The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01

Willard. This is the outcome of the
H. Won Schon talk at the Comm ercial
club a few weeks ago. The CONNER
cial club can do nothing towards har-
Messing the river until permission to
do so is given by congress.
Those who were silly enough to take
the suggestions in this column Satur-
! day night and abandon their long
ones for the short ones will now be
foolish enough to change back again.
| 1t is probable that the board of edu-
cation will hold two and possibly
three meetings this month. 1t will be
necessary to meet more than once in
| order to transact the business in hand,
Frank Snyder, late street commission
| er, leaves this week for a vacation in
! California. He will return and make
! his permanent home in Topeka-as he
| has done in the last quarter of a CEN
fury.
There isn't a better baseball town on
| the Western League map than Topeka.
| Despite the fact the KaWS are down
| at the bottom of the list struggling
with Des Moines to keep out of last
place.
Mrs. w. Warren of 1149 Lincoln street
| received a telegram from her son who
| is with the Southern Pacific at Ma
Zatlan. Mexico, that there was battle
| there Saturday and that no foreigners
| We're hurt.
| The sudden drop of the temperature
| from hot weather to freezing point has
! sent fear and disappointment into the
hearts of city gardeners who have a
radish. lettuce and three beans out
| in the back yard.
About 3 o'clock Sunday morning down
| town fire companies were called to the
! grocery store of Hill & Eshom. 1915
| Kansas avenue. Fire had started in the
| sawdust on the floor but the firemen
extinguished the blaze with no loss.
The old Mills building will serve as
the headquarters for the State Sunday
! School convention, the frs session of
which will be held tomorrow after
noon, and not the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
building as has been repeatedly stated.
The plumbers of Topeka have been
granted a raise of so cents a day MAX
ing their total pay IS a day. Besides
this raise they are to get half holiday
each week in June, July and August.
Now will you watch your water pipes?
In an interview in st. Louis today the
new president of the Missouri Pacific.
Mr.. Bush, says he intends to make the
road a model for other roads. Presi-
dent Bush will have to go some to
make the Missouri Pacific in Topeka a
model.
There should be some sort of an ar
rangement so that visiting teams would
allow Topeka to win the games before
Sunday crowds. The bleachers and
grandstands were packed Sunday-and
Denver nosed out easily in the ninth
inning.
But 500 of the 1000 delegates ex-
pected to attend the State Sunday
School convention have been provided
for by the committee which is en-
deavoring to get the promise of rooms
for the visitors while the convention is
in progress.
The Missouri Pacific ballast gangs
will be in Topeka in a few weeks
when many hundred dollars will be
spent in track improvements inside the
city limits in this city. The work will
be under the direction of City Engi-
neer Young.
Today is May day but it isn't a very
exciting day for May poles, basket pic
mics and white dresses. The usual May
day celebrations out on the Washburn
campus will be postponed until Jack
Frost hikes across the Canadian re-
ciprocity borders.
Miss Daisy June Trout and Miss
Pearl Forsyth of the Y. w. c. A. have
, returned from Indianapolis. where
they attended the national Y. w. c. A.
convention. They report that Sun
day Afternoon mass meeting was at
tended by 1000 persons
If you have wondered why so many
women occupy the lower seats in the
grandstands at the ball park the an
SWer is easy. The high steps IN the
grandstands make it almost impossible
for the fair sex to step up when they
are wearing their hobble skirts.
Il have never stated" said Mayor
Billiard this afternoon, that Mrs. Sayer
was the only applicant for police mat
ron. This seems to be the information
sent forth by a Topeka paper. Mrs.
Thorpe and Mrs. Sayer were the only
two applicants-the civil service returns
show that in black and white"
Office rooms are renting rapidly in
the new kirkpatrick building at the
corner of Seventh and Quincy streets.
A garage in charge of A. B. Kirk
patrick will occupy the first floor. The
second floor is being divided into Of
fice rooms and many of these have
already been rented. The third floor
will constitute a dance hall.
Commissioner Stotts has purchased
a motor car. Il expect everybody will
howl now and say that 1 grated it,
said the commissioner today. But
intend to visit every Topeka park every
week and some of them cannot be
| reached by street car service. To at
missioner should it is necessary that
/ purchase an automobile"
The Boy Scout craze is on the in
crease in Topeka. Sir Scout H E.
johnson. adjutant of the Twelfth regi-
York City, is spending a week in To-
peka, making his headquarters at the
home of Billie Badger. leader of the
Chippewa patrol in this city He is
organizing more patrols in Topeka.
There are ALREADY about IN hox-s