The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

A new concrete sidewalk is being laid
from 621 to 627 Quincy street
Many small boys of the city are now
making boats and sailing them in the
city parks
of the Commercial club will be held Sat-
urday noon.
The sky was clear over western and
southern Kansas and southwestern Mis-
souri, this morning.
This is the longest day in the year
Real summer was ushered in at l;I7
O'Clock this afternoon.
There will be a band concert this even
ing in the City park by the Knights and
Ladies of Security band
Light showers fell in northeastern Kan
sas and northwestern Missouri in the "A
hours ending at O'Clock this morning.
The street railway company has fur
nished stools to the motormen on their
street cars for use in the outlying resi-
dence districts.
A meeting of the promotion committee
of the Commercial club was held this
noon to consider further the plan for aid
ing local induStris.
If the city would be reasonable and fix
up Lakewood park said the man who
some animals for the park
C Fl. Matthews, manager of the Mutual
Laundry Co., left last evening for Kan
sas City to attend the annual convention
of the Missouri Laundry Owners associa-
ton.
The pop stands have been slow in MAX
ing their appearance over the city. A
few boys have started stands, but due to
the cool weather, business has not been
brisk.
One of the men who fought the dog
the board of city commissioners, is look
ing for a specimen of the canine tribe for
a pet.
Secretary J. Will Kelley of the CONNER
.i,,1 II.
sible to be on Kansas avenue Saturday at
2 o'clock when a motion picture of the
street will be taken.
C. w. Kouns, general manager, and j.
re, left Topeka today for Amarillo, Tex,
where Mr.. Kouns will attend the annual
meeting of the cattlemen of the state.
Captain ]. G. Waters consumed his
lunch and the State Journal at the same
time this noon. When he reading the con-
vention stuff he exclaimed: Teddy is
like the ossified mamie is dying hard
The new Royal Bakery plant on West
Tenth avenue will be in operation the
first of next week. The machinery in
stalled in the new building is perhaps as
as anything of the kind in Kan
sas.
Because of his energies in watching the
down town traffic at night Howard Pat
ten, superintendent of the Topeka Rail.
way company, has been called 'tP. M
Fatten. His brother, who is general su-
perintendent has the initials of A. NJ.
how much money the state has spent in
attempting to kill the dandelions on the
state house grounds" remarked Topeka
man today. THE trouble is that a thor
ough job is never done, and crop of
seeds means just many more thousand
plants"
Homer Fink, an assistant cashier at the
office of the treasurer of the Santa Fe,
was injured recently while riding his
bicycle following an automobile. The
wheels of the bicycle Swerved in the street
Ike a Tenth streets
Fink thrown twenty feet to the curb
ing. Injuries were not serious.
Since the announcement of the plans of
The city commissioners to build a s16o,0oO
sewer in the western sections of the city,
number of complaints have been fileG at
the city hall, with the State Journal and
at public meetings. But the city wants
20 know the sentiment before any further
action is taken on the proposed drain.
Anyone who wants to be seen in NOV
ng pictures in Topeka and other Kansas
owns will have this opportunity If they
chance to be on Kansas avenue at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. At this time
he Victor Film Advertising Co. will take
aiken a few weeks ago and shown in a |
ocaI theater did not prove entirely salts |
factory.
The plant of the old Smith Automobile |
30 has been formally transferred to the |
.ecent purcha ]. D. Mulvane and Z. |
o. Gault The plant will probably be |
operated as an auto repair factory and a |
shop. Metal silos will also prob |
abIy be built. The new owners of the |
Perfection Metal Silo Co. of Kansas City, |