The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The farmers state that the cherry
crop in Shawnee county is one of the
| heaviest in years. -
Edmund NJ. Hanson has accepted a
position with the Germania Life In
! surance company. o-s
owing to the threatening weather
| last night, the Marshalfs band concert
| at Garfield park was, postponed until
tonight.
ITS the big stick. said George
Brooks. in speaking of the Topeka
traffic bureau. 1t has more weight
than Individuals. ssS2
John F. Stanton, tue architect, has
| completed. plans for a new $4,000 high
school building at Usage City. The
contract will be let July 1.
The Y. w. c. "A. camp at Vinewood
was opened today. ~Ffre first campers
I OF the season arE%-SotfT1g women-r-of
| the senior class of Washburn college.
Several of the boys who were plan
ming to sell books il Nebraska this
| summer, got cold feet a few days BE-
fore they started and are still in town.
A special meeting of the board of
education will be held this evening
for the purpose of considering plans
school building. ~
There are 25 members of the Tope
ka traffic bureau who are not ship
pers. They became members because
they were of the opinion that the bu-
reau would be good thing for To-
peka..
There is a demand on the part of the
people in the vicinity of the Central
Park school for the establishment CT
kindergarten in that building. The
citizens would be willing to pay at least
a portion of the expenses.
City License Collector Mattingly re-
ports the collection of $2,066.32 in May.
This is the record for the month Of
a Sf
not much more than half as large
A meeting of the Karnival knights
will be held at the Commercial club
next Monday evening. At that time
the men whose clothes were stolen
while the minstrel show was in pro-
gress will be reimbursed as far as pos
sible.
The board of education have become
so in the habit of doing business by
the ''star chamber method in order
to cover up something that they do not
wish the people to know about, it is
likely that an executive session will be
held tonight.
Commissioner H. P. Miller is of the !
opinion that a fixture with three white Z
way globes would be the thing for the |
Commercial club lighting committee
objects to this because he wants to
see the white way uniform.
A special train carrying delegates
from the east to the convention of |
the Knights and Ladies of Security at
Los Angeles, stopped in Topeka for
two hours today. The K. and L. S.
band and a committee. from the Com
club met the delegation at the /
Santa Fe station. A big delegation
from Topeka will go to the convention.
Mayor J. B. Billiard received a letter
this morning saying that if the OF
dinance prohibiting dog owners from
their pets to run at large is
passed on Monday someone will get into 1
trouble. The letter was not signed. 1t II
representation of the friends of the cur
at the meeting of commissioners Mon
day morning.
The standing room only sign has
never applied to state fairs-only to
thcaters. With the present favorable
signs for a big fruit and crop year the
farm machinery men are wanting to
occupy double the space allotted them
last year at the Kansas state fair. If
they were permitted to spread out be-
yond the big machinery field there
would be scant space for other exhib- II
it's, to say nothing of the crowds ex-
pected. Farm machinery manufacture
ers recognize a good prospect, just as
any other salesman, and are clamoring II
for space at the coming fair.
The tag system used last year at
the Kansas State fair at Topeka for II
exhibitors and concessionaires will be
used again this year Contrary to the
opinions of those who declared that the
plan would not be received favorabIy |
invariably where exhibitors tickets i
we're given the holders exchanged them
FOR brass tags by their own request.
Travelling concessionaires like them 1
and are used to them The use of
this scheme of admissions by all the !
pig fairs of the country has made |
them popular among this class of peo- /