The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

4 The work of redecorating the First
Baptist church is expected to be COM
pleted this week
| Last years potatoes have dropped
in price since the new 'spuds" were
placed on the market.
| Commissioner Porter is pricing chill
! drens slides with a view to purchas-
) ing several for various Fairgrounds in
the city parks.
Topeka lodge No. II A o. U. W.,
held memorial services at the hall on
Sunday. Rev. r. c. Corwin made an
/ interesting address.
Those can afford it are buying Texas
peaches at the local stores for forty
! cents dozen. The laboring people will
wait awhile for theirs
r. M. McGaw, H. S. Allen, and w. A.
| Vo1gt were appointed appraisers OF
sewer number 80 in the city commission
| meeting this morning.
The Rev. w. c. Meeker, pastor of
| the North Side Presbyterian church
will spend a month at Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, in the near future.
The Grand Opera house will be
we'll filled Tuesday night on the oc-
casion of the graduation exercises of
| the Assumption Parochial school.
The fair weather flag is flying again
today. While conditions are excellent
for corn the growers of garden produce
are beginning to complain on account
of lack of moisture.
Miss Hazel Barnwell will give some
readings this week before the prospec-
tive teachers at the Shawnee County
Normal Institute in the high school
buildings.
There was large Sunday crowd at
Gage park. In fact, all the parks OF
Topeka were popular places A VAIN
attempt to keep cool was made by the
Topeka people.
The Owl grocery stores will give their
employees a half holiday every We'd
nesday during the hot weather All
four of the Owl stores will close at
noon on Wednesdays.
At least four or five of the Topeka
banks are expected to have represen-
tatives on the "Get-Acquaintted Spec
iaI'' that will be run through north
eastern Kansas, June 25-27.
The name of c. C. Bennett, of To-
peka, was omitted from the list OF
those who successfully passed the ex-
aminations last week under the state
board of medical examiners
The Great Patterson shows at the
state fair, Topeka, in September will
include an old fashioned one ring cir
Gus, and an electric panorama snow
ing the work on the Panama canal
A meeting of the Kansas ASsocia-
ton of Life Underwriters was held
today at the Commercial club quarters.
The advisory board of the industrial
bureau of the Commercial club met
today
There have been only nine scattered
cases of measles reported to the CITY
sanitary department this month. One
case developed today. j. A Ramsey
sanitary sergeant, reports the epidemic
nearly over.
Home grown raspberries-black and
red--are selling at the local stores at
fifteen and twenty ents a box by
next week the fruit will be much
cheaper as present Indications point 10
a heavy crop.
Arthur Jordan, colored, who is serv-
ing out a 25 day sentence for imper-
sonating an officer, is worried because
his rent is due and his wife canno1
pay it. She has montn-olo pdoy anu
cannot work
Secretary H. L. Cook and family are
now in Colorado. They went from
Topeka in their auto. Secretary COOK
is combining business with pleasure.
He Is talking state fair, Topeka,
wherever he goes.
reduction of four cents on a hum
dred pounds has been procured py the
local traffic association on syrup Tor
the Topeka shippers. The rate APP
plies to all routes west, north and
south of Topeka.
The two po1icewomen, Elizabeth n.
Barr and Eva Corning, were sworn IN
this morning at the city hall They
were found to be satisfactory by the
civil service commission.
The Church and Society is the
subject upon which Rev Robert Cor
don of the First Baptist church will
speak tonight before the members of
the Brotherhood of the Walnut
Grove Methodist church.
The scarcity of arrests last week
were made up for yesterday and to-
day. There have been several arrests
duct in the last two days. Two days
last week there was not a single ar
rest.
The first California Imperial Valley
cantaloupes of the season are now on
the market. They are expensive now,
but the price are expected to drop
in another week. Within day or two
Oregon Strawberries will be received
here.
A committee composed of repre-
sentative from each Sunday school OF
the county will meet late today at the
Central Y. NJ c. A. for the purpose
of arranging for the field events at
the Fourth of July picnic on the fair
grounds.
Professor Edwin Schoenberger OF
the oratorical department at WASH
burn college will give dramatic
reading from the play, The Passing
of the Third Floor Back" at the Cen
trail Congregational church next Fri
day evening.
Three institutions of Topeka have
been benefited through recent en-
dowments from the first regular divi-
dends disbursed by the Mount Hope
Cemetery association Washburn col
lege received s3,332.67, the Y. NJ. c.
A. s37O.31, and the Y. w. c A,
S74O.59.
Two Mexicans. who gave their
names as Plufino Fabares and PEDRO
Sernoa. were arrested this morning on
the charge of fighting. They were
found near the Santa Fe shops TINS