The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The city hall closed at noon to-
day for the Washburn parade.
A marriage license has been issued
to Arthur L. label and Flora Rrun-
kow of Onaga.
Many of the stores along Kansas
| avenue were decorated for the parade
this afternoon.
Business at the court house is large
ly suspended this afternoon on &C
count of the big Washburn parade
A. Montgomery, art instructor at
WaShburn college rs years ago, passed
through Topeka Friday and arranged
for ar exhibit of his work to be held
here next fall.
Peach trees are now in full bloom.
With the leaves rapidly developing.
the country now presents an attrac-
tive appearance.
The Central Y NJ c. A has ar
ranged to have one of the famous
scouts of the country on exhibit in
the side show of the Bingling Broth
ers circus, April 1924.
Anybody's money will be accepted
by WaShburn college. Thousands of
subscriptions will be necessary to
make up the 100000. All Topeka is
asked to get behind the proposition.
Samuel Kline, street car motorman,
on the Kakarusa. He reports that
fish are biting nimbly, and that black
bass are especially greedy for bait aft
err sunset.
In the court of Topeka Friday Carl
Under and James Richardson entered
pleas of not guilty to charge of steal
ing a small quantity of copper wire
from the Topeka Railway company at
Vinewood park.
The usual Saturday dental clinic
was held today at the Provident build
ing. Poor children of ProVident ia M
lilies have their teeth attended to free
of charge by local dentists who give
up their time to the work.
Children's park is to be enlarged
by the purchase of a small tract of
land belonging to DR.. Eva Harding.
She donated the park to the city, and
is selling the land, which is needed for
improvements, at a very reasonable
price.
1.-The Greek Period and the Cook
of Ven Sirach" will be the subject of
DR.. Arthur S. Henderson's lecture to
his Bible class Sunday morning Mt IL
o'clock at the First Congregational
church at Seventh and Harrison
streets.
After being used for nearly thirty
years the Lowman NJ. E. church build
ing will be torn down next week to
clear the ground for the erection of
the new edifice. The members of the
church will hold a farewell service
tomorrow evening.
The Topeka Public Health Nursing
association will hold its annual meet
ing at the Commercial club Monday,
April 26, at p. m. Anyone who is
interested in this broad movement for
the prevention and care of disease is
invited to attend this meeting.
No suburban street railway tracks
will ever be laid in the middle of any
of the rural paving that is now pro-
posed on West Tenth and West Sew
enteenth streets beyond the city linn
it's, according to the assurance given
by the board of county commission
ers to property owners west of WASH
burn college who are signing petitions
for a road there.
1t is time to plant the flower seeds.
There have been killing frosts later
than this date in the twenty-eiCht
years that the local records have been
one that there will be nothing doing"
in that direction this season. The
dates on which killing frosts have oc-
Cured: April Is, 1891; May 4, 1907:
May 1, 1909, and May 10, 1888. It is
seldom that a killing frost follows n
severe March.
Work is opening up in good shape
in Topeka now and the number of
persons applying for jobs at the Provi-
dent association is far less than
month ago. But the Provident asso-
citation has not run INTO slump in
point of activity; there is plenty to be
done. The association just now has
an unusually large number of cases
where there is sickness. There are
several cases of confirmed invalids oc-
cupying the attention of the associa-
ton.
Mayor House. in paragraphs year
ago, scorned the idea of the mayor
and governor forming a battery for
the opening of the baseball season
''Flapdoodle" he SAYS TT has be-
come one of the ridiculous handicaps
of a baseball opening Now comes
the announcement in the newspaper
on the Wakarusa. He reports that
stating that he and his chief, the gov
ernor, will form the Opening game
battery in the Western league open