The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-26
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AT HOME NEWS.

AT HOME NEWS.
Dancing tonight and free motion pictures
! at Garfield park.-Adv.
! Judge Z. T. Hazen will leave soon for
a business trip to Wisconsin.
| Lyle Armel and K. NJ. Haas of Holton
| are in Topeka today on business
| Highland Park property is still selling
rapidly. A special sale is in progress.
, J. VIII Kelley. secretary of the Com
| mercial club has returned from a bust
ness trip to Kansas City.
A. s. Rankin, train inspector. who has
| been spending his vacation in California,
| returned to Topeka today.
The police department receives on the
average 40 posters a day asking for infor-
nation about deserters in the army.
several books of fiction and Biblical
works from DR.. and Mrs. Frank K.
| Sanders.
Dave Norton. of Guyon. Okla. formerly
| of Topeka, has just completed auto
mobile trip from Oklahoma City to Gar
den City.
| From now until the opening of the state
| fair in September the office of the Kansas
| State Fair association will be one of the
| busiest places in town.
| The business course that the Y: w. c.
| A. will give next fall includes lectures
| given each Tuesday night by prominent
business men Of Topeka
| r. Cunningham, Santa Fe trainmaster
at Chanute, is spending today in Topeka
| E. E. Hook, division freight agent for
/ ness.
Two hundred Topeka Eagles will leave
tnS evening zen at $50 on RReSar Santa fbe9
| will leave Kansas City Sunday evening
at $50.
D. E. Watkins, secretary of the Kansas
| State Automobile association, has attend
| ed several Kansas good roads meetings
this week. They were at GaTnett, Galena,
| and Howard.
| The condition of DIR. S. S. Estey, pastor
! of the First Presbyterian church, who has
been i'll for three weeks, is steadily i'm
proving. He was able to go down stairs
| today.
B. A Rogers assistant chief clerk of
the traffic department of the Kansas City
spending few days in Topeka. He was
formerly with the Santa Fe here.
The membership committee Of the Com
| mercial club will meet next Thursday
| noon and will probably go in body en-
| a quiet membership campaign in the af-
| ternoon, giving special invitations to sew
eral business men to join the club
I There is a large amount of Improvement
work being done in Topeka at present
work that is not indicated in the bullolng
permit list at the office OF the IRE mar
shall In hundreds of instances houses are
| being painted or are undergoing slight re-
| pairs.
The sixty boys who will be given an
| outing for ten days at the old stone
| Bridge farm will meet at ne Central
| M C. A at 12:45 o'clock next Monday
At one o'clock they will start ,d IN aut6s
| east of Topeka
! On Thursday the State Journal published
story ab9us atber of sR children
| i'll and worrying himself into a worse con-
dition on account of debt; As r 9oeste 81
| this article several persons nave ooA1'eO
money to help the family
The concert held Friday night on the
| lawn of the H. B. Howard nome cof 1ea
of Tenth avenue and Clay street, by the
knights and Ladies Of Security pand was
attended by about four thousand persons e
l -frrrn
| band present and the concert was an un-
| usually good one.
Numerous improvements are being mace
at the establishment of the DAVIS Mer+
! camille company. A big refrigerator plant
| will he installed at once on the Iourt
floor. New coffee roastepS t MN c alSo ne
| A LOT of new machinery is being 1nstaiieo
| for use in the candy department. rms
department occupies the entire "ese 7o
| of the fourth floor
A1tboueb ten class rates were fixed in
| the decision of the interstate conneTce
co M xansas case the carriers will have
| the lob of making out the rates on O. he
dnna Inv October 1 when the rates are
scheduled to go into effect II tne raeS9
as fixed by the rai1roads he are scce n4t by
| Judged fair they Will hoI oe
| the commission 49,
1t is probable that the question OF .Il me
tax levy to provide for the ,1 zen dis
IF the city schools will come up TOT os,
'cnssion at the meeting of the schooi poaro
IN August l. However, it is possible tnat
ection will not be taken until later as
the board is not required to announce
the lew until August Is. The new super
;ntandent. H. B. Wilson of Decatur, III,
is exnected to be in his office meslnnlns
next Friday
The dozen children at the Provident as
ISOLATION day nursery and numerous
youngsters from the Orphans nome
about thirty in all-are having the time
81 their lives this afternoon. They are
out in the big R. K. Hinkson truck IN
charge of Commissioner w. L. Porter anu
several ladies' of the Good Government
cfnb AS a treat Commissioner Porter
arranged to give the Riddles rae on
The merry-go-round at Garfield park anu
ice cream at Gage park.
The Topeka Commercial club is now
entirelv free of debt and will be SO at
least Until the first of September II no
more money is paid to the treasurer. rms
&C. a better showing that has been mace
at anv time since the club was reorgan-
led four and half years ago. II IS
+be desire of the management to compete
the YEAR free of Indebtedness In oroer
TO do this some money must pc Ialseu
Tho minstrel burlesque show tnaI WIN
no GIVEN by the club next 1all VIII pc ior
the n,1rpose of raising money in order 10
make this possible