The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
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AT HOME NEWS

The membership committee of the
| Commercial club met this noon.
W. Rickenbacher is erecting a 5
| room bungalow in Lakewood addition.
Strawberries now range in price on
the local market from $3.50 to $1.65 a
crate.
Miss Julia Larimer and Miss Grace
Shelter will spent the summer in
Europe
The lawns in Topeka are considera-
bly, brighter as a result of the rain in
the night.
Cuban pineappIes are now on the
market in large numbers. They are
selling az 10 cents { dozen.
The twenty-ninth annual banquet of
the Saturday Night club will be held at
the Elks cafe tonight at I p. m.
The lew tennis courts of the Cen
trail Y. M. c.. A. were put in excellent
condition as a result of the rain.
Home grown ~gooseberries are now
selling IN the market. at So a crate.
| This is The height of the season.
The Topeka State bank solicits large
and small accounts and pays interest
Oh savings. Safety boxes for rent.
The Commercial club has invited the
state U c. t. organization to hold it's
! annual convention in Topeka in 1914.
Five counties have already signihed
their intention of preparing county
agricultural exhibits for the fair next
fall.
The FIST home grown cherries of the
. season are o. the market. They are
selling at the rate of two o. for a
quarter.
The youngsters of this city took a
long breath this morning when they
awakened. Their vacation from school
commenced today.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon will deliver
the Washburn college b~accalaureate
sermon at the Central Congregational
church Sunday morning.
A Topeka man who has been in Wa
Keeney states thai there was no rain
to amount to anything in that town
Friday night-that rain is needed
badly.
A meeting of the Ministerial Union
will be held Monday morning at 10
o'clock in the First Presbyterian
church. The speaker will be Rev.
John Waldron.
July 10. a party of 100 Denver auto
lists will stop in Topeka on their way
to Chicago. They will be entertained
at dinner or luncheon by the Topeka
Commercial club
Cecil Howes, Topeka representative
of the Kansas City Star, has violated
all national and international laws
covering newspaper men. He has pur-
chased an ~automobile-or a motor
car" as he calls it.
An open air meeting will be held
under the auspices of the Men ana
Religion movement in Garfield park
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. The
| speaker will be the Rev. j. H. Fazel-
The annual might shirt parade is
scheduled at Washburn college campus
next Wednesday evening. All students
who are able to borrow nighties from
downtown friends have placed their
orders.
E. B. Stotts. city commissioner. is
making an inspection of the city parks.
He is spending three days on each
park in the city planning improve
ments and talking with the property
owners in the vicinity.
A party of Junior Y. NJ. c. A.
"hikers' braVed the storm Friday
night. They went out for a tramp I'M
der the guidance of Arthur Bolton and
Clyde Atwood and now consider them
selves seasoned campers.
Advance preparations for the state
fair are further along thai at this
time last yea for the reason that APP
plications for pace and stalls are
coming this year without the asking.
The exhibits are ssured.
Homer Fink, an expert on roses, says
this year has been the best in the his
tory for beautiful blooms. The winter
killed down a majority of the bushes
but the roots sent up unusually pro-
ductive shoots and buds.
j. F. FARRELL, publicity agent of the
Santa Fe, has returned from New York
City where he went on bust