The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

every street corner in Topeka, and N
several instances there are as many as
| three stands within a radius of 100
feet.
Lovers of flowers report that the sea-
son is further advanced than usual at
this time of year, as such fall flowers
| as cosmos, and, dahlias now are in
| bloom.
Those who will participate in the
| folk dance tomrrow evening have been
requested to meet at the Auditorium
tomorrow at 9 o'clock for a dress re-
| hearsal.
| Beginning the first of August and
| continuing throughout the entire
| month the Christian Endeavor of the
First Congregational church will main
tain a camp at Maple Hill.
| The weather man says that there is
| no sign of rain for several days. 1t
will rain the Fourth of July, undoubt-
| edly. Anyway a rainy Fourth is great
| help to the sane movement.
The Gentry parade was scheduled
| for 10 o'clock and it passed down
| Kansas avenue at 11:10 m. This isn't
| bad for a circus advertisement The
parade made good showing.
| P. ]. Bonebrake has been selected
as superintendent of the new Y. w. c.
| A home now in course of construc-
| ton. J. P. Davis and James Cuthbert
will act in an advisory capacity.
| Noon attendances are keeping up in
an encouraging manner at the COM
| mercial club. Business men find the
| club a good place to get together, and
| a place where they can keep cool.
| All the table linen used by the pris-
| cners in the women's ward of the city
| jail has been furnished by Mrs. Pat
| Coney for the last eight or ten years
| il. the way Of great bundles of newspa-
/ pers.
| Hundreds of children lined Kansas
| avenue this morning awaiting the
passing of the parade of the Gentry
/ Brothers circus. There was notice
| able dearth of grown-ups among the
| gazers.
Those who will provide automobile
1 transportation for the old soldiers for
| the July picnic at Cages park are
| requested to notify George w. STAINS
field, president of the Topeka Motor
| league.
| Oakland. Gas has also been discov-
cred in. many of the Kansas avenue
cisterns in cellars and in newspaper
office. 1t isn't hard to find gas in
| Topeka any more.
Among the features of the Fourth
of July in Topeka will be the arrival
of Senator Charles Curtis from Wash
| ington Senator Curtis has informed
| Postmaster Rogers that he will be in
Topeka at that time.
| The childrens nursery of the To-
| peka Provident association closed to-
| day, and is not to be reopened unit!
September 1, unless there is a demand
/ on the part of mothers for the opening
to take place in August.
Work in remodeling and rebuilding
| the three business blocks in preparation
! to- the enlargement of the Warren NJ.
/ Crosby store commenced today. Work
| men are tearing out the two story brick
| building south of the Crosby store.
John P. Rogers, ex-city engineer, has
4 drawn up the platS for the new Kan
sas state fair grounds. The new fair
| grounds will be situated in the same
tract as the old grounds but a better
and more businesslike arrangement will
be made.
1t looks as though somebody had
| 1 CURED water on the fuel to be en-
p Dyed in the fire-eating exhibition by
| G ldidates for sheriff of Shawnee
C. dnty. The campaign has cooled
| down so that the candidates are not
perspiring even.
While the crowds were awaiting the
Gentry Brothers circus parade this
morning two cars were running up and
down Kansas avenue bearing signs ad-
vertising the folk dance of the Play
ground association at the Auditorium
tomorrow evening.
| Those at the head of Christ's Sane
titled Holy church of North Topeka
| want II understood that Israel Alfred
J. Dennis, who is in Jail on charge
of fleeing William Klee, is not con-
nected with their organization. 1t is
! only fair to the C. S. H. c. of N. L. to
| give the fact publicity.
| A number of master mechanics of
the Santa Fe were in Topeka Wednes-
day The following visited the Santa
Fe shops: Mr.. J. A. Conley of Ration,
n. M, Mr.. James Kiely of Clovis, n
Colo, Mr.. A. R. Cook of Amarillo,
Tex. and Mr.. H. Schaffer of yelling
ton, Kan.
The chimes to be installed in the
| Jonathan Thomas gymnasium at
Washburn college have been deliver
| ed on the campus and by the end of
/ the summer will have been placed in
the clock tower of the building Work
now is in progress on the drinking
fountain which is to stand not far
from the Carnegie library building.
| The fiscal year of the government of
1.-The United States of America encs at
midnight tonight. The clerks in the
| federal building are making up their
annual reports 1t is not thought that
the ending of the government year will
have anything to do with the weather
or that it will be ushered out by whis-
ties and bells.
Not an institution in the city is so
badly in need of repairs or. rather,
new buildings as the police depart
ment The Sheldon building is all that
makes it possible to get along with it
at ALL None of the officers in charge
ever expect to stay very long, so they
patiently put up with every discomfort
and Inconvenience.
On Friday and Saturday the annual
examinations of teachers who have
taken the summer course of the
| Shawnee county institute will be made.
| The examination probably will take
place in the third floor rooms of the
court house, Fifth and Van Buren,
streets, although the classes of the
institute have been conc acted in the