The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-28
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The city is advertising for bidY on rest
room that will be built this summer In
the City park.
The Santa Fe first baseball team will
play with Garden City Sunday The game
Will be played on the opponents grounds
A number of the city officials attended
the funeral of Mrs. c. H. Titus, wife OF
the city election commissioner, this morn
ing.
The Rev. Robert Gordon and family will
leave Monday for Washington Island in
Lake Michigan They will be away two
months.
| A number of school children who are in
| terested in the home garden contest ex-
pect to enter products at the state fair
next September.
Fire at $50 o'clock last evening caused
| small damage to the home occupied by J..
! H Reed at 723 Tyler street Defective
gas fixtures caused the fire.
rs the Church necessary is the sub
! ject of an address which will be given at
$3.50 O'Clock Sunday afternoon in Garfield
park by DR.. J. E. Dinger.
: The state fair management distributed
fans, drinking cups, and other advertis-
ing matter at Frank Stahl's picnic Thurs
| day. Secretary Cook was there in person
! Arrangements have been completed for
the meeting of former K. U. students al
the Commercial club Saturday night when
an alumni association will be formed.
| Scott Hopkins will preside.
The Willow Park playground baseball
team defeated the team of the Grant play
ground this morning by score of 10 TO
6. The batteries: For Willow Park Alton
and Wilson; for Grant, James and War
nick.
The Santa Fe sports are having fun
with Colonel Savage advertising agent.
The colonel published a bunch of circulars
advertising rates to the Fourth of July
fight between Jack Johnson and Jack
Flynn.
A puzzle to Topekans: Why did the
state spend an immense amount of money
to build granite and marble memorial
building and on the very top finish up the
structure with cheap looking terra Gotta
corntce?
picted on the front page of the Commercial
Club Bulletin which is off the press today.
The photo from which the cut was made
shows the lake in the park with heavy
clouds in the background.
The city is sending out weed notices to
indifferent property owners who have
been allowing the weeds to grow on their
lots. If the owners do not clean up the
nuisance within five days it will be done
by the city and charged on the taxes.
AIRY Wolff. well known Topeka
young man, is building home in Elm
hurst. George S. Badders, another well
known young Topekan, has started to
build in Elmhurst, also. Both are I'M
married.
The Missouri Pacific Railway company
has taken out a building permit at the
office of the fire marshal. asking permIs-
sion to build station to cost $4,000 ia
this city. The city granted the request
with pleasure.
The old rumor to the effect that Pres;-
dent Ripley would resign from the Santa
Fe has been revived by a morning news
paper. OF course it is true-Ripley will
leave the Santa F'e some day. The read
erS of this column will be dead some day,
too.
A Topeka man who returned from Cali
fornta today says that w. E. Sterne now
has has a sad far away look as if he would
wouldn't object to having him back even
If he did in heated moment say some
naughty things about his former home.
Secretary Cook of the State Fair as
ISOLATION says Commercial Club Bulle-
tin, us plastering the state with booklets
and literature. A bigger and better fair is
when state fair larger than the show
last year is staged on the fair grounds, it
means mammoth undertaking..
Individual farm exhibits are a feature
of the 1912 Kansas state fair at Topeka
that will excite more than the ordinary
competition, because of the increased Of |
put on collection of the best specimens |
OF everything grown on the individual |
farm, aside from the county collective eX- |
hibit, is enough to induce an energetic |
effort among the farmers of Kansas.
The pictures of the crowds at the Kan |
sas state fair at Topeka last year have |
served to advertise Kansas all over the |
world during the past few months. VarI-
Gus publications have copied the birds |
and other periodicals, and the American
Wire Fence company has sprinkled its
catalogues with splendid half tones of
the state fair grounds and the crowds of
fair week to show the advantages of their
fence, which encloses the race track and
the entire grounds.
Secretary Kelley has discovered that the |
Commercial club is facing 81 200 in delin-
quent dues The semiannual payments
for memberships are due and a collector 1
has been hired to refresh the treasury
with the amount Members of the Com
mercial club must remember that it is a
mutual ORGANIZATIONS club that is to the
interests of everyone. 1t takes money to
Aeep things going and each member is
The dues-twelve dollars year
by the way, are much lower than the
average charge in other clubs over the
Club Bulletin.