The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS.
A Collection of Important Para
graphs for Your Consideration.

While down town don't fail to stop
and see the elegant sofa pillow on dis
play in the window of Mrs. 1. L. Keen
er Stewart which she is going to give
away. Each purchase of a trimmed
hat at her store entities the purchaser
to one chance on the pillow regardless
of the cost of the hat.
Bridge contractors are making fire.
quent calls upon the city engineer
nowadays to investigate the plans and
Specifications for the five new bridges
and the addition to the Melan bridge
which the city will build in the near
future. The representative of the
Kansas City Bridge company was here
today.
H. B. Howard, the sporting goods
man, SOB Kansas avenue, is offering
prices on sporting goods for the holi-
day shoppers that is hard to beat. For
instance, Rugby footballs rs cents up;
target rifles so cents up; shin guards
Is cents, and similar prices on all
other goods.
According to the eastern papers
New York at the price of rs cents a
square yard. Perhaps the day of
cheap asphalt is dawning.
Have you see the elegant fifteen dol
lar sofa pillow that Mrs. I. L. Keener
Stewart is going to give away? Every
purchase of a trimmed hat at her store
entities the purchaser to one chance
on the pillow, regardless of the cost
of the hat, so a cheap hat entities you
to one chance the same as a more
expensive one.
The bond papers published in the
east have printed the recent action of
the city council authorizing the sign
ing of the $350,000 waterworks bonds,
and City Clerk Squires is getting half
dozen letters of inquiry from pros
pective buyers every day.
There is an impression that when
one gives something away that it is
usually cheap, but this is not the case
with the elegant sofa pillow that Mrs.
away. With every purchase of
trimmed hat at her store. the pur-
chaser is entitled to one chance on the
pillow, which is worth fifteen dollars,
regardless of the cost of the hat.
Has any one heard any recent bluff
from Tom Sheard that he will sell the
Topeka baseball team? He has been
heard to say, however, that he is or
dering his players to report in Topeka
next spring.
OF the various number of seasonable
flowers there is none so beautiful as the
celebrated Begonia Glorie-de-Lorraine,
which is grown and cultivated especially
for the Christmas time. This elegant
plant has a beauty peculiar to itself,
containing hundreds of blossoms on
each plant. A noticeable feature of the
plant is the length of time the blossoms
remain fresh and the delicacy of it's per-
furne. James Hayes, the florist, has the
only assortment or these plants IN the
city, he having tended them all year for
this particular season.
The Auditorium is being cleaned out
today. 1t needed it.
To lovers of flowers there is no plant
so dear to them as the beautiful Point
settia, which truly deserves its name as
the Christmas flower. AS the Easter
lily reigns at Easter time SO does the
Pointsettia have it's inning at Christ
mas for it is only at this time of the
year that this peculiar flower unfolds
its beauty and perfume. Such a plant
as this is highly held and would make
a most beautiful and desirable Christ
mas present. James Hayes, the florist,
has a beautiful assortment for selec-
TONS Drop in and see them.
D. ]. Donahue, who ran the Elks
Minstrel show in Topeka several weeks
ago, will direct another venture of the
same kind for the E1ks at Indianapolis.
He belongs to the herd in the Indiana
capital.
There is nothing that would please
the women more for a Christmas pres
cnt than some house plant, the care
given it each day would be constant
reminder of the doner. James Hayes,
the florist, has the extensive assortment
for selections in the city.
Morton Albaugh has more callers than
any man in the federal building.
1t is generally known that the cult-
walton of the Pointsettia, is a hard tedi-
Gus job, and one which most florists
pass up, still James Hayes. the florist,