The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-03

Christmas holidays At the Quinton
Heights school work is in progress on
the second story. This new building
should be completed by Thanksgiving
time if the contractors complete the
contract on schedule time.
Many of the children of the city
schools. who entered the home garden
contest this summer are now writing
five hundred word essays on their ex-
periences as farmers on a small scale.
They must be handed in by October 25.
The work of remodeling the Crosby
Brothers store is in progress. The firm
will have more floor space than any
mercantile esta blishment i'll the state, IS
the claim of the management.
The Kissing Conservatory of Music
which was opened in Topeka six years
ago, will close its establishment at 7O6
Kansas avenue in Topeka, the last of
the month and will move to Detroit
Michigan. Professor Petervich Kissing
is at the head of the conservatory, and
Miss Brunette Walter is teacher of
piano and voice Miss Beulah Went
worth is assistant in the violin depart
ment, and Mr. W, F. Roehr has bean
in charge of the pipe organ department.
The eighth grade girls of the down
town city schools are taking a great
interest in the cooking ella sses at the
manual training building on Thursday
and Friday afternoons. For the first
eighth grade pupils been allowed to
study the fine art of cooking. THE trip
to the manual training building once
week. said c. c. Starr, superin-
tendent of schools today. lis a little pre-
liminary training for the trip once a
Cay next year"
Interest is increasing among the
farmers in the vicinity of Topeka in
the plan that the Commercial club
suggested for employing an agricul-
tura1 adviser or expert for Shawnee
county. The Shawnee Alfalfa and
Farmers institute is for it, and so are
many of the individual farmers who
have thus far expressed themselves
There are always a few farmers, how
ever, who look with considerable
skepticism upon socalled experts
They believe that the old way cannot
be improved upon.
A large number of complaints are
being received by the police regarding
chickens running at large and through
the yards of complainants. A num-
Der of people think that inaSmuch as
the gardening season is past that
they can allow their chickens to run
at large. This is not a fact and the
city ordinances prohibit chickens from
running at large at any time during
the year. Officer Charles Lindsay has
requested a number of chicken owners
to pen their fowls, and if such is not
complied with, arrests will result.
young business man in Topeka
who was married recently, but who
was a bachelor the remaining of his
two years sojourn in the city, had a
unique way of saving laundry bills.
In a trunk his wife discovered 123
pairs of soiled socks and IT'S be-
Srimed collars. They had been de-
posted there because the man in the
case did not like the idea of paying
laundry bills. The socks cost about
$50, and thus a Sc laundry bill was
saved. Hubby took a day off re-
Gently and helped his wife wash out
the socks, and the 175 collars were
sent to a laundry.
People continue to report the loss
of bicycles. 1t is evident that there
are other bicycle thieves in Topeka
besides George Bailey, who was ar
rested Tuesday night. Sam Lyman re-
ports his bicycle to have been stolen
from in front of 705 Kansas avenue, |
and Lawrence Beard reports his BIZ |
cycle stolen from his home on First
street and Western avenue. The po-
lice have recovered a number of BIZ |
cycles and have returned them to |
their owners They continue to re-
ceive reports of other stolen machines. |
The police believe that adult persons
steal these machines as we'll as small |
BOYS.