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

do not have to begin work until spring,
and that owing to the fact that their
steam roller is at Coneyville, it would
be very inconvenient for them to do
the work here at this time. He ex-
poets to be in Topeka within a few
days to talk the matter over with the
city engineer
If you want it done by hand, and we
mean what we say, by hand, send your
laundry to us. The Commonwealth
Hand laundry
City Engineer McCabe says he will
not have the Sixth ward sewer plans
meeting on December %. He expects
to present them at the meeting of the
council on January 2, 1905
If the pure food law was exercised
as severely in this state as it is in most
states one of the first things that
would receive the ban would be the
various kinds of buckwheat sold under
a guarantee of absolutely pure buck
wheat. 1t is a well known fact that
the price of pure buckwheat is SO high
that many millerS mix it with shorts
and other substitutes, and place 1T on
the market as the absolutely pure.
For this reason Topeka people should
feel proud of our local product, Tay-
lor's Pure Buckwheat, as it contains
nothing but absolutely pure buck
wheat and though it costs more to
manufac ture, it costs you no more
than inferior makes.
At the meeting of Masonic lodge No.
81 on Friday night the following Of
fcers were elected: George E. Nell,
worshipful master; w. S. Eberle,
senior warden; Willis Coats, junior
warden; John E. Moon, treasurer;
Evan Davis, secretary; Mathew Gail,
senior deacon; Charles H. Chandler.
junior deacon; Frank MGFarland'
junior steward; Robert Edwards, tyler
When you order buckwheat again
try a sack of Taylor's pure buckwheat
and see the difference. 1t is made
from absolutely pure buckWheat, and
found in other brands. One trial will
convince you that there is difference.
If your grocer does not handle it tele-
phone US and we will tell you where
to get it.
The members of the Young wo-
mems Christian association are invited
to assemble at the rooms Tuesday
evening, December 81, to enjoy an
unique entertainment which is being
planned by the secretaries. Old
Mother Hubbard, Old King Cole,
Dame Trot, and Little Bo Peep will
be special attractions.
We carry a complete line of all
plants and flowers popular at this
season of the year, besides the largest
assortment of cut flowers in the city.
Rodman, the florist
In advocacy of a grand jury for
Lyon county, the Emporia Gazette
says: "A grand jury will cost no more
than one good murder trial, and con-
ditiOns in this country are getting ripe
for the murder trial. 1t will be bet
ter to invest the money in a grand
jury and clean things up.
If you want to make your home at
tractive for the Christmas time, why
not decorate it with Christmas green's
We have a large stock of holly, ferns,
miStletoe, etc. Rodman, the florist
Charles L. Holman, secretary of the
Laclede Gas Light company at St
Louis, is in Topeka. He was called
to Topeka by the death of his grand
mother.
VIM. S. WEIGH, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. B. WEIGH, sol Fillmore street, will
spend a Sixty-day furlough visiting his
relatives and friends in this city. Mr..
cavalry for over three years, the most
of the time in the Philippines. He is
now stationed at Fort Apache, Ariz.
There are 16 ounces of good whole
Mothers bread, and it's all for 5
cents. Yet some bread contains less
and is not near so good.
Mr.. P. w. Griggs will lead the dis
cussion at the Y. NJ. G. A. Sunday
club, III East Eighth street, tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock, on the sub
ject Social Amusements." At 4
o'clock D. w. Crawford will make an
address on the subject of Missions"
There will be orchestra music.
The principal ration of a meal is
bread. and as long as poor bread costs
as much as good bread, why not use
Mothers bread, and get of the Yes
per bakery, 113 East Sixth street.
DR.. Adam Rupin, who was called to
attend DR.. Charles Lowry today, says
that his condition is very serious.
There are but six buying days before
Christmas, and in that time all those
who have not as yet secured their
Christmas presents will be hurried as
Of ho cd wi n
they want. Here's tip-go up to Mrs.
Anna NJ. Traps, 10 Kansas avenue,
and you will see more desirable Christ
mas presents than you can find in day
of hunting along the street Burnt
wood articles, point lace, embroidery,
sofa pillows, and a hundred other ar
ticIes, any one of which would make
the most desirable present.
Capitola Rebekah lodge No. PIG of
Topeka will celebrate its twelfth an
niversary on Monday. They have in
vited all the subordinate and Rebekah
members of the city, and besides hav-
ing a program they will serve refresh
nents, which will be free.
Here are a few suggestions for
Christmas shoppers: Burnt wood ar
ticles point lace, embroidery, sofa pill
lows, drawn work, and a hundred other
articles that Mrs. Anna NJ. Trap car
ries that would make desirable Christ
mas presents, and any one of them are
serviceable- Come up and see them.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Trap, 10 Kansas ave-
nue.. Independent Phone 372
Ralph H. Bollard arrived in Topeka
at noon today. He returns to Harvard,
where he is a senior, in two weeks.
Send a ton of coal. If you can't afford
enough tissue paper and baby ribbon
to go around, just put a piece of holly
on top and send it to a friend for
Christmas, but be sure to get the coal
of Gillette & Nicholson.
The condition of DR.. WATSON is slight
~ improved.
Thirty years is long time to work
perfecting one article, yet that is ex-
actly what H Vesper has been doing.
All these years he has been trying to
make his Mothers bread a little bet