The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

/ The offices on the ground floor of the
| high school building are being reffnished
There are now four babies at the baby
| hospital of L. and L. club in the Provi-
| dent building.
| Miss Mary r. yose, secretary of. the
! Provident association, has returned from
I a trip to Seattle, Wash
a number of Topekans are planning to
attend the convention of the state Re
/ tailers' association at Salina October Z
and s.
The regular monthly meeting of the
| board of directors OF the Topeka P TOW
mercial club quarters today.
meeting of the local organization of
the Retail Clerks International Protec-
| tive. association viii be held tonight at
the knights and Ladies' of Security hall
Like our old friend t. R., Topeka is
winning all of her ball games with the
big stick Every game won at West West
has been captured by heavy hitting
Roger Savage has installed an electric
train in the window of a Kansas avenue re
of the time, and the window IS decorated
with grass, flowers and miniature lake
Enough ice cream to supply 5000 peo-
A large percentage of the cream Is SNIP
ped out of the city. One factory alone
makes four hundred gallons or ice cream
a day
A Topekan owns state automobile No
l. Now is the chance for all the news
papers in the state to rise up in rebellion
peka gets everything
Orville Williams has filed an appeal In
the district court and has demanded a re-
lease from the city prison pending ms
trial williams has been arrested tlve
times in the past few months Tor pelhs
drunk and was fined S35 the last time
Hundreds of Topekans feel keenly the
death of Frank W. Jacobs He was a
Young man of marked mechanical ablhty
and had to his credit several lnVenuons
that some day would have been profitable
to him and TO the mechanical world
A. H. Mitchell has been arrested on the
charge of keeping and MAINTAINING d
nuisance Frank and John Wheat were
also arrested, charged with being 1ouna
in a disorderly house. The arrests were
made by Police Officers Barker ana fNos-
ander.
The next issue of the Commercial Club
BuIletin will contain an unusuaity gS9S0Sa
cut of Topeka's business dlsElct, ms ms
to commercial secretaries. me ct fFftnen
ton is between one thousand ana llIteeh
hundred copies monthly
OFFICIALS at the motive power offices OF
the Santa Fe railway in Iopeka say Llae
the successor to Ernest Cordial shop
bonus supervisor. will not be named
until the first of August. The work VIII
be combined with other department duties
until that time.
A Topeka photographer climbed to the
roof of a Kansas avenue skyscraper re
Gently to take a picture of the street
When the plate was developed it revealed
instead of a row of beauu1ul oullo !I
- bacLrround of ugly signboards. Why
not a signboard REFORM
The recent heat spell has ruined the
sweet pea crop in Topeka flower BEDS;
The season also has killed roses ana
shrubberv. despite all the hydrant water
thar could be thrown upon them Inc
blue grass lawns look dead and pakeo
and huge cracks have appeared III 'ie
soil.
Mrs. D. L. Carson. of r. r. No ., North
Topeka. will provide the fowls for a chleA -
an dinner at the Y NJ. c. A. camp Tor
Door boys the latter part of this month
She told George H. Hoyes, general secre-
tarv of the Central association, tnat she
has no money to invest in the camp, put
tHat She will like to make this contrlou-
ton of chickens
Chief of Police ]. W. F. Hughes fEas a
rFSt of nickuames that several OF his prls-
oners have carried during the past Few
weeks. The chief says that every Pr L LT
has name and that none is called by MS
real title. Here are a few Of them tnat
the chief has kept track OF: Ghick' 5olols'
boots Bee. 10, Baby Face, BABE, Rough
Swede and Muskogee Red