The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

see upon that Tree,
Jest fore Christmas be as good as yer
kin be!
Eugene Field.
Watch your automobiles.
This is the shortest day of the
year.
Have you gotten your resolves for
the New Year ready to try on?
This is the last day for the payment
of taxes before the penalty is attached
for nonpayment-
Have you found a sample of the
up-to-date youngster who does not
believe in Santa Claus?
Perhaps Director Jennings has forgot
ten that certain kinds of weather are
fashionable at Christmas.
The comment of the taxpayers often
is that tax paying time should not
come so close to Christmas
The Topeka Homeopathic School of
Medicine will have no Christmas vaca-
ton. Lectures will continue. s-f. :.
County Treasurer Bowen received over
$21, 900 in taxes yesterday, the largest
days business of the season.
Give your children something prac-
teal Start an account at the State
Savings bank; first deposit $1.00.
The Authors club will meet tonight
at the National hotel to arrange the
annual meeting and yearly banquet.
DIR. Edison can now be reached at
934 Kansas avenue by Independent
phone No. 3431 red, or Bell No. $685.
Everything is moving along all right
and the depression has not yet
arrived. A new automobile has arrived
in Topeka.
Dr. Harry Lyman has a new touring
car which he unloaded from the train
at Atchison and drove to Topeka. 1t is
a green Rambler.
Why is it that when the Kansas
sheriffs meet in Toupeka the first thing
they do is to deny that they are pre-
pairing bills for the legislature to pass?
The new directory of the Independent
company is nearly ready. 1t
will be out in a few days and Will con-
tain the names of over 5000 subscrib-
ers.
Albert T. Reid will make a sketch of
a basketball girl for the February issue
of the Review. The sketch will be made
up in poster form as the football boy
was last month.
The Washburn Review says that Billy
Rice, the crack football player, will not
return to the college after the Christ
mas vacation because he intends to
teach school in Oklahoma during the
next term.
Sheriff Lucas and John Wilkerson
looked rather tired and sleepy when |
they reached Topeka yesterday with Mr.. |
and Mrs. Cunningham, the automobile |
stealing specialists. They had missed
two nights of sleep watching their priS- |
0nerS.
Here is the good that the Washburn |
Review sees in it all: DIR. Outland is /
now permanent director of athletics. |
Does it not seem much better to say 1t /
his way than to repeat the names of |
1alf a dozen managers and as many |
The work of erecting the new street /
'ailway bridge is progressing very rap
dly Eight of the big tubular piers |
nave already been put into place. I'm
ess some accidents hinder, the bridge
will be ready for service in about three
months.
Christmas, the State Teachers con-
Tention, New Years, the new governor,
he legislature, the state board of ag-
'iculture meeting, the improved stock
breeders, the poultry show, the Mid
winter exposition, seems to be the or
Ter of events.
Clifford Dumford has been sentenced
o the Reform school by Probate Judge
Hayden. As long as young Dumford
goes to school and is a real, good boy
lie will not have to go to the Reform
school, Commitment was deferred
developments of his behavior.
r. s. Brigham, general manager of
he Midwinter Fair association return
d on Tuesday from Chicago where he
ngaged his vaudeville attractions for
he big Auditorium show next Febru-
ry. He says that he has secured the
eSt line of acts ever put on in Topeka.
Cunningham, the automobile thief
las arrived at Independence, Kan, and
Mo. at all times of the
lay of November 20 according to various
lapers. Last night Kansas City pa
er got him to Independence, Kan, at
o'clock in the morning more than II
Iours earlier than he did reach there.
This is the programme for Farmers
Week" in Topeka: Kansas board of
griculture. January 11-1S; the Improv-
d Stock Breeders association. January
IL; the Kansas Swine Breeders as
January ell; the State Vet
rinary Medical association. January 10,
nd the annual meeting and show of the
tate Poultry association, January g.
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