The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-17
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AT HOME NEWS.

be ready for distribution sometimes
this week.
Two alligators, each about two feet
long, are attracting some attention IN
Kansas avenue drug store.
The graduating exercises of the school
of Assumption will be held at the Grand
opera house this evening at o'clock.
The band concert scheduled for Ches-
ney park this evening has been post
poned. The new date is not announced.
1t may come at the end of this week.
The city board of health will meet
tomorrow noon at the Commercial club.
The complaints against the tuberculos-
is camp in North Topeka will be heard
at that time.
Marshalrs band will give a concert
Wednesday evening, June 26, at Gar
the Eastern Star will hold big cele-
bration at the park.
The K. U. alumni in Topeka may
build a club house-at least there is
some talk of forming an organization
and erecting a home where the ex-k.
U. men may congregate.
The recent rains have made the
Raw Valley potato crop. The prospects
are that there will be an abundance of
''spuds" this season. By the first of
July shipping will begin.
The state golf tournament will be
held on the Country club links this
year beginning on the 18th of this
month. All the crack golfists of the
state will be in attendance.
According to the Rev. Robert Cor
don who spoke Sunday in the City
park, the kind of a man to marry is
one who has good health, who is in
dustrious, is a thinker, and who is a
lover.
A melting of the congregation of the
NaI1c oh ho
held Thursday night at which time
the question of procuring a parsonage
for the pastor, the Rev. Roy B. Build,
will be discussed.
c. B. Burge, city clerk. has been
instructed by the city commissioner:
to advertise for bids on the great white
way extension on Ninth street. The
city has authorized resolution favor
ing this extension. Work should begin
soon.
The Eagle Rose Tints We're defeated
by the Rossville ball team on Satur-
day by a score of 8 to 2. Sunday they
defeated the strong Usage City team by
a score of to 6. A number of peo-
pie from Topeka went down to see the
game.
Harvey Parsons, who lived among the
alligators in Florida for several years,
is authority for the statement that the
two gators at the Gage park zoo are
80 years old. He says they will live
forever as long as there are no other
animals to kill them.
The opening of the enlarged Best
theater took place today. The seating
capacity of the show house has been
increased from 400 to more than 800
a pipe organ has been ordered for the
theater, which is something new in To-
peka for a place of amusement.
Speaking of baseball attendance-at
Coll 11l1S in q
2,1S3 persons saw the game and as
ISOLATION papers said it was a big turn
out for Columbus. Topeka-much small
er than Columbus feels bad if the good
crowds do not number more than p
600.
The city commissioners have give
Miriam Steele, who lives at 1884 College
avenue, ten days to fill up a pool she
owns at 749 Buchanan street. The pool
has been declared dangerous to public
health and a nuisance. If the owner
fails to fill it, the street commissioner
will do the work.
The local peach crop will be short,
but the southern liberia peaches are
so plentiful that they will be shipped
to this market in bushel baskets, ac-
cording to commission men. The
first of the southern peaches are on
the market but the big rush will not
be on until about July 5.
A little folder entitled SANITY VS..
Gunpowder'' is being sent out over
the state from the Kansas inspection
and fire prevention office. Charles E.
Eldridge, general manager of the in
spection bureau has asked the news
papers of the state to cooperate in
saving the hands and eyes of Kansas
children.
The blackberry crop in the south
has been retarded in its development
due to cool weather. 1t will probably
I, oT.1c, thn n week
fore these berries arrive in large guam
titles The early cherries are almost
a thing of the past Catalogues and
are coming in from
Georgia.
Under the direction of w. L. Driver,
supervisor of the public Fairgrounds,
an entertainment will be given the
evening of July at the fair grounds
by the boys and girls who have been
playing under supervision. Races and
field events will start at six O'Clock in
the evening after much of the excite
ment of the day is over.
Are the moles in your yard? E. B.
Stotts, city commissioner of parks, has
a sure cure. Dig small entrance in
one of their tunnels and place a small
deposit of concentrated I've in the bot
tom. Cover UP the hole and wait for
results. The mole will get the I've on
his feet lick it off and die. But it's |
mean trick to play on a mole.
A movement is being pushed look |
ing towards the formation of a Kan |
sas University Alumni club in Topeka |
In short time a meeting of all the |
former K. L. students in the city will |
be called. Among those particularly |
in the movement are Scott |
Hopkins, Hugh T. Fisher, M. Q. |
Locke, Herbert Cowan and Neale /
Wright.
Frank StahTs thirty-third annual |
oienic will be held June 81 in Stah1's
grove. four miles southwest of Auburn.
Every boy and girl under IL years of
ge who attends will be given ticket
alling for a dish of ice cream. Mrs. |
Margaret Hill McCarter and Robert |