The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Ih6ro VIII De no meeting at the 4 ITSl
Congregational church this evening due
to the repairs that are being made.
The picnic which was planned for
| the girls of the Provident associa-
| ton for Saturday, has been postponed
for three weeks
The April issue of the Comm ercial
Club Bulletin which is off the press
today, is featured by an excellent cut
of ''Topeka's million dollar block"
The street car motormen are pleased
with the enforcement of the jay driv-
ing rules. They say it relieves them of
lots of work and worry and watchful-
ness
Now that the garden stuff is begin
ming to grow in Topeka, the police are
receiving numerous complaints that
chickens are doing damage to the green
sprouts.
A meeting will be held within
week or two in honor of the fellows
who took part in the K. K. K. min
strel show. It will be in the nature of
a smoker.
According to Tom King three Topeka
''newlyweds'' left the city by the train
at 11:4O o'clock Wednesday night. The
platform of the station was strewn with
rice and old shoes.
Albert M, Patter.. general superin-
tendent Of the Topeka and Wichita
street railways is in Topeka today. Mr..
Patten rotates his office hours between
Topeka and Wichita.
The improvements at the Provident
association will be completed within
ten days. Then there will be much
more room for carrying on the activi-
ties of the association.
state Engineer Gearhart will meet
with the members of the good roads
committee of the Commercial club to
discuss the question of convict labor
on the Shawnee county roads.
Wichita business men will go on a
1000 mile trade extension tour, com
mencing May 49, The Topeka Com
mercial club is considering tour, but
autos may be the means of transporta
ton.
If the traffic policeman who stands
at Sixth and Kansas avenue were
little taller his hat would extend up
through the trolley wires AS it is he
has to stoop to see automobile num-
bers.
The seeing Topeka First" tour for
women has been postponed from May
to May 9. This is due to the fact
that the first day of the month is al
ways busy time with the merchants
and factory men.
Prof. Lawrence w. Robbins. of Kan
sas City, will give a free pipe organ
concert at the First Church of Christ,
Scientist tonight. 1t will be the oc-
casion of the dedication Of the new
pipe organ.
peka has appeared in the Commercial
Club Bulletin for the last time. With
in a few weeks the list will be pub
lished in leaflet form and distributed
throughout the city.
1t is the general opinion in Topeka
that Bud Fisher has his nerve to get
married after he has depicted married
life's troubles in connection with Mutt.
Will Fisher be able to drop in at the
''Dutchman's" occasionally?
The city commissioners have decided
to pay to the Knox estate $500 for the
settlement of the old water works COM
pany contract .whisR was Inherited by
the city many years ago This contract
allows the city to use the grounds for
a water main right of way.
The city. has ordered the owner of
lot No. 2. Edwards subdivision, on
West Euclid avenue, between Fillmore
and Clay streets, to fill up an immense
place and endangers the health of the
community, say city officials.
Four years ago a COW stood grazing |
on a pasture and not far away boys
were playing baseball. Today that COW
would have 10 stand on a beautiful |
lawn and the boys would find it neces-
sary to crowd their ball game on busy |
paved streets. Just a little proof that |
Topeka is growing.-Commercia Club |
Bulletin.
Miss Hildur Nygren, secretary to |
Chief Wilmarth of the fire department. |
is the busiest girl in Topeka when all |
the companies are called away from |
headquarters engine house. She spends |
every minute at the telephone keeping |
track of outside companies and their |
shifts-and praying that another alarm |
will not be turned in.
The Karnival knights minstrel show
was not a success from a financial |
standpoint. The organization is re- |
imbursing the fellows who had their |
clothes and valuab stolen while the |
first show was in progress. That is a |
considerable item of expense. The
boys put on good show, and let the !
people know that they are a live
bunch
Half of a $1,000 debt of the Euclid |
Avenue NJ E. church was raised
through subscription at a meeting of |
the members of the congregation held |
Wednesday night. This is one step in
the direction of the erection of a new
church building. When the debt is paid |
off a campaign will be waged with a |
view to building a church edifice, the
present building being entirely made
quate.
The banquet held at the First M. E.
church was a marked success Wednes-
day night. The fact that several bust
ness men either donated good things to |
set or sold them at greatly reduced |
rates made it possible to prepare a