The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

ket They are selling at $3.50
busheL
w. L. Driver is planning to take
| the playground children on hikes
| this summer.
The June number of the CONNER
cial Club Bulletin will be off the
press this week.
Albert MacRea, managing editor of
the Santa Fe Employees magazine. is
| in the city today.
Commercial club will hold meeting
| next Saturday noon.
Battery A, Kansas Field Artillery
will leave Topeka next Tuesday for
Fort Riley to participate in the an
nua1 maneuverS.
| The farmers say that the ground IS
now water-soaked and the thing that is
needed for the best good of the crops
! is plenty of sunshine.
| A meeting of the promotion COM
mittee of the Commercial club was
held today to pass upon the plan for
aiding local industries.
| Hayden's store at 727 Kansas Ave. is
closing out big lot of beautiful La
! Vallieres at cut prices. Prices now
| range from SIPS to $1,000
| The national headquarters of the
Yellow Dog in Topeka has sent
charter to Judge PorterfieId of Kansas
| City. The charter is the first in Mis-
souri,.
The State Journal bulletin board is
watched by scores of persons at all
| times of the day. The convention news
posted on the windows has proved an
attractive feature.
The sweet pea crop is at its height
in most parts of the city. This has
been an exceptional year for these
flowers and the vines are unusually
healthy and productive.
All persons interested in retaining
the franchise in the Western League
are expected to attend the enthusiasm
meeting in the rooms of the CONNER
cial club at $3.50 o'clock.
B. P. Waggener of Atchison has
asked the Topeka Yellow Dog team to
come to his town and institute a chap
ter of the organization. He promises
a lodge Of ninety members.
The weeds along parkings and in
vacant lots are becoming rank. There
is one vacant lot within a stones
throw of the state house grounds
which is ragged in appearance.
Southern peaches will be on the To-
peka market in large quantities in two
weeks. It IS said there was never so
heavy a crop in the south, and it is an
ticipated that the prices will be low.
After looking carefully through the
McCutcheon cartoon in the State Jour
nal today reader of the noon edition
says he failed to find Il likeness of
Senator Bristow among those pres
ent.''
There has been no f1uctuation in the
price of eggs for weeks. The price is
20 cents a dozen. Not many years ago
eggs could be purchased in the local
stores at the rate of dozen for a
quarter.
Albert M. Patten, general superin-
tendent of the Topeka Railway COM |
pany is spending the last two weeks in |
June in his Topeka office. He will |
spend the first part of July at his |
office in Wichita.
Secretary H. L. Cook of the Kansas |
State Fair association should hear in a |
day or two relative to the invitation |
extended to the management of the |
American Royal show to display in To- |
peka next October.
College and high school lads who |
think they have a pipe collection |
listen: F. G. willard, a Topeka |
photographer, has 200 pipes. Nearly |
every country in the world is repre- |
scented in this collection.
The Shawnee Driving club. a col
ored organization, will hold races on |
the state fair grounds on July 4. The |
playground children of the city will |
give an entertainment commencing at |
o'clock on the grounds. 1t will be |
under the supervision of w. L.
Driver.
Local raspberries are now on the
market, but they are selling at 20
cents a box for the finest fruit. Next
week, however, they will be plenti
full. Then will be the time to put up
tiful in two weeks. The southern Der
ries are already coming in.
There will be a special meeting of
the board of education called in the
next few days to approve the plans
for the rebuilding of the old wing of
the Potwin school, and the erection
of a new four-room building in the
Quinton Heights district. The work
of construction will be pushed as rap
idly as possible.
With his sombrero Tapping in the
wind, c. w. Kouns, general manager
of the Santa Fe, will leave Topeka
Friday for his old home in Amarillo,
Texas. He will attend the annual
blowout of the Texas Cattlemen's as
ISOLATION. In this country they don't
say ''Mr. Kouns.'' They all call him
Charley, old boy"
A movement will be started in To-
peka within a few days to raise $500
to be used in the general supervised
board of education has provided for
the payment of instructors for SIX
weeks. The money will be raised for
the purpose of continuing the play
for another six weeks
The reason for the non-arrival of
the Imperial Valley, California, can
taloupes when expected is explained
as follows. The usual midday tenn
perature in that valley is 120 degrees; I
100 degrees at midnight. Recently
the mercury has only reached the 105
degree point at noon and has dropped
to 85 degrees at night
Mayor Billiard has returned from a :
two days jaunt to Leavenworth and
Atchison. The mayor is elated over
the reception he received at these two
cities. He was told not to come back .
in behalf of his campaign for COVER
supporters said he could be ,
assured of good support there and his {
time should be spent in other districts.
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