The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13

The work of remodeling the Gar
field school is nearing completion.
The Topeka W. C. T. U. will meet at
the First NJ. E. church at 8 o'clock
Monday.
Helen T. Caps. secretary of the
school board, is taking a two weeks
vacation.
Miss Pearle Dumenil of Dallas. Tex.
is visiting at the home of her father,
]. NJ. Dumeuil.
The first door frame of the new
manual addition to the Lincoln school
was put in today.
There likely will be no meeting Of
the school board until the first Mon
day in September.
Beginning Monday. we will sell all
our hand painted china at one-tnird
off. James B. Hayden's.
Entries were made today for twenty
head of Shorthorn cattle to be dis
played at the State fair.
The Grand Army post at Hiawatha
has resolved to attend the reunion In
| Topeka Fair week in body.
Twenty young people left this aft
ernoon to spend the weekend at the
! Y. w. c. A. camp at Wakarusa.
Topeka is suffering midseason
fruit shortage. The markets are not
overloaded with any kind of fruit.
A force of twelve men is employed
putting the sanitary arrangements of
the city school buildings in order.
want to sell my building site near
Central park; lays high, overlooking
the park. Call 1879-Red, after p. m.
Twelve girls of the Y. w. c. A.
Geneva club will leave Monday for the
association conference at Lake Geneva.
School will begin September 20, and
the children are counting the number
of days of vacation that still are left.
Y. P. A. young people in attend
ance at the convention at Garfield
park frequent the Central Y. M. c. A.
swimming pool.
DIR. A. S. Embree, who was to have
preached at the Euclid avenue church,
is i'll and Rev. DIR. Jeffries will fill the
pulpit in his place.
DIR. Francis L. Hayes will preach at
the First Congregational church to-
morrow for the first time since his
return from Chicago.
| Postcards were received today from
| the Misses Ann and Mary Monteith,
teachers in the city schools, who on
! July 80 saw the passion play at Ober-
ammergau.
| Harry R. Edwards has been sued for
divorce in the district court by Electa
| E. Edwards, to whom he was married
| in 1902. Failure to properly provide is
alleged in the wife's petition.
| It is a noticeable fact that the pop"
stands maintained by the youngsters
1t doesn't take a kid" long to tire of
Job.
| Washburn college will start out this
fall with an increased attendance, with
a good football team, with chimes on
the gymnasium and with a charter for
/ Io%f 4v~af ax f<xr
at the gate.
the oranges and other agricultural or
CARNATIONS of Shawnee county was
| held this afternoon at the Commercial
club for the purpose of arranging for
a farmers institute.
| Shawnee county has about 5000 left
to spend on roadwork this year and
| the board of county commissioners is
divided as to whether to spend 1T on a
few mics of gravel road or in dragging
| and grading dirt roads all over the
| county.
Alfred Bartell is adding names
every day to the list of members for
| the new Kansas National Guard pro-
visional company This company
when thinned out for final advance"
will make a select outfit-for battles
or for dances.
The new pool tables are being in
stalled at the Commercial club today.
This noon there was only one table
available for a score of men who
wanted to get into the game. The
| installation of the new tables will be
completed the first of next week.
| The regular bi-monthly meeting of
the Topeka Local union will be held
Monday evening at the Westminster
Presbyterian church. There will be
no picnic supper aG is usual. The
meeting will be called to order at s
| O'Clock. DR.. T. N. Lynch will talk
Apropos the famous dry land
| bridge-a state house official would
like to know what good it is going to
do to widen the river in Topeka if the
river both below and above the city
is hemmed in with dykes and railroad
jetties. In other words the city would
make a river whirlpool in flood times.
| The new North Topeka newspaper
that makes it's appearance today, edit
ed by Elizabeth N. Barr, not only will