The Topeka state journal., 1910-06-10
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| The aeroplane is repaired.
Mr.. Mars is scheduled to fly Satur-
day afternoon and Sunday and he will
| do it:
The next thing on the progra m
should be to take down the faded and
wet colored bunting used in decorat-
| ing for Merchants week.
Small boys in Topeka are already
| beginning to count the time until the
Fourth of July A number of stores
already have fireworks on display.
And Mars is no piker. If the wealth
er man would just come through"
with little decent weather, Mars
would hang reputation on the town.
weather the Y. w. C. A. automobile
ride which was scheduled for this
evening has been postponed for a
| week.
There will probably be no regular
| director of the Y. w. c. A. gymnasium
the new home sometime during the
first of next year.
July 2 is the date set for the open
ing of the Y. w. G. A summer camp
! at Wakarusa. There will be three
sleeping tents of large size, a dining
pavilion. and cook shack.
"A new commission house will be erect
eu DIT ID6 COTHeT OF OTdIle anu hdIlSaS
avenue at a cost of about $4,000. 1t
will contain storage rooms. banana
room, and other modern facilities
The people living on Pine street be-
tween Tenth avenue and Fifteenth
street have asked that this stretch be
named Boswell street to conform with
the streets on both sides of Elmhurst.
On account of the mistake made by
the assessors, the city commissioners
have found it necessary to rescind their
action on the KenWood curb and gutter
inlproveme MT ard DO it all over again.
What will the disappointed mer
chants say? They have nearly all gone
home rainsoaked, but Topeka did all
she could to keep them dry and spent
a barrel of money for their entertain
ment
In spite of the date and the sche-
duled time the straw hats are still in
the background. There hasn't been any
there is lot promised by the weather
bureau.
Although the militiamen did some
effective work in policing the aviation
field a few of the fellows were mere
boys and hardly knew how to conduct
themselves in the performance of ac-
tual duty.
The Wolff Packing company has been
granted permission from the city to
close up Quincy street in preparation to
the erection Of their new seven story
reinforced concrete structure which will
cost about $125,000.
With a $4,000 deficit staring the
big week" management in the face,
twenty special deputies at So per day
were withdrawn from duty on the
aviation field last night. Three mount
ed police and the militia remain.
The people on the Rock Island trains
running past the aviation field were
~, 10 I0fL icrI,f I0xy A via
tor Mars. People coming through from
the east will think that the Kansas
farmers do this on every alfalfa field.
And now the Cooleysox tramp home
in rubber boots to fret and fume about
the weather. The wrath of the god
of rain hath surely wrought against
the fair capital and the glory she
sought to obtain seems to have re-
ceived the ha ha.
Those who happened to drop in and
witness the biplane flights Thursday
morning may consider themselves
lucky. From tie recent weather ex-
Indted by the weather observer, Avi-
home and living here.
Commissioner Bone is a pessimlst-
for the time being. This morning he
said: This weather PROPOSE zion is
hard nut to crack. 1 bet that if To-
peka had avertised a motor boat race
ir the river to water a horse"
A certain newspaper chap, and
daring young woman also inclined
in a literary way, who had planned to
soar together in a flying machine are
now indulging in mutual lamentations
over the fact of the poor prospects for
the fulfllment of their ambition. q
The main question in Topeka at this
time is-"Did that Rock Island train
create a vacuum and wreck the airship
or were the air currents natural?" 1t
is agreed, however, that the Rock Is
land has broken the wreck record-it
has succeeded in wrecking a biplane.
There is a sign in Garfield park
which says that free city band con-
certs will be gwen there every Sunday
afternoon and Thursday evening. The
band concerts in the city park-a few
blocks this side of Garfield park are to
be given en- Monday evening. North
Topeka should be full of music this
summer.
Miss Lettia Hall of Franklin, Ind,
has been chosen to act as associate Y.
mence September Is. She will fill the
vacancy made by the resignation of
Miss Ella Cowgirl. Miss Hall is a
graduate of Franklin college. and the
Y. w. C. A. training center at In
dianapoEs, Ind.
Thirteen hundred was the total
registration of merchants, who at
tainment, under the auspices of the
Topeka Jobbers' and Manufacturers
association, although the officials of
the organization estimate that there
were at least 1850 guests present. 1t
was considered the most successful af-
fair of the kind yet given, and great
praise is due President Geo. P. Nc
Entire and his force of able assistants