The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
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The high school senior class COM
mencement invitations arrived today
and they are now being distributed.
| The students of the high school will
| fill out cards next Monday indicating
| the studies they desire to pursue next
| fall.
J. c. Burnett, assistant general
| freight agent of the Santa Fe in To-
peka, left today for ST. Louis where he
will spend a week on company mat
tiers.
| The familiar cry of ''Vinewood!"
| ''VinewoodI" will be heard again be-
ginning Sunday. These sounds are
| heard all afternoon and evening at the
corner of Eighth and Kansas avenues.
| According to the North side reporter
i when man goes home at night and
/ finds his wife has been eating onions he
/ shall postpone that scheduled kiss un-
\ til the next day, when two kisses Will
| fill the bill.
| The Van Buren, street school build
/ ing is nearing completion, and will be
| ready to be turned over to the board
| of education by june 15s Work OF
| grading the grounds adjacent to the
building is now in progress.
In naming the second baby buffalo
/ at the Gage park zoo the city commits
| sioners might call it bill" This name
| would be taken as an honor by at
| least thousand men in Topeka and
the city would profit by the action.
The annual recital of the musical
| department of the Topeka Industrial
| institute will be held tonight at the
Bradford Miller auditorium at the
| school east of Topeka. There will be
| quartettes and singing by the institute
chorus.
| FIFTH streets and Kansas avenue and
Jackson street the dirt and filth is in
| piles-it almost blocks the alley. Of
fees in the New England building
overlook this trash heap-but the city
has taken no action.
A reporter tried to talk Mayor Bill
lard out of the fact that there was not
an ice trust in Topeka this morning,
but the mayor was so full of figures,
pounds, delivery wagons, coupon
books and short weights that the re-
/ porter retreated in disorder.
| The final examinations at Washburn
| college begin next week. This is the
last chance the students have before
they go home to loving fathers and
mothers-their last chance to show
dad" that they have made good and
| have been worth the $500 spent in the
school year.
| The date of the dedication of the
Y. w. c. A. building at Seventh and
| Van Buren, streets has been changed
| from Sunday June IL to Sunday, the
| 18th of the month. The dedicatory adj
| dress will be delivered by Mrs. Emma
| Burgess Byers, executive of the north
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| The paving of the intersection of
| Grove and Woodlawn avenues has
| been delayed by the fact that the con-
/ tractors bidding on the work went over
| the estimate of City Engineer Young.
| The bids will be called for again. There
/ is no chance for a failure in paving
| this intersection this year.
| A mems banquet will be held in the
First Baptist church this evening at
| Z o'clock in. the interests of the Lay
mems Missionary movement. The
| speakers will be w. T. Stackhouse of
/ mems Missionary movement of the
northern and western Baptists, and DR..
T. H. Lerrigo, a former Topekan who
has been missionary in the Philippine
| Island.
Commissioner Miller of the city
waterworks and electric light plant
says that it has been decided that the
/ city plant is able to take care of the
| Great White Way proposition as soon
as the fixtures are in on Kansas ave-
nue.. This announcement will be
greeted with joy by the boosters Of the
/ Improvement who feared that it would
be delayed until the city could offer
additional power.
| Since the last meeting of the Wash
burn Campus Improvement association
barger has reported that nearly $1,400
/ was spent on the college grounds by
| this organization. The Washburn
Campus association is a body of loyal
students and alumni together with the
faculty-banded together for the pur-
pose of making the most beautiful
/ campus in the world a more beautiful
/ place.
This evening the public presentation
/ of life-size bust of the late Henry
| George, and a complete edition of his
works will be made by George Hughes
on behalf of 65 men of Topeka who
| provided the necessary funds for the
| making of the bust and the purchase of
l the books. Il shall endeavor," said
| Mr.. Hughes, ito show briefly the varied
and brief interest which there is in