The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
. SSN0TS

Tickets LOT the EAeAII11Nd1 Lcll Will 81
On sale at Stans1eld'S Thursday.
An adjourned meeting of the board
of education will be held next Monday
night.
Many of the Karniva1 Knight par
ade floats have already been COM
pleted.
A local electrical firm has been
awarded the contract for supplying
lamps for nine state institutions.
W. c. Ralston. city attorney, has
returned to his office at the city hall
after a vacation of two weeks.
Work of excavating for the new high
school building in connection with the
! Assumption school is in progress.
4 Those who care to provide accommO-
dations for visitors fair week are list
ing their names with the Commercial
club.
/ gun WOrkmen spent all day string
ling colors on the city hall and auditor
ium.
A rush business was done today at
the state fair office The official head
quarters will be at the fair grounds to-
morrow.
Within a short time 80 men will be
employed at Pinehurst grading streets
and putting in sidewalks and curling
and gutteriDg.
ing forward to the opening day of the
r-Monday-when they will be ad
mitted free to the grounds.
Automobile license No. 756 was is
sued by the city clerk this afternoon:
It called for a Buick 40" purchased
| by E. J. Lindamood, S34 Kansas ave-
nue..
A week from tonight the big Kansas
| Seni-C Centennial parade will be held.
The floats which have been under con-
structiOn are said to be practically COM
pleted.
1t is said that the smallpox epidemic
which has just ended was started in
Topeka through the purchase of box
Of household goods at railroad
freight sale.
All Karnival Knights are ordered to
be present at the last big rousing
meeting at the Commercial club to-
night. Some important business viii
be transacted
What is said will be the finest dance
hall in Kansas is now being completed
in the third floor of the kirkpatrick
building at the corner of Seventh and
Quincy streets
The Gafford flats which cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and which are
located at SIG Harrison street, have
been completed and families have been
moving in recently.
Now is the time to begin to clean up
in preparation for the big week of fes-
tfvities. All lawn mowers in the city
should be put into use, and weeds
should be cut down.
At the meeting of the Karnival
Knights tonight all members of the
order who do not wear their K. K.
buttons will be fined the price of an
other one-50 cents.
West side doctor took his trusty
rifle to go target shooting in the
country recently. After he was about
ten miles from town and had erected
gotten the stock to his gun.
The city officials say that in enforc-
ing the new street talking ordinance
they will treat everyone alike. This
to talk on Kansas avenue he will be
in danger Of arrest and fine.
In the month Of August the bank |
clearings in Topeka gained 21.6 per
cent This is the greatest gain of any |
city in the country. 1t shows that /
Topeka is prospering despite the busi-
ness depression over the country.
Tenants have been moving into the |
new LeeDer fats at the corner Of Sixth |
and Buchanan streets in the last two |
weeks There are four flats in the |
building. The store portion Of the |
building WAS completed some weeks
ago.
As soon as w. G. Tandy, city com
missioner of streets and public i'm |
provements. gives the order the street /
commissioner will start the tin can |
day brigade over the streets of the |
city. The city is awaiting Mr. Tandys |
order.
Complaints have come to the city /
hall that the contractor of the Great I
White way is not repairing sidewalks I
behind the curbing as quickly as
should be done. 1t is said that this |
work should not be left open in state |
fair week.
Since the ball team has been losing /
games with such regularity, the State
Journal baseball telephone is used /
only about one-third as much as it |
was used a month ago. The fans are /
ready to grasp a floating straW-but
the ship is sinking fast.
Travelling men working out Of To-
peka say that all over the state they
meet travelling statesmen from Hutch
insOn who persist in telling gossip |
about the alleged smallpox epidemic
in Topeka This is the way some cit
ties work to obtain state fair.
lola is going to get out an advertis
ing folder for distribution in topeka.
one of the features of the folder viii
be cut of the five pretty girls who
will represent the town. You can de-
pend upon lola doing her part towards
whooping it up for the grand old state
of Kansas"
A number of Karnival knights who
have lost their buttons have been
wondering if they would be supplied
with additional badges. If such
would be asking for buttons-fellows
who were too stingy to buy button
and become a Knight.
The following will serve as state fair
judges Jnc. Huston, Blendensville. H.,
draft horses; N. H. Gentry, Sedalia,
Mo- beef cattle; Prof. T. G. Paterson
Kansas Agricultural college, Manhat-
tan. beef cattle; Senator c. A. Stan
nard, Emporia, Kan. hogs; Col G. II.
Rhodes. North Topeka, Kan, poultry;
George A. Daniels, Omaha Neb., sheep
Secretary Cook has received word
from some of the noted saddle horse
breeders in Missouri that they have