The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-14
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Green peas from Texas are selling at
local stores at twenty cents . pound.
Miss Ethel Dodge Is the new office
secretary at the Y. w. c. A.
The membership committee OF the
Commercial club under Frank Curry
met today.
The grocery and seed stores are be-
ginning to offer for sale Towering
plants for bedding purposes
There were q large number of shops
pers in Topeka today from out OF town.
The fine weather stimulated trade io-
cally.
A meeting Of the board Of managers
Of the Kansas State Fair association
will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:SO
o'clock.
local grocery store has on sale to-
day. shrives at fifteen cents q bunch
This vegetable, which is used In SALADS
is d great favorite OF the Germans
The Principals club of the city
schools was addressed late Monday by
H. B. Wilson, superintendent Of city
schools, and Kilmaurs King, humane
officer.
| w. w. Webb, retiring president OF
| the Shawnee Motor League Is authort-
| ty for the statement that the poorest
roads in the state lead In and out OF
Topeka.
This is the first day since the fifth
Of April on which the temperature has
been above normal. There was light
frost this morning. but the mercury
| began to rise rapidly. 50 ss-
George e. Clark, secretary Of the
Kansas State Fair association. has re-
turned from Kansas City. where he at
I tended a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the American Royal show.
/ II you have any doubt about the In
I terest in baseball in Topeka this year
you should see the great stack OF
euesses at the State Journal office on
| the paid attendance at the opening
game.
The opening ball games Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday will be called at
o'clock. Then beginning Monday all
| games will start at $3.50, except on
Sundays when they are always called
at g.
Mrs Cora Lewis will speak before
the senior apd sub-senior girls OF the
high school Friday afternoon on teach
| ing as a vocation. This address Will be
in the vocational series arranged by
the Y. w. c. A.
The ladies' aid society Of the First
Lutheran church will meet at $3.50
Wednesday afternoon at the church
parlor at Fifth and Harrison streets.
Mrs. Robert Schwartz and Mrs. Henry
Eshe will entertain them.
Jack Hammel, the we'll known cattle
dealer, left this evening to spend q
month in Montana buying stock for a
Kansas City commission firm and SELL
! ing q car load Of first class dairy cows
which he is shipping from Topeka.
Tomorrow is the last day for send
, ing your guess on the paid attend
ance at the opening game Friday.
. The State Journal will give a season
pass worth more than $40. Send your
guess to Baseball Editor, State Jour-
nal
There are some people who are
claiming that the importation of but
ter from China il seriously affecting
the price Of this product. The Kansas
City Packer for April IL gives the FL
gin quotation as 241z cents a pound ar
against 30 cents year ago. However,
three years ago butter was down to q
cents.
There will be a comedy thrown in
now and then in the annual Y. NJ. c. A.
} gymnasium exhibition at the Central
. Y. NJ. C. A. Friday and Saturday nights
: A group of clowns will be under the
leadership Of a man who has had pro-
fessional experience as clown. He
also excels as a tumbler. Over one
: hundred persons will participate In the
performance, which will be a continu-
Gus one.
, The annual letter writing contest
conducted by Dougherty's Business
College closed last week. On Satur-
/ day of this week the school will en-