The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-12
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AT HOME NEWS

A new front is being installed
| in Fullerton Brothers store, at
| 728 Kansas avenue.
A meeting of the Topeka Real
Estate Dealers association was held
| today at the Commercial club.
The local strawberry crop is practi-
cally all picked. There are 4 few
poor specimens of berries still on the
market.
A large number of business build
| ings along lower Kansas avenue have
recently been or are now being
painted.
George B. Hetherington. chief
clerk to the general manager of the
Rock Island Lines is in Des Moines on
company business.
The board of education will meet
tonight to discuss the plans for the
addition to the Potwin school and the
new Quinton Heights building.
A Japanese tea will be given to-
night at the First Baptist church,
| Ninth and Jackson streets. 1t is for
| the members of the congregation.
We are going to have a rafting
good show" said ]. P. Lucus, super
| intendent of the apiary department
| OF the state fair in speaking of the
bee exhibits.
The young people of the First Con-
| gregat1onal church will enjoy trolley
ride this evening starting from the
4
| at 1880 o'clock.
The exterior of the Thompson
building on the site of the old build
ing which served as the first meeting
place. for Kansas legislature, is
practically completed.
Home grown new potatoes will be
| on the market within a few days. In
ten days or two weeks they will be
plentiful. Reports have it that there
will be heavy "spud' crop this sea-
son.
The Animated Weekly" shown at
the Cozy theater today and tomorrow
brings the worlds recent big events
before you in motion picture. 1t is
one of the wonders of modern motion
picture making.
The state dairy commissioner will
mold his annual examination for per-
sons who wish to qualify for cream
buyers and testers at the city hall to-
morrow. He expects fifty candidates
from this section of the state.
A possum with two young ones was
found in an alley east of Kansas ave-
nue. behind a trash box last evening
and was taken over to the firemen at
fire department station No. 2. The
firemen will donate the collection to
the Gage park zoo.
An acetyline tank on a motorcycle
exploded in the barn owned by o.
Miller at Ills Taylor street, at $40
last evening and started a blaze in
the middle of the first floor. Fire COM
panies extinguished the fire after
slight damage to the interior.
DR.. w. S. Linday, a vice president
of the Medical association of the
southwest is arranging to have sew
era1 Topeka and Kansas medical men
on the program of the association at
the convention which, will be held in
Hot Springs, Ark, next October.
Roy L. Bone, Edward L. O'Neil and
j. Will Kelley, the coEamittee appoint
ed to work in the interests of bring
ing. the Roseda1e Medical school to
Topeka are sending out letters to the
doctors of Kansas asking them to use
their influence in favor of Topeka.
Another thrilling western picture is
being shown at the Best theater to-
day and tomorrow. "A Western
Daughters Heroism,'' is the story of
one of these early day Indian battles
in which a band of Infatuated savages
attack a frontier village. A woman
saves the day by heroic strategy.