The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-02
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Potato bugs are attacking numer-
Gus potato patches in Topeka
Strawberries are selling today at ten
cents a box, but the price is expected
to go up in a day or two if there is
not precipitation
The sum of s1250 was collected by
the city weighmaster for the month of
May, according to the report made to
the city this mo---ing
The members of the Topeka Real
Estate Dealers association will meet
a week from next Wednesday noon in
the rooms Of the Topeka Commercial
club
Several Topekans have received post
cards today from E. c. BrowneH at
Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.. BrowneII is on
his way TO Christchurch, New Zea-
land
W. A Comnben, city auditor at
Wichita, Kan, is spending a few days
in Topeka visiting his brother, Frank
Campbell of the United States district
court
A meeting of the scout masters of
Topeka will be held tonight at the
Central Y NJ c. A to determine the
location for summer Boy Scout
camp
i G. H. KinkeI writes from Colby that
the wheat is in good shape in his
county. Barley, too, is in good con-
dttion. There is an unusually large
| acreage in corn this season
There was a large attendance at the
last vesper service for the season at
Washburn college Sunday afternoon.
The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dwight H Platt of Overlook.
Repairs should be made on the
bridges in Willow park. The wood
work has rotted in places and there
will be some seriously sprained ankles
if there is not some repair work
done.
An electric light will be placed at
the corner OF Twenty-Fourth and Fill
more streets as soon as the connections
can be made with the city lighting
plant, according to the decision OF the
city commission this morning.
E. R. Bennett, horticulturist of the
Rock Island Lines, has been making
an investigation of the fruit condi-
lions in northeastern Kansas and will
report his findings soon to the general
officials of the road in this city.
A large attendance is expected to-
night at the meeting of the motorists
Of Shawnee county in the main room
of the Commercial club The new au-
tomobile law will be discussed The
state guide books will be distributed.
Several shop officials of the Balti-
| more & Ohio railway are in Topeka
today investigating the freight car re-
pair work of the Santa Fe here The
party is being shown through the
shops by NJ. J. Drury, superintendent
Next Sunday the new summer time
card of the Rock Island Lines goes into
effect Several changes in schedules
are announced. The card was pre-
pared after a meeting of trainmasters
and other operating and traffic officials
in Topeka
! J. W. Bremen, 1881 North Kansas
avenue. wants the city commission to
open the end of Locust street, declar-
| ing that property he owns in the vi
cinity is entirely cut off from COM
munication with open streets The ap-
| plication was ordered on file.
I. NJ. Jones, superintendent of tele-
| graph of the Santa Fe, headquarters
| in Topeka, is attending the convention
| of railway telegraph superintendent
| in ST. Louis Mr.. Jones is chairman Of
| the committee on uniform rules for
| train orders by telephone"
A contract for laying a sidewalk at
Westlawn park was let this morning
| by the city commission to Walton w.
Gilmore at a contract price of SO cents
per square foot. FOUGHT and Wilson
and W. S. Fulton were contending bid
| ders for the job.
Hundreds of persons lined the banks
of the kaw Sunday watching the eff
forts of tn county officials in dynamit-
| ing for the body of the Union Pacific
employee who drowned Saturday eve
ming. Rivermen patrolled the water
II.
Complaints from property owners
protesting against a proposed sidewalk
on the south side of Eleventh street
! between Arch nd Garfield streets were
read before the city commission this
morning. The matter went over until
! the commission can hear both sides of
the question
| $4,000 in Topeka beautifying the sta
ton grounds The park depot is be-
ing enlarged and the entire driveway
from the Offices west to Jackson street
and through to Kansas avenue is be-
/ ing paved. Further improvements
have been planned.
The regular June meeting of the
board of education will be held to-
night Teachers for the coming
school year will be chosen. 1t is
| superintendent will be appointed to
succeed c. c. Starr, whose resignation
will be effective August 1.
s. E. Busser. superintendent of read
ing rooms of the Santa Fe railway, is
in Topeka today in connection with
coming winters program along the
lines of the road superintendent
Busser spoke in fIattering terms of the
hit made by the Washburn GIee
club during their winter tours
A party of fishermen saved the life
of an inmate of the asylum Saturday,
who was pulled into the river by
mammoth catfish. The patient had
caught the fish and when it flopped
away from him on the bank he
grabbed its tail only to be thrown into
the current. The fishermen going by
in a motorboat stopped and pulled the
man from the water-but the fish was
gone.
The small debtors court, W. H. KEN
per. presiding Judge, will be open for
business tomorrow morning at 9
O'Clock, being the regular time for the
court to convene Judge Kemper ex-
poets that several claimants for the