The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-20
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Catalogues are now being served at
the restaurants and they are of excel
lent quality
The Topeka herd of buffalo is in good
condition. All that is needed now IS
some pasture
The vinewood cars are loaded every
evening now. Hot weather drives peo-
pie to hunt the cool spots.
G. s. Glesd's race horse. Pat My Boy,
is now at Cleveland, Ohio, being made
ready for the Grand circuit races.
w. w. Webb has presented the Y.
W. c. A. with an original etching by
Henry Farrer which now hangs in the
tall of the new building.
Earl Akers, executive clerk to Gov
ernor Stubs, has one of the best coun-
try newspapers in Kansas at Stafford.
That explains why he can own an au-
tomobile.
The 700 mark in motor cars has
been passed in Topeka and motor en-
thusiasts claim now that there viii be
$50 cars in the city before the sum
mer is over
The Y. w. c. A. has had list print
ed of all the books and pictures which
would be highly appreciated as gifts
for the new home at Seventh and Van
Buren, streets.
number of Topekans left at 2;sO
this afternoon over the Union Pacific
for the state G. z. convention in Kan
sas City. This convention will con-
tinue for three days.
The funeral directors of Kansas be-
gan their fourteenth annual convention
today. The sessions are being held at
the National hotel. They will continue
until Thursday afternoon.
jeremiah Chubb of Highland Park
says that he has raised potatoes despite
the dry weather and he has placed ex-
cellent specimens in a Kansas avenue
drug store to prove his assertion.
The enrolment at the county teach
school building is increasing daily.
There are now is men and 1853 women
attending the classes-a total Of 181.
The graduation exercises of the As
sumption school Will be held at the
Grand tonight. These affairs are al
ways of a most elaborate nature. The
class this year is an unusually large
one.
The Indian Creek grange members
will hold the monthly meeting tonight
Several Topekans will attend the af-
fair, driving out after supper. Frank
L. Snow of Topeka will deliver an ad-
dress.
The Union Missionary Jubilee rally
will open at the First Presbyterian
church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
with praise and prayer service, The
meetings will continue until Thursday
evening.
In preparing for their big exhibition
in Kansas City the Turner's have found
it necessary to practice in different
gymnasiums over the city. Work on
the rebuilding Of the burned Turner
hall has not begun.
A telegram congratulating the local
Y w. C. A. on their new building was
received today from Miss Mary E.
Reid. general secretary of the Pough-
EaanGip n v QCEncflffnn Miss Reid
it Will be remembered, was secretary
Of the Topeka association, 1903-1906
The city ordinances say that all
awnings on Kansas avenue must be at
least seven feet from the sidewalk.
Very few awnings are this high and
man of ordinary height scrapes his
straw hat on the hanging canvas. In
many ways it becomes a nuisance.
The water pressure and supply have
been in excellent shape in Topeka the
last few weeks of dry weather but
Commissioner Miller pleads with the
people to use the water with care. He
makes a special plea with those who
are on a flat rate and allow their hose
to run all day.
The State Journal and the Daily
Capital play a matched game of base
ball July 1. Every morning and every
afternoon the representative teams
with red and swollen hands, stiff legs
and kinked arms attempt to practice.
The team that has the least practice
will be the team that wins.
Visitors and travelling men to To-
peka report that in Wichita and Okla
homa City hundreds of houses are
empty and the real estate men have
their lists so full that rents have been
cut to a small figure. To these Wis
itors it looks as though the two towns
have outgrOwn themselves.
F. o. Melcher, vice president of the
Rock Island Lines, in charge of oper-
alton, passed through Topeka at 2