The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
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this noon at the Commercial club.
A. E. Sweet of the Rock Island has
registered a Cadillac car as No. 682.
Any boy or girl can tell you that
this is the last week of school.
Memorial Day for once got past
without a general rain throughout the
land.
The regular June meeting of the
board of education will be held next
Monday.
City License Collector George Mat
tingly has collected about $1,000 so
far this month.
The county has begun hauling gravel
to fix up the Burlingame and West
Sixth street roads.
The wind last night was strong
enough to tear branches from trees but
no other damage was done.
The local cherry crop is due to be
harvested within a very few days, and
it will be a heavy one. too.
H. ]. Bone, United States attorney.
has gone to Ell Paso to try damage
suit against the Ell Paso city railway
Don't bother about the flowers. Fred
Moore. the invalid, did not come home
but is taking the cure at st. Joseph.
DR.. F. L. Loveland gave an address
this afternoon before the graduating
class at the Topeka Industrial insti-
tute.
There was a general display of the
red and the blue in the residence dis
tricts of the city in honor of Memorial
day.
The present police department knows
how to march in rank and order as was
shown in the Memorial parade yester-
day.
Thousands of people went out to
Gage park Memorial day OF course,
the buffalo were as usual the main at
traction.
TIE police, apparently, no longer pay
any attention to the automobiles. Any
night any number may be seen on
which there are no lights.
There will be defamation contest
at the high school Friday between
the fifth and sixth periods for a fac
ulty medal The two literary societies
will compete.
Glass day exercises will be held to-
morrow at the high school Friday
evening the members of the graduating
class will receive their sheepsk1ns at
the Auditorium.
Some of the street advertising tricks
being employed by the small shows
ought to be suppressed by the police. a
blindfolded man trying to climb tele-
phone pole is an aimless sort of a thing
at best.
A L. Bickelhaupt, farmer of near
Rossville who was bitten by a supposed
mad dog Friday, passed up the several
Topeka Pasteur establishments and de-
parted last evening for Chicago to take
the treatment.
City Clerk C. B. Burge received a
postcard from former Street Commits
sioner Frank Snyder today, mailed
from Los Angeles. Mr.. Snyder is TAX
ing a holiday and reports having taken
a short sea trip.
The board of education has petitioned
the city commissioners for permission
to lower the sidewalk at Sixteenth and
Van Buren, streets around the new
school house, two feet. Commissioner
w G. Tandy will report on the petition.
Because he claims his property on
Locust street has deprecated in value
on account of being left without ingress
or egress as a result of the lowering of
the street levels by the city, Charles
Kempe has asked the city to reimburse
him.
About twelve hundred copies of the
High School Annual, which is the best
publication of the kind ever put out
by an outgoing class at the institution,
will be on sale tomorrow at Is cents.
This is 8 cents more than the usual
price, but it would seem that the pub
LEGATION should sell readily for at least
a quarter of a dollar.
George Mattlngly, city incense col
lector, will have a busy month in July.
In that month. licenses on 121 billiard
and pool tables, exclusive of those in
fraternity organizations. the CONNER
cial club and the Y. NJ. c. A, will be
due. At 50 each this will bring in
81, 1S9. Nine hundred dollars will be
due from the transfer men.
DR.. Jay William Hudson will be the
speaker at the Auditorium Friday
night in ponna with tho
ton exercises of the outgoing high
school class. He is professor of phil
osophy in the University of Missouri
and is said to be a strong speaker.
The Rev. J. H Jones will pronounce
the invocation and President s. A
Swendson of the board of education
will give out the diplomas.