The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-22
SNAp SHOTs
AT HOME NEWS.

| The Provident association directors met
| at noon today at the Commercial club
| The city has been doing some street
! grading work in the Melrose addition this
1 week.
The city electric light plant, which has
been crippled by hot box. is in working
| order again.
committees of the Topeka Commercial
club will soon be appointed
| Postmaster Rodgers announces in his
report for March that 1.s1o rural carrier 5
We're paid total sum of 1858, 14132-
The head of Old Joshua the buffalo,
will be placed above the platform in the
| city auditorium tomorrow morning.
Commissioner Porter is today investi-
eating the price of purchasing and erect
ing a flag and pole over the city build
ing.
Thursday evening DR.. S. S. Estey will
deliver commencement address for the
graduating class of the jamestown high
school,
F. w. Wheeler. of Sterling, ILL.,, broth
er-in-law of D. o. Coe, stopped in Topeka
today between trains He is interested IN
western Kansas land
The wind has dried up the flower gar
dens and lawns to such an extent tnat
many Topekanst have gotten out their
hose to apply city water
A .uilding permit has been issued TO
Mrs Maude Graham for the erection of a
two-story dwelling at HOS Mulvane street
Joseph A. DeBoer, of Montpelier, Vt.
president of the National Life of YER
mont, is in Topeka today to address the
state Vermonters' association
The premium list of the Kansas State
Fair association will be ready for dis
trinution about May I. The offerings in
premiums and speed aggregate $4,000.
One of the Central Y. NJ. c. A. tennis
courts at Tenth avenue and Lane street
will be opened for use Wednesday. Tfa ee
other courts will be made ready for play.
An unusually large attendance is ex-
pected at the forty-seventh annual meet
ing of the Kansas Medical society which
will be held in representative hall May
and S.
For many weeks Topeka has shown
substantial gain in her bank clearings.
Even the weeks when there has been bad
weather has not caused the clearings 10
take slump.
lions for his annual swat-the-fly cam
paign. He has eight ways to kill the
pests. These he will have distributed in
printed form.
An attractive new front is being in
stalled at the Greenbaum store at 6o5
Kansas avenue by NordIund & Tulien, the
contractors A white enameled brick
being used for the decoration work.
The regular May meeting of the board
of education will be held May 3. The
choice of teachers for the next school year
will either be held then at a special
meeting called later in the same month.
The Rev. E. E. Urner of the Walnut
Grove Methodist church prepared series
OF sermons particularly for men Three
of them have already been delivered.
April q he will speak on The Perfect
Man.
The membership committee of the Com
mercial club will meet Thursday noon.
This is the most enterprising committee
of the club-at least as far the mum Der
of meetings held is concerned Harry
Snyder is chairman
There is chance of more rain tonight or
Wednesday according to the government
forecaster. Wednesday will be cooler
The surface of the ground is dry and the
farmers are in need of moisture to put
the soil in good condition.
Nordlund and Tulien, contractors, have
started the work of putting in the founda-
ton for the Gordon Brothers theater and
business building on West Eighth avenue.
The building will cost between twenty
five and thirty thousand dollars.
Joseph A De Boer, of Montpelier. VT,
spoke to local insurance men today.
Wednesday noon he will be the guest OF
honor and speaker at a dinner to be given
to the policy holders of the National Life
of Vermont at the Commercial club
The following births have been reported
at the office of the city clerk: To Mr..
and Mrs. F. VI. Brose, Highland Park,
boy; to Mr.. and Mrs. Ovid Hatcher, 1913
', est Tenth. a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. w.
H. Kekar. 14O1 Washburn avenue, a girl
1t has been estimated that were all the
school children who enter the home gar
den contest to go into the proposition
carefully SIS, 600 worth of garden stuff
could be raised in the back yards and
vacant lots in a single year. This sounds
worth while.
The work of paving Jackson street be
tween Fourth street and the Rock Island
tracks is in progress. That portion
of the street looks like freight yard on
account of the fact that several cars are
standing on the tracks The paving orlck
was shipped in the cars.
The Williams Jubilee Singers will give
an entertainment at the Auditorium May
Wi towards nos
pital and other work of the Topeka Local
union. This organization is composed OF
Christian Endeavor and other societies OF
young people in Topeka
The Topeka Boosters and Rooters' club
will write to the baseball management
and Commercial club of Sioux City i'm
mediately and endeavor to arrange for
booster day contest between the two cities
1t is expected that the local booster day
will be held some time in May.
The Rev. Robert Gordon. who is con-
Quoting a series of revival meetings in the
Sunday school room of the First Baptist
church. will speak tonight on "A Chained
night Rev. Mr.. Gordon spoke on
THE Greatest Thing in the World
Robert Stone is receiving contributions
for the playground movement. The object
of the solicitation of funds is to procure
field secretary of the national organiza-
ton to direct the playground work in
general way in Kansas, Missouri and
one or two other adjoining
states.
There will be comedy in the gymnasium
that will be given at the
Central Y. VI. C. A. Friday and Saturday
nights. There will be no waits There
will something doing all the time In an
a volleyball game will be
played between two picked teams of bust
ness men.
Numerous Towering shrubs have been
planted on the high school grounds by |
the agricultural class of the institution
Some of the principals of grade schools |
n Tod
that next year more of an effort Will ne |
made to beautify the yards at other
schools in the city.
1t has now been two three months |
since anything has been heard from the
Topeka Ad club. AS yet there has been n o
talk of reviving the organization The
club has been an important organization
N Topeka Four years ago it was instru |
nnartaI in he renrSaniza ton of the TO- |