The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-29

rooms OF the commercial CLUB.
The shows of the Cosmopolitan Car
| nival company will open in the Cit,
park this evening. They were booked
| by the Topeka Park Amusement Co
| Within a day or two the member.
! of the Boys club of the Provident as
| ISOLATION Will be wearing pins to indi
| cate their connection with the organi
cation.
| I'VE are going to have good results
out of that" said superintendent c. c
Starr in speaking today about the home
garden plan for the school cnI4uren OF
the city.
The first annual meeting of the new
ly formed Kansas Automobile associa-
ton Will be held in Topeka next Sep
TENDER instead of May as previously
announced.
The new Royal bakery building op-
posite the G. A. r. Memorial build
ing on West Tenth avenue is almost
ready for the installation of the plate
glass front.
People have been prune hungry for
couple of years because the price has
been out of sight, remarks a local
trade journal. Was anybody ever
prune hungry?
end at the Central 7. M. c. A. Volley
ball is just as popular as ever among
the business men. The boys are play
ing indoor baseball.
The management of the Victor Film
Advertising company of Topeka stated
today that the Seeing Topeka First"
motion picture is a go" The picture
will be taken on two reels.
The lecture, THE Evolution of
Woman" which DR.. F. L. Loveland
will give at the First M. e. church
Friday evening is considered one of
the strongest of his addresses.
The Kansas State fair premium list
is on the press and will be ready for
distribution in a short time. The Com
mercial club will have a story about
Topeka in the state fair booklet.
The apartment building which is be-
ing erected by D. P. Scott at 91s West
Tenth avenue will be two stories high
and will have a stucco finish. There
will be two suites of rooms on each
floor.
The board of city commissioners will
hold complaint meeting Saturday
morning at the city hall. All property
owners objecting to a great white way
on East Fouth avenue will be given
hearing.
The school children in Topeka are
taking great interest in the home gar
den plan that has been adopted this
spring. The interest in some of the
schools. however, is more intense than
in others.
Frank Spencer, the contractor, is
having the lots at 923-925 Kansas ave
nue. cleared preparatory to excavating
for the new A. Zahner business build
ing. A small one story building was
torn down.
1t is understood at the city hall that
the Topeka Railway company will erect
the poles for the great white way on
East Fourth avenue if the city will let
contract to the Edison company for
the electricity.
What's the matter with Mutt and
Jeff?" That is question that comes
to the State Journal Office many times
a day. Answer-"Bud" Fisher is on a
little wedding tour and his admirers
must give him a little rest.
A. S. Thomas of the Santa Fe Watch
company, HIS received a fac smile Of
the great Cullinan diamond now owned
by King George. It includes the origi-
nal diamond in the rough and the nine
stones which were cut from it.
The cyclones and tornadoes in Ok
lahoma and southeastern Kansas have
given a great impetus to insurance
men in Topeka. One man said he had
written more tornado policies in the
last week than in year before.
The art exhibit in the city library,
which began last Tuesday, will con-
tinue until Saturday night. 1t is be-
ing held under the auspices of the To-
peka Art League. Five hundred peo-
pie saw the pictures last week. There
is no charge.
Baseball fans and friends in the gen
eraI Offices of the Santa Fe are plan
ming on the organization of a league in
the two office buildings. Such dyed-in-
the wool veterans as John Dee, Bill
Collinson and Bill Curtis are at the
head of the movement.
The alterations in the auditorium
of the First Congreg ational church
makes of this one of the most at
tractive places of worship in the city.
The improvements will be more ex-
tensive than was at first contemplate
ed and will probably cost at least
The mayor has received scores of
from persons in the Elm
hurst district of the city against peo-
pie who insist upon driving over the
sidewalks with teams and motor cars.
One complaint duplicates a prominent
real estate man who owns considerable
property in the territory.
The sale of several hundred tickets
for the Victor Herbert musical event,
May 1 4, is already assured. The guar
antee, however, is heavy and there
will have to be even greater assur
ances of a good attendance. The CONF
pany is the best that has been slated /
% play in Topeka in long time.
1--WE saw several of the survivors of |
he Titanic disaster as they came into |
he lobby of the Waldorf Astoria" /
,aid EIon S. Clark in speaking Sunday |
afternoon at the First Presbyterian |
church. 1--WE heard Mr.. Robert Dan |
els of Richmond, Va, telling his eager
md thankful friends of his experience,
including his jump into the sea, as
'nly an actual participant could
A theatrical troup in Topeka recent
Y left the city puzzled and amazed. |