The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-03

All the morning an interested group
OF people was watching the State Jour
nal bulletins
A transformation in the condition OF
me lawns or the city was the result
| or the recent rain.
The Topeka Relief Corps will serve
pension day dinner tomorrow at their
| nan, ZIG West Sixth avenue.
The Southwestern Fuel company has
oeen awarded the contract for supply
ing coal for use in the schools.
Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Ward have gone
| for vacation trip to Winona Lake.
Ind. They will visit relatives in Joiiet.
| Ill. -
A party of young people of the First
congregational church will enjoy q
| Hill. Tin =
County Engineer Parkhurst it at work
on the plans for the South side dixie.
work on the dixie will commence in the
| near future.
Next week the o. D. II. club of the
Westminster Presbyterian church will
enjoy life at the Y. W. C.. A. camp
near Wakarusa.
| Fred c. Slater departed Tuesday to
| resume his duties as American consul
| at Sarnia, Canada after a visit of two
weeks with relatives here.
RAT biscuit" has ended the exist
| Ell &c CT the enormous rodent that has
| freQuented the Y. w. G. A. quarters and
made life exciting for the secretaries.
A Transformation has taken place in
| the old agricultural and horticultural
| building OF the state fair grounds. 1t
| now looks almost like a new structure
The Y. W. C. A. Geneva club trolley
ride has been postponed from Wednes-
day evening to Friday evening Of next
week on account of the grocers' pic
| mic.
| J. E. Stewart, clerk of the school
Ecard, whose term of Office expires
January 1, has resigned, effective Aug
ust 80. Mr.. Stewart has served eleven
| years
Several hundred dollars has been al
| loved by the board of education to
cover the cost of printing the exhaus-
tive report OF the city schools which
Superlntenoent L. D. Whittemore is
preparing.
Work on the new Van Buren, school
building contract has commenced with
| the excavation work which was started
tuesday. The contract is in the hands
of F. M. Spencer.
Wayne L. Montgomery, formerly
stenographer at the Central Y. M G.
A. VIII visit Topeka this summer.
Montgomery has resided in Los An
! geles, CAL, some time.
The suit case brigade" is herei
Young people by the score were arriv-
| ing by every train today for the United
| Presbyterian convention which COM
| mences at the Auditorium this evening
Rev. j. B. Tcomey, pastor of the
| Fountain Park Congregational church
| ct. Louis has been spending a few DAYS
in Topeka. Rev. Mr.. Toomey spends
| his summers an1t ng the farmers study
| ing sociological conditions.
H. H. Kern, of Bonner Springs, sup
erintendent of the county agricultural
exhibits departments of the state fair
was in the city today. Three hundred
feet Of county exhibit, representing
| seven exhibits has been taken to date
Allan Phillips, son Of Capt H. NJ
! received appointment as director of the
poultry department of Purdue univer-
| sity. He has been studying scientific
poultry raising at Manhattan. He will
take up his duties in September.
A weary crew are doing duty at the
office of County Clerk Samuel G. Zim-
norman which was kept open all last
night receiving the official election re-
turns. But the tedium of waiting was
relieved by the interest attaching to
| Mr.. Zimmerman's own candidacy.
| w. @. Hunter one of the sccretar-
les Of the Central Y. NJ. C. A. departs
for Salt Lake City tonight for two
! weeks holiday. Hunter. who has gain
ed the reputation of being a checke,
| f.en0 will be married, 1t is reported, aD6
1t is probable that the checker board
soon will become coated with dust
Dover and Walnut Grove will CLASH
on the Skene's p3 rk diamond Saturday
The game will be the second of the
county championship series Dover bav.
irg won the first contest. Last Satur.
| Day Dover and College Hill played g
10 inning game which was called or
account of darkness with the score
/ standing to g..
The police lodged ]. s. Lamb in prison
last night on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. He had
been soliciting subscriptions and max
ing collections for the Designer" a
magazine. Complaint is based on the
assertion that he has no authority to
do so and that he had no intention OF
delivering the paper. The man had
come here from Atchison.