The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-10
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AT HOME NEWS.

The Santa Fe will run special train
| to Atchison for Bale Wagge1er's pic
| mic July Is.
E. D. McKeeyer is planning a party
for the Saturday Night club on his
farm near Rock Creek
A force of men is repairing the as
phalt pavement in the eight hundred
block on Harrison street.
! The weather man is predicting
1 showers for tonight or Wednesday
| with slowly rising temperature.
The Rev. Bruce Kinney. who has
| been suffering with i'll health is now
| at Boulder, Colo, taking a rest
Judge Huron is the oldest police
magistrate in Kansas. He is rs years
/ of age. but does not look it nor act it
! by 20 years
| Virgil o. Stricken, C. S. will deliver
a lecture at the Grand Opera house
Friday night on Christian Science. 1t
is free affair.
/ The officials of the Topeka Motor
club went to Meriden today to assist in
the organiza ton of a motor association
| in that place.
The first currants of the season are
on the market. They are selling at
the rate of Is cents a quart. Currants
will be plentiful.
The Rock Island trains running on
new schedule which began Sunday are
on time after two days make up in
cross country time.
The board of directors of the Topeka
Provident association met this noon at
the Commercial club quarters. Routine
business was transa cted.
Morton Albaugh. clerk of the fed
eral court has returned from Loo
gootee Ind, where he attended the
funeral of Mrs. Albaugh's mother.
W. H. Kemper, election commission
err, will deliver the address at the
Memorial
to be held in Potwin, Kan, on June %.
The following births were reported
this morning to the city clerk: To Mr..
and Mrs. Gail Higgins. Arlington
Hess, boy.
Chaplain H. Percy Silver. Episcopal
bishop coadjuter- elect for the diocese
of Kansas has declined the offer of the
position of bishop coadjutor of the
state of Texas.
The attendance at the Topeka sum-
mer schools according to the latest re-
port is as follows: Harrison. SIS;
Quincy, IS; Clay, SO; Polk, SO, and
Lafayette, 80.
The strawberry crop has not recov-
cred from the effects of the recent
severe dry weather. The quality of
the fruit now on sale at the local
stores is poor
Archie F. Williams, formerly of To-
peka, lately moved from Tacoma to
Seattle. He is a lawyer. and has
formed a partnership with an estab-
lished Seattle attorney.
The cool weather of the last few
days has paralyzed Colorado travel on
the railroads out of Topeka. Tourists
prefer to remain in their homes if
mountain breeZeS prevail.
A number of boys of the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. will be taken on a bicycle
hike" early Thursday morning to the
Boy Scout camn on the Carter farm
ten miles south of the city
De Witt Lee. head of the boys de-
partment of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
took a number of the younger boys on a
hike" today to a point beyond the
brick plant west of Topeka
Cherries are plentiful in Shawnee
county, but the demand is unusually
heavy this season and consequently |
the price is being held up. Cherries
are selling for s1.75 a crate.
Today twenty more Boy Scouts join |
ed camp ''Paw-Paw Bend on the Car
ter farm ten miles south of Topeka
on the Burlingame road. This makes
total of forty boys in camp.
The attractive new illustrated 80
page advertising booklet that the
Commercial club is having published
will be ready fer distribution on the
trade extension trip June 1921
The warmer weather today came as a
relief after the gloomy conditions of
the last few days. Many straw hat
had been put away temporarily: they
made their appearance again today.
A building permit has been issued to
DR.. J. n. BeaSley for the erection of
a residence at 1917 Western avenue.
The cost price stipulated in the permit
is $500. ]. w. Patterson is the
builder.
The executive board of the Y w. c.
A. will meet at two o'clock Thursday
afternoon at which time plans for the
work next fall will be discussed The
meeting will be preceded by a luncheon
at one o'clock
The Commercial club is having
hundreds of flyers advertising the Get
Acquainted special train that will run
through northeastern Kansas June
1921 sent out to the towns through
which the train will pass.
Thirty members of the Capitola Re-
bekah Lodge leave on a special train
tonight for Hoyt. Kan, where they
will confer the Rebekah degree and
attend an initiation banquet. The
party returns to Topeka tonight.
Topeka's well known summer camp
ers who believe that there is no place
like Kansas for vacation have taken
up their outing at Tecumseh and are
living under the Camp Tandy'' flag
that floated over the resort last year.
A meeting OF the trade extension
commute. of the Commercial club un-
der H. H. l'Egh was held today to dis
cusS Iataiis in connection with the
coming trade extension trip of Topeka
jobberS and manufacturers and other
business men
c. W. Jones, formerly division and
general superintendent of the Rock
Island Lines in Topeka and now gen
eral manager of the third district with
headquarters at Fort Worth is in To-
peka in conference with General Man
ager Sweet today.
The appearance of the interior of the
First Baptist church has been great
" improved through the installation !