The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04

orld--Independent Telephone
It costs ss-25 every time one Of the
three inch Battery A guns is fired
SHOWS Drug store 10th and Tope-
ks. serves soda to carriages and autos
Roland West viii erect a dwelling
at s12 West Fifteenth street to cost
50. 400
This is the last day Of vinewood.
the park closing for the season after
tonight
Two special trains of live stock will
come to Topeka from the Nebraska
state fair at Lincoln.
1t takes just Is minutes to deal out
4 the personal equipment to the ia en-
list ed men Of Battery A.
Secretary F D Coburu has offered
$50 in special prizes for the best dis
play Of different cuts Of alfalfa at thu
state fair
The city hall was deserted of clerks
today. Most of the officials were
there taking advantage of the Iull and
making up their work
Work OF cutting the grass on the
fair grounds began today in prepara-
tion OF the big week which starts next
Sunday with TWO sacred concerts.
Two new fire hydrants have been
placed in service At the corner of
Morris and Harrison streets and
Grant and Harrison streets in North
Topeka.
The new Tiffany windows which have
been installed in the First Presbyterian
church by Mrs Jonathan Thomas liz
memory Of her late husband are decid-
edIy attra ctive-
The day nursery at the Provident as
sociation which has been closed for
two weeks to permit of some repairs
being made in the nursery room was
reopeped this morning at o'clock
The music for the county temper
vx-fTI -
g. so tomorrow morning at the Z w
C A building viii be furnished by Mrs
Clara Mills and Mrs Wilma c. Rhodes
Fred Johnson, who was shot by
Guard Dutton for violating quarantine
rules. was at his old tricks sunday. He
streets by threats of calling the police
The officers Of Battery are urging
that the Topeka people take an inter
est in the organization and visit the
headquarters building on Jackson
street. preferably on some Monday
drill evening
The outlook for this years work
in the educational department OF
the Y NJ c A is brighter than ever"
said George H HOyes, director Last
year We had los students and this
year we expect 10 have 200
If you hear mysterious tapping of
hammers and muffIed cursing as a
know that in some deserted barn in
the vicinity. a man is trying to make
a float for the Karnival Knights pa
rade-
The man with gentle disposition
who was 50 pestered by the other
men at the Y NJ c. A. that he is
said to have purchased a revolver to
keep them away. has left the build
ing-by request in order to preserve
the peace.
Sixteen persons have now expressed
their desire TO take the half time
trade school course if the course is es-
tablished this fall in the high school
This IS considered a large mum Der Tor
a starter-that is considering that the
opening Of school is still two weeks
away.
There are more than 1000 entries
in the state fair cattle department
alone. This is nearly sufficient num-
Der to fill the big barn. Last year
occupied one end of the cattle pa
vilion. This year they have barn of
their own.
The list of the names of the boarding
hOusekeepers of the city which IS being
kept at the Commercial club for the
benefit of the visitors falr Week IS ne
swelling rapidly Unless it grows the
thOusau uds of people who come 70 To
peka will have a hard time finding ac-
commodatious-
WOrkmen on the mani holes and the
bases of the Great White Way were
on deck today The cable arrived
SATURDAY night and the pulling will
begin tomorrow morning If it does
Mt rain the Improvement should be
completed to Fourth street by the be-
ginning of the state fair.
E E Babcock. assistant fire chief,
who was injured in the recent fire on
Kansas avenue is feeling better to-
day 1t was feared for some time that
blood poisoning would set in, but the
physicians have given the assistant
chief a promise that nothing danger
Gus is in store for him now.
Secretary E c. Brownell says that
smoking will not be prohibited jan
uarv I in the Y NJ. c. A building It
might be said here that tie statement
to the effect that there had been talk
secretaries The statement was cor
rect. but no definite decision had been
arrived at.
When it was rumored that all
su oking would be cut out at the Y
NJ C. A. January 1. there was great
excitement on the part Of about two
thirds of the fellows in the building
who are users of the weed" One
man was on the point of having
business card printed giving his ad-
dress as the Y NJ C A He iume-
association and told them that II
smoking was to be cut out he would
take immediate steps to leave the
building The no smoking rule IS
said TO work we'll in new buildings,
but Il is hard to establish such a law
in an old building