The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

George S. Badders of the CONNER
cial club is of the opinion that auto
ing is an expensive luxury.
A meeting of the civic improvement
committee of the Commercial club
will be held tomorrow noon.
Delegates to the United Presby-
terrain convention from Sterling trav-
eled over the Santa Fe in a special
car.
Monday night the reorganized board
of education will decide whether the
tax levy will remain the same as this
year.
Due to the general drouth, the re-
cent rain did not make much change
in the volume of water in the Kaw
river.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City Wednesday to James c.
David and Gladys F. Zimm, both of
Topeka
The West Side w. C. T. U. will hold
meeting at 2:30 o'clock Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Alice Wright,
211 The Drive.
Secretaries of the Y. W. c. A. this
morning were discussing the proper
color for the cornerstone of the new
association home.
In the evening hours Gage park at
tracts. Last night two hayrack par
ties and automobiles and carriages by
the score visited the park.
Those who visit the State fair
grounds next September will OBJ
serve marked transformation.
Many improvements are in progress.
The people living on Third street be-
tween Western avenue and Clay street
have petitioned the board of city COM
missioners for grading, paving and
guttering.
Governor Stubs is urging all
church people to take an interest in
politics. He says that preacher who
is too good to turn out to the polls
to vote is not good enough to preach.
Hot weather is preventing the To-
peka Educational society from hold
ing meetings. Otherwise this organi-
zation would meet to discuss "insur-
gent policies.
The reports of the city collectors for
the month of July were turned into the
city records this morning. All of the
reports show a satisfactory increase
over the records made in the same time
last year.
The committee in charge of ar
engagements for the convention of the
young people of the United Presby-
terrain church have had no difficulty
in finding accommodations for the
delegates.
Although the noon hour attendances
at the Commercial club are large,
there is little business transacted by
committees. Many OF the commit
tee members are out of the city on
their vacations.
1t seems impossible to break some
of the merchants of the habit of haV-
ing the sidewalks swept in front OF
their places of business between
O'Clock and noon. This practice is
anything but sanitary and is disagree
able to pedestrians.
Lest you forget-they are still work
ing on Topeka's famous dry land
bridge. Looming up in the horizon of
the far away future is a sign. This
sign states that Topeka will be able to
travel on her new paved street on
piers" about Christmas eve.
The city commissioners are prepar-
ing to consider the voting machine
proposition. After the experiences 81
Tuesday and Wednesday when the
judges and clerks stayed up all night
TO count ballots, it has been decided
that the machines are good business
investment.
The little green bugs are here. They
are the drug store and soda fountain
pest arriving on the scene every sum-
1ner about this time. Soda fountain
employees refuse to laugh at or answer