The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-15
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Be sure to use Guaranteed Banquet
Flour today.-Adv.
Work on the addition to the Union
Pacific freight depot will be started
soon.
Topeka doctors say there in little
sickness in Topeksp aside from a few
colds.
r. M. Strictly has purchased lots on
College Avenue and will build q home
| either this fall or next spring.
| August Palm is contemplating the
! erection Of another dwelling. although
he has not yet chosen a site.
| Tom Powelrs soccer football men
will practice at Western league park
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Plans for $4,000 garage that will
be erected for A. Marburg will be
ready by November Is. Frank C.
Squires is the architect.
| DR.. Charles M. Sheldon will preach at
the Central Congregational church
| Sunday evening. DIR. Roy B. Guild will
| speak Sunday morning on The Boy
/ the Opportunity"
The $4,000 office and warehouse
building of the Progressive Oil COM
pany is nearly completed at the corner
of First and Harrison streets. Work
1 <seAA
Art Hargis, who is organizing a
company of Kansas National Guards
said today that men are enlisting
| every day. In another two weeks. he
thinks. the company will be ready to
be mustered.
Residents all over Topeka-especial-
| ly in the southwestern section of the
cfty-are complaining Of the dirty wa
ter that has been in the mains the last
few days. The water at times is nearly
black-again it is foamy and filthy.
The Westminster Presbyterian
church was well filed Friday night
with Topeka Boy Scouts who were in
attendance at a big scout meeting
addressed by c. s. Gates who told
lantern slides.
The Thomas Page Milling company
is contemplating erecting eight large
concrete tanks next spring, according
to The Construction News. Definite
action relative to the tanks will be
taken next spring. If built they will
be used as elevators.
Il One Topeka photographer has follow
ed out the hint printed in the State
Journal recently, which recommended
Imprisonment to the man who black
eyed Topeka with such a poor assert
ment Of post cards. This photographer
has gathered a real good bunch Of To-
peka pictures for post card use.
The Santa Fe made up yesterday fol
what little feeling existed at Washburn
against the road for not providing q
special train to Lawrence last Satur-
;. day. An extra coach was attached to
the trains to and from Emporia and
the football team and followers were
given the freedom of the entire car.
The street railway company expects
!, to open its newly constructed track or
HuntoOn street between Lincoln ant
Clay streets tomorrow morning. The
street is being paved and will open g
new thoroughfare to Washburn college
Despite the heroic efforts of the CITY
street forces. the cutters are filled WITH
J. water soaked leaves. A hard rasr
would choke the city sewers and cause
no end Of troubles to the sewer depart
; ment-
: An unusual spectacle in Topeka will
be a prearranged Indian fight or
Kansas Avenue Monday night at 1890
o'clock One tribe will come from
the north and the other from the
; south and they will meet in bloody ca
conflict at the corner of Eighth and
Kansas Avenues. More than one hun
bred men will participate in the at
: fair, all bedecked in paint and feath-
ers. The fight will be interrupted by
a company of Boy Scouts. After the
: clash there will be a war dance
around a fire. Fusees will make q
red light that will give a certain ele-
ment of weirdness to the scene.