The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28

at the Auditorium Thursday night. DIR.
S. s. Esty will deliver the commence
! ment address.
The Commercial club is asking for
| the use of motor cars on Memorial day
| for the purpose of enabling feeble old
| soldiers to participate in the parade
| in the afternoon.
According to the records, the aver
every person in Topeka is more than
$4,000. Do you have your share?
Neither do we, neither do we.
The Washburn Review proudly an
nounces that Professor Boughton is
to have a new hat. His trip to Pan
anna is construed as a shopping tour
for the latest in male headgear.
Commencement week at Washburn
begins Sunday. Alumni from all
parts of the state will come to To-
peka for the festivities. The campus
will be alive with the 'old grads
In celebration of the payment of
the debts on the new parsonage, the
Swedish Lutherans will give a jubilee
banquet in the church parlors to-
night. The debt amounted to $4,000.
Charles H. Dillon, head of the de-
partment of Journalism at the State
Agricultural college, will speak before
the Boys club of Grace cathedral this
evening on What a Boy Can Do To-
day.
who does not show his colors either
on his home or place of business
Decoration day has not the patriotic
spirit and the love of the old veterans
in his heart.
C. G. Adams of the Rock Island
general offices is building beauti-
full modern home on Mulvane street
in Elmhurst. The house will be two
stories in height and arranged in lat
est California style.
The sales pavilions and barns of the
new International Cattle company
will be constructed this summer They
will be completed before the time of
the state fair in September, according
to statements from officials.
Spring chickens are now a popular
article among Topelans who can af-
ford to buy them at so to 60 cents.
They are plentiful on the local mar
ket. They average in weight from one
to one and a quarter pounds.
Tomorrow will be a busy day for
the fish worms that are unfortunate
prospective Decoration Day fishermen
incidentally, Decoration day will be a
gala occasion for hungry fish.
There is but little sickness in To-
peka at the present time, according to
the city sanitary department head
theria and a few cases of measles. The
latter malady seems to be gradually
dying out in Topeka.
An immense swarm of bees gath
cred on a trolley pole on Kansas ave
nue. between Second and Third streets
for three days and no one had the
nerve to hive them. 1t is not custom
airy for the bees to stay in one place
more than "a hours
The following births have been re-
ported at the city hall: To Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Sheldon Murray. 937 North
western avenue, girl; to Mr.. and
Mrs. n. Einstein, 500 East Fourth
street, boy; to Mr.. and Mrs. John H
Shaw. 500 East Eleventh street. boy.
The Walnut Grove representation in
the debate between the Brotherhood
organizations of the Walnut Grove
Methodist church and the First United
brethren church won the honors. They
took the negative side of the minimum
wage question. 1t was reported that
their opponents won the debate.
The small debtors court under w.
H. Kemper continues to do good work.
One man complained that year ago
he loaned a fellow five dollars and
that he has not been able to collect it,
He will collect the money in the fore
part of June when the chap he accom-
modated gets his pay for the week.
The annual election of the officers
of the Topeka Typographical union
No. 121 will be held late today in the
office of the city election commission
er, w. H. Kemper. George Holmgren
and James Price are candidates for
the position of delegate to the national
convention at Nashville next August.
The Kaws will be home next week
The opening game with
Denver A series with Denver and
then away three days and
back to play with Wichita. Only ten
up to the crowds to turn out in the
-Lincoln-Wichita series.
A Washburn- Huntoon street car
crew has grasped the spirit of spring,
tra-la. Each morning their car is
decorated with roses for the COM
muter trips-and the passengers start .
out the day with brightness in their
souls. The roses are placed in the
windows, on the pay-as-yOu-e enter box
and in the front vestibule near the
motorman.
The Provident association is lat
sons visited the association building
this afternoon. Tonight between and
10 o'clock the general public is invit-
ed to call at the building and inspect
the work that is being done for the
needy poor. The members of the
board of directors together with their
wives and husbands will be in the re-
ceiving line.
The last meeting of the Topeka
Boys club for the season will be held
at the Provident association tonight at
1880 o'clock. A special program for
the boys has been arranged by the
leader. Ben Franklin of Washburn
college. The college men interested in
the work of the youngsters will be
away this summer. The management
of the Provident association would APP !;
preciate it if some one would volunteer !.
to take the boys off on hikes this sum- /
mer.
The first home grown cherries of the |
season are on the market today. They |
are selling at 10 cents quart. The |
time to buy cherries, however, will be /
next week when the fruit is well rip !
ened. The latter part of this week and |
the fore part of next week is the prop |