The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-11
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

There will be a military band Will
grand opera singers at the state Tan
j September 9-13
The Topeka State Bank solieits large
and small accounts and pays interest OF
! savings Safety boxes for rent.
Topeka Council No. 5. Sons ane
! Daughters of Justice will begin cam
! paign for new members Immediately
/ The Rev. A. A. Samson will preach
| Sunday at the Reformed Presbyterian
church, corner of Tenth avenue anc
Clay street.
George Morrison. a farmer of Clar-
ence, New South Wales. Australia, is in
Topeka. He is visiting the American
| farming districts.
The Topeka Edison company will be
represented at the meeting of the Ma
! tionaI Electric Light association al
Seattle June lola
The band concert to have been given
! Sunday at Chesney park by Marshall
band has been cancelled on account
of the bad weather.
All paving work in the city is tied
up today on account of wet weather;
Several streets have been torn up and
/ the crossings are impossible
ssWhy not have fathers day2 "
asked a man on the street today. Poor
father seems to be neglected, ouf
| what's the matter with father-hes
all right
The membership committee of the
Commercial club held meeting today.
The promotion committee was to have
met but the meeting was postponed
until the first OF next week.
Only one week remains in which TO
send your guess to Baseball Editor
State Journal on the standing of the
Kaws July for the $40 book of admis-
sion tickets to be given by this paper
1t is expected that the Seeing To-
peka First moving picture will be
taken some time next week. There
has been delay on account of the
nonarrival of materials from the east.
A number of Topekans expect to at
tend the annual Y. NJ. c. A. summer
conference at Estes Park. Col. w. w.
Bowman is chairman of a committee
which is working up interest in the
trip.
The state Journal is besieged with
telephone calls every day inquiring
about reported cyclones in the vicinity
of Topeka. Rumors in the last lew
DAYS have wiped several Kansas towns
from the map.
Two or three new street cars have
been placed in service by the Topeka
Railway company. They are the size
of the cars now used on the Washburn
line. The new equipment is of the
double entrance type.
The Rev. Robert Gordon will I'M
doubtedly draw a large crowd to the
First Baptist church Sunday evening.
He will discuss the interview with
Mayor J. B.. Billiard which appeared in
the State Journal Monday.
This year the management of the
Kansas State Fair association will
charge an entrance fee in the poultry
department This will raise the stand
ard of the birds exhibited. The fec
will be % cents for single birds, and
81 per pen.
Mrs. Henri Beetle reports the loss
of pheasant which escaped from a
cage Friday. Several other birds got
away but were afterwards captured
The bird that escaped went in the di-
rection of Central Park. 1t resembles
a quail but is larger.
The Kansas State Fair association
has had printed several thousand ad-
vance sheets which give information
contained in the premium list. These
premium list will be ready for dis |
tribution within a few days.
Orrin J. Peterson. general superin- |
tendent of the Wells Fargo Express |
company has returned to his home in |
st. Louis after spending several days |
N Topeka. Four years ago Mr.. Peter
son was a Kansas state delegate to the |
convention at Chicago.
"The rain last night was the most
general fall of the year." said George |
B. Hetherfngton, assistant to the gen.
sral manager of the Rock Island in |
Topeka. I'VE have reports that rain
ELI in every section of the state-even
ar out in the short grass counties IN
he northwest.
A meeting of the Topeka Jobbers and
association will be held
afternoon a 4:30 o'clock in the
,fffce of the Davis Mercantile Co. The
ocation for the Topeka Traffic bureau
nv aT@ L., 1
Lbility of holding merchants week. IN
rune.
o. E. Walker sent the Commercial
Tub an assignment of cucumbers and
,eans from Florida. Mr.. Walker stated
'efore he left for the south that when
lie returns he will bring two alligators
or Gage park. He has just harvested
1000 barrels of potatoes from his
florida farm.
DR. c. M. Sheldon in speaking before
he ministers of the city said that DIP
O this time the ministers have put spe-
ial stress upon the development of men
o become preachers and missionaries.
t was his opinion that the ministers
hould get young Christian men inter
sted in newspaper work. as he consid-
red that the field of influence of a
ewspaper man is large.
DR. c. M. Sheldon will give his fare
yell address to the men of Topeka
sunday afternoon in Gemmell hall. He
Fill speak on THE Home and the
ddress will be appropriate for moth
rs Day" Arthur Capper and w. w.
fills will have remarks to make. d.
J. Coe will preside. The washbur1i
slee club under Dean Whitehouse will
urnish music. Fred S. Bowman will
i've euphonium solo.
These are the new officers of the
'entral Y. M. c. A. for the ensuing
ear: President, David Bowie: vice
resident E. L. Copeland; record
ng secretary, Charles E. Eldridge;
eneral secretary, E. c. BrownelI; {