The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-24

March 3, which allows 800 acres to
an individual have been recorded at
the Topeka land office in the last
week The land is now open for set
tlement. Following is a list of coun-
ties in which land is open for home
steaders: Wallace, Logan, Cove,
Trego, Ellis, Cheyenne and Rawlins.
The largest acreage is located in Chey-
enne.
/ Phil Billiard will fly to Lawrence
next Wednesday to attend the Elks
convention and to furnish an exhibition
for the third annual suburban day CIV
en- by the merchants of Lawrence. He
Will fly over Lawrence at O'Clock
In the afternoon and will make the
return trip to Topeka on Thursday in
his machine. There will be about sixty
Topeka Elks at the Lawrence conven~
ton. The expenses of the flight will
be borne by the Lawrence business
men.
Sweet potato, tomato and cabbage
plants, to the number of two or three
hundred thousand per day are shipped
out of Topeka during the spring by
the various dealers in the city. Kan
saS covers a territory consisting of
parts of Oklahoma and Texas. Accord
ing TO the local dealers, the business
has increased steadily, and this season
promises to be the largest ever known.
FLOODS in kansas and Texas have
ruined the local supplies and the call
on topeka sources is unusually heavy.
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S4,51S.1O for wheat sold from the
Larned state hospital farm. The draft
was sent by Stance Myers of the state
board of control by l.. r. Sellers.
perintendent of the hospital Last
year the state board of control direct
ed the planting of wheat on the hos
pital land After using a consider
able amount of the seasons crop,
3,O95 bushels remained. This wheat
was sold last week for STAG a bushel
and the state has a clear profit of
$4,51S.70 from the crop.
| The city ordinances of Topeka are to
be compiled, co-ordinated and indexed.
At meeting of the city commission
today a contract was approved and the
mayor was authorized to sign the same
on behalf of the city, employing w. c.
Ralston to do the work. Mr.. Ralston
probably is more familiar with the
dinanceS of the city than any other
person, having been either city attor-
ney or assistant city attorney covering
a period of twelve years. The work is
to be compiled by December 1 of this
year The city will pay $1,000 for the
service.
The recent special election at which
propositions were submitted to deci-
sion at the polls in Topeka city and
Shawnee county, cost about $1,000.
Bills amounting to $1,3f4.70 were ap-
proved by the board of county COM
missioners and persons holding claims
for services as election officers, for
| feeding members of election boards
or for rent of polling places may call
at the court house any time now and
get their money. Some additional bills
remain to be presented. These are
chiefly for rents of polling places in
the county.
Boys of the eighth grade of the city
schools are out working today to raise
$1,000 for the purpose of blishing
five supervised Fairgrounds for school
children of Topeka. The boys will
canvass the residence district and the
women of the Child Conservation
| league will cover the business part of
town. No one will be asked to con-
tribute more than one dollar Com
plere playground paraphernalia has
been ordered including swings, "tee-
ters," slides, travelling rings and paral-
lei bars. According to the plan a
man and a woman will be in charge of
each place from o'clock in the morn
| ing until z o. o'clock in the evening.