The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-21

ney park tonight.
Brings the doctor in just half the
time. Independent telephone.
The Aggie alumni will rold their an
nuaI picnic at Skene's park next Satur-
day.
The Provident association has had a
good many calls recently for practical
nurses.
The regular evening services at the
First Baptist church viii be resum ed
next Sunday.
DR.. F. A. Cook, the man who didn't
find the North pole, will tell about it
at the Topeka auditorium on Septem-
Der 25.
Druggist Snow delivered a SC drug
! order in Oakland. Phone 748 and d
special messenger will deliver It
promptly.
There is no news here" remarked c.
c. Starr, superintendent of schools, this
morning. I'VE are just getting ready
for the opening day"
One of the large plate glass windows
! in the new Mills Dry Goods company
store fell out during the night. 1t had
been cracked before.
All the KarnivaI Knights are ex-
pected to be present at rousing
meeting this evening at o'clock in
the rooms of the Commercial club.
Since the rains of the last few weeks
the water in the three wells at the
city waterworks plant has returned to
normal height. The city has no fear
of shortage now.
An ordinance appropriating $4,000 out
of certain funds to pay for bonds and
interest coupons was passed by the
board of city commissioners at their
meeting this morning.
Chief Wilmarth of the fire depart
ment gained considerable strength
over Sunday. Physicians still have
placed a limit on the number of vis-
itors to the Wilmarth home
A Topeka man who came through
the western part of the state on Sat
urday reported that there were pools
of water standing along the Rock
Island tracks along the way.
A meeting of the Topeka Real Estate
Dealers association viii be held
Wednesday noon at the Comm erc1al
club. This is the first gathering in a
month of the association members.
The Great White Way workers are
| now nearing Ninth street on their way
north on Kansas avenue. The curbtng
and guttering has been torn up from
! Eighth to Tenth avenues on Kansas
| avenue.
Saturday night the Topeka camp of
Gideons held a picnic at Garfield park
, in honor of the state Gideon presi-
dent c. D. Lusby, who will leave
Tuesday for Los Angeles, Cal, where
he accepted a position.
T. n. Chenowfth, the head Of the
firm that will place a fuel oil plant in
Topeka, is begging the city commits
sioners to hurry up the franchise mat
| ter that his company might begin pre-
liminary surveys at once.
The Topeka doctors are not report
ing the birth under the new strict laws
as well as they did under the old city
ordinances This is the city's hardest
task-to make the doctors see that
birth records are necessary.
Every week new offices are being
moved into the new general office
building of the Santa Fe. Soon every
downtown railroad office will be given
a place in the big structure. The in
side work is nearly completed.
The Karnival Knights will meet in
the Commercial club rooms tonight. 1t
IS hoped that at least 200 young men
during the Semi Centennial. Down
with the whiskers'' is the motto.
The upper band stand at the fair
grounds is being enlarged to accommO-
date the Liberati band and opera sing
ers who will occupy it during the day
of the grandstand for the evening per-
formances.
The painting of the rear of the
grandstand white is a great improve
ment at the fair grounds. The glar1ug
bill board advertising that greeted the
eye here was out of tune with the new
buildings and artistic surroundings
that now predominant
From the outlook the school board
will spend its time this evening investi-
eating the offices of building superin-
tendent and the other offices connected
with school property. 1t is claimed that
the inspector on new school structures
is not up to the standard.
An ordinance levying a special as
sessment on eleven lots on Lafayette
s.-1SL IA Neale . auditiOla and eight lois
on Lincoln street in Bonaventure's ad-
dition to pay for the repair of side
walks was passed by the board of city
commissioners this morning.
Hay fever time is here. The snuf1e,
the sneeze and the cracked ice have
entered hundreds of Topeka homes.
Hay fever thrives in the city as well
as in the country. You don't have to
keep hay to have hav fever. But you
do have to keep your temper.
The fue1-oil ordinance giving T. N.
Chenowith of Kansas City the right to
construct a fuel oil plant in Topeka
was up for the final reading and was
passed by the city commissioners at
their regular meeting today. The Kan
sas City people will begin their surveys
at once.
Prosperity note: On account Of the
many new people in the city and the
number of strangers that are coming
to Topeka at all times, the Topeka
ductors to sound the street names in
the daytime. It was done formerly
at night.
Carl p. RoImar presented his peti-