The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-05
SNAP SHOTS


The court house offices WIN be closed
! Monday for the Labor Day observance.
/ The regular September meeting Of
the board of education will be held
1 Monday evening.
/ The recent warm weather has in.
J creased the Gage park attendance to q
noticeable extent.
Preaching services will be held at
the Gage park schoolhouse SUNDAY
| afternoon at 3 o'clock.
| A marriage license was issued this
! morning to Hugh B. McGrath and Jose
phine McGregor. both Topekans.
The Topeka Commercial club il ask
ing the merchants along Kansas ave-
| nue. to decorate prOfusely for fair week.
The fire department was called to
SIS West Tenth street this morning.
The call proved to be a false alarm.
"A local headline writer deplored the
| Dissertation" OF billboards Did q
billboard ever seem very sacred to
you?
The contract for the superstructure
of the Methodist Home for the Aged
on Munson street Will be opened next
week.
The apples are falling off the trees
in Shawnee county to such an extent
| that it looks as though the crop will
prove q slim one.
A large Angora goat of the butting
sex added to the already large variety
Of things offered for sale on the munici-
pal market today.
The following birth was reported at
| the office of the city clerk today: An
drew Lclly and wife. SO North Harri-
son street. Sept. 4. boy.
Bids have been received for the
erection of double apartment house
at the corner OF Fifth and Monroe
streets by Mrs. Ida Rodgers.
The New Thought society will hold
services at IL o'clock Sunday morning
at Unity church, 914 Topeka avenue
A. B. Smith will deliver an address.
Charles Haynes will have charge of
the force of guards at the fair grounds,
September 14-18. The round house
near the grandstand will be used as DO
lice headquarters.
In the sermon at the Third Presby-
terrain church, corner Fourth and
pastor will discuss the question: who
Is the Laboring Mans Friend"
w. L. Porter, city commissioner of
parks, was not at his office today. Re-
ports of good duck shooting on the river
might have had some bearing ON the
commissioner absence, say city hall
officials.
l Lie 1A4A tcIlu Ll11l1HeIY Class Will
| start Wednesday evening at the Y. w.
C. A. A large enrolment is expected
on account OF the success of the class
last spring. Miss Beulah Hughes will
be the instructor.
H. w. Bomgardner, superintendent
Of the Sunday school department OF
the Topeka fair says that the Sunday
schools of this and other counties are
preparing displays for the fair Prize
lists may be had tor the asking at the
fair office.
The English Lutheran church at the
corner of Fifth and Harrison streets
will be remodeled. The tops of the
church towers which are of wooden
construction will be replaced by mod
ern turrets. The entire exterior will
be coated with asbestos cement of stone
| color.
The shacks at S1S-s20 Kansas ave-
nue. have been pulled down and the
ground cleared Of trees preparatory to
the erection Of the two story business
building by the Kansas Children's
Home society. Construction work. If
expected to be started by the latter
part of this month.
DR.. Henderson will continue the lee
ture to his. Bible class on THE Devel-
opment of the Jewish Religion from
the Earliest Times to the Coming OF
Christ" at the First Congregational
church. corner Seventh and Harrison
streets at 10 a. m tomorrow. All men
CORDIALLY welcomed.
DIR. r. Agar Of New York. a ma
tional worker in the educational de-
partment of the Baptist church, will
speak at a mass meeting Of the Baptist
young people of the city in the First
evening. He will make several ad-
dresses in Topeka Sunday.
The Topeka Boy Scouts will meet at
the Central Y. M. c. A. next Tuesday
evening at o'clock to receive assign
ments for the Big Fair, Topeka. Sep
TENDER 14-1s. and to make plans for q
hike to be held prior to the opening of
the city schools. J. H. Fazel. scout
master, urges all scouts to be present
] at the meeting.
| The house formerly occupied by the
caretaker at the fair grounds will be
ment as office headquarters. Last year
there were but three rooms available;
| this year there are six. The fair head
quarters will be removed to the
grounds from the Smith building the
fore part Of the week
John E. Barrett. of Yates Center, re-
certify given the federal appointment as
receiver Of the Topeka land office. ar
| rived today to arrange for taking
charge Of tine duties of the office, which
he will assume next Wednesday. He
succeeds J. G. Wood. Of .his city. who
has held the post OF land office receiver
| for more than twenty years.
| A meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the Shawnee County Repub-
! lican central committee has been
called for o'clock this afternoon for
/ consultation with the Republican
county candidates over campaign
business. Tie meeting will be held
| at county headquarters in the Once
block on East Fifth street.
| L. w. Brown, colored, q rakers for
! the Kaw Paving company, II in Stor-
mont hospital with q fractured skull.
He will recover. Sim Vernon, also
| colored, working with Brown. struck
Brown with q rake yesterday after
noon while the two were at work near