The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-24
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A man was at work today trimming
the trees on the state house grounds.
Remember the enthusiasm baseball
meeting tonight at the Commercial
club.
w. B. Whitehead is erecting a
dwelling on ~Broadmoor avenue to cost
$1,4OG.
The Shawnee County Taxpayers
league will meet tonight in Lincoln
Post hall.
F. M. stahI delivered an address at
Peabody on the law enforcement
question on Sunday.
The new dancing and skating paVil-
ion at the City park Will be opened
to the public tomorrow
Local commission men state that all
reports point to a bumper crop OF ap-
pies in Kansas this season.
The Topeka Fruit and Produce Co:
has received the first car load OF
peaches to arrive in Topeka. IheS
come from
The new $4,000 concrete stack
which is being built at the Edison
plant has reached the 80 foot point
in construction. The stack VIII pe
| $50 feet high.
ProbabI a thousand neople visited
Gage park Sunday. There were three
tallyhos running from the END OF the
car line to the park, but most OF the
people walked
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The grass is in excellent shape and the
| thousands of hooks the
grounds look inviting-eVen to the ola
married people.
Walker, the large alligator at Gage
park was injured by being hit in the
eye with a cinder last night. The in
human yandal who threw the missile
has not been arrested.
]. B. Chapman, the Atchison Demo-
crat, who was a candidate Tor con
- 49, ~ n on fG IN Tnn6kA To-
dav- He refused even to guess on the
nominee at Baltimore.
Old timers who spend most of their
days looking at the CLOUDS and watch
ing the weather say this has been a
most unusual year because of the tact
that there have been no hard hot south
winds in June. |
Fifteen undred baseball fans came
Sunday declaring that Topeka had the
classiest club in the league-at reast
for one day. The game Put up yester-
day was full of class and pep.
According to J. S. Longshore, state
increase in the retail price of gasoline.
The big demand for gasoline Tor auto
mobiles is making that article scarce.
Furthermore the price of crude oil is
advancing.
Stotts that eleven thousand persons
visited the three larger city parks sun
x City and Garfield Stotts
figured that 5000 went to Garfield,
5000 to City and 5000 10 Gage. II WAS
an ideal park day.
MarshalI's band in an open air free
municipal concert at Chesney PARK To-
night. Again Wednesday evening at
Garfield park. Friday evening the
knights and Ladies of Security band
will play at the City park. Lots of
good free music this week.
A meeting of graduates and former
students of the University Of Kansas
will be held in the rooms of the Com
mercial club next Saturday evening
for the purpose of an alumni
association. Scott Hopkins is one of
the leaders in the movement.
MANY persons who have visited Gage
mark have wondered h would
be done with. the a~lligators in the win
ter time. Here is the answer from
Commissioner Stotts: A greenhouse
will be built over their pond and they
will be kept snug and warm.
According to Principal A. ]. Stout
music will probably be made one OF
the features of the assembly periods !
in the high school next fall. 1t is pos
sible that M. G. Holman, clerk or the
board, will be asked to leave his du-
ties long enough to lead the singing.
The staff meeting of the operating
officials of the second district of the
Rock Island Lines in Topeka has ad-
journed. General Manager Sweet
SlolCo AIICL
from the conference Nothing
of public interest was accomplished.
Officials of the four railroads en-
tering Topeka are holding a confer
ence today at the office of the To-
Traffic association in the New
England building. This Is the first
time that all four of the railroads
been got together in this man
ner for the of rate adjust
I
The county assessors are enough to
make a man discouraged" comment
ed a TAXPAYER today. "When they see
place all glowing with flowers,
and trees they figure it
pay more taxes. The house !
next door may be far more valuabl ,
but the owner has no civic pride-and
his taxes are lower This should be I
remedied."
The baseball fans of the city will /
meet at the Commercial club tonight ]
h management of the kaws will tell :
of some plans for the future The {
ing campaign Tuesday will be given !
final instructions. The city will be I
divided into sections and each work !
team will have a section assigned :
to it. 1t is expected that there will :
be at least 80 teams ION the job" l
Fraternal day at the Kansas State
this year should be made an
event worthy the name. With the
of creating some interest among
fraternitieS, an organization will
be effected, if possible, to a
drill contest and other competitive
that will stir up enthusiasm
and lodge spirit among the various
orders. The competitive drill
feature can be made an attractive fea-
ture, with the many expert teams and