helen Capps, secretary of the
school board, has resumed her work
after vacation of two weeks.
The state house flower beds with
their many colors and masses of single
colors make a brilliant showing.
Superintendent l. D. Whittemore
and family have gone to Maple Hill
for few days to enjoy camp life.
The Potwin school is undergoing an
interior cleansing and the walls of the
recitation rooms are being reprinted.
H B. Howard has returned from
Camp Endeavor at Maple Hill. He
has number of fish stories to tell
Topeka delegates to the Lake &C.
neva Y. w. C. A. conference write
that they are having the time of their
lives.
Steel window frames have been put
in the new Santa Fe office building
and the brick work has been COM
menced
The master clock at the high school,
which regulates the bells, has been
moved from the third floor to the
principals Office.
The United States Gypsum COM
pany of Minneapolis has started the
erection of a display building on the
State fair grounds.
Letters received at the office of the
Fair association from department
managers are encouraging. Entries are
coming in rapidly.
The Topeka Independent Telephone
has commenced work on the new
underground cable which is being laid
out as far as Oakland.
Miss Ella Cowgirl, associate secre-
tary of the Y. w. c. A, this morning
left to spend the weekend at the
association camp near Wakarusa.
A large force of workmen is en-
ployed excavating, preliminary to the
erection of the Eagle Cigar companys
building at 70S-710 Jackson street.
Alleys in the business part of the
ton. 1t might be well If the city
would designate a general cleanup
day.
The first band concert to be given in
Chesney park will be held this evening.
One hundred and fifty seats have been
provided for the comfort of the music
lovers.
If the Topeka merchants who plan
to exhibit at the fair next month
don't look sharp they will be left out.
Available display space already is
limited.
Paul Brewington, the fellow held on
charges of forging a check and several
other things, had his hearing in the
Court of Topeka postponed until Sep
TENDER 10.
]. E Stewart, clerk of the school
board, whose resignation becomes eff
fective August 80, will visit his old
home at st. Clairsville, O., in early
September.
Mayor Billiard has been made chief
of the city information bureau. A
woman asked him today if he could
sell old papers.
Rev. John A. Bright, a Lutheran
minister who, twenty years ago, lived
in Topeka, has returned here to make
his home permanently. He has bought
property at 1900 Redden avenue.
BEGINNING September 1. the prin-
cipal's office at the high school will
Stout desires to see all sub-freshmen
before the opening day of school.
Newspapers over Kansas, and even
the Kansas City and st Louis papers,
are commenting favorably on the
watch fobs which the state fair man
agement recently sent out to the ed
itors.
Ward H. Green, who will have
charge of athletics at the high school
this fall, today left for his home in
the western part of the state. He has
spent the greater part of the time in
Michigan.
RATES or no rates." said Secretary
H. L. Cook of the State Fair associa-
ton. 1.-The fair will be the biggest
event of the kind ever held in To-
peka-but we expect to get the rail-
way rates"
DR.. M G. Cockey has returned to
Salina after coming here to amputate
the left foot of Otto F. Woodruff, for
merly of Salina. Mr.. Woodruff was
injured in a runaway about two
months ago.
It is possible that a petition will be
started in Topeka asking that Commits
sioner Bone be prevailed upon to think
once in while. Mr.. Bone claims to
newspaper men that he doesn't think
on city questions.
Mrs Maud Blevins, the mother of
the famous little boy Topeka singer,
many boys in Topeka under eleven
years of age who work in factories,
cigar stores and the like.
There hasn't been good rip-roaring
fight among the city commissioners for
some time. Even Commissioners Bone
and Holman have been peaceful. This
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