The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-14
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L. c. Lacey of Meriden win have
| twelve pens of she.p on display at the
fair, Topeka, next month.
Ray H. Tollen and Elsie Roberts Of
Topeka obtained q marriage license in
Kansas City, Mo-, Thursday.
DR.. F. M. Troxell. pastor Of the First
English Lutheran church. has returned
from a trip through northern Illinois.
First thing they know the millers win
see the people OF Kansas boycotting
their flour product and eating the
wheat straight.
There will be no charge for vehicles or
automobiles on the fair grounds next
| September when the Big Fair, Topeka,
| 10 In full swing.
The Topeka Conn aercial club will
make an effort to procure a number OF
prominent speakers from out OF town
/, for meetings next fall.
The following birth was reported to
the office Of the city clerk today: John
C. Conville and wife, 1106 Woodward.
avenue, August IS, girl.
A feed store will be maintained on the
| fair grounds, September A-1S. where
exhibitors may purchase feed for their
stock at regular market prices
Several Of the larger stores are
planning to have windows decorated
official horse show colors are navy
blue anad sunhower yellow.
DR.. M. F. Troxell, pastor of the
First English Lutheran church. will
speak at the union service for the
downtown churches Sunday evening
in the First Baptist church.
If people don't quit throwing eggs at
the business men who are hiking prices
on other kinds Of provisions it Will
make a wartime scarcity of hen-fruit,
too, and egg prices will go out of sight
No fakes of any kind will be tolerated
on the fair grounds while the big show
IL in progress. September 14-1S- The
| "red'' lemonade that does not meet
with the requirements Of the law Will
| not be sold.
| A meeting of the South Side CIVIC
Improvement club will be held at the
home of c. b. Zarker of 1925 Kansas
avenue this evening. A watermelon
/ feast will be the principal feature OF
| the entertainment.
| A number OF local firms have Joined
| the Topeka Traffic association since the
annual meeting in May. The work OF
| the association has been SO satisfactory
since it's Organization that Topeka con-
Germs appreciate the benefits they de-
rive.
| Local grocers predict that sugar will
! 60 to SO a hundred pounds before II
| goes any lower. Prices have jumped SO
rapidly in the last week that no grocery
man in his right mind will undertake to
| sell sugar at current prices unless he
| has 1t in stock.
| Because the contractors were too
| accommodating to the public, mucn
Of the concrete base for the paving
on Seventeenth street will have to be
replaced. Automobiles and wagons
were permitted to drive over 1t before
| it had hardened sufficiently.
| The new banana rate from New Or
| leans to Topeka became effective at
| midnight. The rate is now % cents q
hundred on carload lots. instead of 81
cents. The new rate frcm Galveston 70
Topeka has not been fixed Topeka
banana SUPPLY comes from New Orr
! leans.
One of the most famous of all
southern herds of Hereford cattle will
be represented at the annual EXPOSE
ton Of the Kansas State Fair associa-
ton next September. Thirteen of the
well-known La Vernet Herefords from
jackson, Miss, will be on display by
w. ]. Davis & Co.
According to J. r. Pelham, secre-
tary of the State Horticultural So
ciety, the Kansas apple crop has been
badly damaged. He says that Doni-
which he knows that will have a good
crop. In that county the orchardists
have been spraying frequently.
Melons and cantaloupes are not af-
fccted by war time influences and
neither price nor flavor has been more
conducive to general consumption in
Topeka for many seasons. One kaW
valley farmer, after vainly trying to
dispose of a wagon load of melons at
profit giving figure. sold the lot at
cents apiece to a West side grocer the
other day.
Douthitt avenue street cars have been
stopping at Seventeenth and West
streets instead of continuing to the
end of the line at Seventeenth street
and College avenue, owing to track
work being done in connection with
the paving of Seventeenth street. The
concrete work has been completed
and cars will be running to the end
Of the line in a few days.
j. A. Ramsey, city sanitary SER
1eant went to Christ hospital Thurs
day afternoon and underwent an OPP
GRAFTON for the removal of his left
eye. He expects to leave the hospital
in q few days. Several months ago
blood vessel in the eyeball was rup-
tured, destroying the sight of the eye
and causing much pain. Recently
there were indications that the good
sightless one.
Decision was made at a meeting of
the Topeka Auto club held at the
Commercial club quarters Thursday
night to have a watermelon rum
Tuesday night. All auto owners of
the city are invited to participate. The
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