The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-01

Building and sale restrictions make
Broadmoor lots desirable.
Miss Berenice Fuller will have
charge of the Y. w. c. A. chorus this
fall.
If you have 800 it will start home
in Broadmoor. See ad on real estate
page.
Mrs. Alice Love is building a fiat at
1874 Van Buren, street, which will
cost $4,000.
The management of the state fair
is in receipt of the premium ribbons
for the big show. ----
For the convenience of the crowds
at the fair grounds several water
tanks will be provided on the grounds.
A building permit has been issued
TO j. P. and G. w. Kelly for the erec-
ton of a $4,000 dwelling at 80 East
Seward avenue.
o. F. Whitney, superintendent of,
the horticultural department of the
state fair states that entries are COM
ing in rapidly.
Aside from those who make their
entries at the state fair office, many
persons are asking for reservations for
space by telephone and telegraph.
The party to be given by w. S. Nc
CIintock for members of the Topeka
club has been postponed from Satur-
day to Monday evening, September g..
The city has been having consider
able trouble with choked sewers today.
People persist in raking their grass
into the cutters and the debris stops
up the sewers.
Many persons who wanted to but
couldn't go to Osawatomie are con-
graduating themselves now for hav
ing escaped wetting with all its at
tendant ills.
The city commissioners have APP
pointed the following men as APP
praisers for the new sewer district No.
"a. ]. H. Squires, George Hanley and
A. G. James.
All the janitors of the city schools
reported at the high schol building
this morning to receive instructions
in regard to the final cleanup of the
school buildings.
If the rains continue there is pos
sibility that the new addition to the
Lincoln school building will not be
school, September 20.
Lightning struck the roof of the
house at 1897 Mulvane street about
$3.50 this morning and caused about
$40 damage. The home was owned
and occupied by A. L. QUAINT.
G. T. Mattingly, city license collec-
tor, turned in $679.S5 to the city treas
urer this month. The total for the
last five months turned over by Mr..
Mattingly now amounts to $4,S74.75.
superintendent l. D. WhittemOre
and party encamped at Maple Hill
are experiencing delightful (?) wealth
er conditions. Mr.. Whittemore will
be back in his office on Saturday.
The Bell Telephone company is put
ting in a new intercommunicating sys-
tenn at the high school building. 1t in
cludes four phones in this building
and three in the Manual Training
building.
Fire at $3.50 this morning did small
damage to the three-story brick paper
warehouse owned by L. f. Seller at
Ninth and Adams streets. Fire started
in a pile of baled paper but could not
obtain any Roadway against the fire.
men.
Howard Marty of Sharon Springs
has written to Secretary H. L. Cook
of the state fair for the purpose of ar
ranging to bringing a band of cowboys
and celebrated broncho busters Mr..
Cook has written for further parti-
culars
Again the night and day shifts on
the police department are reversing
as Is the monthly custom. but with the
arrival of cool weather has come a
great Improvement for the men who
Will have to do their sleeping in the
daytime.
Postmaster A. K. Rodgers received
word from Washington. d. c.. today
to the effect that the postoffice en-
ployes in Topeka will be granted a
holiday, Tuesday. September 10. This
is for the purpose of enabling the mail