The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-26

other plans for that day in Topeka, it
has been postponed.
Steel work on the state Memorial
/ building has been stopped on account
| of a rumored strike among the iron
workers. If this building is ever
built-if it is able to wade through the
hoodoos that have flowed around it
it will be a surprise.
Secretary Cook, of the state fair. is
| not very enthusiastic about the Fourth
| Of July celebration being held at the
fair grounds. The secretary says it
| in training at the grounds and will also
endanger the buildings.
The Indian Creek grange will hold
a meeting on the last day of this
month. The regular business of the
grange will be transacted at this time
so that the meeting in the grove of
William Davis. July f. will be purely
an affair for entertainment
Lawns in the city where sprinkling
has not been carried out every evening
spend all of their time and water in
, an attempt to keep the vines alive
! around the pOrches. Despite the drouth,
| however the weeds grow in all their
I glory
A number of motor car owners were
4 day and after every one of them had
1 contributed his share of talk on the
| expense connected with the running of
a car it was agreed that it cost a man
from to cents a mile to keep his
machine in order.
| To show how poplzar the cement
sidewalk is-the contracts Tor this
year show that $4,000 square feet of ce-
ment sidewalk will be laid against 2.470
/ feet of brick walk. The people who
4 old idea that a cement sidewalk was a
failure and graft.
| Quite a large number of the two
hundred and more pupils in the sum-
mer schools which are being main
| tanned by the board of education for
make up back work are taking man.
ual training work although in most
| cases this work is optional
The housewives of Topeka have boy
cotted the potatoes since they have
reached such a price altitude. Instead
families are eating other vegetables.
And the commission men have found
that the demand for the spuds is on
the wane. As a result it is expected
that the prices win tumble in a few
days.
The officers of the Kansas Inspec-
ton & Fire Prevention offices are
sending out literature to the Kansas
press asking that cooperation on the
sane Fourth proposition be secured
| OF all the people who wish sane
the most enthusiastic. 1t is a bust
ness proposition with them.
Sunday a Topeka man was visited by
his relatives from Ohio-their first to
Kansas. All their lives they had heard
of dry windy, drouthy Kansas. They
We're in Topeka one day-and went on
to Colorado. And the Topekan is still
trying to figure how he will make his
relatives believe that Kansas is any
thing but a dry, windy, drouthy state.
The bank clearings showed Topeka
with the second largest gain OF any city
in the United States last week. And
speaking of cities that grow slowly and
surely and those that boom Okla
hOma City with her recent tons OF ad-
vertising sustained a big loss in bank
clearings. Their figures we're only a
few thousand over Topeka
Sunday was one of the days that
made Kansas famous. The hot wind
and the above-hundred temperature
was the old weather condition that gave
the state a reputation all over the
/ United States. Old timers say it was
the first variety of this prairie type
in a good many years. Kansas has
Gained down wonderfully in the last
few years.
The Polk school pupils who win
participate in the sane Fourth eel
ebration at the auditorium met for
practice this morning at o'clock.
The Quincy pupils are meeting this
afternoon. The Lincoln youngsters
will meet at o'clock tomorrow
morning. and the pupils of the Clay
school will hold their practice at 7
o'clock Wednesday evening.
The Topeka business men who are
supporting the Great White Way Dro-
position gathered at the city hall this
morning in an attempt to put a little
ginger into the city commissioners. It
is claimed the city officials are loafing
on the matter and in order to get the
work done by the state fair, it viii
have to be rushed. But the city COM
and the business men were more angry
than ever
A number of financiers from
Kansas City viii be in Topeka tomor-