The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

last summer. Now the widow wants
pay for her husbands death
Unknown persons have been pasting
circulars on the Crawford bill boards
in town saying that the show houses of
the Crawford company were unsafe to
the public. The CrawfC rds are trying
to find the originators OF the plan to
ruin the Topeka show business.
The big iron poles for the use of the
Edison company in replacing their
wooden poles on Kansas avenue have
| been shipped to Topeka and will be
! raised this fall When the Edison
poles are off from Kansas avenue, the
street will be in good condition.
A reception will be held at the Cen
| tral Y NJ Q. A. next Friday evening
for high school students. After the re =
ception an educational rally will take
place and 1t is expected to interest
some of the younger men present in
the night school of the association.
Now that the city commissioners
have passed an antihitching post ordi-
nance on Kansas avenue, people tie
their horses to the great white way
poles. An order will be issued from
the city hall soon placing a heavy fine
on q man who makes this practice
''I wish Topeka would quit this fair
and convention business, said a mar
who travels over Kansas Every time
I hear of a meeting here I begin to
figure on It least five out of town
guests. One-half of the people who at
tend conventions, visit their friends in
Topeka"
The board of city commissioners
talked about awnings on Kansas ave
nue. again this morning This IS
standard topic among the commission
ers-but still the awnings hang low
and knock dents in the lid OF the man
who happens to be more than 90
inches tall.
Topeka is able to create all kinds of
enthusiasm in every way but in deco
rations. Kansas avenue hasn't been
decentlv decorated for special occa-
sions in years. Now that the presloent
and old soldiers are coming it is ex-
pected that some business man will
hang out a fag-possibly two
The next meeting of the Shawnee
Alfalfa club will be held at the Com
nercial club next Saturday afternoon
at which time summer experiences VIII
be discussed. The members of the club
are already beginning to plan for
bigger and better Shawnee county agri-
cultural display at the state fair next
season.
Following the establishment of
new loon in the street car system, the
street railway has established 2 new
rllIe The schedule of the runs on this
loop have been shortened and no more
will the car wait for passengers run
ming down the street. The man VINO
rides on the loop cars must be ready to
hop on the platform
In Margaret Hill McCarter's new
book she speaks of a girl who goes
east for musical training after she had
ora duated from Washburn. The east
ern teachers were surprised at her ex-
cellent training. This is common oc-
currence with Washburn girls who
have an idea that eastern methods are
so much ahead of the work of the
musicians in the west.
Not long ago q young man with
tears in his eyes went from house to
house telling West side women how
hard he working trying to sell maga-
zine called Comfort that he might
go to college this fall. All the women
and paid in advance. It
has been three months now and no
magazine has appeared It is a safe !
het that the young man obtained his |
college course, all right
How many miles would you guess a /
Topeka street car travels in a day? |
Cars on the Washburn-Santa Fe line /
cover the least number of miles on ac- |
count of the layover at each end of |
the line but those cars travel 135 miles |
each day from 6 a. N. until midnight, |
or far enough to cover a trip to Kan I
sas CITY and return Cars on the asy- /
luna-South Topeka line cover more mile I
age than any other lines, making 175 |
miles in the Is hour run, or an average
Of nearly ten miles per hour.