The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-16


McRae's. ss
You get your party ON the Inde-f
pendent phone. Every one has it.
Battling Nelson attracted more at
tention at the fair than the best horse
on the grounds.
There is an ordinance which forbids
the throwing of glass on pavements,
but no one pays any attention to it.
The Topeka balloon has been enter
ed in the balloon races at Indianapolis,
Ind E. S. Cole, of Topeka, will pilot
it.
Rev. A. S. Sjohander, of Topeka. has
been elected secretary of the minis
terial body of the Swedish Baptist gen.
eral conference at Rockford, Ill.
The West Tenth avenue asphalt
pavement between Kansas avenue and
Jackson street is a disgrace to the city
and it has been that way for years.
It's about time to get. busy.
Mr.. and Mrs Elmer Bailey, of Usage
county, have been attending the fair.
Mr.. Bailey is a successful farmer and
stockman. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Bailey's mother.
The Rock Island special train from
Horton and intermediate towns
brought in a crowd of $50 this morn
ing This same train carried 500 peo-
pie from that same district yesterday.
Next year the fair association should
see that the grating lunch counter
men do not get concessions. There has
been too much of that sort of thing,
although the association members did
their best to stop 1t.
Secretary iCoburn, of the state board
of agriculture, today received a tele-
gram inviting him to be one of the
judges of the Virginia state fair at
Richmond in the second week of Oc-
tober
The regular annual clerk-carrier ex-
t. %e.k<, Ffr7rs
in Topeka will be held here on No
vember 2. Applications must be made
to the district secretary of the civil
service commission, st. Louis, prior to
October 1.
Thirty-two people were attended to
at the emergency hospital tent at the
fair grounds yesterday. None of their
injuries were serious However one
negro woman stepped on a broken bot
tie and the glass cut through her shoe
into her foot.
"The only time an Indian will work"
said Ed Woodruff, day police jailer, sis
when he is locked up. Normally, he
won't do a thing,-but when it comes
to working out a fine on the rock pile
he will do more business than any
body"
The city and the Edison company
are preparing to do away with the pole
nuisance by combining their wires on
number of poles in the city. A
scheme of this kind all over town
would add to the appearance of many
of the city streets.
The city is hunting for garbage.
Since the plant has been turned over
to the city it is necessary that test
be made to give it good tryout. Wag-
ons will be sent out over town collect
ing stuff for the preliminary run of
the new crematory.
The Lewis & Kitchen people of Kan
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crematory to a test, are planning
banquet, to be given at the plant next
week The city officials and local
newspaper men will be invited. The
banquet will be a sanitary affair me-
nued by DIR. Crumbipe.
The big -searchlight at the State
fair has been able to detect num-
Der of small fights With the light
turned on them. the combatants have
forgotten their troubles and taken to
the woods. The light aided policemen
in catching two men and two women
near the quarter stretch last night.
City Clerk Burge reports that no
motor cars have been registered at
the city hall for two days. This is an
unusual record, as at least one car has
been registered every day this sum-
mel. There are now, according to the
city records, about SIS motor cars in
Topeka.
A new college student from the
| short grass" watched a tree being cut
down on College Hill. where I come
FROM said he, they would give $50
for such a tree" And yet people can
remember when College Hill was a
wind-swept prairie. Perhaps they will
| be cutting trees in the ''short grass"
district in another quarter of CEN
| fury.
Since Mayor Billiard has been busy
attending the State fair and lending
ta1T ocCiG CT oIaoo n
grounds, Miss Blanche Bates. his, stem
| ographer, has been "acting mayor"
Miss Bates has been smoothing over
all complaints and entertaining out of
| town celebrities. In fact she has done
| everything but fire a policeman and
deliver an address of welcome.
One of the downtown merchants who
made g. liberal contribution to the adj
vance funds for the State fair last
| spring, said yesterday. ''Well, I'm sat-
| isfied with my investm emit. have kept
| tab on the business my place got from
out of town thus far through fair week
and I find 1 have gotten my money
| back on new business and have made
a lot of out Of town acquaintance
with whom I expect to do business in
| the future"
At the fair grounds the sheds in
which are house the exhibits of vari-
Gus breeds of hogs are labeled SWINGS %
| This has worried some OF the local ety.
mo1ogists a good deal, particularly in
view of the fact that no authority for
the use Of the plural is found in at
least one of the dictionaries. How
ever, there is a general agreement that
| IL SWINGS is wrong, 1t is about the
only thing connected with Topeka s
State fair that is. open to criticism.
James Warner, implement and auto
mobile dealer, and N. H. Wolff, the
tailor, are celebrating their birthdays
/ together today. A few months ago, in
the course of a conversation, they dis
covered that they were born on the
same day, September 16, Sc years ago.
On account of this coincidence, they
made arrangements to celebrate the
date together. The birthday party is
at Mr.. Wolff's residence. 1014 Huntoon
street.
Two Topeka people who do not own
an auto happened to approach a ma