The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-11
SNAp SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

There was not the usual crowd at
| Gage park; the weather was too hot.
| w. c. RalSton city attorney, was
granted vacation of two weeks be
ginning next Saturday, August 16.
Home grown tomatoes have taken a
drop in price. They may be had at
! Topeka stores for five cents a pound.
A bond in the sum of $500 by w. G.
| Tandy as HORSEPOWER was filed with
| the city this morning and was approved
, by the commission.
A meeting of the Tax Payers Lea que
will be held tonight at Lincoln Post
| hall. Several questions of general in
terest will be discussed.
George H. Hoyes. secretary of the
! Central Y. NJ. c. A, has returned from
| Estes Park, Colo. where he has been
attending an association conference.
The front of the new Gordon Broth
ers theater on West Eighth street is
practically completed. The building
will present an attractive appearance.
G. T. Mattingly. city license col
| lectOr, was granted a vacation of two
weeks by the city commission this
morning, beginning sometime in Sep
TENDER.
Joseph Reisner, physical director of
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. will take a two
weeks vacation beginning Tuesday Mr.
and Mrs. Reisner will visit relatives at
Kansas points.
The fire companies at Station No
6 were called this morning to extin-
guish small blaze in the Second
street viaduct. How the fire caught is
a mystery unless it was a spark from
a passing locomotive. The danger was
very slight.
Cantaloupes and watermelons locally
grown are on sale at Topeka stores.
The former bring from five to ten cents
i each and the latter sell at the rate of
from one and one-haIf to two cents a
pound. The large watermelons are
shipped in from Oklahoma.
claim of s497.03 Ct S. s. OFT for
a title to two lots on Monroe street,
bought in by the city on the execution
against John Richie. was allowed by
the commission this morning. A war
ranty deed for the property has been
deposited by Mr.. OFT with the city
treasurer. The lots will be offered for
sale.
An ordinance providing for the is
suance of s1S.22694 in improvement
bonds for the repaving of West Sixth
avenue and several adjacent alleys,
was passed by the city commission
this morning. All the bonds are due
and payable in the next ten years, and
draw interest at the rate of Az per
cent
OF course there is need of rain.
There generally is need of rain in
Kansas and Oklahoma about this time
Of year. There generally is some loss
of corn from lack of rain. Perhaps
the shortage of rain is little more
serve. and the sun a little more
scorching than usual, but things are
far from being in very bad shape
Merchants Journal
On account of adverse weather con-
ditions in California and shortage in
the fruit crop elsewhere canned fruit is
expected to be high in price next win
ter. This even includes apples. The
Merchants Journal says: Prices have
advanced away above what they were
some weeks ago, and at present are
firm. The prospective crop of winter
apples will be small. and on this ac-
count Gamers are very conservative
about taking on more orders for future
delivery Spot apples are firm at last
quoted figures"
An ordinance fixing the salaries of
employees at the city crematory finally
was passed this morning, but without
the increases recommended by Com
missioner Porter. All of the salaries
which never have been fixed by ordi-
nance. are fixed at the rate now being
paid, and that has been paid since the
esta blishment of the crematory. The
salaries, as now fixed are as follows:
superintendent S65 a month; book
keeper, So a month; collector, $50
month, llIeItSIl, D d udS WHEN dSbdeiA-
w Employed laborers, 81 a day when
actually employed; driver and teams
using city wagon, 1915 day when
actually employed and where they
furnish their own wagon. 81 a day.
An ordinance amending a former
ordinance prohibiting stands from do
ing business along Kansas avenue, was
passed by the city commission this
morning. The new ordinance makes
it a misd emeanor for any individual
or corporation to maintain a stand of
any kind on Kansas avenue from Ninth
street to Fifth street, or half a block
in any direction from any of the cor
ners mentioned except the intersection
of Sixth and Kansas avenues where
no stand nearer than a block in any di-
rection may be mainta ined. The ordi-
nance also prohibits the maintenance
of any stands for the sale of any kind