The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWA

Dancing tonight at Garfield. Free
motion pictures.
The board of education will meet
Monday night to fix the tax levy.
The Rose Tints will go to Williams
town Sunday for a baseball game
The gun club of the state industrial
school is holding gun meet this
afternoon.
The Rev. George T. Nichols of Alma
will preach Sunday morning at the
First Congregational church.
The Clearinghouse Realty company
has started the erection of SIX room
dwelling at 1925 Adams street.
An effort will be made by some of
his friends to induce Phil Billiard to
make flights Fair week, September
9-13.
The next meeting of the South Side
home of DR.. H. w. Roby, Septem-
Der IS.
The city engineering department is
drawing plans for park wading pools
which may be put in use in the near
future.
The Topeka State bank solicits
| large aud small accounts and pays IN
terest on earnings. Safety boxes Tor
rent.
| Howard E. Everett, formerly with the
| State Journal, and now a MEMBER
of the Kansas City Journal staff, is IN
| Topeka today.
A. K. Longren, the Topeka aviator,
who has made good in his flights, VIII
probably fly daily at the state fair
/ September 9-13.
Frank Willard will have a picture
machine at the state fair next sep
TENDER to take pictures of the people
and the Buildings.
The majority of the members of the
| South Side Boosters club are heartily
in favor of the proposed extension of
the white way system to Seventeenth
street.
The man who smokes cigarettes is
| immune against disease andi Insects.
| especially bed bugs and fleas," was
recent comment of Col j. w. F.
| Hughes.
The regular evening church service
| at the Potwin church will be held on
the lawn at 1880 Sunday evening. The
Christian Endeavor society will have
charge of the service.
l. w. Halves, president of the Ne
braska board of agriculture, and
personal friend of Secretary H. L.
Cook. has written to say that he ex-
poets to attend the Topeka fair.
The South Side Boosters club is in
favor of the establishment of a fire
station in that part of the city. 1t is
claimed by the members that there is
not sufficient protecticn at the present
time.
Bert Bennett, in charge of a work
train on the California avenue line of
the street railway system, was some
what stunned this morning on account
of an accident. However, his injuries
were not serious.
The next cross-country run of the
Topeka Mortoncycle club. will be held
Sunday, August IS. Frank Stevens will
captain the company. The pop-pops
probably will go into the southeastern
section of the state.
The members of the Topeka Motor
cycle club VINO will join the shortgrass
tour of the western Kansas motor
cyclists at Garden City are: ]. c. Nc
Cherry, Grover .'E2rbansky. Erwin KEEL
Ter and J. C. Harding.
The entertainment committee of
the Commercial club is planning to
provide unusually elaborate entertain
ment for the teachers who will be in
attendance at the state meeting the
fore part of November.
Col. J. w. F. Hughes will attend a
meeting of the Hundred Thousand
club of the Illinois Insurance COM
pany in Chicago next week. The col
onel will deliver an address He will
be CARRIED in evening attire.
The Best theater will feature next
Monday and Tuesday Saint George
and the Dragon This is a romantic
historic drama in three parts. Over
1000 people appear in the pictures. and
the cost of production is said to be
great.
Topeka lodge No. 81 of the Fra
ternal Brotherhood will hold a picnic
in Garfield park next Wednesday aft
ernoon. A large attendance of men,
bers and friends is expected. A bas-
ket dinner will be served in the casino,
and a short program will be rendered.
If the city commissioners follow the
example of the commissioners of Wich-
tia there will be grief in the ranks
of the local pop-pop men, who carry
girls on their machines along the thor
oughfares. In Wichita the practice has
been prohibited.
A number of business men of the
city will meet at the Commercial club
Monday noon to discuss the raising of
funds for the Topeka playground
movement. All those interested in the
Fairgrounds are requested to attend
the Monday noon meeting.
A committee of the Topeka Local |
Union will form a Christian Endeavor |
society at the Bethel church at 8 |
o'clock Sunday afternoon. This church |