The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-24

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Is gettin kind O proud
The next meeting of the city council
will be held On January 4.
To-Day is absolutely your last chance
to buy Christmas presents for whole
year.
U. S. District Clerk Frank L. Brown
will eat Christmas dinner with F. c.
Campbell.
If you want real fine candies for
Eighth street.
The Episcopal church will hold its
Christmas Eve exercises in Grace Ca
thedral at p. m. today.
This is the dull season for the hotel
men. The travelling men are all at
home spending Christmas.
1t now looks as If the annual vista
ton of the league baseball microbe had
at last started a small fever.
The turkey famine will not trouble
County Treasurer f. G. Bowen. He
always eats goose on Christmas day.
Thomas E. De Pui, 122 West Eighth
street, has an excellent stock of Christ
mas goods-candies, nuts and fruits
Sheriff Lucas will hang up some mis-
tletoe and holly in the county Jail to
give it homelike appearance for Chris
mas
This is the day when the Wells Fargo
Express company supplies its employees
with turkeys for their Christmas din
ners.
All the federal and state officers
whose homes are outside Topeka are
leaving this afternoon to spend Christ
mas with their families.
U. S. Marshall w. H. Mackey visited
the new court rooms in Kansas City
Wednesday. The next term of court
will be held there beginning January
II.
Webb McNall was in town today. He
says his lodge business keeps hin. so
busy he has not had time to hunt the
short grass country jack rabbits this
fall.
Have you seen the new special edition
of Gavitt's Stock Exchange at Halls?
They are put up in white enamel boxes,
. extra fine, price 40c. Regular edition
% cents.
Selecting fancy vest for another
man comes next in difficulty to pick
ing out a wife for him and is usually
accompanied with about equally salts
factory results.
The weather went on very dis
graceful spree last night and acted this
morning very much like an individual
would under similar circumstances
while recovering from it.
Catholics may eat meat on New
Years as we'll as on Christmas The
| pope mas granted UlSPSIlSdb1Ol1 AlO1lA
abstinence on New Years day, which
falls on Friday this year.
E B. Snyder, councilman from the
second ward, who has been conductor
on the Highland park line. has been
| transferred to the WaShburn college
route this morning.
If you really want to help a friend by
giving him a useful Christmas present
and cannot afford a ton of coal send
1 II H., Iof hon a
| next most important and expensive arti-
Gle next to COAL
The company which was to build the
street railway bridge is reported to be
was building there collapsed a few
days ago Is that the kind of a bridge
the company expects to construct here
at Topeka?
City Clerk SQuires sent notices yes
/ terday to all the telegraph and tele-
Melan bridge to take them off at once.
Some OF the companies have already
set their poles in the river on the lee
side OF the bridge piers.
Turkeys are selling for twenty cents
pound and the optimistic genius who
originated the story, just after Thanks
giving day, that the turkey market
would experience a decided decline by
Christmas, is not trying to explain his
assertions.
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ton is: Shades of We martyrs shorn
of crowns, Your shrouds, your working
clothes, and gown, Tombed in the Wau-
kerisa mud, And deep ravines beneath
brush wood, Come forth confront the
bogus now, The truth immutable avow.
Which truth is always on the scaffold,
While wrong is on the throne" Can
you guess it?
Wednesday Probate Judge Hayden is
sued the following marriage licenses
r. L. Baker of Granville and Stella A
Hatcher of Osawkie; Charles E. Elkins
of Topeka and Estella M. Slayburgh of
North Topeka; John B. Bay and Carrie
Hett, both of Marion; E. L. Fierce and
Rebecca Bashor, both of Topeka; Rich
ard Lyon of Springfield, Ill. and Matte
Willard of Manhattan; D. R. Mosher of
Guthrie, Okla, and Margaret Thomp-
son of Topeka; oscar Peterson and
Mary Seager, both of Topeka; Harry
Williams and Anna c. Engle, both of
Topeka; Frank He'll and Mary Sims,
both of Berryton.