The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-03
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Inc city commission met today to
approve the semi mPpthly payroll: !
trict attorney, will make the Fourth of
July address at his home in Atwood. 8
Mayor Cofran will be out of town toe
morrow and was obliged. to decline
Manager Albert Patterns offer to drive
the last spike into the Gdge Park car
line.
The current report that. the cit had
in Garfield park was unfounded. Rock
cts and Roman, candles will he exhibited
there tomorrow night.
There will be no meeting of the To-
peka Motorcycle club at the CONNER
cial club quarters tonight. A number
of the members have gone to Dodge
City for the big Fourth OF July races.
All the officers and EN- isloyees in the
county court house will observe the
Fourth of July tonlorroW-chiefly by
l'attending picnics in various parts of
the county and distributing campaign
literature.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
shawnee branch of the Kansas State
Poultry federation will be held tonight
| at the Commercial club quarters. All
persons interested in poultry are in
vited to attend.
Bids for sewers Nos. 35 and 80, re-
advertised for today. must be on file in
the office Of the city clerk by 1890
O'Clock. Wednesday morning, July. 6.
Bids must be sealed and accompanied
by certified check for 81 900.
Mr.. George w. Burroughs, Of the
firm of BurrOugh, Jones & Birch,
printers, $50 Kansas avenue, has sold
his interest in the printing business to
his partners, Messrs Jones & Birch,
who will continue the business under
the firm name of Jones & Birch
Adv.
The west end of the high school
building now looks like a ghost of
itself. The interior has been stripped
in r. readiness s, for rsHedeling. The e1-
constructing the addition on the west
OF the present structure.
| The Kansas StatesH istoricsi society
is making a campadkn for new MEM
bership with the hope that it's first
annual meeting next October in its
the largest in its history. Life MEM
bership In the organization. emitting
/, the holder to all the publications OF
the society, costs but ten dollars.
! A good many Topeka people who
are planning to spend the Fourth in
for fireworks to take with them into
the neutral territory. But the scarcity
/, of explosives is even scarcer than the
! scarcity of forbidden drinks. The
Fourth Will be absolutely pCp-le88 UNI
less a few automobile tires are sacri-
feed.
The telegraph poles on East Fourth
street between Kansas avenue and
Holiday street will be removed by Att
gust l. complying with the order Of the
city commission, according to COM
municatiOn received today by the city
clerk from w. C. Titley, division plant
superintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph company. The. ground cable
has been installed. The Swires will be
placed underground in two weeks
Ross Swingley. assistanf to Secretary
George E. Clark Of the state Fair as
sociation, And the man who really
knows more about the details of that
office through hiss lon8 connection
with it, than anyb6dy else, says there
i a fine lineup for the racing events
| of the coming state fair. At least
three big stables th&t have never en-
tered here will put horses on the To-
peka track for the drst time
Commissioner Nevland's plan for
Ibeautifying Topeka lawns was not made
plain in last nights State Journal, ow-
] ing to a typographical error Commits
stoner Newland = constderinx splitting