The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-06

The woods are filled with wild violets.
The crop is unusually large.
E. B. Stotts, city commissioner, has
an automobile but is afraid to drive it.
Major A. NJ. Harvey is an expert bass
fisherman but he prefers to use sein.
A meeting of the finance committee
of the Commercial club was held this
noon.
There are four cygnets at Central
| park The city will soon have swans to
| sell
DR.. S. S. Estey has returned from
Omaha where he spent several days
visiting N. H. Loomis.
The city buffaloes are shedding their
shaggy coats and they are not present.
| able before company.
The contractors say that the Y. w.
c. A. building will be ready for occu-
pancy about the middle of June.
The beautiful white Towering shrubs
to be seen in all the parks and yards
of the city now are spirae vanhoutti.
This was boys day at the Central
Y. M C. A. The recent campaign
has added to the gymnasium enroll
ment
A crouch is bad enough, but the
worst pest in the world is the crouch
| who is proud of it and who mentions
it continually.
The twenty-eighth annual banquet
of the Saturday Night club will be held
next Saturday. Many famous orators
will be present.
County Attorney Simon says he will
arrest any one who attempts to open
theater in Topeka on Sunday, but it
won't be necessary.
The city railway put it's famous old
car No. 101 into service on the Potwin
line. 1t made great deal of noise but
didn't fly to pieces.
The Novelty has played to capacity"
| audiences all week which proves that
high class attractions always get the
money, even in Topeka.
The work of tearing down the old
| Geo. w. Crane residence at Ninth and
Harrison streets has begun. 1t is the
passing of another Topeka landmark.
w. c. Stephenson is an enthusiastic
motorists but he seldom drives his car
outside the city limits. He doesn't
want to get beyond striking distance
from a garage.
A Topeka man who used to know
Bob Fitzsimmons in his prime, saw the
Flynn Kaufman fight in Kansas City
last night and says they battled like
a couple of milk-cows.
The average man who steps on an
! early morning car coming down town
from the outskirts wears a Don't
Speak to Me- sign all over his face
But it isn't a proof that he is crouch.
In an alleged game of baseball at
| League park yesterday afternoon be-
J tween the postoff1ce clerks. and the
Mercants' National bank clerks, the
| score was 10 to 10 at Oakland nobody
| was out.
| Arrangements are being made to
| bring a number of prominent out OF
| town speakers to Topeka for the Y. W.
! G. A. dedicatory ceremonies the middle
| of June.
Secretary Cook of the state fair
| hot oaIr -.
will be broken at the big doings next
| fall. The track has been graded and
| placed in good condition and the Sec
rotary expects big entries.
The city commissioners have de-
cided to obey the Sunday labor law.
AS result they will not hold any Skin
mish or fight out any battles tomor-
row But they are gathering ammu-
milton together to make a big fight
Monday.
Physicians report let up in the
| department in the Santa Fe general
| office building has allowed a leave of
absence to five or more of its en-
ployees. But the swelled counten-
| ances have disappeared.
Now that the paving company
which appealed to home patronage
started the ball rolling the city itself
| is approving specifications which bar
the brick made in Topeka. The Com
mercial club will have to pump some
civic pride into the city commissioners.
Miss Pearl Head, who has been sing
| ing in the North Topeka Baptist
church. and Miss Ruth Fletcher sang Il
duet at the Novelty theater this after
| noon. Miss Head will take the place
of Miss Fletcher as singer of illus
| trated songs at the Novelty for the re-
I mainder of the season.
| deep in social problems in Topeka 50
that more effective work may be ac-
complished by the Topeka Provident
association. In the next few weeks
he will attend all the moving picture
shows in the city to get statistics
which he will use in a report which
he will prepare.
Miss Bertha Rowles, who was sent by
| the girls of the Y. w. c.. A. as their
delegate to the national convention just
closed at Indianapolis, Ind, will be the
| leader at vesper services which will be
held at the association quarters tomor-
row afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. num-
| Der of others who attended the conven-
| ton will make short talks.
The Wichita papers are complaining
because the street railway has placed
single truck cars on the down town
| lines during the aviation week. The
street railway in that city is owned by
| the same company as the railway in
| this city and Wichita has practically
| all double truck cars. Topekans con-
slider it an honor to ride in double
truck car.
If the city of Topeka would allow
more sand in the specifications for
cement sidewalks thus making the
walks cheaper like other cities. the
brick walks in town would be torn
up and thrown into the street. The
way it is the cement walk specifi "a
tons are too high for this improve
ment. All the new walks are cement,
but the old ones should be renewed.
D. S. Menasco, vice president of the
American Motors company which
manufactures the famous under-slung
American Travellers, has just establish
ed an agency in Topeka and made this
oft he distributing n0inf for fo1,r