The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-23
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The government thermometer ranged
between 26 and % Monday.
Justice and Mrs Burch and family
will spend the holidays in Salina.
Anna c. Engle was divorced from z.
s. Engle Monday by Judge Hazen.
The A. c. Townsend divorce case is
set for January in the district court
Charles E Clark was divorced from
Ada Clark Monday by Judge Hazen-
Rossville will send a large delegation
to Topeka for the De Lussan concert.
They are selling very nice saddle
mules in the country. So the owners
say.
The city registration books will be
open January ;. Who will get certificate
No. -
The midwinter Scottish Rite reunion
viii be held during the session of the
legislature.
John MacVicar. who was formerly
mayor of Des Moines has gone there to
spend the holidays.
This is the time of year when the gas
and electric light plants have to hustle
to supply the demand.
The county officers who step down
and out on January y are looking lit
tie homesick already.
The tax paying rush is over but taxes
are still being paid and the penalty has
not yet been assessed.
very anxioUsly awaited in a good many
Topeka homes Just now
The city will pay off its employees
on Wednesday. The employees will all
go broke the same day.
The best tip to give just now is to tell
the undecided buyer what to purchase
for Christmas presents.
Jefferson de Angels will be at the
Crawford in February in his new comic
opera. The Emerald Isle"
Cecil Vest of Montezuma, Ia, is spend
ing the Christmas vacation with L. W.
Wilson on Garfield avenue.
Observer Jennings has had his cold
wave" rubber STAMP ready to use for
month. He is getting anxious.
Kirkpatrick now holds the T. A. A
rubber neck record for the Christmas
turkey. He has a score of 14s.
A box of Cream of Roses or Modern
Woodmen five cent cigars will make an
appreciative Christmas present.
Arthur Kane went to Kansas City
Monday to wind up his affairs there and
to come back to Topeka to stay.
There is one class of persons who are
very glad when Santa Claus gets his
work done. 1t is the postal clerks.
County Treasurer Philips, following
the usual custom. will not add the pen
atty to unpaid taxes until January l.
Mark L. Hare. Of cIasoo. Cloud coun-
ty. is a candidate for a place on the
state board of charities and corrections.
Mary Redgate was divorced from
George w. Redgate Monday by Judge
Hazen- Both gates are now open for
0ffers.
Warren Gill who was the Washburn
football coach this year. is now firing
on a Santa Fee locomotive in southern
Kansas.
Judging from reports in the Kansas
papers, the Washburn ladies' quartette
is making cutie a hit OUT in the prov
inces-"
Warden Jewett will feed the convicts
in the penitentiary on chicken for their
Christmas dinner. 1t win require 1,20C
pounds.
Susie Loud was divorced Monday from
Lewis w. Loud by Judge Hazen- They
were altogether too loud TO get alons
peacefully.
r. d. Sanders. of the state auditors
office, Will start a bank at Arkansas
City. He was there this week looking
for building.
The rush in the postoffice and express
offices is on. Try sending something
further east than Tecumseh and discov-
er for yourself
The man who prints the Crawford
programme still holds the record fol
mistakes. He christened Alt c. Wheel
an "Wheelman-"
has filed a motion in the supreme courl
to advance the Meffert case, SO that i
can be speedily decided.
The City Railway company ought tx
arrange it SO that the new 100" car.
would meet all trains for the benefit o.
the first impression of visitors.
With turkey at 20 cents a pound {
good many people will develop un-
warranted preference for roast beef thi:
Christmas. Eggs are likewise high.
Dan Dyer, the presidential candidat
of Smith county, and E. A. MCFARLAND