The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The State fair race entries will close
July 1.
The figure s at Garfield is a real joy
ride. Everybody's dom it.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Commercial club was held IN
the noon hour today.
The fast Dougherty baseball team is
playing with the Rossville "Sluggers"
at Rossville this afternoon.
The new white building at 1[5 Kan
sas avenue is now occupied by Geo. f.
Seybold's furnace and tinshop.
Gatty Sellars. the great English or
gan ~soloist, will give concerts at the
Auditorium June 26 and 27.
The Topeka State bank solicits large
and small accounts and pays interest
on savings. Safety boxes for rent.
Owing to delay on the part of the
printers the Commercial Club Bull
letin will not be published until next
week. go.
The Rev. Ralph Ward will speak in
the City park Sunday afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock. The Second Regiment band
will play.
w. E. Frantz, H. B. Atwen, Perry
Chapman, and Luke Ballard, will leave
next Monday for the Y. NJ. C. A. camp
at Lake Geneva.
avenue were to have been taken today
but the weather prevented and they
will be taken Monday.
The Rev. Edwin Locke will speak at
Garfield park Sunday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. There will be music By the
knights and Ladies of Security band.
All of the Is members of the high
school students who were taking the
normal work the past school year,
passed the state examination which
entities them to teach for two years.
The city should pay for play
1900 ~
said a prominent Topekan today. 1T
should not have to be necessary to
raise money through popular subscrip-
ton"
The new motor apparatus at the
headquarters engine house of the fire
department is attracting considerable
attention on the streets. 1t is not in
service-only being tested by experts
from the factory.
The state fair is using novel en-
closure fortune telling cards. By the
shape of the eye, ear or nose, ones
fortune is told. These cards are be-
ing. enclosed in letters being sent out
from the fair office.
Church home Sunday will be OBJ
served at the First Baptist church
Sunday. In the morning the Rev.
Robert Gordon will speak on "a Live
Church." and in the evening on
Choosing a Leader" There will be
special music.
A meetings of superintendent c. c.
Starr, L. NJ. Penwell and William
Conry was held this morning to go
over the plans for the new Quinton
Heights school building and for the
rebuilding of the old wing of the Pot
win building.
The Western Union company is work
ing a large force of men removing the
poles on Kansas avenue. The wires
been killed and the cables re
Topeka will look like a new
city with her ugly forest on Kansas
aVenu removed.
The children of the supervised
under the general direc-
ton of W. L. Driver, are training for
the field events which will be given at
the fair grounds the evening of July
4. Folk dances will also be a feature
of the entertainment.
The hail Friday evening was felt in
only parts of the city. In the central
the trees, s~hrubbery and flow
ers were tattered. In the southwestern
district there was nothing to batter the
In some parts of the city the
was white and cherries We're
from the trees.
No action will probably be taken
relative to the finding of new quartcrs
for the Commercial club for some
but it is rumored that the conf
appointed to look into the
question, ia strongly in favor of get
ting hold of the Elks' building if ar
engagements can be made.
Principal A. J.. Stout of the high
has returned from a trip to
ST. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and
where he has visited the high
schools. His expenses were paid by
the board of education. The trip was
made in order to find out just what
are the latest methods used by these
city institutions.
The State Fair association is using
lovel sticke on all outgoing cores
ocndence. The tickets represent an ear
IF corn and on them is this inscrip-
.ion: "Co(r)nfdential. To see Kansas
visit the State fair, Topeka, September
, to Is, 1872" Thousands of these
stickers have been printed and sew
sral of the business establishments Of
the city are using them on c%orres-
pondence. They may be had for the