The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-29
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plainly visible in Topeka Friday aft
ernoon.
The tennis season began today as far
as the Central Park Lawn Tennis
club is concerned.
Yes, you can use your neighbours
Independent telephone. but it's more
satisfactory to have one in your own
house.
Mrs. Lucia o. Case will speak be-
| fore the young people of the First
CONGREGATIONAL church Sunday even
ing at GAS o'clock.
Today saw the first real summer
brand of heat, the kind of heat that
makes easy money for the mountain
and beach resorts.
The Rev. ]. C. Everett, will speak
tomorrow afternoon at the Kansas
avenue department of the Y. M. c. A.
on 1.-THE Making of Manhood"
Carpenters are busy in the audi
forum constructing huge platform
for the children's chorus in the COM
ing Sunday school convention.
This is the kind of weather that
makes a fellow think about going
home to hunt up the short Zones"
knee length and with no sleeves.
The Santa Fe baseball team will
leave tonight for Hutchinson, where
they play Bill links State leaguers
Sunday Fifteen players we're taken on
the trip.
Monday the merchants of the city
will begin to put up bunting prepara-
tory to the State Sunday School con-
vention. The street railway company
will also probably decorate.
A meeting of the Ministerial union
will be held in GemmelI hall Monday
morning at 1G o'clock. ]. A. Hamlet
will read a paper on "Browning's
Conception of Christianity"
L. L. Adams. formerly manager of
the metropolitan Life Insurance COM
pany in Topeka, was a visitor at the
Commercial club. Mr.. Adams now
has his headquarters in Kansas City.
| In the south wall of the Provident
| association has been set a granite
stone "a inches square in which is
cut this inscription: Gift of Norris
| L. Gage to the Provident association,
1904"
J. M. Quayle. retired farmer of
near Pauline has moved to Topeka
and purchased home on Fillmore
street near Sixteenth. He has associ-
ated with C. ]. Blakely in the real
estate business.
| W. E. Alton, a real estate man of
Concordia, has purchased a home at
I'll West street. He has also bought
half interest in the Straus Real
Estate agency and expects to make
Topeka his home.
| Lon Sauls formerly a detective on
the police force, and Frank Summers,
sergeant, have had their rank inter-
changed. Three new men appointed
patrolmen are Axten Rosander, John
Boyle and Emmett Sanders.
Mayor Billiard says he will have an
| ordinance drawn up prohibiting the
children from playing on the streets
unless the mothers and fathers keep
closer watch on their little ones. Many
injuries have been reported from this
source.
A number of geniuses in the city
who have been enthused with the re-
lcent aeroplane successes have planned
on constructing their own machines
There are a score of homemade ma
chimes under construction in Topeka
at this time.
MY beans are growing so fast"
said a city gardener this afternoon.
| that this noon when I was standing
on the garden to see how it was grow
ing 1 felt my foot raise up under me
and there was a bean pushing itself
out of the ground"
The regular May meeting of the
board of education will be held Mon
day evening. At that time the jani-
tors for another year will be appoint
ed, and various other matters includ-
ing the enlargement of the high
school building will be considered.
James A. Stewart, general passenger
agent of the Rock Island lines, has
moved his family to Topeka. With
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart are their three
children, Miss Elizabeth, Edward E.,
their home at 920 Lincoln street, near
the home occupied by General Man
lager Sweet of the Rock Island.
E. S. Cole of the betterment de-
partment of the Santa Fe has resigned,
effective May 1. Cole will go to st.
| 70 hnnnrCa q 6A of q
Corbin Supply company of that city.
Cole will be remembered as pilot of
the balloon Topeka. He is an air en-
thusiast His fellow employees at the
Santa Fe presented him with valise.
A Topeka young man fixed an ar
rangement in his screen door SO that
the cat might enter the house with
? out making it necessary to open the
entire door. His scheme included a
smaller door near the bottom of the
If this remedy always works, every
screen door in town will have trap
door attachment
Because not as many delegates as
, were expected attended the Christian
church convention last fall. and many
: of the persons who had prepared to
) entertain delegates had empty rooms
while the convention was in progress
as consequence, the committee in
charge of arrangements for the COM
Ing State Sunday School convention.
May "a, have found it difficult to
ind accommodations for the delegates.
The committee in charge of the ar
engagements for the State Sunday
School convention which will bring
more than 1000 persons to Topeka,
has found accommodations for 500
persons only. Those who are in a
position to accommodate guests of
the city while they are here are asked
to notify w. J. Rickenbacher of the
entertainment committee. The usual
price of SO cents for lodging and
breakfast will be paid by the delegates
How did Miss Lala execute your must
cal composition ''She didn't execute II
at all. She murdered it"-Baltimore