The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-05

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this year Is usual
/ At least ono Eoomfu1 at the Central
Park school II immune. Every. child
in it has had a case of chickenpox-
The annual nAeeting OF the Kansas
Children Home society will be held
at the Central I'm. c. A. Wednesday.
| "A hike will be arranged for a group
OF NJ c. Alloys within few days
fhe hike maybe an overnight affair.
| the commencement exercises for
the high school class of June IA will
be held at the Auditorium the even
ing of June S.
| The Topeka schools will close Ne
II in time to allow the children to
participate in theSdedication of the g.
A. r.. Memorial hall.
The cantata. Queen Esther" will
be rendered by the choir Of the St.
! Johns A. NJ e. church at the Audi |
torium Friday sevening
| A dozen Topeka physicians and sur
/ geons will leave this evening for
Wichita to attend the annual meeting
OF the Kansas Medical society.
| A special meeting OF the board of
month for the. purpose Of appointing
/ teachers for the school year beginning
next fall. 7Ss
DIR. J. Aspinwalf McQuaig will speak
before a mass meeting under the aus
pices of the Topeka Gideons at the
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at 3 o'clock. 81
William Beasley, boy scout with
! Troop 3, received a merit certificate
from the National Court of Honor for
having successfully passed an examfn-
! alton in personal health.
| III. B. Howard made the rounds of
the Topeka fire stations today pre-
senting the boys" at each of the sta
tions with a baseball. This is an an
nual stunt on the part of Mr.. How
ard.
An investigation will be made to
ascertain what demand there is for
summer schools, and if it is found
that there is a call for a school or
schools. the board of education will
take, action accordingly.
| The Topeka Public Health Nursing
association will have headquarters in
the city building. The organization.
to begin business June 1, has engaged
the room on the south side of the
| main entrance on the first floor.
| The new pump at the waterworks,
i is being tested today by representa-
tives Of the city water department. If
the pump is found perfect in every de-
tail 1t will be approved at the next
commission meeting.
The high school Bible class of the
"Wednesday evening at s O'Clock at
(which time r.. L. Flynn, ex-association
isecretary for boys work at Kansas
City, No. will speak; also .one of the
Kansas City high school boys.
Military note: Otis Hungate is
having his % rifle equipped with ST.
| lencer and range finder, and has post
| ed notice on his back cellar window
| advising all resfdept and travelling
tomcats that his premises are no long
| er to be regarded us neutral territory.
I'll. w. Stannard, an industrial engi-
neer of Lincoln, Neb.,will deliver an
address ,ons"Modern Industrial Educa-
ton at the Commercial club Thurs
day noon. 1t is the same address that
Mr. Sta nnard gave recently at Cam
nard snill speak Nad'' room.
| A Mfse delegate 6{ T6pekans left
today by special Reck island train
lat 1910 O'Clock for Hutchinson.
Kansas Sunday School association is
being held. Topeka will put in bid
for the convention next year-in fact,
| it is practically an assured thing that
the convention will come here.
There has been So much complaint
of damage done by persons playing
I baseball after school hours on the
Washington school grounds that the
board of education has asked to have
the janitor of the building insist that
those induIging in the national pastime
have broken. windows and tramped in
| an adjacent garden.
| Harvey Parsons views the action of
| the American government in shutting
| down on the expectation of firearms
I to Mexico as personal injury. He
was considering tentative offer of
I the Constitutionalist forces for his en-
! tire collection of pre-VictOrian fire.
arms at an interesting figure. Mr.
! Parsons is again scanning the press
! reports for military disturbances in
/ Asiatic Europe and Peru.
i A bottle of thick gray water that
| smells of oil and tastes of salt is on
| Commissioner Newland's desk-a bot
tie that should have contained clear
and pure liquid. The water was taken
l from the well where salt was discOv-
cred Monday morning. wooden
plug to be heavily cemented will be
dropped in the well to prevent inn
purities from rising and contaminat-
ing Topekas drinking water.
4 Sheriff L. L. Kiene took a party of
six prisoners to the State Reformatory
at Hutchinson on an early morning
4 train today. The prisoners. all of
> whom go to serve indeterminate sem
); fences, are Peter Swatts. ex-soldief.
charged with forgery; Walter Neibar-
ger. 16 years, horsethief from Wich-
tia; Jose Lopez and Pedro Hernandez,
Mexicans. burglars: Joe Eteeyan, Pot
tawatomie Indian from Mayetta, and
Mark Williams, negro, convicted Of
manslaughter after the killing of
James Hayden.
i The Topeka Commercial club has
ordered ten thousand sheets of wa
i termarked stationary that is unusu-
ALLY attractive. Holding the sheet to
the light a map of Kansas and sur
rounding states is plainly seen with all
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