The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-11

town are spending a large part Of
| their spare time just now digging
| greens. Some small boys are digging
them and selling them to housewives,
4 thus making some spending money.
| According to the government crop
| report the only place where rain fell
! in Kansas in the "a hours ending at
! s o'clock this morning was at lola.
| The previous day Topeka got the only
April shower recorded.
A great many of the students of
the city schools who have entered the
| home garden contest. have spaded up
their patches of ground and have
planted their seed The children of
are feeling sighted because they are
not included in the contest. However,
many of them plan to have displays or
produce at the exhibition of home
grown vegetables and flowers which
will be held next fall.
You can take my word-it will be
some show This was the statement
of Joe Bren of Kansas City, who will
have charge of the Karnival Knights
mammoth minstrel extravaganza.
This evening promptly at 1880 o'clock
the first rehearsal will be held in
the assembly room of the National
hotel The meeting Wednesday
night in the parlors was in the nature
of a get acquainted" smoker. Both
Joe Bren and Charlie Sapp, his assist
ant, who will conduct the rehearsal
tonight, were present. Bren got out
of a sick bed Wednesday noon in or
der to come to Topeka.
Friday noon a meeting of the adj
vertising committee of the CONNER
ciaI club will meet to elect squad cap
tains to take out groups of business
men on Seeing Topeka First day
next Tuesday. 1t has been decided
that it will be necessary to divide the
men into groups. No one group will
visit all the factories in the city in
one day. That would be a physical
impossibility. A second day of the
kind may be had so that each man
will have an opportunity to visit at
least the majority of the factories in
Topeka.
1T will be a straight minstrel
show" said Joe Bren of Kansas City
in speaking of the Karnival Knights
minstrel show which will be given in
the Auditorium next week.
George W. Meyer of 112 Cherokee
street. in Auburndale, is having in
stalled an electric heating system for
20 inCubators. This is something new
in Topeka. There is an automatic
device operating the lights. When
the temperature reaches a certain
point the lights are turned off. In
the same mechanical manner they
are turned on again when the air be-
comes cooled off.
w. L. Moose will erect a dwelling
at 11S Stevens street at a cost of
$4,000.
The Topeka Sand company has in
stalled a big SO-horsepower motor at
the foot of Topeka avenue.
The pay as you enter" plan will
not be adopted at the Commercial
club for several days as the tickets
have not yet arrived. Wednesday was
the day set by the directors for the
change in arrangements.
The city water department is taking
up the four-inch pipe on Lake street
between Fourth and Fifth streets, and
laying six-inch mains.
J. S. Weir. custodian of the city hall,
is confined to his home on account of
sickness.
Albert NJ Patten, general superin-
tendent of the Topeka and Wichita
Street Railway companies, is in Tope-
few weeks work in Wichita, he will
come to Topeka for the summer.
According to the records at the Office
of the city clerk there are SIS motor
cars in Topeka running with a city
licenses. Automobile dealers predict
that there will be LOCO machines in
the city before next winter
Never was there so much work for
carpenters there is at this time,
said H. NJ. Ellis, Topeka builder this
afternoon. The bad weather held back
having contraction work and repairing
done
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell. the cele-
brated inventor of the telephone. ex
presses interest in the new pronouncing
alphabet, invented by Topeka man
Prof. Harvey Worrall. The new alpha