The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-23

will be held in Garfield park tomor-
row afternoon. A special car will
leave the Potwin station at o'clock.
The annual picnic of the Redden
Mission Sunday school will be held Fri
day afternoon. A car will leave the
Provident Association for Vinewood at
2 o'clock.
The board of city commissioners
met this morning and passed the side
walk ordinance. This ordinance pro-
vides for many miles of new sidewalks
in Topeka.
The first day of the big state fair
in Topeka will be one of the best on
the program. Fireworks. airship and
a ladies' band will be among the first
attractions.
This weather." opined Ed Wood
ruff, fought to be good for cyclones. ;"
81 reckon so,'' consented Dan Cardan.
"It certainly isn't much account for
anything else"
The Grand theater has been redee
Grated. The workmen and painters
are now remodeling the stage. The
theater will be opened fresh and new
Monday evening.
Roy E. billiard, character player in
the North Brothers Stock company,
will return tomorrow from Des Moines.
Some members of the company already
ere here rehearsing.
1t has been found that there are 49,
900 school children in Shawnee coun-
ty. Out of this number 11,491 are in
the city of Topeka. The state will give
the county So cents a head for the
above number.
The Rocky Fords are here. This is
the first chance the people of Topeka
have had chance to taste these high
er types of canteloupe literature. 1t
is now time for the big supplies of
watermelon to appear
Thomas E. Turner. representing the
General Electric company of Harri-
son, n. J., now is in Topeka in the
interest of the Topeka Edison COM
pany. He is a specialist on CONNER
cial and ornamental street lighting.
School days are coming nearer The
city schools are being cleaned, aired
and thoroughly fumigated for the term
which opens the first week in Septem-
Der. The small boy still has a chance.
however, to get in few more clicks
Robert Blaylock, dramatic director
for the North Brothers company, has
returned from Des Moines and today
began rehearsi- the cast in The Man
On the Box. which reopens the Males
tic next Monday night. Mrs. Blaylock
will remain in Des Moines for time.
Despite the frequent warnings
through these columns there are
number of married men with wives on
their vacations who persist in taking
ice. What does a man, who eats down
town, need with ice? This is a question
that should be investigated thoroughly.
The big new lobby in the National
hotel will be completed by the mid
die of September. The new sample
rooms under construction on the sew
enth floor will also be completed by
that time The National is preparing
for the coming conventions and the
legislature.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church did not give their trolley ride
Friday night as planned. But they
have planned to give it tonight The
old rule still holds good-no tearing up
of street crossings, no smashing of street
signs no yelling, fighting or disturb
ing of the peace.
The first new washburn professor
has arrived and is preparing his work
for the coming school terms. Professor
Max Hagendorn arrived in Topeka last
evening from Dallas, Tex, where he
was instructor in Holy Trinity. Profess
sor Hagendorn has been chosen to
| head the Washburn art department.
An effort is being made to obtain
! Senator Joseph L. Bristow, as the prin-
cipal speaker at the big Labor Day pic
ME which the local industrial unions of
the city will hold at Vinewood- Last
| persons heard Bristow speak at the
Labor Day picnic. T. A. McNeal will
be one of the speakers
| The regular semi-weekly football
practice of the Washburn players
who are in the city will be held at
| Skene's park this evening at $50
o'clock. The days on which the squad
| is working are Tuesdays and Thurs
days. Coach Robert Stewart and
Captain Ralph McCarroll will be on
the field tonight to direct the work
out.
After considerable delay the board
of county commissioners has formally
conferred the duties of custodian of
the court house and grounds upon C.