The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-26

friends outside. The programme consist
ed of songs and declamations. Yester-
day big turkey dinner was served in
the dining room.
People in whose homes there are moro
old toys than they know how to use,
can do good by turning them over to
the Salvation Army for the distribution
to be made on New Years eve.
According to law no one registers and
files New Years resolutions, but as a
matter of accommodation A Newman,
the new county clerk, will record and
file them in the vault in his office.
DR.. Eva Harding has a contest on to
keep her gold shale lands in Trego coun-
~. She hired man to build house
on her claim and he is now living in it
and is rsquatting'' on the gold lands"
DIR. D. M. Fisk was presented with
500 in gold as a Christmas present frolf.
his class in sociology. The doctor seems
to have gotten the better to give than to
receive brotherhood of man doctrine
! pretty well founded in the class.
Ensign Howard of the Salvation army
detachment here has proven himself an
able commander by his success in get
three thousand of Topeka's poor We're
| fed Thursday
Mayor Parker will appoint no one to
succeed Policeman Downie. The mavor
Is doing his part to economic on city
finances. and il he has the hearty as
officials something may be accomplish
ed.
Warmth would have have been such a
welcome condition at the Grand opera
house during the matinee and night
performances Thursday that it is doubt
full if the audience would have stirred
an inch If anyone had shouted fire"
The extra messenger boys employed
by the messenger companies during the
holiday rush are so much better than
the regular boys that they should be re-
tanned. They have not been in the bust
ness long enough to learn to read
| ''Dicky Dials the Stowaway" and take
an hour to 20 two blocks.
No one will be able to say that Mile.
de Lussan sang such high falutin stuff
that l could not understand it," for any
one who can not recognize La Paloma
is bereft of all musical instinct. Even
Ed Howe Knows it and he once had
Marshall's band play it over eight times
in succession at Atchison.
Curtis MonfEal was badly burned
about the hands and head in a small
blaze spreading from a lighted candle
on a Christmas tree which he was ar
ranging in his home at Second and To-
peka avenue Christmas morning. Mr..
Monical was taken to the Santa F'e hos
pitai where he will be confined for sew
eral days. The fire was extinguished
without damage to the Monical home.
| Curtis Monical is chief clerk in the office
Clellan OF the Santa Fe.
I Editor Mickey of the Usage City Free
Press comments upon Editor Uric, who
slept with his trousers under his pillow
because he had 81 900 in the pocket. Uric
was afraid that under the recent deci-
sion of Illinois judge that his wife
might gain rightful possession of the
money. Mickey says: I'VE never were
mean enough to hide our pants from
the partner of our sorrows. We just
hang them up on the back of chair
every night, and we confess 1t would
give us pleasure to see her abstract
/ 81, 900 from them"
Anyone wishing to fire salutes will he
governed by the following rules of the
war department. AN ex-Dresident of
| the United States receives A salute of n
guns; the vice president and president
of the senate and American or foreign
ambassadors receive a salute of 10 guns;
members of the cabinet. the chief JUS
/ tice, the speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives, q committee of congress Off
cially visiting military post, governors
tories, and the civil governor of tie
/ Philippine Islands. receive II guns; the
vice governor of the Philippine Islands
receives 10 guns. A governor general
receives salute of IT guns
The following news comes from EN-
poria: An East side girl had a terrible
romance. Thanksgiving night she met a
TOPEKA boy at ball and danced every
dance with him. He made her think she
was the only lump of sugar in the coffee,
and she was fool enough to believe him.
The fact is, however, he is engaged to a
! Topeka girl The other day an Emporia
/ boy WAS mean enough to write the East
side girl a sugar-coated letter in which
the word dearest appeared one hundred
times and signed the Topeka boys
name She didn't do thing but return.
the favor, and when the Topeka fellow
received the letter he tainted half d
dozen times, and has been afraid to an
swer the letter. This story is printed
to show the difference between real love
stories and those that appear in novels
You win admit that novels are much
more interesting than real life"
All7American Bowlers.
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