The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-19
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Is your name in the Independent
Telephone directory? 1t ought to be-
A meeting of the high school Forensic
club was held this afternoon for the
purpose of electing officers.
The parks committee of the CONNER
cial club under D. o. Coe has started d
campaign for more attractive parkinGs
in Topeka.
The manual training exhibit of work
done by the students of the city schools
win be held at the manual training
building next Thursday and Friday.
The pharmacists of Kansas, several
hundred strong, will meet in Topeka
next week beginning Tuesday. The ses-
sions will be held at the Commercial
club.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Congregational church plans 70
hold a picnic in Central park at $50
this evening. In case of rain the al
fair will take place at the church.
Commissioner Stotts and City Physi-
clan Hogeboom declare the police ars
trying to make a dormitory out Of the
Sheldon emergency hospital at the po-
lice station.
A real estate man asks why 1t is that
if the King drag is a pronounced sue
cess on country roads it would not be
a decided help in lettering the conol-
ton of the city dirt roads
1t is all right for neglected father
to knock on Mothers Day sentiment in
this country but when an ugly con-
firmed bachelor screws up his face ana
snarls no one pays any attention
Big doings In the Western league
basement today. Topeka and Des
Noines are struggling with each other
on the cellar floor. 1t will be worth
the price of admission to drop down
stairs and see the fun.
Tom McRae of the Santa Fe EN-
ployees' Magazine is in Topeka to write
a 25-page article on the Santa F'e shops
in this city. Last month the magazine
printed a writeup of the OFFICES Inc
article will be illustrated.
When Vice President Storey of the
Santa Fe was in Topeka he had with
him several Mexican federal bullets
that were extracted from Santa Fe box
cars Several cars were puncturec
with bullets at the battle of Juarez.
Two rather serious accidents have oc-
Cured at the Y. M. G. A. in the last
week due to the slippery cement floor
ing adjacent to the ASSOCIATION SWIM
ming pool. H. Oldham and jesse Edoey
were both knocked unconscious by falls
sustained.
The secretary of the park board d
Boston has written to City Commission
er Stotts. asking him the details and
the system in running the Topeka ere
matory. City officials all over tns
country are getting pointers on To-
| peka'S crematory.
| The same gang, supposedly, tna1 RODS
back porches in the western part OF the
city broke all the windows they coulc
! find in the fair grounds last night
With all this vandalism every night IL
| the week it looks as though a stray
policeman might stroll out in that di'
I rection some time.
| Mrs. Lila Day Monroe will be one o.
! the speakers in connection with the DIS
| farmers conference which will be helt
at Hays this summer. There Will prob
| ably be 5000 persons present for the
| congress. Last year some of the farm
ers came in autos from points nearly 2O
miles distant
! A certain Topeka seed house is Il
for a scrap. This spring it sold swee
| pea seeds to a number of people Will
the understanding that they were goo
/ high class mixed varieties. 1nstea'
| they were dwarf peas and all one color
| Angry city gardeners who have watere'
/ and coaxed these peas only to flint
/ their worthlessness are up in arms
When President Ripley of the SAINT