The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The Topeka banks will be closed on
Labor Day-September list.
some small ducks in local store
window attract much attention.
Cecil Howes. local correspondent for
the Kansas City Star, is i'll at MS nome
on West Tenth avenue.
A meeting of the park committee of
the Commercial club under e. r. ED
ridge will be held Thursday noon.
Forty thousand to one that it will
rain every day during fair week IN
Topeka-and rain from morning until
night.
Zabud watermelon feast, an annual
festival with the local Masonic frater-
nifty will be celebrated at the Masonic
Temple tonight.
The great fall wheeze has struck
numerous Topeka people already
Hay fever always claims large num-
Der of victims here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Trosper of rs
Quincy are the parents of baby girl,
born August %. Mrs. Trosper was
formerly Miss Gussie Hoffman.
Lee Brothers of the Blue Ribbon
stock farm at HarVeyVille will be at
the state fair with IS head of the
very best of their herd of Percheron
horseg.
Archie Mulholland of the tax COM
missfoner's office of the Santa Fe,
leaves this week for a trip through
Kansas in the interest of the company
department.
According to the far away promises
of the weather man, it isn't too late yet
to take that summer vacation. A few
more days like this and the railroads
will witness a reversal of traffic to the
mountains.
All teachers and workers in the
Redden mission are asked to meet
at the First Presbyterian church at 9
o'clock Thursday night. Plans for
future work will be discussed.
In previous years it was necessary
for the Washburn college authorities
to keep the grass cut on the $50 acre
campus. This year the college has
not found it necessary to cut a blade
the dry weather performed the deed.
The Topeka Railway company eX-
poets to relieve its equipment from
the nervous strain of hanging over the
Sixth street viaduct some time this
week. The work car will be removed
from its perilous position and sent to
the shops for repairs.
J. H. Fazel. scout commissioner for
Topeka, is planning to organize a Boy
fifty voices. A book of scout songs
has just been published. Mr.. FaZel
will send for enough of the books for
the use of the members of the chorus.
A state official residing temporarily
in Topeka complains of the state
fair insignia used by the Topeka Fair
association The capital city exposi-
tion directors should yield to the city
of salt and sand and allow them to
have Il state fair in name-what's in
a name?
Suggestion for q good live Topeka
concern: Place along in front of the
store a row of powerful lights about
waist high. This illumination would
draw crowds nightly on account OF
the opportunities it would afford to
reveal the true worth of the x-ray
skirts worn by the women.
Howard Patten, superintendent OF
the Topeka Railway company. sug
gests that the city the old Sixth
the bridge into a concrete structure.
He believes it would be economical
for the city to pour cement around the
steel piers and make the viaduCt per
manent and safe
The Union Pacific railway not only
has issued flyers advertising the State
fair. Topeka. but is running advertis-
ing in newspapers with view to bring
big crowd to the fair Septem Der
S-12 The railway will run special
trains on the Marysville branch on
September and II and on the Blue
Rapids branch on September 10.
William kennedy. secretary of the
Commercial club at Arkansas City,
who is a candidate for the secretary
ship of the local Commercial club.
was in Topeka late Wednesday. Ac-
VIII Kelley, secretary of the club. it
will probably be the latter part of