The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-26
WELL, WHAT DID YOU GET
A Lot of People You Know.
Have Told
ssJOurnaI'' Reporters What
They Got For Christmas.
Most of Them are in a Happy Frame
of Mind as You VIII See by Their
Gay and Humorous Remaks.

rev 1Opeka people spent 0ullSLLldS
out of the city. The greater number
spent the day in the seclusion Of their
own homes.
! An investigation by Journal reporters
! proves that the custom of giving pres
ents on Christmas day is by no means
/ dying out.
No one was approached who did not
receive some remembrance from some
4 one.
Judge Hazen of the district court
/ spent the day at home. In reply to
question he said: I got the usual pres
/ ents
Judge Hazen was particularly i'm
pressed with the results of the Hamil-
ton hall Christmas tree. 7 saw the lit
/ tie folks coming away" said he, many
! of them but half dressed, and it made
serious impression upon me 1t shows
that there are a great number of people
/ in Topeka VINO are unable to provide
! their families with the necessities OF life
and such things should not be"
A. W. DANA got the incest present
/ in the world. I could have received
nothing that would have pleased me
I better. 1t was a large sized photograph
J of my baby handsomely framed
! George F. Sharitt, clerk of the Unit
/ ed States circuit cOurt-My wife pre-
! scented me with a fine Overeoat Women
( are always mindful of our comfort
Mayor G. A FellOWs-We do not be-
! lieve in buying things at our house
which are not useful I got handsome
pair Of slippers. q pair Of gloves and
/ pocketbook. just what I wanted
County Attorney r. G. Safford-I
don't believe I got thing for Christ
mas-yes. I did, too. got pipe from
/ Pixies Peak carved with the figure Of
an Indian
Councilman Frank Stevens got sew
4 eral things, but I was more interested
/ in the children They were OverjOyed
over box that came from California
It contained a great many oranges and
/ books. and things that please children
+. NJ BOnebrake-I got a pair of slip
pers, and Of course they were just what
1 needed.
HIilt StOker-I didn't get much of any
thing. I had a good dinner and STAYED
I home with my father all day. I didn't
take a drink Of anything all day. That's
i straight
Judge G. N. Elliott had good din
ner. It's too hard times to give Christ
mas presents.
Constable Hall Williams didn't get
/ any presents had 20 dandy dinner,
though Tt was my mothers birthday,
/ and of course T wouldn't take anything
on that day. She is dead.
Captain Joe Waters-What did re
/ ceive for Christmas2 We'll I'll tell you
/ Fairly good water with poor Hutchin-
I son salt; butter which had evidently
been in the vicinity Of turnips finest
I cider in town from Banker Johnson s
brewery at OSkalOOSa, good iona than
! apples. two bushels of which I carried
! myself from OskaloOsa; fair turkey
4 which possessed more than the usual
/ amount of wings. bones and neck: this
winters celery b1eached last year: cram
berries no two of which were alike il
color or taste; potatoes that some fellow
evidently didn't originally intend to
dig. bakers bread, which, il q man Of
any avOirdupOis should step on a loaf,
it would absolutely disappear, glucose
and OleOma rgarine which beats the Al
mighty and q bee every time on every
thing but taste: Arbuckle's coffee, three
packages for % cents: jams and Jim
jams, and about this time I fOrgot what
on 01a Jared nTPTfW
we'll
Jacob Sraith-My Christmas presents
consisted Of cGspldor. a palr OF sus-
penders. Ct call them tgalluses'D, and a
cane. Don't you think that was doing
pretty Well2
DR.. Num- got lots of Christmas
yesterday-tw night gowns. glass
vase, carving set, box Of oranges.
six boxes of cigars, an umbrella, and
other things I can't recall
Weather Observer Jennings-NNe were
too busy yesterday to receive any pres
entS ourselves. but we" presented the
other folks with some nice fine weather.
never hang up my stocking any
more. Never have since I became a
pater familias
DR.. Ida c. Barnes-I didn't get much
for Christmas and hate to give myself
away. One present I did appreciate,
though, was a picture of my Sunday
school class at the First Baptist church.
T. w. HarrisOn-NVhy. I received Sc
many things for Christmas that I can't
remember the half Of them. Among
others, 1 know, were two sets of cut
glass and two sets of china and a
solid silver spoons My memory fails
me on anything else.
Geo. saskatchewan did I get for
Christmas2 Oh, heavens, Tell them
that Stansfeld didn't get anything
Walter Burgess-EVhy, I got so many
things that 1 can't remember all of
them. The best thing L got was dia-
mond stud.
Abe j. August-For Christmas re
it is that I woke up this morning and
found that it was in a dream last night
John q. McAIanus-N umerOus little
things: sort of family affairs. YOU know
Exchanges in the family OF things We
needed and enjoyed the most
Fred SnOw-You might say that I re-
ceived an elegant rocking chair and
other things that I could not eat nor
wear. The poetry in that is original.
Councilman StephensOn-The best
Christmas gift to me was the presence
of my little daughter from Olathe
d. r Hite-Iu ten you what I re-
/ caiVed for Christmas received q
pleasant smile-nothing more or less.
r. 3. Welch-I received a neck tie a
briar pipe and a book.
Tom D0ran-YOu can just state that
I received Homer's Odyssey. also F1eine's
poems written in chara cters resembling
/ hen tracks and supposed to be German.
In addition a pair of hose supporters
Z which were too light to suspend the
load of grocery candy and nuts which
I
stomach Of an ostrich. an alarm clock
which viii be sure to go off the wrong
time at night, and bottle Of wine and
/ a headache
! Judge Henry Keeler-I received a
toothpiclz and a book. The toothpick
was gold.
Justice GUY received yesterday
what I have received for number Of
years. That is simply nothing I never
received 4 Christmas present in my life
that amounted to a row Of pins.
Charles p. Adams got four appli-
cations for spaces at the Pure Food
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