The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-03
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AT HOME NEWS.

j J. G. Stoneback will construct a
+ $4,000 dwelling at 225 Harrison street.
/ Eagles Rose Tint baseball team is
playing at Indian Grange this after-
noon.
H. M. Bleckman has taken out a
permit to build $1,000 dwelling at
1900 Polk street
The K. S. A. c. Alumni association
will hold their annual picnic August
81 in Skene's park.
i The regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the Commercial
club was held today.
! The Topeka State Bank soIicits large
and small accounts and pays interest
Oh earnings. Safety boxes for rent
! c. B. Arthur, who has been confined
the last week, was able to be at his
gallery today.
A fire caused by children and matches
caused slight damage to the home OF
w. H. Bradshaw at 1415 Quincy street
i at 5:55 p. m. Friday.
Some of the young business men OF
the town play volley ball almost every
evening at the Central Y. NJ. {. "A.
from $3.50 to 10 o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
United Brethren church will furnish
the lunches for the judges and CLERKS
at the polls next week.
THE removal of the big wooden poles
provement in the appearance of tire
street." said a visitor to the city.
The consolidated concert which is
being planned by c. c. Stafford will
be held in the dance hall, Garfield
park, Wednesday night, August Il.
President Otto Barth and his assoc
ciates in the Topeka Ad club are plan
ming a program for next fall and win
ter that will put new life into the CLUB.
A double-header will be played Sun
day between Sioux City and the Kaws,
the first game starting at p. m. The
week day games are now called at $3.50.
The first meeting of the Topeka Real
Estate Dealers association after the
holidays will be held some time be-
tweer. the 5th and 18th of September.
The rainfall at Lawrence in
July was somewhat heavier than in
Topeka according to the weather re-
port prepared at the state university.
The northeast Kansas conference of
the Christian Endeavor of the United
Brethren church will be held in the
First United Brethren church of this
city August Sill.
over $50 Kansas newspapers have ask
er for state fair boiler piate' mater
ial for publication. This will save the
fair association hundreds of dollars
in advertising.
The Commercial club will keep a d.
rectory of persons who wish to rent
rooms to visitors fair week. The club
will have a bureau of information IN
the fair grounds.
The campfire organizations for girls
that have been formed at the play
grounds are extremely popular. 1t will
be necessary to divide the campf1res
in several cases.
A score or more members of the To-
peka Motorcycle club will take a 3d.
mile trip to Emmett, Kan, tomorrow.
Most of the members will take their
girls with them as tank riders"
At the regular weekly meeting of
the Topeka Motorcycle club, the mem
bers expressed their disapproval of the
speed mania that possesses some riders
of the pop-pop machines in the city.
There is little doubt at the city hall
that the city levy for next year will be
only 6.5 mills. This will be ~ mills
lower than the levy last year and will
assist materially in reducing the taxes.
The Second RegimentaI band of the
Kansas National guard will give a
sacred concert Sunday afternoon at
o'clock in Sims grove in Highland
Park, Twenty sixth and Virginia ave-
nueS.
Dr. s. w. Keister of Waterville, O..
and DR.. ]. s. Kendall of Dayton. O..
will be two of the prominent speakers
at the Christian Endeavor convention
at the First United Brethren church
August Sill.
Preparations are being ma0e to in
stall a lighting system on the fair
grounds that will be more elaborate
than anything yet attempted in the
way of lighting. The system Will be
permanent.
The United States government dis
play at the state fair this year will
consist of models of the latest naval
equipment, and will include many new
features in the way of guns for the
army and navy.
The calendar and the date line on the
newspapers was the only proof Thurs
day and Friday that it was August
midsummer. Otherwise a Rip Van
Wrinkle would declare that October or
late September was here.
Rev. w. G. Brooks will make a
Charles Curtis speech at 127 West
Railroad street tonight at o'clock.
All the ole friends and neighbors of
the senator living in this sectiosl of
town are expected to be present.
The daily Edison concrete-stack edi-
ton of the Morning Capsule appeared
as usual today. Exciting and thrilling
items appeared on every page-each
item centering on that wonderful piece
OF architecture-the Edison stack.
County exhibits at the state fair
promise to be one of the most inter
esting features in September. The
people consider that the best adver-
tisenent for rich farm lands in any
county is a good county collective ex-
Eibition.-
Secretary w. w. Bowman of the
Kansas Bankers association will at
tend the annual conference of the
committees of bank associations in
Minneapolis next week He will leave
Monday for Kansas City to attend
conference.
Out in Colorado where the family Of
Frank FARRELL is camping the name
Camp LlewelIyn' has been given TO
the summer home of the Jarrells. The
place is named after L. L. Kiene of To-
peka, who is candidate for sheriff of
Shawnee county.
I'm going to buy my own school