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

| the Topeka Provident association was
| held this noon at the Commercial club
The board of trustees of the First
Baptist church have decided to hold
| regular meetings at the Commercial
club.
| The Topeka Real Estate association.
which has been reorganized, viii
probably put out Topeka advertising
booklet in the near future.
The next issue of the Commercial
Club Bulletin will be off the presses
this week. A brand new view of To-
peka has been made for this edition.
Don't forget that ice cream treat.
It's Heinzs ice cream. Thursday, 8
to II. Be there. They are anxious to
have you. Fourth and Jackson streets.
The state fair grounds constitute one
of the liveliest spots in Topeka. Con-
| tractors are busy putting up new
buildings and making improvements
generally.
In exhibiting the 'Old and the New"
types of equipment to the people along
their lines the Santa Fe should have
small model of the two office buildings
| in Topeka.
A called meeting of the board of edu'
cation will be held next Tuesday even
ling when the bids on the additions to
the Monroe and State street schools
will be considered.
The merchants of Kansas will begin
to arrive tomorrow for the annual
Merchants week entertainment given
by the Topeka Jobbers and Manufac-
turers' association.
1t is getting hotter every day, the ice
bills look larger, the bluegrass is dying
and the money rolls out of our pockets
for cool drinks-but who cares? The
ball team is winning.
In the month of May the city clerk
issued 81 motor car licenses in topeka
This averages one day and represents
an Investment of about $4,000. There
are now 694 registered cars in the city.
The board of directors of the Y. w
C. A. will meet Thursday morning for
the purpose of completing the plans for
the week of festivities in connection
with the opening of the new $4,000
home.
How much yu' made today?" asked
one ''ice cold pop boy OF another at
the grandstand this afternoon. cav,
I sold twelve bottles, but done drunk
up the profits" came back the salts
fed answer.
This dry weather is taxing the city
waterworks but no shortage is in sight.
Compared with other cities where Or
ders have gone forth pleading with the
people to be careful-Topeka is getting
along swimmingly.
When you walk down the street with
the perspiration running down the
back of your neck, your clothes hang
ing to you like bathing suit and your
heels sinking in the asphalt pavement
why, it's hot-good and hot.
The mayor and city commissioners
spent the morning out over the city IN
vestigating localities from where pc
titions for sidewalks have been pre-
| scented to the board. Several miles OF
sidewalks will be laid in Topeka this
year.
| MI eo,-,o,e oIoSS of ,n2 washhurn
| college, will hold its first annual reun-
! ion on the college campus tomorrow
afternoon. Several out of town mem
| hers of this class will join the Topeka
grads on the campus and swap old time
| stories.
Bv the way. what has become of the
| city board of automobile examiners
| Cars are being purchased every day
and new drivers are endangerlng the
| lives of pedestrians on the streets put
| no examinations are made. 1t must De
| another reform that has "petered out
The hoard of city commissioners will
| meet in the mornings hereafter. 1t was
| decided that it was too hot in the after
Moons and the morning meetings were
| favored by Mayor Billiard. Commas
sioners Miller and Stotts Tardy ana
l Bone were rather faVorlle 10 the d
| ternoon meetings
| Tho rah-rahs at Washington are
| leaving the city on every train Next
| year they will return with tales OF va
cation trips and newly captured nala-
ens-when in fact they will spend all
| their time behind the counter In their
| dads grocery store. But it is a great
spirit-this college enthusiasm.
When Mayor Billiard gets worked UP
over anything it is time that everyone
sit up and take notice. The mayor al
lows only one thing to arouse him. and
that is John Dawson. But since the
- % ING
game the mayor sits in his office ana
reads the dope" at odd times.
The peanut, popcorn, chewing gum
land cigar kids at the Topeka ball yard
are philosophers. When the team is
winning and the fans are feeling GOOD
they work like Trojans on their sales
But when everything goes wrong
they hide in a corner and keep still
THEY know in what direction the wind
blows.
A veil of mystery covers the plans
for the cabaret-smoker at the Audi
ltorium Thursday evening. The toast
master refuses to be interviewed-and
also refuses to allow reporters copy to
get by him concerning this event II
will be worth the price of admission
to attend the show and watch the lift
ing of the veil.
The city license collector is an ole
Isoldier. This morning he was order
ing tags for the huckster wagons
ltags that he could see so that ne
wouldn't have to stop the driver and
ldemand his license. He ordered a but
lternut gray tin tag. (Key to the huge
Joke: Gray was the color of the rebe
uniforms in the Big War;
This is the time of the year wher
the railway pass clerks are wearing
out their pens writing out passes fol
employees who find it necessary to at
tend their grandmother funeral IL
Colorado and on the northern lakes
Tt is funny how popular funerals are
in the cool places in the summer anc
in the warm places in the winter.
Kansas is calling-calling-
flor 1900 harvesters. This is like
music to the ears of the eastern col
llege students, who believe that da1
in the beautiful Kansas SUNSHINE
means health, wealth and happiness