The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-11
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Marshalrs band will play at Garfield
park tonight.
The Good Government club will
meet Thursday afternoon at the Y.
w. C. A.
A meeting of the trade extension
of the Commercial club was held at
noon today.
Superintendent c. c. Starr has start
ed to work on his annual report of
the Topeka schools.
A. E. Sweet, general manager of the
Rock Island Lines in Topeka, is in St.
Louis on company business
There are several automobiles in
the city which are being run around
without a number attached.
The weekly public concert given by
Marshall's band will be held in Gar
field park this week on Friday evening.
A large delegation of Topeka Chris
tan Endeavor members left TODAY for
the annual state convention at Hutch
ipson.
Large pineapples from the Isle OF
Pines are now being sold in Topeka.
Florida pineapples will begin to come
in next week.
The dandelions in the state house
grounds are receiving their second dose
of gasoline, the first not being fatal to
all the plants.
The Eagle Rose Tints will play the
day and the Usage City team at Usage
City on Sunday.
The camp of the Central Y M c.
A. at Maple Hill, which was planned
for June. will not be held until later
in the season.
The citizens of Meriden are planning
big Fourth of July celebration. A
committee has been appointed to Sc
cure suitable attractions.
Texas peaches are now on the local
market, but they are selling at rs
cents for a basket which contains
about a quarter of a peck!
The Topeka Rebate association will
return the railroad fare of those who
purchase goods while in Topeka to at
tend the State fair next fall.
There is now an unusually good
supply of excellent locally grown Vege-
tables on the market. New cabbages
have already made their appearance.
1.-THE mission of the Kansas state
fair is to encourage better agriculture,
horticulture, stock raising and manu-
featuring was a recent statement of
Secretary H. L. Cook.
The management of the Kansas
State Fair association will be glad to
terested in the textile or art depart
ments.
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Topeka Local union
will be held at the home of the pres
ident, Gilbert Fenton, Wednesday
evening.
The first few days of June have av-
eraged many degrees below the normal
heat but no one was kicking about it,
What's the reason for this hot weather
again?
A soaking rain is reported to have
occurred in northwestern Kansas in
the past "a hours, but there has been
very little precipitation in the rest of
the state.
Plans for the addition to the Potwin
school and the new -Quinton Heights
school building will be discussed at a
special meeting of the board of educa-
ton Wednesday night.
mo news today" said Mayor i5il-
lard. after our strenuous. dog ordi-
nance squaI feel that we are enti-
tied to little rest. : The calm after
the storm, you know. -,
III. Clarkson called a meeting for
this noon at the Commercial club
The Comm ercial club is a popular
place for meetings which do not per-
tain to the work of the club.
The Commercial club still has on
hand large number of lists of ITO
peka made" goods which should be of
interest to every housewife in the city.
They may be had for the asking.
Several autoists seem to think that
avenue is a speedway for them
after the traffic is off the street. One
machine went down the avenue last