The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-19

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IND den ven lection cooms some more.
IND all ish bought serene,
Dey fndt Cy dere on de groundt floor
Still running dot machine.
Next time you kills him take some bats
Now listen what I saidt-
Joost treadt him like dose common cats
And kill him nine times deadt-
Christmas green's this year are I'M
usually beautiful.
Several hundred people attended the
entertainment at Sumner school last
night.
The W. CT. U. will meet at the First
Methodist church Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
E. B. stotts, of Garden City, who is
is oVerrun with coyotes.
There is a marked difference in the
condition Of the paved streets since the
city bought its new sweepers.
The State Poultry association ex-
poets to have 5000 birds on exhibition
at the show here in January.
A feature of the concert at the First
Congregational church Sunday evening
will be an original poem by Mrs. Fran
els L. Hayes.
A game of basket ball will be played
at the Y. w. G. A. gymnasium tonight
by the Topeka and Lawrence high
school teams.
w. ]. Carr, assistant general superin-
| tendent of the railway postal service,
was in Topeka Friday night. His
home is in Chetopa, Kan.
Good skunk skins are worth a dollar
and quarter on the local market.
This information ought to interest a
good many farmers boys.
Those elegant packages of perfume
are going like hotcakes. From % cents
to $500. They are beauties. At Swift
q Holiday Drug company.
Rev Matthew Francis will talk on
| African people, customs, manners and
missions, OF Quinton Heights school
| house tomorrow evening 1880.
A number of Topeka men who are
members of the Knights of Columbus
will go to Kansas City to attend the
institution of a new lodge tomorrow.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has announced that its headquar-
ters will be kept open until p. m. in
stead of closing at midnight as prev
| iously.
The Sunday afternoon meeting at the
/ Y. NJ. G. A. rooms will be addressed by
| G. E. Barnaby. The Y. M. G. A. quar-
| tette will sing. Misses Cron and Nettles
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One of the end girls in the brides
maids chorus of the "Toreador' at the
Crawford theater last night looked
very much like the daughter of a well
known Topeka citizen.
Most of the hose which the fire de-
partluent tested under $50 pounds pres
sure from the steamer stood the test
we'll Some of the hose tested has been
in service for eleven years.
Frank P. Edison has been elected to
full membership in the American Society
of Heating and Ventilation Engineers.
He is the only member of this organic
alton between st. Louis and Butte,
| Montana.
The degree team of Topeka council,
Knights of Columbus, will go to Sew
erance on Sunday, December q, to
initiate a large class. District Deputy
J. w. Gibbons of Topeka will have
charge of the work.
Topeka people are wondering why
flags are not put on the new single end
cars recently purchased by the Topeka
rarsway company. There is no way of
| telling which is which except by stop
ping the car and asking the conductor.
E. T. Behrens, of Sedalia, president of
the Missouri Federation of Labor, will
deliver an address on Government by
Injunction" before the Topeka Socialist
club at Lincoln Post hall at p. M,
| Sunday. A general invitation has been
| extended to the public
Walter Miller, who used to run a
| grocery store on West Sixth avenue
and who left here three years ago, is
reported to have become blind. He is
now liviY at Grand Junction, Col. His
! eyes became affected soon after he left
Topeka, and he gradually lost his sight.
At the meeting of the Topeka Auth
ors' club last night Mrs. W. e. Atchl-
son read a short story entitled "A
Night of Mystery This story will be
/ reviewed at the next meeting of the
club, on January 4. At this meeting
officers for the ensuing wear will be
elected.
A number of the members of Topeka
council, knights of Columbus, will go
to Horton New Years day to institute
a council at that place. Horton coun-
ell will have membership of about
sixty members. There will be a ban
quet in the evening for the knights and
their ladies.
One of the eastern bond buyers who
was here to bid on the Topeka refund
! ing bonds made some inquiries regard
: ing the waterworks bonds which are
shortly to be issued. He wanted to get
a chance to bid on them, but as the water
company has agreed to take the Whole
let. they win probably not be offered
for sale.
The Lawrence Journal says: 'sIt was
just five years ago this week that John
! Henry Collins was being tried in To-
years ago yesterday he took the wit
ness stand in his own behalf. Collins
has been in the penitentiary and never
took an appeal in his case. It is al
most time for him to make Willie Sci
seruge over and give him an opening
for perpetual agitation for pardon