The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-11

| through northeastern Kansas, June %
| One day recently face powder firm
| distributed samples of their cheek tint
! over the city. The next day every girl
| on the streets, in the stores on the
cars, carried with her glistening rosy
! complexion.
| fashion whenever blasting is done at
| the brick yards-which is frequent at
the present time. But the DR.. Hard
! ing i'm this case is one of the alligators
| at Gage Park.
| One of the entertainment features
| TENDER will be an electric panorama
showing activities at the Panama can :
| al. This will be one of the Great
1 Patterson" shows
Inability to procure material hinder
| ed the work on the new Gordon Bros
| theater on West Eighth avenue. but
rapid progress is now being MADE.
Within a few days the concrete for
the first floor wnt be poured.
Residents of Quinton Heights are
asking the mayor that Immediate at
tention be given the petition filed by
As signers demanding that. one street
light be installed at the intersection
of Twenty-fourth and Fillmore.
Railroad men in Topeka tell of an en-
gineer who, when he came into town
shortly after his marriage blew his
whistle in giee as a signal to his wife
and now brings his big Mikado loco
motive into the city on her tip-toes.
What about oranges this winter.
Railway men in Topeka say that the
shipments from California are not
one-tenth of the traffic from the Pa
ciflc coast last year. The freeze in the
west damaged the California product.
New potatoes are selling in down
20. Il
thirty cents a peck. With plenty of
fresh vegetables in the back yard gar
dens and at the stores the cost of liv
ing should be materially reduced this
summer.
1t has ben claimed that the children
of today do not know how to play as
did the youngsters of two or three
generations ago. On the six play
grounds under supervision a hundred
or more games will be taught the
children this summer.
Stacey Guild a former Washbur
college man, and who has been study
ing medicine the past year at Ann
Arhor. Mich, is in Topeka. He will
spend two more years in Michigan:
then he will go out to some foreign
land as a medical missionary.
The only shower reported as having
fallen in aKnsas in the last "a hours
was a Dodge City-.04 of an inch.
Showers We're predicted for Tuesday
90 it will be seen that the gentleman
in question lowered his batting aver
age"
H. r. Wilson the superintendent of
the city schools of Topeka has shown
a desire to keep in touch with what is
going on in Topeka by subscribing for
a Topeka paper. The paper will be
sent to his home a Decatur III. Super
intendent Wilson will assume his duties
in Topeka August 1.
H. L. Cook. secretary of the state
Fair association. Topeka. accompanied
by the members of his family. is ont
on an extended trip through Kansas
and Colorado Secretary Cook will
combine pleasure with business. He
Will talk fair to the people along the
way. He spent last night in Russell
county.
Three general managers and a vice
president of a big transcontinentaI rail-
road played golf at the Country club
links Tuesday afternoon. The general
managers We're A. E. Sweet W. VI.
Whitenton and c. w. Jones. The vice
president was A. c. Ridgway. They
were in Topeka in Rock Island con-
ference.
Several persons have made inquiry in
respect to the girls for whom the
ProVident association wants to find
places this summer but one of them
did not expect to have to pay anything
other would require too hard wark. The
mana cement of the association desires
to find for them good places as nurse
girls.
An interesting war between the pas
senger men of the Rock Island and
Santa Fe railway systems has develop