The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-08
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AT HOME NEWS.

AT HOME NEWS.
J. C. Buncs II building Z one-story
dwelling at 721 Lime street
n. ID. Elott il remodeling his DWELL
ing at $40 West Third street.
E. J. WOODBURY. is erecting a 5000
dwelling at 315 Broadmoor street.
r. J. Clevinger has aiken out per-
Quincy street. The improvement win
cost $3.50.
w. A. Neiswanger has taken out
a permit to construct a one-story
dwelling to cost $4,000 at 1915 Hum
toon street.
The agricultural hall at the fair
grounds Is being given q coat of white
wash. The fences are being treated in
a similar manner.
expenditure of seventy dollars on cur
rent events papers for the use Of pu-
pills in the grades.
Camp Ketchuwa" is the name of
one of the Michigan places where To-
pekans went to spend the summer.
Sounds like a hay fever resort.
The contract for coal for the city
schools was let Monday night by the
school board to the Southwestern Coal
company. this firm submitting the low
est bid.
Wallace Casey OF Parsons, formerly
in newspaper work here and now
chief factotum Of one Of the Parsons
spending a few days here.
Topeka lodge No. 311, Fraternal
Brotherhood, will hold its first open
meeting of the season Wednesday eve
ming, Septer Der 8. A program will
be given by the dge September %.
Several Washburn boys have al
ready reported at the college for the
purpose of mailing down the best
available room and board jobs
around the College Hill neighborhocd.
The purchase Of rugs and a desk for
the new office rooms at the high
school has been authorized by the
school board. The office of the super
intendent of city schools will be on the
| second floor of the building.
Some of the picture houses put on
the Good night screen an hour early
| last night on account Il the vacant
seats which resulted from the even
| ing's storm. Most of them were we'll
filled for the first show.
People with faith in American con-
quest Of foreign trade may now profit
ably study the consular reports this
country has been accommodating for
years. They haven't been much in
demand, but they can be made useful
now.
A mass meeting of the Topeka Boy
Scouts will be held at o'clock this
evening at the Central Y. M. c. A.
building. Scouts who will be on duty
fair week will be given their assign
ments. Plans for a hike will be dis
cussed.
| A general meeting of the teachers
of the city schools will be held in the
assembly room of the manual train
inu hipI, achoo1 hr1i1dtuu at O'clock
Saturday afternoon. The members of
the board of education have been in
vited to attend.
| George E. Clark, secretary of the
Kansas State Fair association, 49,
! turned today from Lincoln. Neb..
many exhibitors to show at Topeka.
Secretary Clark anticipates tina two
trainloads of livestock snd other ex-
I hibits-Nilf me.-taf=Fnpeasa from. the
Lincoln fair.
The federal grand jury will sit in
Wichita on September %. when Fred
Robertson. United States district at
torney, will present number of inter
esting cases in which he expects in
tdictmentS to be returned. In October
a grand jury will be assembled at
lLeavenworth. A large number Of fed
eral cases are in preparation.
Hereafter students from out of town
who attend the high school will have
to pay IS a month tuition instead OF
-, the former fee. Those attending
the grade schools will pay $3.50 in
stead of two as formerly. This was
decided by the school board Monday
night These fees correspond as near
lily as possible to the actual cost of edu-
eating a pupil in the schools.
Il Surface drainage mani -es in some
Of the new pavements laid in the last
year or two have been SO strategically
placed that they hardly got wet at all
in the heavy rains of tire last two
days. One west side alley with a foot
Of water in it demonstrates the strate-
gic advantage of the intake. which is
SO far above the water line tn: :: the
only water that got into it was what