The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-15
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The new Edison concrete stack viii
equal the old stack in height before
this week closes
The Topeka Gun club will shoot with
the wamego Gun club the latter part
of the week, the date has not yet been
set.
\ heavy rain at this time would
help the appearance OF lawns IN TO
peka. They are beginning to turn
brown.
The management of the telephone
company requests that all old phone
books be burned up in order to avoid
confusion.
Tho official publication of the Com
mercial club, the Commercial Club
Bulletin" will be off the pres the last
of the week
MarshaIPs band will play at Chesney
park this evening popular program
including some excellent music has
been arranged.
association is becoming a busy place
There are scores of callers each day
on fair business.
A large delegation will go from To-
peka to attend the annual convention
of the Kansas Retailers association IN
Newton July 1925.
Topeka is not getting her share of
conventions this summer. There nave
been scheduled conventions for Hutch
inSon, Newton and other towns.
The Kansas State Retailers associa-
ton is going to take a hand in politics
this season. Many of its members
will endeavor to become legislators.
There are very few committee meet
ings being held at the Commercial club
nowadays. The business men are tax
ing vacation from that kind of work.
The tent meetings of the Salvation
Army at Fifth and Quincy streets will
be continued this week. They are held
OF a m O'Clock O'CLOCK
each dag.
Bids for the erection of the new
Quinton Heights school building and
for the reconstruction of the old wing
of the Potwin building will be opened
tonight by the board of education.
Topeka will be represented at the
meeting of the state convention of the
Retail Butchers association in Wich-
tia next fall. The secretary of the as
ISOLATION is J. ]. Lannan of this city.
Mrs. C. S. Conwen took out build
ing permit today for the erection of a
house to cost $4,000 at 6o7 Topeka
avenue. The house will be two stories
in height and will be frame in construc-
ton.
The first carload of Texas alberta
peaches started for Topeka last We'd
nesday. There will be plenty of peaches
week will be the time to put ur
peaches.
w. L. Mcclure, of 1014 Kansas
avenue, has placed a claim before the
board of city commissioners asking
them for SIS to pay for the death of
horse killed by fire department motor
truck recently.
A car of coal caught fire by spon-
taneous combustion in the Santa Fe
yards Sunday and the company fire
department was called to <extinguLsh
the blaze. The loss of three tons OF
coal was the damage.
The two kangaroos, gifts of John r,
Mulvane and Dick" Hodgins, were on
exhibition at Gage park Sunday. They
are lodged temporarily in the monkey
pens and We're the objects of consider
able curiosity during the day.
The State Journal today was awarded
the contract for the official city print
ing of Topeka for the coming year. This
paper has been the city paper for Il
good many years. Not a commissioner
voted against the action this morning.
According to one of the residents of
Paxico, Kan, Raymond A. Birchfield.
OF the Merchants National bank, is the
leading nimrod of Topeka. Mr.. Birch
field goes to Paxico every week, and
remarkable stories are told of his fish
ing.
Complaints have come to the city hall
from several districts over the city
concerning the odor from sewer open
ings. The lack of heavy rains has
cause many of the sewers to become
stagnant. A city flushing gang will
be started out soon.
Corn in Shawnee county hasn't look
ed good in years. The recent hot
weather did not wither the blades as
there was enough moisture in the
ground to prevent the hot weather
in the Kaw valley is now ten feet high.
The Kansas state fair is a member
of the American Association of Fairs
and -ExpositionS and the Southwestern
Fair association. The fair of 1872
September 9-13-immediately follows
the Nebraska state fair at Lincoln,
and precedes the Kansas fair at
Hutchinson.
The Eagle Rose Tint ball club WAS
defeated Saturday afternoon by the
John Smalley. manager of the Rose
Tint club, accompanied the team and
between innings made a rousing speech
in behalf of Mr.. L. L. Kiene as the next
sheriff of Shawnee county.
The regular bimonthly meeting of the
Topeka local union will be held this
evening in the First Baptist church at
pastor of the Central Avenue Christian
church. will speak There will be spec
iaI music, and a conference on ''Effici-
ency'' led by Miss Mary Fisher.
Owing to the fact that County At
torney E. R. Simon missed his train
Friday evening, quite a number of beer
parties were interrupted Saturday
night. The volume of business at this
time of the year is especially heavy, IN
the line of key parties, and Mr. Simon
will take his vacation later on in the
season
Kaw valley potatoes are now down t.
co cents a hushel, and there is little
demand for them on the open market
at this price. Only a few carloads
have been shipped out of Topeka, owing
to the fact that the Kansas crop came
on late this year, and the dealers ur
in Iowa and Nebraska had home
grown potatoes almost as soon as we