The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09

stone park for her vacation. DIR.
! George F. Babb, city milk inspector,
! goes with Marshall's band to Denver
for his trip.
The state text book commission has
decided to use Turkey creek white
sand stone from Colorado in the con-
struction of the front of the new
printing plant building.
The first appearance in public of the
new Boy Scout orchestra of the Third
Presbyterian church under F. F.
Dawdy will be a t the Redden mission
a week from Sunday afternoon at
o'clock
An eight hundred dollar barn has just
been completed for c. W. Merriam, five
miles southeast of the city by A. P.
Ahlstrom a Topeka contractor accord
ing to the current issue of the Con-
struction News.
H l.. Cook. secretary of the Kansas
State Fair association received a let
ter today from DR.. c. w. McCampben
of Manhattan, stating that in his
opinion there will be an excellent dis
play of draft horses at the show in
September.
Friday afternoon a fire broke out
at 1905 Polk street, in the home OF
Mrs. G. l. Seymour, doing damage to
the extent of about 500. The blaze
started from defective electric light
wiring. The fire was promptly eX-
tinguished when the fire department
reached the scene.
Clement Williams, secretary of the
industrial department of the Western
university at Kansas City, Kan, was in
Topeka today. He dropped in at the
state fair office in the morning and as
sured Secretary H. l.. Cook that he
will be here next September with a
display of poultry.
Rev A. F. McGrath, of St. Louis,
Mo, representative of the executive
s.iC n ha general
the Presbyterian church will occupy the
pulpit of the First Presbyterian church,
this city. and preach the sermon at the
union service of the First Lutheran
church in the evening. He has good
reputation as a speaker and it Will be
we'll worth the effort to hear him.
AS a result of the hot weather the
Provident association has had numer-
Gus calls for work in the last two or
three days. Paperers and painters
have been thrown out of work on ac-
count of the heat. There are men out
of employment who would be glad to
take any kind of a job. But accord
ing to the management of the ProVl-
dent association jobs are hard to lind
The police officers raided three
houses at Park Place Friday night AMI
did not come away empty handed. At
the house of Mary Palmer, Park
Place, the police found several bot
ties of beer and AZ bottles of whisky.
M. Carroll and Henry Johns were also
arrested at their homes and a quantity
of liquor was taken. Mary Palmer fur
nished 81 600 bond this morning and
was relea sed. The arrests were made
by Chief Hughes, Sergeant Ross and
Detective Lytle.
AS will be noticed in another section
of this paper in Bradstreet's list of
bank clearings for the week ending
August Z, Topeka made a gain of 60
per cent. over the corresponding
period of 1912-and this in spite OF
the intense heat. Consistent gains
have been shown each week which in
dictates that business interests in To-
peka are thriving. The manager of
one of the leading stores made the
statement that business has been much
better this summer than last year.
According to ]. H. Fazel, scout COM
missioner for Topeka, this city has i'll
it some of the best hearted men of any
place in which he has worked. Mr..
FaZel has been given a five dollar bill
by d man with which he will buy
clothes for two poor boys so that they
won't feel ashamed to attend the Red
den mission Sunday afternoons. There
are seven children in the family to
which the boys belong. The father is
a rag picker. His property was de-
stroyed in North Topeka in the food
of 1903 and ever since that time he has
had hard time providing for his fam
lily, having met with several severe re-
having met with several severe re-
verses.
The county treasury has been
swollen by the profit made in the Of
fee of Charles Bower, clerk of the
district court, who has turned in ST.