The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-05
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AT HOME NEWS.

Calkins' orchestra has been engaged
to furnish the music for the K. K. K.
minstrel show April 18 and 10.
A new front is being installed in the
store building at the southeast corner
of West Sixth avenue and Clay street
Much interest is being taken in the
factory visiting excursion which will
be held by the Commercial club mem
bers April 16.
The Rev. ]. Sidney Gould will ad-
dress the mem bers of the K. S A. Q.
Alumni association at the Commercial
club this evening.
Tom Reinhart, formerly with the
Marshall Clothing company, Will be
found by his friends at the Palace
Clothing company.
Marshall Clothing company, will be
i glad to see his friends at the Palace
i Clothing company
| If 1t is decided that police officers are
not entitled to witness fees 1t will be a
| pretty hard matter to get cop In sight
| of crime in the future.
| If the weather man does not hurry
up with his official notice to take ON,
/ a number of his loyal legions viii
sneak home and do it anyway.
Motion picture house owners say the
| Auditorium shows were a great thing
for their business. A new class of pat
rons have thronged their theaters.
A building permit was issued today
to the Garfield Operating Amusement
Co. for the erection of $o,OOO
amusement building in Garfield park.
The old Mills building in the eight
hundred block on Kansas avenue will
be transformed into a theater in few
days. The rehearsals for the K. K. K.
minstrel show will be held there
What has become of the magnificent
new Missouri Pacific depot in Topeka
that President Bush promised when he
bora manV months ago? From
latest reports the old station is still
standing.
Topeka streets and avenues are
fringed with a reddish hue of tree buds
all ready to burst into leaves. Lawns
and parkings are as green as late
spring and shrubs are sending out tiny
green shoots.
Secretary J. Will Kelley of the Com
mercial club is today preparing letters
to be sent out to the Commercial club
m embers and the Topeka factory men
announcing the Seeing Topeka First"
excursion, April 16.
J. w. Going, formerly of Topeka
and who has been connected with the
real estate firm of Mollison & Going
in San Diego, Cal, has retired from
the land company and has organized
a mortgage and loan company.
ssBy ginks just time for the last car
before the game starts!' exclaimed an
absent minded man as he saw two cars
on East Eighth avenue and made a run
across the street in their direction.
With the amusement park inside the
city limits it will be impossible to give
Sunday shows of any kind at Garfield
park At Vinewood it was possible to
have something to amuse the working
classes on their only day of rest.
Ice companies in the city are giving
warnings of their daily approach by
sending out cards and novelties to
housewives. The rumble of heavy |
wagons and the rafting of the scales |
will soon be heard in the alley.
A petition containing nearly 500 |
names has been circulated along Kan
sas avenue asking that Malon Burget,
the mute prognosticator, pitch the first
ball at the opening game in Topeka
April 10. Malon says he will accept the |
invitation in case it is rendered.
In order to facilitate the traffic from
parts of the city without direct routes
it has been suggested that the street
railway company rotate their South
Topeka and West Twelfth cars to
North Topeka. This would give all cars
to the railway stations and would give
better service to Garfield park this
summer