The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-20
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AT HOME NEWS.

Dancing tonight at Garfield park.
Free motion pictures.
Tender vegetables are now being
shipped to the local market from Col
RADIO.
DIR. F. L. Loveland has left for Ches-
ter, Neb., where he will make a Chau-
tauqua address.
Sweet corn is now selling at 10
cents and IL cents a dozen, and the
quality is exceptionally good.
The truck gardeners around Topeka
are beginning to complain that the dry
weather is working a hardship.
Work on the superStructure of the
Henry Bennett business building at
1917 Kansas avenue is in progress.
Good lemons are selling at IS cents
a dozen on the market. There is d
big demand for them at that price
The Topeka State bank soliciLs
large and small accounts and pays in
terest on earnings. Safety boxes for
rent.
The Knights and Ladies of Security
band will give an open air free mu-
nicipal concert at Chesney park Mon
day evening.
The exterior work on the A. Zahner
building 923-925 Kansas avenue, is
nearly completed. The front will soon
be installed.
The unsightly wooden poles along
Kansas are now practically stripped.
ing done today.
Next week will be peach week The
Arkansas peaches will be in, and the
prices will take a tumble. Hundreds
of housewives will be busy canning
fruit.
New fronts have been put in at 929
and 9S1 Kansas avenue. In fact
great many improvements have been
and are now being made in this
block.
Quietness reigns in street railway
circles since Mayor Billiard ordered
the union agitators to stop their trou-
lie making among the street car en-
pIoyee
The city electric light department
will install number of tungsten lights
in Chesney park Monday. The park
will be lighted up in good shape for
the band concerts
A meeting of the Florence Critten-
ton home directors will be held Mon
day afternoon at O'Clock in the Of
fee of the secretary, Mrs L. A. King,
in the Mills building.
The penny provident fund" of the
Provident association is growing. Fiji
ty children have placed their small
earnings on deposit. The accounts
range from 2 cents to 81.
No rain was reported in Kansas FOR
the "a hours ending at o'clock this
morning. The temperature averages
about normal. The sky over Kansas
was generally clear this morning.
The city waterworks department is
looking forward with glee to the bills
coming due after this month. Dry
weather hes increased sprinkling and
with all consumers on the meter, it
means big gain in receipts.
One of the great features of the
Kansas State Fair, Topeka, will be
the machinery exhibit. where all the |
modern farm implements and ma
chinery will be displayed by the larg- |
est machine houses in the west.
Marshall's band gave another con-
cert at the city park last evening. Sew
eral we'll known selections of difficult |
music We're rendered by the band. |
John Marshall, jr., promises to play |
any selection hereafter on request.
Large watermelons are now selling
at 25 cents each. They are shipped |
from Oklahoma. Plums and pears
from California are being sold in To-
peka; currents and blueberries from
Michigan, and red raspberries from
Colorado.
The Rev. Herbert ]. Corwin has in
vited the members of the board of
city commissioners to hear his sermon
at the Third Christian church Sunday
night. He will touch upon the East
side park proposition. The subject
viii be "Play Ball"
County exhibits at the Kansas State
Fair at Topeka, promise to be one of
he most interesting features this
ear. The people consider that the
pest advertisement for the rich farm
and in any county is good county
collective agricultural exhibit.
Kansans who attend the State Fair
II Topeka may, if they desire, have s
'ooms reserved for them in the
boarding houses and homes of the
.ity. Make your wants known in a
etter to J. w. Kelley, secretary of the
Commercial club, Topeka, who will
make reservation for you,' says Sec :
etary H. L. Cook.
George w. Crane states that there
IF the leading cities of the country at
he Crane building on East Eighth I
VENUE which is at the disposal of the
business men of the city and other s
who wish to make use of them. In !
ne collection of directories there is
complete set of all the directories
hat have ever been issued in Topeka. !
Some of the things which have I
made the Kansas State Fair at To-
oeka so popular with the people of
he state are: The best half mile
rack in the west; city sewer under :
rack; complete drainage; 10 stalls;
our new 20-stall winter training \
,arnS; grounds and track only eight q
blocks from business center of city;
ailway switches and shipping facilf- (
les on grounds; experienced track 1
uperintendent always in attendance.
1.-THE Spiritual Democracy is the :
tile of an address which Prof. w. A
dcKeever. head of the department of I
philosophy of the State Agricultural s
olIege, will deliver at the union T
hurch meeting in the First Presby-