The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The high school Forensic farce has been
postponed until May TO-
The next regular meeting of the boar
Iof education will be held May g.
There may be some change in the reel
tation hours at the high school next fatl.
Home grown asparagus, green onions
and rhubarb are now on the local market.
The girls of the high school will give q
reception for their motherS SATURDAY
May IL
Strawberries are now being shipped into
Topeka in large quantities from Iexas
and Louisiana.
A meeting of the Parent-Teachers' asso-
citation of the State street school will be
held a week from Wednesday evening.
Large posters have been put up over the
! city advertising 1.-The Crusaders" motion
picture at the Auditorium wednesday ana
Thursday nights.
The Seymour Packing Co. is now en-
ploying a large force Of girls to han6 6ee
ing placed in cold storage
The Girls Debating club of the high
school will give farce Friday, April IS,
for their mothers and sisters-no BROTH
ers, fathers or boy friends invited.
The Second Regiment band will give a
sacred concert next Sunday afternoon at
8 o'clock in the city park under the au-
spices of the Topeka City Park Amuse-
ment Co.
Once more Topeka has tried the traffic
squad system at street crossings. The
coppers should have regulation whistles
town. style.
The annual dandelion digging operations
have commenced on the state house
grounds. Usually operations do not begin
until after the plants have been above
to go to seed.
Dewitt Hagar, formerly of the Topeka
State bank and who has been engaged il
the life insurance business in Topeka for
some time has accepted a permanent
position in Wichita
A railroad man who visit in Topeka oc-
casionally said he didn't approve of the
great white way. He said it reminded him
of one long stretch of three ball" shops
on Kansas avenue.
seed man sells more sunfIower seed
than all other seeds combined. The Rus
SLAMS buy them to roast and eat like pea
nuts. They say the seeds taste much
better than peanuts
A force of men under E. L. Overton is
electric lights in readiness for the Snyder
Greater shows which will open in the
park Monday, April 90
The Central Y NJ c. A has procured
tennis courts at the corner OF Tenth ave
a tennis club that is being formed by the
association will be limited to S.
A novel means of advertising has been
distributing at ball games pencils on
which is printed the entire local baseball
schedule for the present season
THE Topeka water department is act
ing under the rules of the state laws" eX-
blamed Commissioner Miller today. ''Ths
consumers should remember this before
they carry their complaints too far"
The Highland Park Grange will meet at
the Highland Park school house this
evening. E w. Thompson will entertain
the crowd with some of his readings and
recitations- Other features are promised
Eggs are holding steady at 20 cents a
dozen on the local market This is no.
because hens are not laying at full ca
pacity but because there is great de-
maud for eggs by cold storage companies.
1t is a difficult matter TO imagine a hu
man being only twenty-one inches in
height However, this is what Roy Craw-
ford announces will be seen at the Nov
elty theater some time in the near future.