The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Thursday.
! The high school graduation exer-
cises will be held in the Auditorium
Friday night.
will be a free moving picture show at
the City park this evening.
The commencement exercises of Mrs.
c. F. Menninger's Berean Bible class
will be held tonight at the st. John
A. M. E. church
city schools next fall will be fixed at
the meeting of the board of education
the night of June 3.
Topeka orators are in demand for
tomorrow. Lawyers, preachers and
politicians have engagements for
many gatherings in cities and towns
all over Kansas.
At the Memorial day exercises in
the Auditorium Thursday afternoon
the balcony will be reserved for
the school children who will form
a large chorus.
grated this summer. New seats have
already been ordered. The work of
improving the popular play house will
begin June 10.
One clothing merchant must have
been shy of water today. At least an
employee was washing the show cases
in front of the store by occasionally
splitting on rag.
Topeka housewives who have been
over ambitious to beautify their yards
have been numerically bitten" late
ly by agents for out of town nurseries,
who have been selling rose bushes at
one dollar each.
Suits against the gas company in the
district court are finding a world of
evidence in favor of the plaintiffs. The
gas explosion Monday is another link
all a plaintiff has to do in cases of
this kind is to wait
There are now but few dandelions
on the high school lawn. This is ac-
counted Cor through the fact that one
of the teachers has compelled his stu
dents who have been late to laboratory
work, - dig up the weeds.
The school children will take flow
ers to their respective schools at 8
o'clock Thursday morning. They will
be gathered in wagons, and after be-
ing assorted will be placed on the
graves of the veterans of the Civil
war.
A black cat sneaked into the city
commission chamber while the COM
missioners were in session this morn
ing. Aha, an omen!' cried one of
the officials at fear that we will not
have the great white way on Fourth
street.
Clyde Atwood and Arthur Bolton of
the Central Y. M. G. A. will take a
bunch Of twenty junior boys on hike
walkers will go south along the Rock
Island tracks, and will camp out over
night.
The fact that two men were badly
burned as a result of one person light
ing his pipe in a gas filed manhole
will make an excellent text for preach
ers who wage battles and crusades
against the nasty habit of using to-
bacco."
The city officials are not to blame
after all for the lack of lights at the
band concert in Chesney park Mon
forgot to turn on the current. The
city had ordered the lights turned on
that evening.
Fire due to spontaneous COM
bustion caused 500 damage to new
house at S31 West Fourth
street at 3 o'clock this morning. The
house was being built by the Shawnee
Agency. Painters had left oily rags
in kitchen closet.
Euclid avenue between Kansas ave-
nue. and Western avenue is being
graded in preparation for this years
paving on that street. Other gangs
are working in the east part of the
city. Work will have to be rushed
to complete the work this year.
The tinkle of the ice cream wagons
and the whistle of the refreshment
man has set the kids wild again. 1t
is a treat riding down the street with
an ice cream man-kids running fran
tically from house to house hunting
for their mothers-and the nickels.
A. E. Sweet, general manager; J.
B. Smalley, assistant general manager,
and J. A. Stewart general passenger
agent of the Rock Island Lines in To-
peka, have returned after a staff time
card meeting in Chicago. The sum-
mer schedule will be announced from
the Topeka offices soon.
Commissioner Stotts is ready to
listen to the Business Womens club as
regards the wading pool and athletic
ground idea in the city parks. But he
radical changes the property owners
in the benefit district that paid for
the parks will have something to say
about the proposition.
The big airdo:ne in the City park,
with a seating capacity of over 1,1OO
the first time. A free moving picture
show will be given. Thursday night
the moving pictures will be inter-
spersed with vaudeville acts. All vet
Grams wearing badges will be admitted
free Thursday evening.
Many of the students of Washburn
college knowing that their examina-
tons were completed or knowing that
they had passed their term grades
have left for their homes over Kan
sas and the west. Less fortunate stu
dents are still pegging away at their
exams and the rest are remaining for
the graduation exercises.
'I desire to express my apprecia-
ton of the hearty cooperation of the
and teachers and of the
earnest and efficient work
they have done during the present
school year." This was an expression
of appreciation contained in a circu-
lar sent out to the teachers by SUI
perintendent c. c. Starr of the city
schools.
Members of Columbia Council No.
so. knights and Ladies' of Security