The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-29

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The playground at the Washington
school is being paved with brick.
| w. S. Glover has returned after a
visit to relatives in Terre Haute, Ind.
]. Little has been employed as of
flee assistant at the Central Y. M C-sI
A.
A new check room is being installed
! in the basement of the Central Y M
c. A.
Work of bedding the stalls in the
week.
Secretary H. L. Cook of the state
| fair returned today from short bust
ness trip.
Women are to receive ss5 in prizes
at the state fair for the best examples
in fancy work.
The searchlight in. Crosby Brothers
window still continues. to attract the
attention of passersby.
The Betas of Washburn left in the
rain this morning for the Y. w. c. A.
| camp at Wakarusa-
The city has created a benefit district
| for the purpose of widening Greeley
street from Chandler to Locust.
The ground adjacent to the new
state fair stock pavilion is being grad
ed. and roadways are being made.
Roy L. Bone, city commissioner. de-
| where he goes on business trip.
The construction work on the new
Santa Fe office building on Jackson
street has reached the third floor.
/ I. D. Graham has returned from a
two weeks trip in the lake region OF
northwestern Minnesota. He has many
a fish story to tell.
"An Kansas will be there" Perhaps
not everybody but the street sof To-
peka will be all hustle fair week, it
goes without saying.
Due to the return of many of the
members of the organization from va
cation trips the noon day attendance
at the Commercial club is increasing
daily.
The Brown business and fat building
at the corner of West Sixth and West
ern avenues which has been built in
quick order by Leeper & Smith is near
| ly completed.
Preparations are going ahead apace
for the rally of the young peoples or
ganizations of the city which will be
| held in the Auditorium the latter part
[ of September.
A meeting of the Topeka Education
al society will be held within a few
days to agitate the question of hold
ing a night session in the high school
| business course.
Within a few days Mayor Billiard will
issue a proclamation asking the mer-
a chants of the city to close their places
! of business on Topeka day at the state
5 fair, September 13.
!. Beginning Thursday, Principal A. j
t Stout, of the high school, will be in
: his Office. He desires to see all sub
. freshmen before the opening day Of
: school, September 20.
!, A meeting of the high school Bible
c class of the Y. W. c. A will be held
q this evening at 6:15 o'clock. This viii
r be the last meeting of the organization
= before school begins.
IL -.
2 ity of $500 now are being built or
\ the fair grounds immediately west Of
n the grand stand. A canvas canopy
n will shade the seats fair week.
J Interest in the reunion of the ole
: soldiers of the First congressional dis
n trict September 1915, continues to in
t crease, and a large gathering of com
rades'' is expected at Garfield park.
n At Cages park is a terrace covered
# with the "cruel vine" which catches
d insects and even holds humming bird
IS in its clutches for moment. Th'
$ flower looks like an orange blossom.
Is The city officials have decided that tn
re Missouri Pacific must pave or macad
IT amize it's tracks on Adams street be
,e tween Second and Fourth streets. Or
, ders will be given to this effect at once
n The current issue of the st. Mary
IS Eagle-Journal contains eight article
ID advertising the state fair at Topeka
l. This is illustrative of the interest tn
- papers generally are taking III the IdlI
n A meeting of the members of tn
,e Topeka local union interested in get
ir ting out a monthly paper called tn
re christian Enthusiast will be held a
the Central Y. M. c. A. this evening
Superintendent L. D. Whittemore ha
been taking life easy for some days a
the camp near Maple Hill, formerly oc
re cupied by the Y. NJ. C. A. boys cam
and the c. E. camp Of the First Con
gregational church.
A business and social meeting of tn
lie Christian Endeavor of the First Con
"a gregational church will be held o
re Wednesday evening at the home G
81 Mrs. Clara R. Baker, 306 Harriso
81 street
IL Children's day at the state fair wi
g. be two weeks from today. On that oc
a casion children under Is years Of ag
IL will be admitted free, and the regu1a
admission price for adults will be re
duced from SO to 25 cents.
" 1t has been proposed that it migr
O ~, be we'll to hold Western league ba
-, games on the state fair grounds ia.
u week. No definite arrangements .hav
g been made. however. for the transfer
- ring of the games to this spot
IN Many stockmen and others who e,
he hibit at state fairs have been waitin
until just the last minute in order
- see if the Kansas state fair is likely t