The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-15
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Flags were flying from each win
dew in the city building today. in
honor OF the national Flag Day.
Arthur Merritt has purchased a
dwelling at 635 Horne street, having
sold his home at sol Lane street.
The city commission will hold
special meeting tomorrow to adver-
tise for bids on the west side sewer.
The regular June meeting of the
Kansas Association of Life Under
writer's was held today at the Com
mercial club quarters.
The farmers living in the Sunny
side district on the Burlingame road
will hold a meeting Friday night with
a view to organizing grange.
Plans for the remode1ing of the
Grant school building will be COM
pleted within a few days by the archl-
tects. Holland, Gamble and Holland.
w. L. Porter, city commissioner.
leaves Wednesday to attend the grad
uation exercises at the State Agricul-
tural college. Mr.. Porter will motor
to Manhattan.
A small colored boy marched down
Kansas avenue at eleven o'clock this
morning swapping toy pistol. violat-
ing city ordinance every time he
shot, but unmolested by the police.
Ten days more for the filing OF
petitions by candidates who want their
names on the primary election ballots.
at the county clerks office by June 20.
Camp Tandy at Tecumseh was all
most drowned this morning. Refus-
ing to abandon his trusty red ma
chine. Commissioner Tandy plowed
to Topeka through the mud, making
the trip in half an hour.
Henry F. L. Kettler, a blacksmith
at the Santa Fee shops. has been
placed on the pension roll Kettler
was born in Germany in 1913 and has
been in the employ of the railroad in
Topeka continuously since 1882.
Don't ketch me in there-no, suh...
declared an old negro, sent on an err.
rand to the auditorium where the un-
dertakers' convention is to be held.
He regarded the tables, beds and cas-
kets skeptically from the entrance,
but refused to enter the door.
This has been a great year for wild
flowers on the prairies around Topeka.
Travellers say it is the same through
out the state. Seldom has the rain
fall been better distributed for the
prolific Towering of the many varie-
ties Of roadside beauties.
The first, and probably the only
car, Of the famous California Logan
berries, is due in Topeka Wednesday
morning. These are the finest berries
for canning purposes known. There
will probably not be enough to salts
fy the demand. Ask your grocer
about them.-Adv.
Sunday nights rain caused q post
ponement of wheat cutting in the
northern, part of Shawnee county and
In Jackson county where a lot Of fine
fields are ready for the harvester
Farmers are watching the weather
apprehensivcly now that the finest
crop in their memory is mature.
THE statement in the State Jour-
nal" said Mayor Cofran today, Com
corning my remark that the policewo-
men did as much good as the rest CT
the force put together should have
been modified sbyr the words in their
line I don't want to deprecate the
efforts of the men In the department"
An article appears IN the Santa Fe
Magazine for June about Captain r.
M. Spivey Of Topeka. Captain Spt-
vey is an official in the Fred Harvey
service and well known in Topeka
and along the Santa Fee route. This
is the first Of series Of articles on
Builders OF the Santa Fe," by Glenn
D. Bradley.
DIR. Eva Harding is the possessor of
a novelty in a beautiful Towering linn
tree in her garden on College avenue.
There are some in Garfield park
ALSO" she said. mot many persons
Oh AaA1A1lAI With the INN dlCnOuRn II
is one of the most deserving of atten-
ton for it grows easily and its blooms
are fragrant"
Oscar Swayze, county clerk, has adj
v1sed persons circulating petitions that
1t will be proper to follow the old pre-
cinct boundaries in obtaining names
for nominations. He will not, how
ever, reject petitions that are circu-
lated in the newly arranged precincts.
There has been considerable confusion
over this point.
Mrs. Alice Worswick, art teacher at
Bethany college, will travel for the
school this simmer in the middle west.
The principalship at Bethany is still in
doubt. No successor to Miss 8. Ma
tilda Bailey has been found. COM
mittee of three of the trustees has
been appointed to locate one. No def
mite plans for the coming year at Beth
any have been matured.
No change has been made in the
management of the Central Y. NJ. c.
A. for the coming year. George H.
Hoyes has been reelected general
secretary; J. II. Reisner, physical IL
rector, with Robert Holcomb assist
ant; Lee Sidwel will continue in
charge Of membership activities, and
Job Little will be office secretary.
Word has been received in Topeka
that Raymond Ellis. "a years old and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Ellis, of 326
Orchard avenue, was drowned at
Portland. Ore. A telegram. giving no
details. was received Sunday from
George Ellis, his brother. The two
Ellis brothers have been working IN
Portland for the last few months.
They are well known in Topeka.
Art Hargis. candidate for trouble in
Mexico or the job of Shawnee county
treasurer, which ever comes first,
missed the fate of other candidates
who visited the Stahl picnic at Auburn.
Other candidates were on the job,
and passing cards, and
some of tn I'm walked home after their
autos were stalled in the mud. Mr..
Hargis missed the picnic and the mud
because he was laid up with an in
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