The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
SNAP SHOTS AT AOMENEMS

Poor Santa, fat and puffy, stood
In no such state as the good man should
And scratched his cheek and rubbed his
nose,
Kicking the roof with his chubby toes;
Then suddenly he loudly laughed;
I'll have to drop down the skylight
shaftI"
And SO he dropped, and he made his way
He squeezed him in with his toys and all
To a four-foot room. from two-foot hall;
He dragged his toys-he only knows
How he got them inflow do you sup
rose?
Well, anyway, he filled each stocking;
The way they imposed upon him was
For Ned, aged 2 on the mantle-sheIf
Had stocking in which he'd have lost
And all the children had played the same
Sort of Christmas-tims bunco game.
But Santa is blind to all such tricks.
And so each stocking he set to Ak
With toys and candy and all things nice,
Expecting to bound to the roof-instead
He bumped the ceiling and cracked his
head.
He fell on chair and cut his ear.
He caught his toys in the chandelier,
And was SO dazed he was hardly able
To squeeze himself through the six-inch
He'd never had such a time before!
That whenever he is tempted to roam
Again to an up-to-date city fiat,
He'll be more wise, you can bet on thati
For Santa now is an up-to-dater,
And he'll always ring for the elevator.
Baltimore News.
w. D. Jansen has been to Las Vegas,
New Mexico, on a business trip.
The Modocs gave a concert at the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. a. last night.
The recent snow storm has been gem.
eral all over the state of Kansas.
Topeka corps No. "a, will give box
social at 119 West Sixth street tonight.
Those who owned sleighs and feared
this would be the last snow, had them
out yesterday.
Buck Miller. the Democratic
wheel horse. is still sick at his home
near Tecumseh.
w. l. Bates of Topeka has entered a
number of White Plymouth Rocks in
the chicken show at Leavenworth.
There was a church dinner at 622
Kansas avenue Friday for the benefit
of the Christian church tabernacle
out at Central Park.
Gleason. the horse tanner, goes to
Wichita for an exhibition every night
next week. His series of exhibitions in
Topeka this week were not successful.
The young mems Bible class of the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A, will commence
the study of the Book of Mark Tuesday
night under the leadership of E. B.
Smith.
The board of health will hold
meeting the first of next week to
agree upon a report concerning the
proposed Osborn crematory plant
franchise.
The Central Congregational church
had a big dinner at its church build
ing Friday night. The proceeds went
into fund to buy a new carpet for the
church.
Chancellor Frank Strong will speak
in Topeka on January IL, with Booker
Washington, who has been engaged for
an address on that date by the Topeka
Industrial Institute.
Austin G. Brady of Mexico, formerly
of Topeka, has an article in the current
number of Harper's Weekly on Ramon
Corral, tho new vice president of the
republic of Mexico.
The work of grading for pavement
on Twelfth street is going right along
in spite of the snow. The street rail-
way company say that the street will
| be paved this winter.
The Salina Journal says: c. w. Burch
returned this afternoon from Topeka,
where he has been transacting legal
business and visiting with his brother,
Justice Birch, of the supreme court.
So far as reported William Quinlan
| of Newman has the record corn
husker. He husked 1874 At bushels
from $3.50 a. m. to $3.50 p. m. Aver
aging 80 bushels for IA u days.
Tine custom OF keeping the stores
open evenings for two weeks before
| Christmas seems to have been abol-
ished in Topeka. Most of the big
stores shut up early Friday night.
A letter received from Judge Pollock
| of the federal court states that he does
not know whether he will be home be-
fore the holidays or not. He is in st.
Louis, sitting in the place of Judge Ad-
| ans.
| Do Topeka students have this trou-
| BILE: Before exams-"O God of Hosts,
be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we
! forget" After exams-"The Lord of
Hosts was with us not, for we forgot,
| for we forgot.
The country correspondent of Gold
en- Rod neighborhood, writing to a
| weekly paper says: Items are scarce
| in this neighborhood." How like
Golden Rod Topeka seems at times to
| the reporters.
The Christmas rush is noticeable al
the postoffice in the amount of money
orders which are coming in. The pack
| ages have also greatly increased In
| number, which is always a good sign OF
the approaching holidays.
John WiIkerson, who caught Mr.. and
1 Mrs. Cunningham in Ohio after a long
strenuous chase, earned 800 reward
Mr.. Wilkerson recently sold a 800 acre
Shawnee county farm. Would he
work so stRenuously for 500 reward
Councilman j. w. f. Hughes says he
is in favor of J. w. O'Neill as one OF
the waterworks commissioners. Mr.
| O'Neill was receiver for the water
company, and is said to be planning tc
make Topeka his home after the
transfer of the plant to the city.
Councilman c. K. Holiday has
gone east for the purpose of trying tC
interest eastern capitalists in piping
natural gas to Topeka. 1t is likely
that Mr.. Holiday expects A. N. Brady
owner of the Excelsior Coke and Ca.
company to interest himself in the
project.
The Marshall County News says: w
H. Smith, chairman of the transporta-