The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWH

Business is awfully good-can't ac-
count for it, said Topeka grocer to-
day.
Dancing tonight at McRae's. Hear
Gribble's new orchestra 1t is always
good.
The city has commenced the work
of installing concrete sidewalks on
Brooks avenue in Melrose
The daily practice is developing
some excellent material for the To-
peka high school football team.
The weather bureau warns the peo-
pie of Topeka to cover up ali delicate
plants tonight, as frost is slated for
toniGht.
E. E. Horton is erecting a $500
dwelling at 500 Underwood avenue.
The house will be completed by De-
cember 1.
The attendance at the Commercial
club in the noon hour is increasing.
The majority of the Topeka business
men have returned from their vaca-
lions.
Edwin L. O'Neil and E. C. Warfel
of the law firm of O'Neil & Warfel
have opened their new office in suite
No. 512 of the New England building,
having moved today.
The Rev. Roy B. Guild of the Cen
trail Congregational church and the
Rev. A. S. Henderson of the First Con-
gregationaI church are in Clay Center
attending the Central Congregational
dSSOCldIlOD
Tie Topeka Boys club of the Provi-
dent association will celebrate it's
opening for the season this evening at
Z o'clock by indulging in a water
melon social. E. c. TrulI has charge
of the club.
The local. market is flooded with
watermelons, but their are very few
buyers due to the chilliness of the
atmosphere. Many of the growers in
the vicinity of Topeka will have
melons left on their hands
Marriage licenses were issued today
as fellows: Edmiston NJ. Johnson, 26
years old, Oakland, and Leona Bes-
settle % years old, Topeka Henry NJ
% years old, Atchison, Kan,
and Clara M. Kirchner, IS years old,
Kan.
George Baker, who lives in the
northern part of Shawnee county
drew $19 from the county this morn
ing for 8 coyote scalps he brought in.
Three of the coyotes he had killed
were old ones while the other 16 were
young. These scalps are worth a dol
lar each in bounty.
1t was feared by Superintendent c.
G. Starr that hundreds of the school
children who started home gardens
last spring did not keep them up in
proper shape during the summer
months, but it has been found that
here will be a large number of indi-
viduai and some collective displays 1T
me eXhlD1tS IN the SchOOlS and at the
manual training building.
Secretary J. Will Kelley of the Com !
nerclal club wrote to Secretary w. E. |
Holmes of the Sioux City, Iowa. club
-oday inviting him to serve as the
main speaker at meeting of the To-
al business organization early in
Octofer This meeting will serve as
he first regular meeting of the club
or the season. 1t will probably be in
he nature of an evening dinner. The
actory aid plan will be launched at
he meeting.
Lettuce which arrived from Colo ,
ado today, and which is being sold at .
he local stores. shows signs of hav-
ng been frost bitten. If the predic- (
ion of the weather man comes true
'egetables locally will be injured by !
rost tonight. 1t will then become !
Necessary to depend largely upon hot /
house vegetables. The hot houses are
lot prepared for the trade due to the
in the season, and conse- /
luentiy the price of vegeta bleS will +
oar. and the cost of living will be