The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-28
snap SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

! J. Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
mercial club, is in Kansas City on bust
ness today.
! Miss Mary R. Vose, secretary of the
! Provident association, who Is visiting
| with relatives in Evanston, Ill is expect
ed to return to Topeka next Monday.
| The northwest wind this morning failed
to hold the temperature down as would
| the north. At IL o'clock a thermometer
! on Kansas avenue registered ia degrees.
| The girls of the sewing classes of the
day picnic at Garfield park Friday. Au-
gust 29 They will meet at the ProVident
! building at $50 O'Clock and go in body
| to the park.
The hay fever siege has claimed hun
dreds of victims in Topeka. Persons with
ions are pacing the streets and offices
| trying to stem the tide of discomfort and
praying for frost.
Boy Scouts of Topeka every month at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. in the coming season
An orchestra, and chorus which VIII De
organized. will furnish music. and there
will be speaker for each occasion,
Vegetables are less plentiful at local
grocery stores than they have been at any
time this season. 1t is almost Impossible
to get good lettuce now even from COLO
RADIO from which most of the vegetables
. have been shipped in the last few weeks.
Secretary Cook of the state fair sus-
gests that Topekans open the 1esuylues
with a record breaking local attendance
Monday, September s, and fill the grand
stands and grounds. The races that day
Work is progressing rapidly on the $lV9-
600 addition to the machine SHOPS OF the
Santa Fe in Topeka. the Eartn, an OF
fetal publication of the roao. says tna maj
furnish employment to 800 additional shop
men.
The first annual picnic of the Eagle
lodge will be held in Garfield park on
September 4. Ball games and field sports
will be special attractions. There Will pe
a number of prizes offered in the 1leld
events Marshalls band will give a CON
cert in the evening.
A number of graduates of the WASH
burn law school have been soliciting
books from Topeka members or the PAL
law .brarv The law school is making an
effort to have one of the most complete
reference and consulting libraries In the
west
Professor Harshbarger of WaShburn
gives out timely advice in suggesting that
i opeka back yard gardeners water then
and hard t TeaT on ee vour trees he
says. Keep the dirt loose around t leIll
ard give them good soaking about every
ten days.
shawnee county is furnishing Topeka
grocers with very little produce at the
present time. The apple crop has talled
on account of the drought; apples are be
ing imported. The tomatoes have been
buried up. Egg plant is one vegetable
that has not been killed by the heat ana
dry weather.
I H Fazel, Boy Scout commissioner for
Topeka will prepare a list of all the boys
in ToDeka between the ages of IL and 10
years in an effort to keep in close toqen
with the youngsters. He anticipates that
there will be at least five hundred scout
members in Topeka within anotner year
there are now three hundred. Mr.. fazei
caid today: II do not favor urging the
bows to join the scouts through big cam
11aigns or otherwise. My idea Is to MAKE
things sufficiently attraetve to ln1er Te
them. BOYS are ADMITTED between the
ages of u and IS.