The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEwA

/ Dancing tonight at Garfield park.
Free motion pictures.
| The work of making repairs at the
/ various school buildings of the city is
going along apace.
| The rain Wednesday night did an ex-
celent JOB of street cleaning, thus saw
| ing the city some expense.
L. NJ. Penwell, the new president of
the board of education, will announce
| his choice of committees within a few
days.
The thunder storm last night was
the worst of the season in Topeka.
| Three times the Edison lights in parts
kof the city failed absolutely.
| The city is constructing sidewalks on
| both sides of Twelfth street between
| College avenue and Lincoln street.
This will open new pedestrian route
| from the western section OF the city
| downtown.
| The first issue of Kansas" the
official paper of the Kansas state Fair
| association, is off the press. 1t is print
| ed in regular newspaper style with at
tIactive headlines, and will be publish
| ed when occasion demands"
Charles Harris of the State Free EN-
! pigment bureau has in his possession
| the discharge papers of w. J. Brewer
from the Twelfth Kansas infantry.
They We're picked up on the street IN
| Emporia. and it has been stated that
| Topeka
The greatest live stock parade ever
pulled off in Kansas will this year take
place on Friday, September 10, at IL
o'clock a. m, in front of the amphi-
| theatre at the fair grounds. At this
time the amphitheatre is open to the
public, without charge, for viewing the
| prize winners in every class-"Kan-
SaS.''
One Topeka fruit and produce COM
pany has arranged to put it's own gang
OF packers in the field at Weiser,
and pack its own blue plums. The
company has arranged to buy at Wei
ser Nv enty-eight carloads of the plums,
and has deal on for a forty carload
lot from other parties.
Visitors to the Kansas state fair can
avail themselves of the benefits of an
information bureau maintained on the
grounds by the Topeka Commercial
club. You can locate rooms through
this bureau, you can locate business
places which you may desire to visit
and you will be able to locate the resi-
dences of friends on whom you wish
TO call and whom you may have miss
ed at the statewide reunion held daily
on the state fair grounds.-"Kansas."
]. Will Kelley, secretary of the To-
peka Commercial club, gets out one of
the best town booster papers in the
west. It is called the Commercial Club
Bulletin, and is full of live news about
the town and its progress. all of which
is gotten up in good style. and is in
teresting to read. 1t is a model paper
of its kind, and commercial clubs
which are figuring On printing town
booster bulletin should send to Mr..
Kelley and get a copy. 1t carries no
advertising, and is circulated free
Merchants Journal.
After considerable publicity has been
given to the proposed merchants
week. entertainment next October it
appears that member of the jobbers
and manufacturers have got cold feet'
and have refused to contribute towards
the expense of the entertainment. Con-
seQuently there is a possibility that the
entertainment will be given up Humid
reds of merchants over Kans-s had
noted with Interest the talk of holding
ali entertainment this fall, and they
will be disappointed if the week of fes-
tiVitieS is given up.