The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The Elks will dance the night after
Christmas.
The pension board will meet on Tues
day instead of Wednesday.
Masquerade costumes for rent at 62S
Kansas avenue, third floor
The merchants report. that Saturdays
sales We're the largest of the year.
Uncle Sam is working overtime to
take care of the Christmas presents.
Water pipes which were suddenly put
out of service last week are again doing
duty.
The cold weather enables people to
more thoroughly appreciate the holiday
sunshine.
The public schools are closed this
week The Christmas vacation will last
two weeks.
F. H. Foster discussed .Longfellow'
Saturday evening before the Saturday
Night club
Santa Claus is so near the expectant
youth can almost hear the jingling Of
his sleighbells.
T. & ]. will be on tap Christmas. The
initials have no reference to any brand
of bicycle tires.
David Overmyer is to respond to a
toast at the Saturday Night club BAN
quet on New Years eve.
Ex-Governor Click has written Gov
ernor Stanley favoring the Mexican
reciprocity proposition.
Auditorium on Christmas eve, and an
other on Christmas night
The next theatrical. attraction will be
THE Eleventh Hour at the Crawford.
Christmas matinee and night.
You may not have noticed it, but the
days are growing longer. Yesterday
was the shortest. day of the year.
c. D. WEIGH is slowly recovering from
fall from his bicycle. He is able to be
down town by the aid of crutches.
A..
county poor commissioner for fuel
burned half ton of coal in two days.
Topeka commandery No. 5, Knights
Templar, will hold public services at the
Masonic building Christmas morning.
The contractors will make an effort to
complete the West Eighth avenue paw
ing before cold weather again begins.
George Sutton, the billiard expert who
has no hands, will give an exhibition at
the Topeka Athletic association tonight.
w. G. MagaW, teacher in the high
school, was successfully operated on for
appendicitis at Christ hospital Saturday
Some merchants have had to press
into service extra delivery wagons on
account of the holiday increase in bust
ness.
No $500 NJ w. of A. will give the fourth
dance of their series Monday, Decem-
Der %.
The express wagons and express
agents worked all day Sunday, and
there will be no let up, night or day.
for this week
The tax paying limit has expired. but
it is rumored that the county treasurer
will still accept cash in exchange for
tax receipts.
o. s. Chister, editor of the Alma Sig
nal. was in Topeka Saturday. He
wiped out the last anti-Republican
paper in Alma
1t is believed that Col Richard J.
Hinton left his valuable collection of
relics and manuscripts to the Kansas
Historical society.
NJ w Wade, the man who originated
the 16 for a quarter photographs, and
who captured Topeka in 1897, now lives
in Cleveland, Ohio.
The city council will meet this even
ing to allow the December pay roll,
so that city employees can get their
money before Christmas.
Mrs Violet Butler Mccoy will sing
at the opening session Of the State
Teachers ASSOCIATION in Representative
hall on Wednesday evening.
Governor and Mrs. Stanley will give
the State Teachers association. on Fri
day afternoon of this week, from 4:S0
to p. m.
DIR. Rosa PaImborg. medical mission
airy of Shanghai China, resumed her
journey Sunday after visiting a few
on Lincoln street
There will be no Christmas celebra-
ton at Smoky Hill City. The gold shale
millionaires are going to celebrate at
home and away from the wildness of a
thriving gold mining camp.
Prof. B. B. Snythe is on the pro-
gramme of the Kansas Academy of Sci
enee which meets at lola next week,
for paper on "a Pre-Glacial Gap ON
Colby Creek, Shawnee County
10 ,r4aI
Society production, 1.-THE Coming of the
King" to be given at the Auditorium
Thursday night for the state teachers
will be Is cents instead of so cents
The Trego gold question will cope up
for discussion by the Kansas Academy
of Science at it's annual meeting next
week Prof. LoveweI will present a pa
per on Gold in Kansas Shales."
The Farmers institute at Oak Grange
hall a few days ago adopted resolutions
standing by Secretary Coburn in insist
ing that agriculture shall be taught
primarily in the State Agricultural col
lege instead of making 1t a secondary
matter.
will meet the Ali Stars from Kansas
City on the T. A. A. alleys. Tonight
the local players will roll 30 frames
and the ones making the highest scores
will be selected as the team to play the
Kansas City five.
The Union Pacific railway has
brought suit in the United States cir
cult court here for restraining order
to prevent J. s. Haley who is building
a telephone line between Wa-Keeney
and Ogallah from using the right of
way of the railroad. The company asks
for $4,000 damages.
H. J. Bone has returned from Kan
sas City and has received word that J.
P Stewart, the Webb City banker who
is charged with being one of the Webb
City gang of footracers, was refused
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