The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-26

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don't wish you back to earth
| With all its pain and care.
| But wish you'd tell me how to live,
| So can meet you there.
j. Will Kelley, secretary of the To-
peka Commercial club, is in Kansas
City today.
| A. K. Wilson, grand secretary for
the Masonic bodies of Kansas. left to-
day for vacation in Colorado.
Miss Mabel Nonken, secretary for
| George P. Hayden, city attorney, Will
leave Thursday for Chicago to spend
| a vacation.
Drug stores have one boy in the
evening who does nothing except wait
on thirsty auto parties that draw up
| in front of the stores.
Laying of a sixteen-foot strip of as
phalt over the cobblestone pavement
or Kansas avenue is being completed.
The brick pavement has not been
remedied.
Chairman Mccormick of the Demo-
crat committee announced in New
York that Wilson will carry Kansas
with Is per cent of the Progressive
vote Of 1912.
The city water supply is clouding
| up again in certain parts Of the city.
The condition of the water may be
harmless, out II takes N0Aico iiio 81
nation to drink it.
| Clyde WATSON, son of w. H. Was
son, finance commissioner, and civil
engineer for the J. A. Pringle Con-
struction company here, Is spending
the week in Hutchinson attending the
National Tractor show.
why do the motorcycles of To-
peka always run SO fast?" voice over
the telephone asked the information
inf RI
was the answer as given by the re-
porter who answered the query: Be
cause they don't dare STOP"
Work of building the 100000
slaughter house for the Wolff Packing
company began this morning. A. Todd
| of Chicago will be in charge and
work will be completed in December.
Announcement of the company's plans
was made several weeks ago.
A parrot. operating in the south
western section of the city begins cry
ing Hello, hello. hello!" at Z a. M
and doesn't stop until evening. A
telephone girl working nights and
sleeping days is preparing a silent but
perpetual death to the talkative bird.
| Hard luck comes in lunches said
a Topeka man today. Il planted a
big mint bed this spring. I wanted to
use the crop in certain well known
| anti-prohibition mixture when hot
weather arrived Now it is hot wealth
| err and the sun has killed my mint
bed
Ford owners in Shawnee county have
been talking of holding a picnic this
| summer to be limited in attendance to
persons who own this particular brand
of conveyors. So far the boosters
have been unable to find a place in
| the county big enough to park the
cars.
At recent Rotary club picnic two
| valuable presents were given by Full
erton Brothers. The Rotarians who
did not attend the picnic-held at the
Robert Stone country home-are en-
titled to the gifts. Send the office
boy or come yourself" Osborne Lari-
mer says.
The Shawnee County Republican
league will hold its regular weekly
meeting Thursday at s p. m. in Lincoln
Post hall. J. L. Berry, of Doniphan
county, one of the oldest Republicans
in the state, will make the principal
| address. Berry is a candidate for
presidential elector.
Thursday evening, July 27. Mr. H.
| A. Hodgins will give an ice cream So
cial at his residence, Seventh and Lane
| streets. for the benefit of the Topeka
| Orphans home. Ice cream and cake
10 cents. Everybody invited. Parties
out automobiling will find refresh
| IIlOIilS CONVENIENT ana lnFlIlng.--AQV.
A motorman on the Topeka Rail-
way company service is so tall that
he has to stoop over to see out from
under the roof of his vestibule. He is
| 6 feet 8 inches tall when not stand
ing in his 15-fb shoes and weighs 290
pounds. On a "one-man" car he
would be equal to a full crew.
James w Orr of Atchison, told an
interesting story in Topeka Tuesday
of the Cleveland campaign. There
was a great amount of mud being
thrown at Cleveland during the cam
paign and he was asked what to do
about it. Tell The TRUTH" he said
From then on during the campaign
| Democrat parades were formed so as
| to make three Us.
The musical comedy, Miss Miranda
will be given tonight by the City Fed
| Grafton of Colored Women's clubs at
Metropolitan hall, for the benefit OF
the Benevolent grand lodge now in
session. The Knights of Tabor band