The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
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The members of the Cathedral
Boys club will give a banquet Thurs
day night in honor of Canon Pitcaith-
~, the founder of the organization.
A meeting of the promotion COM
mittee of the Commercial club was
held today to make arrangements for
the ompletion of the factory aid fund.
The Rev w. NJ. Jackson is conduct
ing several services at the First United
Presbyterian church this week pre-
paratory to communion services next
Sunday
There are hundreds of people in To-
peka eagerly awaiting for the modera-
tion of the weather so they can get
out and do some spading in their gar
den spots.
A report on the climate of Kansas
based upon the oldest records in the
state is being prepared at the local
weather bureau. 1t will probably be
printed about July l.
The members of the Potwin Presby
terrain church will hold their annual
business meeting Thursday night A
supper will be served at the church
preceding the business session.
THE Two-Fold Extension of Life"
is the subject upon which DIR. Roy d.
Guild will speak at the First Baptist
church next Friday night a musical
program will follow the address.
The statement was made today by
the local weather men that the eastern
third of Kansas receives more rainfall
in the growing season from April to
September than any interior state in
the country-25.47 inches.
The people of Topeka were begin
ming 20 believe that spring had come
last Sunday. but it is a winter brand
of atmospheric conditions that has
been handed out in the last two or
three days by the weather man.
Real estate men already are making
plans for a big rush in the realty
market this spring. The building per-
mit'' and real estate transfer COL
umns in the newspapers are taking on
long faces.-Commercial Club Bulletin.
Cold weather has not been feared by
the business men of Topeka. who were
carrying out their Improvement plans.
During the entire winter boarded store
fronts have told prosperity stories of
renovation, improvement and business
success.
Word has been received from Wash
ington that when the Topeka mail
boxes need a new jacket, it shall be
red instead of green. Postmaster
Rodgers. declares the boxes will not
need paint until fall There are 20S
boxes in Topeka, a larger number than
any city of its size in the west.
On the front page of the Commercial
Club Bulletin for March which was is
sued today is an atttra ctive cut giving
"A Peek Into Gage Park This is
ton. It gives a list of products made
in Topeka. 1t also contains a list of
the new 1918 club committees
Manager Gear of the Topeka Western
League baseball team insists that the
''Kaws'' will be at the head of the race
when the season ends next fall Fur
thermore. he has placed on newspa per
exhibition to the fans of Topeka a dan
gerous looking bunch of players to COM
hat with other cities in the Western
League.-Commercia Club Bulletin.
The mana cement of the Kansas State
Fair assoCia ton has put out a post
card with this reading matter thereon:
The Iegislat ure of Kansas passed a con-
ditional law placing the state fair in
the hands of the state board of agri-
culture and naming Hutchinson as he
present location. No appropria ton of
any kind was made for the improve
ment, running expenses or maintenance
of the fair by the state. The great fair
at Topeka, Kansas. chartered by the
state as The Kansas State Fair Asso-
citation" will continue to hold it's an
nual meetings CT its beautiful shady
bluegrass park the second week in
September of every year. following the
Nebr3 ska State Fair