The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-10
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AT HOME NEWS.

| Eustis Clay is acting as assistant
| to H. L. Cook. secretary of the state
| fair, at the fair office.
| The displays of the Topeka mer-
| chants in the arts building at the state
| fair grounds are unusually elaborate
]. X. Louis. manager of the Pain
company, is in personal charge of the
evening spectacle at the fair grounds.
Commissioner J. H. Fazel is in
charge of the Topeka Boy Scouts who
are assisting each day at the state fair.
There are three state agricultural ex-
hibits at the state fair. Mississippi,
Wisconsin and Florida are all repre-
sented.
The emergency hospital at the fair
grounds is kept open all night. Harold
]. Clay. who is an expert in first aid
methods, takes the night shift.
There were comparatively few To-
peka people on the state fair grounds
this morning. However, the out of
town people were there in force.
William E. Stickel has been APP
pointed head clerk in the office of
District Attorney Robertson, in place
of Miss Janet Gardner, who recently
resigned.
Lynn Banta has filed suit in the
city court against ]. G. Cunningham,
failure of Cunningham to pay a prom
issory note.
J. w. F. Hughes, chief of police,
who mas just returned from a trip
to New York, says he escaped from
the heat there by having a room in
the twentieth story of big hotel
Albert H. Lowe, a deputy sheriff
in North Topeka, was fined $25 in
police court on a charge of being
drunk and disturbing the peace.
Lowe also faces a charge of theft.
Charles Barnes. who is a former
well known newspa per man, is serving
as publicity man for the state fair. He
is assisting the newspaper reporters by
making out the lists of awards in all
departments.
There was not a~single arrest made
yesterday at the fair grounds for the
usual offenses of drunkenness, dis
turbing the peace or petty larceny.
The police officers there had little
trouble in keeping the crowds in
order.
Superintendent A. F. E. Reinisch
says that city water in Gage park is
not particularly necessary for the
swimming hole, but adds that the pool
is a fine thing, and that it ought to
be kept in condition. He wants water
a the park for the sake of his trees,
shrubbery and flowers.
The streets in the vicinity of the
fair grounds were sprinkled this
morning, as has been the custom
heretofore at the time of the State
Fair. The sprinkling will be con-
tinued during the entire week. The
work is done under the direction of
Commissioner w. G. Tandy.
Eliza Robinson, alberta Robinson
and Mary Homer were arrested last
night for maintaining a nuisance at
TIVE ntieth and Western avenue. Eliza
Robinson was released on $500 bond.
Several bottles of liquor were con-
fscaIed by the county. A beer pump
was found concealed in a bed.
These Boy Scouts will be on duty
on the fair grounds on Thursday: Rob
ert McCandless and Mitchell Jordan at
the hospital, Bunny Reaugh. Carl
mig. Willie Lingo. Edwin Plat. Joe
Burnett. Dave Winter, Ltham John !
son, George Allen, Ellsworth May
hew. Harold Gains, Lewis Seaman,
Gail Short.
Cars over both tracks of the city
railway on West Sixth, between Kan |
sas avenue and Harrison street. began
running today. Up to yesterday one
track had been out of use while the
concrete was setting. The brick re-
mains to be laid between the railway
pany's rails to complete the fine
new piece of pavement.
Sanitary Sergeant ]. A. Ramsey has
found it a task to count a measured
quart of house flies. he is working
on the count in order to estimate the
number of flies in 40 gallons he has
on hand AS soon as the count is
completed he will announce the rules
of a guessing contest on the number
of flies in the whole assortment.
Some time soon, perhaps in the next
week So the street railway COM
pany will begin work in grading and
laying its rails from Sixth and West
streets toward Eighth and Summit
avenue, where the line has been prom
ised yet this fall. The company is
waiting until it gets the bulk of it's
paving work out of the way before
starting the new work.
Thanks to the recent showers there
is now no dust on the state fair
grounds. 1t is a good thing, too, that
the rain came as there was some dam
ger from fire on account of the dry
condition of the grass. At Lincoln
when the Pain fireworks were being
discharged at the fair it was necessary
to have a force of from l ) to 20 men
to put out the small blazes that
started.
Mayor Cofran this morning warned
high school officials that he expects
them to see that the anti-smoking
ordinance of the city is obeyed at the