The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

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| the new Mills building and the cons
tractors will have to hustle to have the
structure completed so that it will be
in readiness to occupy by october.
The reception committee hasn't
enough accommodations available to
care for the c.. d. delegates. If you
have a room to spare notify the CONF
| mittee at the First Presbyterian
church.
There were no chariot races in the
John Robinson circus and the one great
thriller it might have had was never
felt In the ttresome substitution Of a
grinning indian attack on a prairie
schooner.
Two near disastrous accidents hap
pened at the circus yesterday when q
Gashing wild west rider and a lady
Ccssack fell with their horses on tbs
slippery hippodrome track. Neither
was hurt.
1t is probable that an additional Y.
M. G. A. Camp wall be conducted this
summer for poor boys of the city. A
number of friends of the Central AS
cociation are planning to finance the
proposition.
]. c. Mars, the bold aviator. left
this morning for Kansas City to make
arrangements for the cross-country
flight from Lawrence TO Overland
park, Kansas City, which will prob
ably take place tomorrow.
A special train over the Rock Island
through Topeka today carried three
car loads of Baptist young people to
the state convention in Saiina- The
Rock Island is getting famous with
her finely equipped special trains.
The tall 150-foot stack for the city
garbage plant is completed. 1t looms
up in good shape and cuts a new hole
in the manufacturing and shops dis
trict sky line. The stack builders
claim that the stack is piece of art.
About rs members of the Topeka Ad
club have expressed their desire to at
tend the National convention of the
Associated Advertising Clubs OF Amer
| lea July 1920, and a special car is be-
ing arranged for the conveyance of the
Topeka men.
On account of the recent rate trou-
BILE it is reported that the Santa Fe
will postpone the erection of their
fourteen story office building In To-
peka- The original contract calling
for eight stories will be carried out
at once, however.
A half dozen or more local Y. NJ.
G. A. men, including Secretary z. G,
Brownell, will attend the Estes Park,
Col, Y. NJ. G. A conference which
commences July 5. Mr.. Brownen will
leave for Maysville Saturday to aid in
establishing county Y. M. C. A.
.'It is remarkable" said Secretary
H. l. Cook of the Kansas State Fair
| association. How rapidly the entries
for the fair next fall are coming in.
The showing is just as good at this
| time as is the case with the old es-
tablished state fair at Lincoln"
Friday evening the Geneva club of
the Y. w. G. A. is giving an auto ride,
! the proceeds of which will go towards
| paying the expenses of two delegates
to the Lake Geneva association In Aug
list. Autos will start in front of the
Masonic building at 1880 and $3.50
O'Clock.
| H. p. Miller, city commissioner, has
sold his barber business and is devot-
| ing his entire time to the work as
| city official. Mr.. Miller says that he
believes to make a success of the new
form of government the commission
ers should go into the work with heart
and hand.
A. c. ;Ridgway, assistant general
manager of the Rock Island will pass
! through Topeka. tonight on his way
to the west. Local officials state that
there is no special Importance, as far
as Rock Island conditions in Kansas
are concerned, attached to the trip
Of Mr.. Ridgway.
| The police report that the circus
crowd Monday afternoon and night
was the quietest and most peaceful OF
any in the history of the city. Not
| signed on the show were given
| chance to witness the whole perform
ance without disturbance.
| A new horizontal tubular boiler will
be installed at the Central Y. M. c.
\ A. within the next few days, which
water. It is stated that more warm
water Is used at the association build
| ing than in connection with any insti-
tuition in the city, including the asy-
lrm-
| The Kaw river has fallen to almost
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June flood has passed. 1t will not
! be very long before the sand bars
will be alive with youthful swimmers
and fishers. Motor boating this sum-
river bed Is in good condition for this
| pleasure.
| Topeka now has a new cemetery
| which has been formally opened for
| burial and the sale of lots. The ceme-
terry Is known as Mount Auburn and
lies directly east of the Topeka ceme-
terry. The association is managed by
oolored people. J. w. Fisher is presi-
| dent and Hugh B. Fisher Is secretary
| and treasurer.
| There will be a special meeting of
the city board of commissioners to-
morrow morning for the purpose of
hearing all complaints against the as
sessment of the Kenwood curb and
| gutter Improvement. 1t is not thought
that the report of the appraisers as
corrected by the commissioners will
bring much trouble.
At the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning following the service $3.50
was subscribed in about ten minutes
towards paying for the new addition
to the church. The improvements now
under way will provide much needed
room for the Sunday school and Q
large dining room and kitchen for
social entertainment.
A number OF business men in Topeka
who have families, have determined to
cut a stop, if possible. to reckless auto
driving, and three of them in one block
have purchased or rented stop watch
es and are timing the machines as they
| mass They expect to proSecute those