The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-03
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AT HOME NEWS.

The Washburn college summel
school viii open Tuesday
"F1owe mission day is being OBJ
served by the w. c. T. U.
The santa Fe baseball team defeat
ed the Syracuse team by a score OF
10 to L.
The Rev. J.. w. Waldron addressed
the Ministerial union this morning III
the First Presbyterian church.
w. E. Hodges. vice president of the
/ Santa Fe in charge of purchasing,
passed through Topeka today.
The Eagle Rose Tints were defeated
by the Belvue baseball team yesterday
at Belvue by a score of 8 to 5.
A meeting will be held at the First
| church Tuesday evening fol
the purpose of organizing a Brother
hood.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Shawnee medical society will be helo
in the rooms of the Commercial CLUB
tonight.
An intermediate Christian Endeavol
| society has been organized by the
young people of the Central Park
Christian church.
An historical pageant at Santa Fe,
N. M, July 8, will doubtless attract
some of the Kansaas who attend the
prize fight July 4.
Secretary j. Will Kelley of the Com
merciaI club has gone to Terre Haute,
Ind, on business. He will return
Thursday or Friday.
Chaplain H. Percy Silver addressed
the menhe of the Kansas Association
of Life Underwriters at the CONNER
ciaI club at noon today.
Fourteen high school boys will leave
Tuesday for different points in Ne
braska where they will work during
the summer as book agents.
Another buffalo calf-the first of
Tho Caacop-haS arrived at Gage mark.
No name has as yet been given the
baby buffalo. There are also two new
fawnS.
The Fornsberg case was submitted
to a jury in Judge Dana's division OF
the district court shortly before noon
today. At $3.50 no verdict had been
returned.
1t is estimated that nearly as many
persons ave gone to Garfield park
since the opening about a week ago as
visited Vinewood park in the course of
last season.
Jerome tombstone who pitched a
game of ball for the Eagles Rose
Tints, Sunday, will no doubt have a
try-out with the local western league
club, during the week.
An alligator pit 2Ox15 in diameter
is in course of construction at Gage
park. The two S-foot gators pur-
chased bv o. E. Walker will have their
haunts in the pool.
Only one case was granted in the
divorce court Saturday. This is a
day of the week., which is generally
a big day for divorce cases.
Gage park now looks attractive in
the extreme. The roses are in bloom.
and likewise other flowers in variety.
Thousands of persons visited the park
in the course of the day Sunday.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the Episcopal diocese of Kansas will
be held next Wednesday n Thursday
in Topeka. A c%oadjutor will be elect
ed to aid Bishop Frank r. Millspaugh
in his work.
to D. r. Scott for the erection of an
apartment building at 913-15 West
Tenth avenue to cost $40, 600. The
structure will be three stories high
and will be of frame construction.
Tuesday afternoon the local gun
club will hold their weekly shoot at
the club grounds. This will be the
first of ten regular shoots included in
the contest for the DUPONT trophy,
and a good attendance is expected.
The high prices of meat have neces-
STATED an investigation by the federal
government. Attorney General Wick
sha will conduct the investigation.
Such news comes as a welcome to all
who are interested in the cost of liv-
ing.
WAT Is OSllS WoSS0 OA NtO "a
lions in the state house grounds by
Secretary of State Charles Sessions. He
has a fU-ce of janitors at work squirt
ing gasoline at the roots of every plant
in the grounds. They are now work
on the south side.
A team of strayed or stolen horses
was found today by a farmer near Sill
yer Lake, who notified the sheriff's Of
fee of the find. The owner of the
property has not been coated. One
of the horses is a bay 10 years old,
while the other is a 6 year old roam.
The new racing aeroplane which is
being completed by Alvin K. Longren
will be tested within a week or two.
The machine is smaller than the Dixie
which the Topeka aviator has
been using, but the motor Is more
and great speed will be de-
veloped.
Until the close of the June tax pay
ment. the office of Matt Weightman,
county will be kept open
during the noon hour for the
of the property owners. The
office will open at 8 o'clock in the
morning and will not be closed until
4:3O in the afternoon.
In speaking of Prof. F. NJ. Bill
report on the analysis of drink
water at Lawrence, Kan, DR.. S.
Stewart stated today that all water
in the city of Topeka used for drink
ing purposes, should be boiled. Many
cases of typhoid fever, during the last
years, occurring in Lawrence have
been traced to bad water.
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