The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWH-

Sweet corn is in tassel in the vicin>
ity of Topeka.
The wheat in the Shawnee county
fields is turning COLOR
MarshalPs band and free moving
pictures tonight at Garfield park.
Joseph Helm will erect a dwelling ut
1719 East Crane street to cost s., 100.
c. F.. Ckunkscall will buil a dwell
ing at 1872 Tyler street to cost 81 500.
A meeting of the promotion commit
tee of the Commercial club will be held
Friday noon.
The Shawnee Agency procured a per-
NIT for the erection of a dwelling at
53S Larch street.
The county surrounding Topeka has
the present time.
Secretary J. Will Kelley returned to-
day from Sabetha, where he attended a
good roads meeting.
No measurable rain was reported in
Kansas for the "a hours ending at
O'Clock this morning.
The building at 9S1 Kansas avenue,
formerly occupied by George E. Sey-
bold, is being remodeled.
The enrolment in connection with
the Shawnee County Teachers Insti-
tute has passed the 200 mark ses~-
DR.. c. F. Menninger addressed the
Shawnee County Teachers Institute
Con-
serVation of YOUTH
The % monkeys from New YORK
Will be here the first of the week,
said .. E. Walker, the donor, this af-
ternoon- The cage for the monkeys
Is nearly completed in the Gage park
farmer living near Topeka has in
formed Commissioner Stotts that the
city could have a bunch of wood
COCKS Tor the Gage zoo if they were
dug from their nests, In all probable
lty the Woodcocks will be procured.
Eight professional golf players in
Guiding some of the best players of
the middle west have entered for the
medal golf contest to be held at the
Country club links tournament of the
Kansas State Golf association. The
meet Will be held next week Friday
e. B. Stotts. city commissioners, an
nounces today that the two alligators
at the Gage park zoo have been nam
Walker" Mr.. Walker was the donor.
The other will be called Doctor
Eva" in honor of a woman physician
in Topeka.
Commissioner Miller. head of the
city waterworks department. is work.
ing out the plans he announced in the
state Journal last winter-the install
latlon of new pumps at the water
works plant and the ultimate lowering
OF the water rates after the improve
ments are made.
Unless colored boys refrain from
''ganging' on white boys in the south
western part of the city a miniature
race war will be ragged. in that vicin--
lty. The colored youngsters are con-
Quoting campaign of. stealing in
yards and beating of white children in
that neighborhood.
Through an error inv Mondays issue
of the State Journal it was reported
that a marriage license had been is
a6 n r al His,ey
Barbara Tauer. Mr.. Thomas Creary
was the lucky man. Mr.. Foley merely
made the application for the marriage
license for his friends, the contracting
parties.
Chief Wilmarth of the fire depart
ment has been informed that the new
combination hose-chemical motor
truck has been shipped to Topeka by
the manufacturers and will be here
this week. The new piece of fire equip
ment will be placed in service as soon
as firemen assigned to it are acquaint-
ed with it's mechanism.
At the closing session of the Topeka
Epworth League convention held in
the Lowman Memorial church, Willard
Van Slyck was elected president for
the ensuing year. Other officers chosen
were: Miss Carmie Wolfe, Euclid
Avenue church; secretary, George E.
Dougherty, Euclid Avenue church:
treasurer, Christian Cell, Euclid Av-
enue cnurcn, superintendent or Junior
League, Mrs. L. E. Thorpe, Walnut
Grove church; pastor counsellor, the
Rev. John w. Waldron of the Kansas
Avenue church.
There is one particular in which
you have us beaten" said a Lincoln,
Neb.. man today, land that is in con-
nection with your system of parks
You certainly have some beautiful
parks. We have been trying to vote
bonds for parks for a long time but
the people always vote the proposition
down. AS far as buildings are con-
cerned the two cities are about equal.
Topeka is certainly a pretty city. There
IS one thing in which we excel that I
might mention and that is in our
amusement park