The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25

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| fair has left on a short business trip
| Mrs. Julia A. Wiley's new dining
room on the second floor of the Com
merce building opens Saturday.
The much mentioned w. o. Hunter,
| the checker fiend. and his bride have
at last returned from Salt Lake City.
Letters are received daily at the
| headquarters of the G. A. r. to the
effect that the veterans will be in To-
peka in force September 1915.
| meeting of business men interest
ed in the North side camp of the To-
peka Anti-Tuberculosis club was held
this noon at the Commercial club.
| c. S. Stone. who will judge the dairy
| cattle and sheep at the state fair. is
| one of the best known judges in the
middle west. He is a Peabody, Kan.
man.
| w. A. L. Thompson says that every
| body over the state is talking about
the state fair. and that the interest Is
| more intense and widespread than ever
before.
| Twenty-Five thousand state fair ad-
vertising cards are being sent out over
| the state through the means of the
| jobbers and manufacturers of this city
and the travelling statesmen.
| Despite the fact that every newspap-
err reporter in town has taken a chance
at the progress of construction work
| on the Mills building, the workmen
are only on the fifth floor and the
sixth ceiling.
A dispatch from Galveston, Tex, has
| it that F. G.. Pettibone, general man.
ager of the Gulf lines of the Santa Fe,
will succeed the late J. E. Hurley. II
says that Mr. Pettibone has been Of
fered the position.
More news from the Topeka-South-
western: H. Leon Miller, the promoter,
says that he can get the money to
build it and will commence soon. He
also says that the line will run from
Topeka to Harrington. $50
How many gallons of water does
it take to fill a bath tub % asked a
man of Commissioner Bone this after
noon. "It depends upon whether they
are on a flat rate or a meter rate, .
answered the commissioner.
The petitions circulated among the
railroad men of Topeka asking the in
terstate commerce commission for a
raise in the freight rates have been
signed fully. There are about 1000
Topeka signatures on these petitions.
The funeral services accompanying
the burial of J. E. Hurley will be sim
pie and plain, according to the ideas
the simplest funeral will have the same
effect on his thousands of Santa Fe
friends.
The average COW owner spends 10
cents car fare to come down to the Of
flee of DIR. Babb, city milk inspector,
and pay tax of two cents charged by
the city This is the reason the dairy
men are "kicking' about the milk or
dinance.
Nearly all the large motor car COM
panies,'' said Secretary H. L. Cook of
the fair association, (which have agen-
cies in the middle west will have cars
on display at the fair. This is fea-
ture which has not been seen before
at a Topeka fair.
If a who's Who in Topeka ?" is
good for nothing else, it is a godsend to
a newspaper office. The new Topeka
"Blue Book which is being compiled
by Charles H. Trap, promises to have
city written up in newspaper style.
The Santa Fe is having a hard time
obtaining truckers at the city freight
house. The company pays IS cents an
hour but there are too many other
jobs in the city that pay more than
this Five hundred men dropping in
Topeka this minute could find work.
Topeka has one drawback There
is an organized gang of knockers who
spend their time digging out something
with their hammers. Il don't suppose
the street car company will put stoves
in the cars until - freezes over,
said one of them, While r1d1ng In
car this morning.
Dave Leahy, in writing a biography
the other day, couldn't forget Wichita
long enough to leave it out of his per-
sonal writing. He said that he lived
to see Wichita grow from village of
1000 to city of $4,000. Leahy must
be living in the future if he is seeing
Wichita with $4,000 people
Despite the fact that peaches are
plentiful and some of the farmers are
feeding them to the hogs, the Topeka
restaurants charge Is cents dish for
q few slices, dab of cream and
sprinkle of sugar. Claude" of the
Cremerie gives as an excuse that this
same price exists in the winter time.
with the hope of deciding the much
mooted question as to which is the
champion baseball team. among the
grocerymen of the town, two games
will be played Sunday afternoon at
Skene's park. One will be between the
other between the Dibble's and Frit-
tons teams. Reports have it that the
work of the shortstop on the Dibble
team will be well worth seeing.
Because street cars refused to stop
and take on passengers at the Union
Pacific station in North Topeka last
night, travelling men who had arrived
on the Union Pacific from Kansas City,
due in Topeka at 7:35 p. m. placed
their grips on the track and compelled
a car to stop. The North Topeka cars
were off schedule and in an effort to
get back on time the cars were shoot
ing, through. After three cars had
passed, compelling fifteen or twenty
people to wait more than thirty min
utes, the above method was resorted
to. One of the travelling men stated
that this same thing frequently hap
pened in st. Louis few years ago and
that finally people would get out on
the tracks and when cars refused to