The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-21

submitted, and the election of officers
will take place.
Clyde Tresner this week assumed du-
ties of bookkeeper for the city sanitary
department. c. G. Overmyer, who has
| held the position for several years, re-
Gently resigned. Mr. Tresrer is under
the direct supervision of r. A. Ramsey,
city sanitary sergeant.
Governor Hodges and members Of
the Memorial hall building commits
sion will leave June for Georgia,
where they will visit the Georgia mar
BILE works and select the material to
be used in the completion of the new
half million dollar Memorial hall.
County Attorney Charles Herold of
Seneca is in Topeka today on legal
business. Herold is serving his third
successive term as county attorney in
Nemaha county. He is a rock ribbed
the staunch Republican counties of the
state.
Home grown gooseberries are now
on the market. They sell at 10 cents
a quart. Next week will be the time
to buy them for preserving purposes;
also strawberries. Missouri and Ar
kansas strawberries are now on the
market, and a few that are locally
grown.
P. E. Laughlin, deputy state bank
commissioner, is devoting his spare
time to the farming industry on his
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county. This week Laughlin let the
contract for a big new hay barn to be
erected this summer on his Marshall
county land.
Plasterers have finished the plaster
ing in the police courtroom and this
morning began replacing old plaster
in the office portion of the city Jail.
The walls and ceilings are to be treat
ed to Il fresh coat of paint after the
plasteritfg has been finished. which
i117Tl a n
sidera BILE extent.
1t is now possible for housewives to
reduce the cost of living by providing
the table with home grown vegetables
| which are selling at low figures. Spin
| ach, spring onions, lettuce and rad
| ishes grown in Shawnee county are
| plentiful. Green peas will be on the
market Thursday that are grown here.
! Imported peas are selling at IS cents
| a pound.
Several members of the state house
! crowd will go to Clay Center Friday,
where they will attend the annual con-
vention of the Fifth District Editorial
association. D. A. Valentine planned
| the meeting in his car, but the trip
was called off because of the heavy
roads. The state officers will now
make the trip by rail.
A public reception will be given to-
night at the Central Y. M. c. A. in
ing president of Washburn college, and
E c. Brownell, former general secre-
tary of the central organization, who
together with Mrs. Brownell and Miss
Brownell, his sister, will leave Thurs
day night for Christchurch, New Zea-
land.
DR.. 1. Magill of Corning. chairman
of the Nemaha county Democratic
central committee, was in Topeka to-
day and spent several hours at the
state house. Last fall Magin was
elected to carry the vote of the state
to the electoral college, the first Kan
sas Democratic vote ever cast for
successful Democratic presidential
candidate.
The following births were reported
this morning at the office of the city
clerk: To Mr. and Mrs. o. J. Williams,
| 81 East Fifth street, boy; to Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Rowland, 407 Monroe,
a boy; to Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Monroe,
| No. Pleasant Place, boy; to Mr. and
Mrs. Henry King, 42S Quincy, boy;
/ to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert E. Argo, 706 Mon
roe, a girl.
| Four new baby swans appeared this
morning on the island in the north
| pond at Central park. They are caus-
| ing much interest among the young
| sters who play on the shore. Each OF
| the two pair of swans is nesting. The
| cygnets first journey is to the edge of
! the water; they paddle about in the
/ shallow waves, then sail cautiously
after their mother who teaches them
to swim and dive in five minutes.