The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-16
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cident if she knows it was observed, but
gets mad if she thinks one is look
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Dean Lows friends say that he bears
a close resemblance to Richard Mans
The charter board issued a charter
Monday to the Blue Rapids CONNER
cial club.
Monday Governor Stanley refused to
issue a pardon to Thomas c. Kirby. sent
to the penitentiary from Perry for 25
years for killing William Foley.
Harry Bone has decided that his off1-
clal title will be secretary to the gov
ernor.' He thinks private secretaries"
are getting entirely too common.
In Kansas City yesterday twenty mar
riage licenses We're issued, and not a
/ Topeka person was represented in the
forty names of the twenty couples.
Now that Draper, the Wichita fake
correspondent, has been released there
are several people in Topeka in the
writing fraternity who breathe easier.
Topeka man whose wife has been
away on a visit for three months is hav.
ing a hard time trying to convince his
bachelor friends that marriage is not a
failure.
The Woman's Missionary society of
Westminster Presbyterian church will
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2:30 p. m. with Mrs. A. c. Axtell, 1857
Dillon street.
People who want to do something to
ease their Christmas consciences might
devote a dollar or two to subscriptions
to periodicals for the Tennesseetown
free library.
Albert T. Reid had three cartoons in
today's Kansas City Journal. The pic
lures were delayed in the mails and
reached Kansas City all in a bunch in
stead of one each day.
The universal transfer system may
have its advantages, but one of them
isn't the pleasure of waiting on an I'M
sheltered corner in snow storm for Is
minutes for the next car.
The manager of Lovers Lane" which
will be in Topeka. December wants
sixteen children between the ages of 6
and Is to use in the play. They may
apply at the opera house.
/ The snow does not stop the work on
/ the Washburn college sewer Winter IS
the best time to build sewers. because
the ground is frozen and does not cave
IN
The wife of the ugliest man in Topeka
was buying him bathrobe for a Christ
mas present yesterday and complaining
! because none of the colors would be
/ becoming to him. She said he looked
just sweet" in baby blue.
Charles q Hanford in Shakespearian
comedies at the Crawford and Katherine
Willard in The Power Behind the
Throne" at the Grand, both matinee and
night, will be the Christmas theatrical
attractions at the theaters.
Charles F. Thoop, advance agent of
THE Power Behind the Throne" which
will be at the Grand Christmas day, was
in Topeka Monday He is a brother OF
Clara Thropp. who played in Topeka last
season in "A Dolls House"
This is the season when the women's
magazines tell how much the value of
the compliment is increased if Christ
mas gift is wrapped in tissue paper,
tied with red or green ribbon and the
parcel adorned with a sprig of holly.
The husbands and fathers should try
to look pleasant at Christmas time. If
there We're no Christmas the average
man would struggle through life with
out military hair brushes, smoking coats
and gold and white copies of Lucille
Thomas Wood Stevens has a long ar
ticle on The Petrified Forest of Ari-
IONA" in the last issue of the Garder
of the Gods magazine. Mr.. Stevens
used to be employed by the Santa Pc
passenger department in getting up ad-
vertising material.
DIR. c. f. Judd will use an X-ray ma
chine today to try to determine the ex.
tent of the injuries received Saturday
night by Chief Donovan. when he fe
and hurt his shoulder The injury is
painful, nd it is feared that a bone was
fractured.
The police are still working on the
case of the domestic who robbed DR.
Wasson's house a young woman was
brought down to the station last even
ing and held until a member of DR.
Wasson's family arrived and said she
was not the one who stole the things.
The Vinewood Park Railway COM
pany certainly has a good pusher at the
head of its construction work. He dug
the right of way out of the snow drifts
Monday, and went ahead with tearing
up the pavements just as though there
hadn't been any snow. His name is
Ward and he knows how to do things
Bale Waggener's brief in the Sharp
less case in the supreme court was the
briefest on record. In full it was as
follows: "Waggener's brief in Sharpless
case: Is Ohio, 573; Is Iowa. 304; 16 Wis,
1928; 43 Ohio $50; So Kan, 436; So Kan,
for he won the case.
w. S. Bergundthal. one of the proba-
BILE candidates for mayor, says he is op-
posed to redistricting the wards of ths
city Mr.. Rergundthal does not see th'
use of stirring up a bitter fight in the
council, which is likely to extend to tn.
constituents. The candidates for mayor
are agreed that the coming election has
complications enough already to maxs
it decidedly interesting.
Last evening Aaron Jackson, an ex-
convict. was arrested for stealing 16 bot
ties of beer. Jackson had a great thirst
so he broke into the basement of the
Chesterfield hotel and annexed the wei
goods. When Policeman Abe Henderson
was called to see about it. he fount
footprints in the snow and followed
them to the residence of jackson, where
the victim and the remains of the spoil: