The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT. HOME NEWS.


The Better Babies contest entries for
the Topeka fair close September l.
Sheriff l. L. Kiene is expected home
Sunday from his summers vacation
with his family in Colorado.
o. p. Updegraff, who will be starter
at the. races for the Topeka fair. was
starter at the Interstate fair at st.
Joseph.
A full attendance Of the member
ship committee Of the Commercial
club is desired at q meeting Tuesday
noon at the club quarters.
Farmers say that the big rain Thurs
day night will make some fine exhibits
for the Topeka fair. Products OF the
garden and orchard are taking on new
life.
"Paw-paws is ripe in Miszury," OBJ
served man on Kansas avenue today
as q small covered wagon drawn by a
burro and mule no larger than the
burro proceeded Missouriward.
Watermelons seem to be bigger this
season than ever before. If some OF
those in the municipal market today
had been any larger, trucks would
have been necessary to move them.
The property of the Topeka city
electric light plant. exclusive OF the
white way equipment, is valued at
$61.838. The white way investment
is placed at $41.O0O, a total of $1O2,-
S38 for public light.
The report comes from the Office OF
the Topeka -ebate association that
out-of-town trade in Topeka has
picked up in the last week. There are
a large number of shoppers in Topeka
today from other towns.
Two births were reported at the Of
flee of the city clerk today. A daugh-
ter was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce 1.
Dennis, rural route No. 6, August %.
A girl arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George H. Biddle. 428 Quincy
street, August %.
Every township in Shawnee county
owns an equipment of road building
machinery which has been appraised
by county assessors at an aggregate
which owns the most has graders and
scrapers valued at $500.
Included in the total of something
over $16,0OO,OOO of untaxed property
in Shawnee county is $565,33O of ex-
emptiOns of personal property, this
being the legal exemption to per-
sonal property owners not liable to
execution by process of law.
Soldier township has no churches.
being the only township in Shawnee
county without houses of worship. But
it has fourteen school houses, the
county poor farm. the boys reform
school and two graveyards, the total
of public property within It's confines
being valued at $356,525.
George Kline announces he is about
ready to start his propaganda for the
purchase of additional ground for
Gage park. He expects to start petit
tiOns this fall in time to make the
park extension one of the issues for
next springs city campaign. The
proposition is to buy an additional
eighty acres west of the present park
site.
Plans for the superstructure of the
Methodist Home for the Aged will be
completed the middle of next week.
according to the current issue of The
Construction News. 1t is the purpose
Of the committee to rush the work on
this building. Thomas w. Williamson
is the architect. Barber and Mills are
now working on the foundation on
MunsOn avenue.
The value of Gage park as estimated
by the county assessors is $751; 500, the
$500 being the appraised value of the
buildings erected on the property. But
that isn't the figure at which Topeka
folks would part with that bit OF
property if they could put it on the
market. Figuratively speaking, Gage
park has beer worth about a million
dollars to Topeka already and the
town is just beginning to enjoy it.
G. M. Cottrell of the Cottrell Realty
company has returned from a two
weeks trip to New York state, where
he attended the Seventh Day Baptist
general conference in Alfred. Mr
Cottrell is general field secretary fol-
about 900 of the scattered members OF
the denomination. He delivered an
address at the meeting last Sunday
His financial report showed over So
600 in contributions in the last year.
Topeka has a total of $262.531 tied
up in it's public parks, the figures rep
resenting the valuation that would be
placed on the property were 1T liable
| to taxation. In the city alone the
value of the ground devoted to parks
! is $23O,105. But a little more than
| $4,000 is the figure placed on the i'm
| provements on all the parks. whereas
as a matter of fact several times that
amount has been spent on them. but
| the county assessor takes no account
| of the value of landscape art.
| DR.. Arthur g. Henderson has re-
turned from his summer outing and
will resume the lectures to his Bible
class at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
at the First Congregational church,
corner Seventh and Harrison streets.
Subject: THE Development of the
F, Jewish Religion From the Earliest
Times to the Coming of Christ" Sep
TENDER 6 the same subject will be
taken up. September 1 3 the subject
will be: THE Geography of the Old
Testament World and the Relation OF
Israel to the Other Nations of That
World September 20 the class will
begin the study of the Old Testament.
beginning with Genesis. The lectures
are free and all men are welcome.
, Dr. Chas. Hammond has moved his
Office from 713 Kansas avenue to S29