The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-02
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| Ing at 2204 Lincoln street at a cost OF
$1,000.
Monday force of men will start
moving the grass at the state fair
| grounds.
There will be but one delivery OF mail
on Monday. The postoffice will close
at 10 a. m.
Work on the addition TO the west
minister Presbyterian church is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Wilson & Neiswanger will erect a
$4,000 dwelling at the corner of Null
Vafle and Huntoon streets.
Work is about to commence on two
| blocks of brick pavement from Nun
sen to Huntoon streets on College
avenue.
There are now over 100 race horses on
the state fair grounds They are get
| ting in readiness for the big Septem-
| Der events.
The day nursery at the Provident as
| sociation which has been closed for
two weeks will open at 8 o'clock Mon
| day morning.
The first meeting of the Topeka Min
| isterial union in some weeks will be
held Monday morning at 10 O'Clock in
Gemmell hall.
The first event in connection with the
Kansas state fair will be the sacred
concert which will be held at O'Clock
| a week from tomorrow.
The Continental Creamery company
is erecting a silo on the fair grounds.
| The Cooa-Cola BottIing company has
| built a permanent stand.
The Karnival Queen contest will
| close a week from tonight at O'Clock.
The nominations closed last night.
The contest is daily growing more ex-
citing.
At the present time there are work.
! ing in Topeka three tree surgeons from
John Davy school of Kent, Ohio. These
men are giving trees of the city "scien-
| tific" treatment.
The Commercial club desires to have
| all persons who have rooms which they
will rent to visitors fair week call up
| the office of the club Immediately and
/ list their names.
Those who wish box seats for the
! Semi-Centennial ball will have to look
sharp as present indications are that
| they will be all sold by tonight or
| Monday at the latest.
The concert given Friday night by
the knights and Ladies of Security
band at the First Congregational
church was much enjoyed by a fair
sized crowd of people.
The new 50 500 stone entrance to the
1 fair grounds has been completed and
| this together with the pavement and
| walks in front of the gate will present
an attractive appearance.
| The Patterson Carnival company
| will be in Topeka for the State fair
with sixty car loads of equipment.
They will have twenty-one shows in
operation on the grounds.
In addition to the many September
features in Topeka, the intercity bal
This makes Topeka the busiest place
in the west for that month.
It was stated in the State Journal
last evening that the city license col
lector took in ss.SS5 for the month
of August. This was a typographical
error. 1t should have been 1886.
Il think the new gate at the state
fair grounds is a grand thing" said
| Secretary H. L. Cook today, but I
would rather have seen the money put
into conveniences on the grounds"
The street railway company is
! breaking in a number of new men to
use as motormen and conductors in
fair week. This accounts for the ir-
regularity of car service. The old men
are teaching the recruits the game.
Ticket agents of the railroads in To-
peka report a good business for the
month of August. Despite the hard
season many people Travelled and the
receipts in the local offices ran ahead
of the receipts for the same time last
year.
A song has been published in Topeka
entitled Don't Say Goodbye, Just
Go" The words were written by Mrs.
and the music by her niece, Miss
George Lambert, who plays at the
Aurora theater.
President Ripley says that no re-
trenchment will be made in the Santa
Fe shops until the company is a BILE to
see what will come in in the fall bust
ness. This is good news to Topeka.
Everyone in this city Is praying for
no shop retrenchment.
There are few vacant houses in the |
College Hill addition which will be oc-
cupied in a short time" said w A. |
Neiswanger of the firm of Wilson & |
Neiswanger today. MANY persons. in |
order to retain houses have paid rent |
at least month in advance
The annual picnic of the Ohio club |
will be held Labor Day at Chesney |
park, three blocks east of the Wash |
burn car line. A basket dinner will be |
served at 1890 followed by a program |
and watermelon feast. All members |
try are invited.
If there is any money left over from |
the Kansas Semi-Centennial and Kar- |
nival Knights events it will be used in 1
another big celebration next year. /
There are not two institutions. Those |
who are getting up the former event |
and thOe who are planning the latter /
are in part the same men, The Kar-
nival Knights, however, have. a larger
mem bership.
Some. Topekans seem to be confusing
the Semicentennial ball which will be /
formal and will be held Monday
evening. September II, with the Kar-
nival ball which will be a masked af-
fair and will be held Friday night of
the same week. As long as they last
box seats for the former ball may be
purchased from Ed A. Thrill at the |
Merchants National bank
Bleachers have been erected imme-
diately east of the grandstand at the
state fair grounds which will increase
the seating capacity by about 1000. An
other thousand seats will be added
west Of the grandstand. These will be