The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-20
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AT HOME NEWS.

| 1HFOOp. HAL OrCHeSLEa-
4 new ten cent store will commence
operations in Topeka a week from to-
day.
A meeting of the membership com
| mittee of the Comm ercial club was
| held at noon today.
| A Topeka factory makes every kind
| of tool that Is used in the planting and
production of potatoes.
| The Topeka Motor League Is Great
] ing a fund to be used in Offering re-
] wards for stolen machines
The Santa Fe shops offices did not
close for the baseball game The Rock
Island and Santa Fe general offices
closed.
As one walks or rides along the
| thoroughfares of the city occasional
| whfffs of the scent from fruit tree
| blossoms are noticeable.
The Provideut association has pro-
cured a number OF vacant lots which
have been turned over to poor fanni-
lies for garden purposes
The women of Topeka are showing
great interest in the Seeing Topeka
First" excursion that will be held by
| the Commercial club. May l.
| John Strfckrott has made excellent
| picture of Kansas avenue at night in
/ which the White Way shows to adj
vantage in all its pleasing effect
Some of the best moving picture
films ever seen in Topeka will be pro-
| 1GCIed on CnG screen at CLkG AuOlIOElOIA
next Wednesday. Thursday and Friday
| evenings.
A boys club has been organized at
| the Provident association which is
| planning a number of hikes" In fact
| one excursion has already been made
| by the boys.
| 1t would be well If the Topeka Boos-
| tiers and Roooters' club would adopt
! some yell" The roofing was not
quite up to snuff At the opening game,
I IN
/ force.
| The board Of city commissioners is
! planning the annual +-tfn can day in
| Topeka soon The city Will collect free
| Of charge all cans and broken crockery
that Is piled in barrels or boxes in the
| alleys.
| The new independent Telephone
directory has been delivered to all In
! dependent subscribers This is the last
! issue of this look before the merger of
| the Bell and Independent exchanges is
completed.
There will be no dog show this
spring as usual. The dog fanciers
could not seem to stir up enough in
terest in such an exhibition, and beside
the last annual show was run at
financial loss.
Forty Topeka boys participated in a
baseball game this morning-all at
one time. The game was not of the
| usual variety, however. 1t was of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A.
The average man who wonders and
complains because the passengers Of
the Titanic didn't swim away from the
| sinking ship is the same man who
crawls inch at time in the bath tub
Saturday night
The question that was asked in every
section of the grand stand and bleach
ers the opening ball game was Where
is that wonderful Boosters club that
have boRn reading a in fho
Newspapers
There are more women working in
Topeka at the present time than was
the case last year in the spring sea-
son. This is probably due to the fact
of the hard winter. Many of the
working people have debts to pay off.
The Washburn girls lost in debate
with Ottawa University. The reports
from the scene of battle say nothing of
personal violence or panic. A judge
that can handle a debate between girls
should be appointed baseball umpire.
Not until the story came out in the
paper last evening was one young To-
peka man able to make his wife believe
that the reason he came home in an
overcoat and a pair of shoes Wednes-
day night was because of the robbery
at the Auditorium.
The panoramic view taken of the
baseball crowd at the initial game of
the season Immediately before "Play
BALI was shouted turned out excel
lently. The Commercial club has or
dered a copy. 1t will be framed and
hung in a conspicuous place.
The Ad clubs of Iowa will be in To-
peka over the Rock Island lines May
II and will be shown the city by auto
mobiles. The general passenger agents
office of the Rock Island informed the
Commercial club and made the ar
engagements. The Iowans will be on
their way to Dallas.
A large bundle of posters arrived at
the Commercial club from the Kilties
hand organization. These will be put
advertising the band concerts which
will be given in the Auditorium. May
4. The proceeds of the concerts viii |
go towards the pipe organ fund
DR.. F. l. LoveIand will preach Sun |
day night at the First M. E. church on
1.-The Rules of the Game-Shou1d They |
Be Obeyed?" A number of the To- |
peka and Wichita ball players have |
promised to hear the speaker. DIR. |
Loveland was one of the fans at the |
initial game of the season Friday
A meeting of the pipe organ COM |
mittee of the Commercial club was
held this noon to arrange for the sale |
of tickets for the series of moving pic |
ture shows that will be held three !
evenings next week, comm encing Wed |
neSday evening when the great picture
in four reels, tsThe Crusader will be /
shown.
There should be more direct system |
of warning the mOtOrman OF the motor /
street cars of impending danger when |
the cars are backing at the baseball !
park. Before the conductors on the
trailers can relay stop signal the cars |
travel many yards. Excited women are |
always crowding on the tracks.
Harold T. Cartilage, for many years |
with the Shawnee Fire Insurance
company in this city, left this morning !
for his new position with the latter |
company in Chicago. Mr.. Cartilage |
was well and popu.arly known in To- /
peka- He has sold his new Potwin /
bungalow to Hugh T. Fisher, a lawyer
The London Times has asked the l
Topeka Commercial club to prepare