The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-13

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There are several cases Of typhoid
fever at Topeka hospitals.
DR.. Armstrong has moved his ONCE
to 213 Commercial building.-Adv.
Aaron Abbott and Pauline F. Jeltx
obtained q marriage license at the
probate court Wednesday,. Both arc
Topekans.
The Topeka Auto club will meet to-
night at the Commercial club quarters
Arrangements will be made for wa
termelon rum
Samuel e. Lux left this morning by
auto for a trip over eastern Kansas,
where he will look into the condition
of the apple crop.
Tennis is more popular In Topeka this
summer than has been the case In
several seasons. Several new clubs
have been organized.
J. w. Larabee Of Earlville, Ill. will
famous Red Poll cattle at the Big
Fair, Topeka, in September.
There were sixteen wagons on the
municipal market this morning. Wa
termelOns, cantaloupes and muskmel-
ons are in market in profusion.
Work has been started on the super
structure of the addition to the high
school building. The general contrac-
tors are Lundgren and Carlson.
As result OF the tendency Of prices
in foodstuffs to soar. a number OF To-
pekans have laid in a supply Of provi-
sions to last for several months.
A class in millinery will be opened at
the Y. w. C. A. Wednesday evening,
September 9. 1t will be held every
Wednesday evening for five weeks
thereafter.
A meeting Of the South Side Civic
Improvement club will be held Friday
evening at the home of c. B. Zarker,
1925 Kansas avenue. A watermelon
feast will be enjoyed.
/ The boys who were N attendance
at the Central Y. M. C. A. camp on
Mill creek. near Maple Hill. have re-
turned TO Topeka. They report hav-
ing had a great time.
The general contract has been
awarded for the $1,000 school build
ing to be erected at Della, and which
was planned by Thomas w. William
son. Topeka architect.
The question Of a club house for the
Topeka Automobile club may be dis
cussed next fall. There are some Of
the mOtOrcyclists that would like to get
in on the proposition.
1t now looks as though Topeka would
not get the state motorcycle races for
this season. The chances are that they
will be held at Ellsworth. the home Of
Spec Warner, the state champion.
Mrs. J. F. Mccormick, superintendent
Of the textile department Of the Big
Fair, Topeka. reports that the women
are taking an unusual amount Of in
terest in this feature of the exposition.
Goldenrod is in bloom earlier this
summer than ordinarily. TT means
an early FROST declared Frank B.
Simms, county commissioner, who Is
| something OF a goose-bone weather
prophet.
| European war has prac ically sus-
pended postal service to a number OF
has been made of the discontinuance
OF money order business to Egypt
Austria and Servia.
Lawns and parkings in Topeka are
beginning to show the effect Of the
hot and dry weather. which is dam.
aging the corn near this city. Grass
IN practically every lawn In Topeka II
beginning to turn brown.
The Topeka Auto club decided tc
mark the Golden Belt road as far cas-
OF Topeka as Newman. The WORK
should be completed today. Broad
yellow stripes are being painted
around every other pole.
Aside from the attractive prizes Of.
Tered by the management Of the Kansa.
state Fair association in the swine de-
| partment, the National o. J. c. Ches.
ter White Record association is offertns
six special prizes OF five dollars each.
Il With the price of sugar still on {
steady incline, Topeka housewives ar,
In the midst of the jelly making and
canning season. Peaches and grape.
are now on the market. There is s
good crop OF both in Shawnee count,
this year.
The management Of the Kansa.
State Fair association has given on
1000 pennants and the supply is com
pletely exhausted. Requests hav,
come from all parts of the state 70,
these pennants, and every day man,
persons have called at the cflce.
Entries in the live stock and poultr,
departments of the Big Fair. Topeka
September 14-1S will close Saturday
September IL. No entries will be re
ceived after that date. except in cas-
| Of unfavorable detention. and then onl,
on the approval of the management.
Eight more teachers will be EN-
ployed in Shawnee county rura
schools with the opening Of school II
September than ever before A tota
OF ISL teachers has been assigned {,
country schools. Rural terms will be
gin with the second week Of Septem
Der.
L A new station has been added to tn
list Of government stations reporting
I daily for the corn and wheat regiol
bulletin issued from the local weather
bureau-Ness City in Ness county
There has been no station to cover /,
section of territory in west-centra
Kansas.
|: A party Of Topelans in two auto
will go to Arlington. in Atchison coun
ty. Saturday morning to attend
grange picnic. In the party will b
IT. A. Borman and one or two othe
representatives of the Kansas Stat