The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-11
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DIR. Armstrong has moved his once
to 213 Commercial building.-Adv-
Jelly grapes are now on sale at the !
local stores at from n to Genus y /
pound.
There will be no fakes at the fair In |
September. The cheap sidesnows Will
be eliminated.
Due to the cool atmosphere Monday
evening there was slump In the
Gage park crowd.
The boys "a the Y. NJ. c. A. camp |
on Mill creek. near Maple Ill., Will
return to Topeka Wednesday.
Frank c. Bowen. deputy county
treasurer, is absent on vacatlon TIP
to Colorado. He will be gone for two
weeks.
The Central Sash and Door COM
pany has the contract for the mill
work for a residence that Is being
built at Abilene.
The membership committee OF the
T peka Commercial club met TO-DAY
to draw up a plan of action Tor the
next few months.
the Redden Mission Wednesday night
A number Of short talks will be mace
and refreshments served.
Homegrown watermelons are now
coming into Topeka by the wagon
load. They are selling at local stores
at from to LII cents pound.
The retail price Of auto spark plugs
peka owing to the. shipping situation
brought about by the war Of the seven
nations.
Homegrown peaches are now plen-
tiful at the Topeka grocery stores.
and range in price from 40 to 80 cents
inr To eiv a
quality.
The last issue of the Fireman's Her
aid, a publication devoted to the in
terests of fire departments, contains q
picture of Joseph Hanlon. Topeka's
fire chief.
Moisture and cool weather have
started. blue grass growing in Topeka
and yards that had grown brown I'M
der the dry neat Of July are again
freshening.
In the apiary department of the big
fair. Topeka. September 14-18. there
| will be observatory hives of bees.
Visitors will have an opportunity of
seeing the bees at work.
The Kansas State Fair association
has issued an attractive prize list in
connection with the horse show that
| will be the spectacular night enter
| tainment at the fair, September 14-1S.
Fire in a partition of the home Of
George Deganhardt, Alb Cedar street,
was discovered at 1880 o'clock this
morning. The fire department extin-
guished the blaze with chemicals. The
damage was estimated at $50.
| The management of the Kansas
| State Fair association, Topeka, is Of
fering nine prizes. for tobacco dis
plays. Tobacco is not often seen by
the average Kansan; yet an excellent
I product is often grown in the state.
| The Kaw Paving company Of To-
peka is making a swimming pool at
Abilene 40x1OO feet in size. Mrs. r. j.
| Long, of the Home Gas company. of
Abilene, is experimenting the project.
according to the Construction News.
The city contract giving an exclusive
right to sell soft drinks in Chesney to
one man has not been signed. and Roy
L. Bone, acting mayor. said today it
would not be signeA until w. L. Porter,
| commissioner of parks, returns to the
city.
| An increase in the Dunford clan is
reported at the city hall in the record
of the birth OF a daughter to William L.
Dunford and wife, 1904 Fillmore street.
The birth of son. to Robert Kingman
and wife, 210S Madison street, is also
reported.
Frank B. Sjmms, county commits
sioner from the northern district, and
| Mrs. Simms have started on an auto
mobile trip west. They expect to spend
! two weeks or more in Colorado, but
will suit their comfort and pleasure
| on the road.
Because of the fact that so many
| Topeka business men are taking their
vacations, it Is difficult to hold COM
mittee meetings at the Commercial
club. A meeting is occasionally held,
but they are few and far between,
comparatively speaking.
Grover Dunn, Republican nominee
for prosecuting attorney of POttawato-
mic county, stopped over in Topeka
to his home in Onaga. He was driving
overland with new Mitchell Six
which he purchased in Kansas City.
Reports received in Topeka from
points in western Kansas say that
farmers are not concerned about the
wheat blockade. The most OF them
are holding their grain for higher
prices. Should the blockade be raised
at once few of them would sell theiE
grain.
the ordinance compelling autoists to
keep the mufflers on their cars
closed. For q time this ordinance
was enforced in Topeka to the letter
Recently cars have been allowed e
go down Kansas avenue with the ex-
haust cracking like machine gun.
: A colony of fifteen tents has been
established at the city waterworks
west of town. The spot is one OF the
coolest, greenest places around topeka
with a grove OF fine trees and abund-
ant water, making a very desirable
camp ground. It il fifteen minutes
walk from the end of the asylum cal
+ line.
Morris Sanders SON of President
Sanders of Washburn college. class OF
ia, left Topeka today for New York
q where he will be located permanently
/ He will attend the Boston Technica
school this fall Sanders was one OF