The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-19
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The convention committee of The
Commercial club met this noon
Charles c. Younggreen has been
given the position of assistant adver-
| Using manager of the Kansas Farmer
! About $50 Moose will go from To-
peka next Wednesday per special train
to the big Moose convention in Kan
sas City.
to Kansas City today as delegates from
the Topeka lodge of Moose to the su-
preme lodge of the world.
The roads in the vicinity of To-
peka have become extrmly dusty, al
though it has been but a very few
days since it rained here.
A large number of local butchers
are planning to attend the annual
meeting of the state association in
Wichita, September "a and 20.
The Rev. T. j. Pomeroy who for
| three years has been pastor of the
Wesleyan Methodist church, preached
| his farewell sermon Sunday night.
| Miss Minnie E. Jones. assistant to ].
Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
mercial club, has returned after a two
weeks vacation in Burlingame and
Wichita.
An Enterprise, Kan, man who has
been in Topeka a couple of days says
that large delegation of citizens from
his town is coming to Topeka for the
state fair.
The public meeting at the Salvation
Army tent, corner Fifth and Quincy
streets. will be continued every even
ing this week with the exception of
this evening.
NJ. C. Holman, clerk of the board of
education, is preparing report show
ing the financial condition of the
board which he will submit at the
meeting tonight
The board of education will meet
tonight to change the tax levy to COM
ply with the law. The question of the
heating of the Potwin school building
will also be discussed
Adam Becker of Meriden will have
a large display of Percheron horses
and fine mules at the state fair next
fall Last year Becker did not display
because of the smallpox scare.
Mrs L. H Mum will have one OF
the finest conservatories in the city
built at 315 Topeka avenue to cost
$4,000. The contract for the construc-
ton work has been let to Ed John
son.
The Morgansville concert band has
been engaged by the State Fair man
agement to play for the races on
Thursday, September IL. Secretary
Cook recommends this band of thirty
pieces highly.
The city has granted the claim of
Paul A. Lovewell. 1920 Mulvane
street, who asked $500 to pay for
damages resulting from frozen water
pipes last winter. The city services
were not below the frost line.
Professor E. H. Otis of the Wiscon-
sin experiment station will be the
speaker of the day at the meeting Of
the Shawnee alfalfa and farmers in
stitute the last Saturday of the month.
T. A. Borman will also speak.
The board of managers of the Kan
sab State Fair association will meet
Tuesday at 1870 o'clock. The board
usually meets twice a month, but oW-
ing to the pressing business at the
present time weekly meetings are be-
ing held.
Bob Tasker is not worried over the
announcement that Arthur Hargis will
make the race on an independent TICK
ct for register of deeds. In fact Bob
is taking the announcement good
deal in the character of a joke Il m
for him if he can win,'' Bob says
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Farmers congress which |
will be held in Hutchinson the third
week in November, will be held in To-
peka some time this month. The date
of the meeting was formerly set as
August %, but has been postponed
Residents of the South side have
asked the board of city commission
erS to remove the bridge at the IN
tersection of Monroe street and Euclid
avenue and substitute culvert They
say the bridge is not needed and COM
plain of the gang of toughs that
gather there every evening.
w. s. Baxter, editor of the Kanap
oils Journal has written to the city
park commissioner offering to send as |.
many prairie dogs to the Gage park
zoo as the city wishes to buy at one
dollar each. He says his Sunday
school class is anxious to capture
them and dispose of them to Topeka
The board of city commissioners
was in session for three hours this
business After they adjourned a new
motto was adopted-in this hot
weather the commissioners have de-
eIared a ban on superfluous converse
tons and arguments in the commits
sion chamber.
While engaged in his daily pastime,
feeding the captive porcupfne at the
Gage park zoo. Sunday, City Commits
sioner Stotts was pierced with a quill
Of the animal The needle had to be
extracted from the commissioners
hand Stotts says he has reformed
he will abandon his familiarity with
the park animals
Some of the local commission men
ire packing Maiden Blush apples
-aised in Shawnee county and ship
ping them to northern states. The
crop of apples all over the country
S said to be heavy. According to a
-eport made at the recent apple ship
1ers' convention in Chicago. the Kan
las crop this year viii prove to De