The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-25

hear conversation over the phone. And
IL is the happiest neighborhood in town
The city civil service commission
meets at the city hall Monday morning
July L from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. Elk
aminations for city positions will be
given at that time.
Zigomar, the detective story being
shown at the Best theater for the
three days ending Wednesday night
is one of the best pictures seen in To-
peka in a long time is the consensus
of opinion of those VINO have seen
| them.
John Purcell, assistant to the vice
| president of the Santa Fe, is in Topeka
on business. My home is
still in Topeka" said the former super
intendent of shops. In fact I am going
to stay right here until I car vote for
/ Kiene for sheriff"
This is a great day for the farmers.
The warm weather is ~ripening the
wheat and causing the corn to grow
with extreme/ rapidity. There is
plenty of moisture in the ground, and
a week of sunshine would be a good
thing now.
The concert given by MarshalTs band
at Chesney park was the best open air
music heard in Topeka this yea The
program was well selected and excel
lently played. 1t was necessary for the
band to play to encores from a crowd
that filled the park.
The state fair anagement is dis
tributing 10000 sanitary drinking
cups. This is a cheap means of adver-
Using, as the cup do not cost much
for the reaso that a local hotel is
paying for an advertisement printed
on n side of them
When DIR. A. S. Henderson spoke of
the cigarette smoking that is carried
on in front of the First United Pres
byterian church by high school boys
he saws he did NOT criticize the church
as he feared the headline Of the ar
ticle published might imply.
Despite the fact that the city hires a
park superintendent, several assistants
and many workmen, it was necessary
last evening for E.. B.. Stotts, city COM
missioner, to carry benches and ar
range the seats for the crowds at the
Chesney park band concert.
Have you purchased a red Booster
Day" ticket? If not there are plenty
left at the office of the Commercial
club. If the Topeka baseball team is
to remain in the city it will be neces-
sary for the people to turn out by the
thousands for the game July 6.
DR.. Arthur Gray, son of A. D.. Gray,
of the Santa Fe, left Topeka today for
La Crosse, Kan., where he will hang his
sign in the Kansas winds. DR.. Gray
graduated from the Washburn Medical
school this year and passed second
high honors with the state board.
Several Santa Fe officials in Topeka
expected to go to Las Vegas, July f.,
ION business" President Ripley, how
ever, has suggested that all
business at that city be postponed until
after the prize fight. Therefore Topeka
will have to entertain the Santa Fe
men with a "sane-Fourth."
The architects are completing the
plans for rebuilding a wing of the Pot
win school and erecting g new 4-room
building in the Quinton Heights dis
trict. 1t is possible tina a meeting of
the board will be called this week to
pass on the completed plans. The
plans will be ready at least by next
Monday night when the egular July
meeting of the board will be held.
One of the features at the state fair
next summer will be the Workman &
Allen shows. OF them the New York
Clipper says 1.-The Workman & Allen
Shows United are recognized as one
the leading carnival organizations
of the world. Asa H1atter of fact Tom
Allen and Clarence Wortham are the
youngest carnival proprietors in the
business and they are worthy expo
nentS of the school of showmanship
which believes in delivering the
goods"
Those who attended the rate confer
ence in the Office of the Topeka Traffic
bureau which closed late Monday
were: H. G.. Kali, general freight
agent of the Union Pacific; F. J. Shu-
O0IIB general ITSlSHI agent, ROCK
Island; J. R. Koontz, general freight
agent, Santa Fe; D.. r. Lincoln, gem
era1 freight agent, Missouri Pacific.
These men together with the traffic
commissioner of the local bureau, H.
D. Driscoll, discussed the freight situa-
ton as pertaining to Topeka in a gem
way. $
w. E. Woodland. boys of the Y. NJ
c. A. and Don Euwers conducted a
party of Junior association boys to
Lawrence today. The boys slept on
the gym" Monday night and started
out on their 80 mile hike at 4:30
this morning. Tonight they
will sleep out under the pines on the
K. U. campus Wednesday they will
spend the day going through the uni
versity and Haskell institute. They
will spend another night on the K. U.
and Thursday morning will
for Topeka.