The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-13

And are the fitting emblems
OF patient years of toll.
God bless the homes of Kansasi
From poorest to the best.
| The cabin of the border,
The sod house of the West;
The dugout low and lonely,
The mansion grand and great,
The hands that laid the hearthstone,
Have built a mighty state.
Box suppers are being given in the
country.
The first issue of the Oakland Blade
is out.
Wanamaker is having series of re-
vival meetings.
The Commercial club meets on
Wednesday night.
Poor Commissioner Hale had many
calls for coal today.
The country roads are even better
since the light snow and rain.
l. Several Topeka young men are talk
ing of organizing a safety razor club.
The annual Farmers Institute will
be held at Berryton January 18 and 10.
Judge A. w. Dana will take charge
of the district court three weeks from
today.
The city council will meet this even
ing to discuss the Edison electric light
franchise.
Walter Ballinger, graduate of Wash
burn college in 1892, is now mayor of
Seattle, Wash.
In southern Shawnee county. oats
are threshing to Is bushels and kafir
lcorn 20 bushels per acre.
Gleason will be at the Auditorium
tonight. King Carlos third lesson
will be the chief attraction.
In the country the Masonic lodges
meet when the moon is full so the
members can easily find their way.
Berryton is having revival services
and Berryton is just the right distance
from Topeka to have an evening ride.
Tax paying time ends one week
from acknowledgements 21-then
there is a penalty attached to unpaid
taxes.
The Odeon quartette is considering
a list of eastern bookings for next year
under the management of A E.
Palmer.
John Myers, of Topeka, and Ruby
| a marriage license at Kansas City,
| Mo-, yesterday.
A Highland Park artist, Miss Aline
Lamy. supplied Kansas City art store
with a large stock of her hand painted
Christmas cardss---
K The meeting of the county clerks
association of the state will be held in
the Topeka Commercial club rooms
January % and 30.
Mayor Bergundtha1 is planning to
go on a rabbit hunt the next time snow
flies. He will do his hunting on George
NeiIs farm near Wakarusa.
The city board of health has not
made much of a stir lately but might
begin again by inspecting the unsan-
| itary plumbing at the court house.
County Attorney Hungate announced
before the Patterson preliminary yes
terday that he had no faith in the case
He appears to have good judgment.
The City railway has the tracks torn
up at Sixth and Kansas avenue laying
new curves. When it is all over the
street cars will "get onto the curves"
Councilman Joseph Griley has re-
turned from st. Louis where he and
Mrs. Griley were called a week ago
by the sudden and serious illness of
Mr.. Griley's brother.
| Director Jennings has been having
one of those CLOSING out before Christ
mas to get in a new fresh stock cold
wave and the fresh stock of cold waves
will come along in January and Feb
ruary.
eff the city railway will send out to
my house I will furnish the kindling
to start the fire in the car I take for
uptown" said Topeka man when he
reached his Office this morning with
cold feet.
How does it happen that the bar
bers have ceased to bake their towels,
razors, shears and other instruments
! in the sterilizing bake oven? Is the
much talked of barber law forgotten
now that there is a barber board2
The work of paving Huntoon street
between jackson and Van Buren, is
about half done. It will be finished
this winter. and this will give
| straight shoot of paved street on
Huntoon from Fillmore to Jackson,
me Wilcox whose horses ran away
while he was in the wagon ready to
start to Emporia, is slowly recovering"
Country correspondence from Pleas
ant Grove Quite a slam on Emporia
if the horses knew where they were go
ing and protested in that manner.
J. w. Going, president of the Topeka
Pipe Organ association, has received
letter from the Kimball company
to the effect that the pipe organ is
now being loaded at Chicago prepare
tory to shipment to this city: 1t Will
probably arrive about December ~.
The Washburn senior class has
bought caps and gowns, and will put
them into service some time before
Christmas. Prof. A. M. Hyde, the
class officer of the seniors, will wear a
masters cap and gown. There are
about forty members in the senior
class.
DR.. F. H. Snow, of the University of
Kansas, was notified a few days ago
that a new species of horse fly which |
he discovered in Arizona last summer, |
had been named in his honor by the |
expert who classified it. 1t will be
known as Snowe1la Altrata. Some |
people have fame thrust upon them. |
A country correspondent writing from |
Rerryton to a weekly Topeka paper |
says: ''Will Reese, with family. will |
remove to Michigan about New Years |
It is too bad that Kansas should lose
its grip upon citizens of the worth of !
Mr.. Reese. Where is commercial |
club for Berryton to look after. such |
things? '
r. S. Brigham, manager of the To- |
peka Midwinter fair, left on Monday |
for Chicago to engage vaudeville at
fractions for his show. Before 1eav- |
ing he said that the story in the
morning paper that all the. booth |
space is sold is net true but that there |