The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-20
BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS.
A Collection of Important Para
graphs for Your Consideration.

Justice Burch and w. F. Jensen are
the latest recruits to the Saturday
Night club.
A Topeka bride is telling her friends
of the kindness of her husband, who
thinks it a shame that any woman
should have to endure the trouble of
bread baking, so consequently ordered
Vesper's bread wagon to deliver
Mothers bread at his house every
day. AS matter of fact her husband
is a heavy bread eater, and stood her
bread just as long as he could.
The West Sixth avenue cars are again
running on schedule time.
A Topeka man who hunted rabbits
unsucceSsfully said that the only diff
Guilty he experienced was that the rab-
bits ran too fast.
There was a, time when lady shoppers
had to hurry home for their noon day
lunch, but, that time is now passed.
They simply go to Golfers now.
A building permit for the erection of
a two story frame dwelling on lots 616-
61S Van Buren, street has been issued
to d. A Pratt. The cost given is 81, 500.
It's altogether different from any
thing else in the city, and together
with the excellent treatment accorded
to the customers, grows in favor more
every day. Golfers cafe.
Ex-Sheriff Wilkerson who found Cum
ningham is the man who exposed the
DE. Fraker insurance swindle.
The knowledge has just dawned on a
Topeka man who has been loud in his
praise of his wifes bread as 1.-The same
as mother used to make is no other
than the Vesper celebrated Mothers
bread.
Those who subscribed money to To-
peka baseball last spring on the condi-
ton that no games were to be played
on Sunday, and because ball was play
ed on the Sabbath, will get their money
back, have given it to the Washburn
baseball athletic association. In all 1t
amounts to about $50 Manager Leach
called on the Topeka Baseball associa-
ton this morning to get it. He will get
it-when they have it.
There is nothing that would make
so nice a Christmas present, or would
of burnt wood. This art is one of the
novelties of the times, and no home is
complete without a piece of this work.
Mrs Anna M. Trap, 40 Kansas ave-
nue., up stairs, has the largest and
most complete assortment of this popu-
dredS of patterns stamped and I'M
burnt. The demand for this class of
work has been SO general this season
that she has been compelled to have ex-
press shipments most every day, a large
express shipment having arrived last
night, which proves the popularity of
the burnt wood as Christmas presents.
While down town drop into her parlors
you will be surprised at the cheapness
of such elegant work.
Gus Alberts is one of the strong bid
derS for franchise at Wichita in the
association. He says that he is
receiving applications almost every day
from ball players who want jobs.
This is the Cassie Chadwickian puz-
zle: If Cassie pretendS to be years old
er than half of her real age, and the
difference between the truth and the
NI11ff &c Ea1f DC hn Gakf
how old is she, and what does she owe
if she has negotiated a loan and a half
every year and a half since she was as
old as she now says she is provided
and every one following was one and
one-half times as large as the one be-
fore?
A Topeka man who has a collection
of 200 or more volumes of Kansas books,
including complete bound files of the
Magazine and Agora, and many
rare volumes concerning the early Kan
sas troubles, will dispose of the collec-
ton. If you are interested address
''Zim,' State Journal office.
John Dawson, of the attorney gem
erals office, will act as critic at the
meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A. debating so
ciety at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms tonight.
He will make a talk giving advice to
debaters All members of the society
are asked to attend and visitors are also
invited.
Emporia Gazette: Jesus Billaruel, the
Greek who was run over by a switch
engine in the yards Saturday afternoon,
was taken to the Topeka hospital in
the evening. The bone in his leg was
to a powder just above his an
kle, for the breadth of a car wheel. The
leg will have to be amputated below the
knee. Billaruel and his partner had
been drinking some, which may have
been partly responsible for the accident.
A case of rivalary that has caused
good deal of comment lately, seems to
be one-sided now, as one of the young
men in the case has got the habit, and
takes her to Golfers for lunch after the
theater.
A. P. Tone Wilson, real estate man,
was arrested this morning on charge