The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-13

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| Strangers in the city make many
favorable comments on Topeka's new
white way.
Only one thing is lacking at the
state fair grounds--the hoped for cap
tive balloon.
Tell us your. telephone troubles. We
want the Independent service to
please you in every respect.
Two persons called at the emer-
gency tent on the fair grounds, who
had been bitten by show monkeys.
There has been no rainfall in the
state of Kansas in the last "a hours.
This looks good for the Kansas state
fair.
Plans are already underway for
doubling the capacity of the swine
year.
Some consolation in being taken sick
at the state fair grounds: the nurses at
| the emergency hospital are so nice
| looking.
| A Topeka wouId-be literary man
of writing booklets as it is to stop
chewing or any other bad habit.
One consolation of getting sick n
the fair grounds IS the fact that there
are many exceptionally pretty nurses
who are willing to take care of you.
| The woman who sells potato peelers
/ at the state fair has missed her call
| Ing Her voice and persuasive powers
| qualify her for a suffragette lecturer.
The street railway company laid a
| line of electric light wires to the fair
grounds, a distance of nearly twenty
blocks, in half day. This is consid-
cred fast work.
The Karnival knights are hard at
work. perfecting arrangement for the
parade Friday night which may be
longer even than the Kansas Semi
Centennial parade.
An electric light at Seventeenth and
Kansas avenue started a fire in a tree
at 6:46 last night and uptown fire com
panies were called. A few limbs in the
tree were scorched.
Mrs. Kate Young of S24 Buchanan
street belongs in the honor list of ma
tive Kansans. She was born in Doni-
phan county April 1, 1861, and has al
ways lived in the state.
The fact that thousands of out of
town people are here for the big state
fair is enough to prove to the people
over the state that the smallpox scare
was nothing but a myth.
Another sign of progress in the last
fifty years in Kansas is that fewer
couples than ever before are seen hold |
ing hands in daylight at the state fair |
even from the rural communities.
Rob NJ. Campbelrs book, Secret His
tory" will be placed on sale at the |
peka newspaper man and has written |
several "powems'' and short stories.
There is an interesting alfalfa dis
play at the State Fair. There is al |
falfa there in all stages of develop |
ment. The largest display is by /
Mrs. Theo. Saxon of Pottawatomie.
Jesse and his famous joy wagon"
yelled someone in the crowd at Sew |
enth and Kansas avenue as Jesse |
Shaw. superintendent of the city water
nv in oft r
Chief Wilmarth, of the fire depart |
ment, was out doors for the first time |
last night when he was taken to the |
fair. grounds in an automobile. The |
veteran chief is gaining strength rap
idly.
The Karnival knights are wild over /
their success in obtaining the presence |
of the famous foreign princess for the |
big parade and ball Friday night The
Karnival Knights are working out a /
big time.
Mayor Billiard received the greatest
ovation of any one person in the parade
last night. Out at the fair grounds
someone started to yell Billiard for
governor and the whole crowd took
up the cry.
Never before have the farmers of
Shawnee county taken such general
interest in the State Fair. Thousands
of them drove in for the fair today.
A reporter counted IA persons in one
light wagon.
After all the excitement of this
week of festivities is over the children
OF Topeka will wake up to the reali-
zation of the fact that school will
commence a week from yesterday
September 10.
The most sensib1e-and remarkable
woman has been found. She lives
in Topeka an dhas no fear that any of
the visiting girls who represented their
towns in the parade las night will try
to get her son.
Last evening a man perched high
on the roof of the Majestic theater sang
to the, crowds below through big
megaphone. He drew a lot of listen
srs and was given the glad hand at
the end of each song.
w. F. Thomas, horseman from
Du Quesne, Ark, is here attending the
fair. He says that the exhibit Of live
stock is the best he has asn since the
st. Louis exposition and compares
favorably with that.
General Hughes in all his glory-and
here IS some glory to the general-rode
n the parade last night. But he rode
at the head of the colored band-and
people can't understand that. The
general is a southerner.
Special trains on the Rock Island
md Santa Fe today brought hundreds !
If out of town people to the state fair
n Topeka. Local passenger men say !
hat all regular trains are filled with /
risitors to the capital city. {
The big parade last night could not {
,e appreciated by one who did not f
,noW Of Kansas history. who cared l
ess and who came out just because the t
rowd was there. But city enterprises q
re not invented for such people
While the men in the Last Days OF
2ompeii" at the state fair were bowins r
before the idol calf during the spectacle II
preceding the fireworks an old man in II
he grandstand remarked, Them must l
De the Three Wise Men of the East"
Cars on their way to the fair II
in many instances the even | II