The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

A movement will be started mex
year to beautify the school lawns.
Miss Helen Caps, assistant t.
| Superintendent G. G. Starr, is taking
| two weeks vacation at her home.
Secretary H. L. Cook has added two
assistants to the office force. The
State Fair business is rushing JUS
now.
The Topeka State bank solicit.
large and small accounts and pays in.
| terest on earnings. Safety boxes fol
rent
George M. Stone, the Topeka artist
will be judge in the art department
of the Independence, Mo, fair Au-
gust %.
c. G. Blakely, Roy L. Bone, J. Will
Kelley and Superintendent c. C. Starr
are soliciting funds for the play
ground movement.
Members of the Topeka W. c. T. u.
will meet in the office of the Y. w.
C. A., Seventh and Van Buren, streets,
at O'Clock Monday afternoon.
Polk beat Grant in the playground
baseball series Friday afternoon by a
score of IL to H. Batteries: Polk
Pontius and Kaufman; Grant-Moyer
and Graham.
The watermelon crop is reported to
be bumper one in the northern por-
ton of Shawnee county. The price of
melons should take slump in the
next few days.
The Shawnee Agency paid $25,7OO
for portion of Broadmoor addition
on the East side. The sale was re-
ported in the State Journal week
ago today, but the price was not
stipulated.
The price of beef is still soaring.
Good porterhouse steak retails at 80
cents a pound. Mutton is the only
meat that has not advanced in price,
and consequently the demand for
sheep flesh is growing.
Tomatoes have doubled in price in
the past two weeks. They are now
selling at 40 cents a basket The dry
weather of the first part of the month
injured the plants. The recent rains
will help the crop, however.
Commissioner Miller has received
preliminary specifications for the new
$4,000 pump located three miles west
of town. The pump belongs to the
state plant, and has a capacity of
100000 gallons of water day
Down in a certain district in Okla
homa the farmers are selling peaches
at Is cents a bushel and some of
them are even feeding the fruit to
the hogs. In Topeka it is necessary
grade of peaches. Who makes the
profit is question that might be
asked.
Topekans are depending largely on
Colorado vegetables nowadays. There
are some good local vegetabI on the
market, however. Egg plants are SELL
ing at 10 cents each. Sweet corn
brings from 10 to Is cents a Dozen
according to quality. Tomatoes are
not so plentiful as they were two
weeks ago.
The Commercial club has had print
ed 5000 envelopes that bear on the
reverse side municipal information of
a varied character. The publicity
committee which is responsible for
the envelopes will urge the local
to use the Topeka Informal
ton on the backs of the envelopes
they send out to customers.
c. H. Wilmington, instructor in agri-
culture in the high school, and Super
intendent c. c. Starr will soon make
definite plans for the big school gar
den exhibit. Announcement will be
made by the time school opens as to
where the exhibition will be held. All
number of the school children expect
to enter produce at the State Fair.
Peaches now range in price from
IS cents to $1.50 a busheL Home
grown cantaloupes sell at cents |
each and two for s. cents. Next week
the Colorado cantaloupes should be |
plentiful. Red raspberries of good
quality are still being shipped in from /.
Colorado. Grapes, home grown, are |
selling at 20 cents for small baskets. |
and the quality is excellent. Apples |
are getting cheaper every day