The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-20
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DIR. R. S. Gray of New Zealand, is
in Topeka to study the prohibition sit
uation.
Now that the weather department
is sending out fair weather forecasts
perhaps it will rain.
Tomorrow will be five cent day at
NinewOod- All the concessions are to
be run on a five cent schedule.
Herman Crow, who used to be one
of the owners of the Topeka ball
team, now has a lemon ranch near
San Diego.
Ed McKeever will go to his farm
next week to harvest his alfalfa crop
He says he is going to do some of
the real work himself.
An ordinance vacating Lincoln street
between the north line of Twenty-s
and the east line of Burlingame ave
nues has been presented to the board
OF city commissioners.
Raffe Emerson, the popular bal
loonist, has left Topeka for a few
weeks to return later when plans have
been perfected for aeroplane interests
in which he is interested.
The solicitous Topeka man who
says an ascension invalidate life in
surance policies, is invited to call at
the State Journal office and see a pol
icy or two which are not so affected.
About one week ago several To-
pekans went to Colorado. They said
they couldn't stand the hot weather
any longer. And in the last week the
weather has required blankets at night.
John H. Mooney of the New York
fire department is in Topeka today
visiting at fire headquarters. He is
walking from New York to San Fran
cisco and produced a letter from Chief
Wilmarth proving his visit to this city
An ordinance condemning certain
land n order To 7
from Byron to Euclid avenues and
establishing a benefit district to pay
for this improvement has been laid
before the city commissioners.
The rains of the last few days have
done more to revive the lawns ana
shrubberv in the city than all of the
city water that has been suuirted on
the grass this summer. Well water
keeps the grass alive-and rain makes
it grow.
A petition has been sent to the city
com missioners asking that the aIIev
between the high school and the First
Presbyterian church be vacated. 1t IS
said this alley is worthless on account
of another branch of the alley behind
this property.
A young man clerk at the Rock
Island offices is too baShful to swear in
front of the pretty girl stenographer
at his side so he hurIs Swedish phrases
at his bucking typewriter. In truth he
| IS swearing in Swede but the stena
! thinks 1t is real clever.
A number of the members of the
| western Aero association are so inter
ested in ballooning that they are plan
ming to purchase 1000 foot balloons
which hold one man. With these play
| things they expect to puncture holes in
/ the clouds above Topeka and vicinity
The gas, water and electric light
| companies have given orders to theil
| meter readers to pass up the smallpox
| houses. They fear that the disease
Will be spread in this manner NoN
that this is known every person II
| town will paste smallpox sign or
their back door.
There was a large and fashionable
audience at the city commission matt
nee this morning. The room was filled
| with good looking men who we're try
ing to land the great white way con
tracts. Each man had pocket full
his lamp post was the best
The notices for the taxes to cove
the cost of the fifteen blocks of as
phaltic concrete pavement have beei
sent to the property owners on thes
streets 1t is hoped to get this Worl
done before winter. 1t has been tiet
up in the courts through the efforts o
a ''sour-grape" paving concern.
Roy Johnson and Arthur Buff re
turned last night from a three day
camping eXpe0IuOn on Mill creek
They brought with them a fish weigh
2 ing five and a half pounds. which
: they really and truly caught them
selves They say they caught dozen
: of others they did not bring back.
TWO young men of Kansas City. S
d. Perkins and K. o. Rieger. were i
Topeka with their big automobile to
/ day. They were on the return trip t
Los Angeles from Kansas City. The
made the distance from Los Angeles I
Topeka in ten days. They are maxim
a map for the California Motor league
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