The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
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OF Christ. the King Of Glory.
Dr. and Mrs MCGEE will spend Christ
mas at ESkridge.
Russell Jennings has gone to Er1poria
to spend Christmas with his parents.
The Newman Gun club held a hunt
few days ago and 420 rabbits were slain.
The postoffice folks are being over
worked by the heavy Christmas mail
Have you forgotten any one you
should have remembered at Christ
mas?
The express Offices have extra clerks
and wrapping paper, marking pots,
string and scales on duty.
In Paris a. favorite Christmas pres
ent is an automobile. This is a hint
for Topeka love sick youths.
How would you like to eat peacock
for your Christmas dinner? Used to
be fashionable 800 years ago.
Captain w. C. Fuller. city passenger
and ticket agent of the Rock Island
spent yesterday in Kansas City.
Fay Thompson, travelling passenger
agent of the Rock Island, is visiting
with his family at Little Rock, Ark.
The Black Diamond chimney sweep
is figuring the painting of the iron
trolley poles for the street railway.
Charles Kleinhans has placed tel
There are now 80 phones in that To-
cality.
o. L. Riggs has rented County Com
missioner Harrison's s0-acre farm near
Auburn. Mr.. Harrison will move to
College hill.
There were a good many Topeka
people going home for Christmas to-
day. Trains were well filled going in
every direction.
Pug Owens, the crack umpire of the
Missouri Valley league last season, will
handle the indicator in the American
Association next year.
Perhaps Major Harvey will have
| that unslaughtered, uneaten Thanks
giving turkey for Christmas the
turkey has laid an egg.
D. P. Hodgdon. for twenty years
editor of the Rice County Eagle at
Lyons, Kan, was in Topeka yesterday.
He sold his paper last week
Will you eat hen or turkey for your
Christmas dinner? Difference in price:
hen so per cent cheaper than turkey
and turkey costs 100 per cent more
than hen.
Glenn Hall, who sang at the May
musical festival at the Auditorium two
years ago, sings in the Handel and
Haydn Socity rendition of 1.-The Mes
siah'' in Boston Christmas night.
People who pay $3.50 for parquet seats
at the Hanford performances Monday
will pay so cents more than the people
of Winfield and other small Kansas
towns, but then Topeka people are so
good-natured.
L. z. Meyers, president Of the Topeka
Street Railway company, has sent a
the car mems club tonight. A lunch
will be served after the distribution of
the presents.
When Miss Marion Ingalls, of Atchi-
son, says the Globe, asked the clerk in
a Paris hotel where she could find the
Venus de Milo the man said he did not
think she was stopping in Paris, as he
had never heard of her.
Finch of the First Christian church
will lecture at the Rossville Presbyter-
ian church under the auspices of the
Christian Endeavor. His theme will be
1.-The Knight of the Twentieth Century"
A Reams Corners correspondent says:
The tax payers of northern Shawnee
county will be very willing for the
commissioners to prospect on the
county farm for oil and gas as the ex-
pense would be very light on each tax
payer.
The executive committee of the Kan
Sas State Christian Endeavor union will
tel on next Monday afternoon at s
o'clock. Matters relative to the state
convention which takes place next June
in Topeka, will be discussed.
Several members of the Lyric Opera
company which went stranded in Tore-
ka, made application of Mayor Bergund-
thai for transportation from Topeka to
Chicago. The city has no funds avail
aDle IOr Sucn purposes ana the actor
folks were disappointed.
Parquet seats for "Af ter Midnight
tomorrow night will cost rs cents at the
Crawford theater. That is a higher
price than it cost Kansas City people
to see the show. At Kansas City The
show played at the Gilliss at 10, 20, 80
and so cents.
Emporia Gazette: The death of Frank
l. Brown of Topeka, made an election
of new officers for the Emporia Tele-
phone company necessary. H. Dunlap
was elected president to succeed Brown,
and T. l. Ryan was elected secretary
position as superintendent, and w. F.
Ewing as manager.
Representative Robert Stone will
move to Topeka for the winter His
Seabrook residence four miles from the
state house, is too far away for him to
pail the COW, feed the stock, do the other
chores and get to the state house early
enough each morning during the ses-
sion to begin work at the sound of the
gavel
The Atchison Globe says: In To-
peka every time a new baby arrives at
the home of a clerk in any of tn
county offices, his pay is increased IS
a month. 1t is unnecessary to say that
should Atchison adopt the same policy, |
it would have to keep a certain man
in private life or he would bankrupt
the county
Governor-elect E. w .Hoch in reply
ing to a Clay Center printers letter
said: ct served an old fashioned ap-
premiership at the printers trade
$50 the first year, SIS the second and
500 the third-taken in orders on the
stores-seldom got any money. Never