The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-27
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AT HOME NEWS.

Sunday evening 6 o'clock dinner,
Throop. Halls orchestra.
| The Denver baseball team is quar-
tered at the National hotel.
A meeting of the mem bership COM
mittee of the Commercial club was
held today.
The next attraction of particular
interest at the auditorium will be the
"Kilties'' band, May 4.
The Second Regiment band, K. n.
c., will give a free concert Sunday
afternoon in the City park.
Bishop Millspaugh will preach and
| confirm a class at Calvary Mission IN
Kansas City, Kan, Sunday
The next pipe organ moving pic
ture series will probably not be held
until the middle of May.
The Topeka State Bank solicits large
and small accounts and pays interest
| on savings Safety Boxes for rent.
| Petitions for the nomination of L. L.
Kiene for sheriff on the Republican
| ticket are being circulated in the city
precincts.
Bicycle thieves seem to be at large
| in Topeka at the present time. Sew
| eral BICYCLES have been stolen in the
past few days.
There is a new flat building in con-
temptation in Topeka and several
dwellings that will cost more than the
average price
The exhibition of the Topeka Art
institnte at Library hall will be open
Sunday from to p. m. No adlnls-
sion is charged.
Bradstreet's weekly report of bank
clearings gives Topeka a total OF $l,34O,-
900. This is an increase of per cent
over last weeks report
VIM. Curtis, travelling passenger
agent for the Santa Fe, returned to To-
+odaxy renOrfS one of the best
weeks during the present year.
Commissioner Stotts has ordered
little frame labels for all city park
shrubbery. These signs give the COM
mon and botanical names OF the now
ers and plants
ct has taken. only few days for
the traffic policemen to handle the
crossing situation said Mayor BllIaro
TO-DAY. "A large majority of the trafhc
is properly routed"
Topeka rests for today at the TOP OF
the western league. How long the
Kaws will stay there no one knows
but everyone is guessing. 1t is new
sensation in Kaw-town.
The Kansas State Fair association
has had printed yellow cards setting
forth some of the attractions Oh the
fair next fall. These are pelhg us
tributed far and wide.
If is now a certainty that Victor
Herhert's musicians will appear in To-
nel<a next month. This is but one OF
several high class musical attractions
to be seen in Topeka in the near future
"Chub" Hayden has announced his
intentions to spend some time IN Elk
ce1sior Springs, some time soon. MI
HAYDEN said his going was not compul-
sorry. but really thinks he will enjoy II.
OFT L. Council, at a meeting of the
"Aueer'' club held Friday night, was
elected to the office of treasurer. There
is no doubt but what Mr.. ConneH IS
we'll fitted for the handling of the clubs
financial affairs.
One little boy who sold tickets for
the AUDITORIUM moving picture shows
took his money and purchased gun
with it, He said that the Commercial
club had no right taking the money
from him for the tickets SOLD.
baseball teams will play the first game
of a four game series at Skeene's park
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock Bat
teries-Novelty. Boetcher, Barnette
and Jones; Majestic, Nef and snyder
An unknown person with little regard
for decency, cut the tops rom num-
her of cedar trees in Gage Park and
stripped the bark with S1l11e, [a ffaraS
the trees. Commissioner Stotts onered
a reward of $25 for the arrest ana con-
viction of the person.
Even the little fellows who have
recently put on trousers have the
baseball craze in Topeka. Many
mothers have had their youngsters
tagging around after them making life
miserable until they promised either
TO make or buy a baseball suit.
Albert M. Patten, general superln-
tendent of the Topeka and Wichita
street railways says that if the COM
many helps pay for the great white
wav poles on East Fourth avenue,
they should not be asked 10 reroute
the cars. I'VE can only do one of the
Two things said Mr.. Patten.
The local gun club had meeting
scheduled for Friday evening, at Fuller
Ton Pros. store However, the small at
tendance made necessary the postpone
mont of business. which was to come
before the club at that time. Another
meeting will be held Tuesday night.
A chain around the neck of the little
dauehter of Roy l. Bone, city COM
missioner. short circuited on an exposed
a1actric light socket Friday afternoon
ana several inches of the chain was
melted and a strip around the little
eirI,s coat was burned, but the child
was not injured.
A West side woman cautiously slip
ned the revolver belonging to her hus-
hand from the dresser drawer Friday
afternoon and pointing the gun at the
neiphbor's chicken in her flower garden
che pulIed the trigger. The bullet snap
ned a new fruit tree just set out-and
the chickens scratched on
Alvin K. Longren, the Topeka avia-
tor, is much in demand nowadays.
He will be in Manhattan May and