The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

Thirty beds at the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. are rented to regular roomers.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Will Anderson of EN-
poria, were Topeka visitors over Christ
mas.
The. Topeka Whist club will hold a
regular meeting at the club room to-
night.
Several memberships in the Railroad
Y. NJ. G. A. were given as Christmas
presents.
Eugene Hagan's Christmas present
to Topeka seems to be a promise of
natural gas.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, Of Kinsley, pres
ident of the Kansas State Federation
of Clubs, is visiting in Topeka.
H. w. Robertson, of Rawlins coun-
ty, says that wheat is looking fine in
Rawlins and that the acreage is the
largest ever sown in the county.
An alarm was turned in this morn
residence of A. A. Hurd- A chimney
which was burning out caused the
trouble. No damage resulted.
The Emporia Gazette: Ed Hoch is
moving out all right. He handled him
self in Topeka yesterday amongst the
pie-biterS, in most admirable fashion
Kansas is going to expect good deal of
Hoch, and he may fool 'em and live up
to the advertisement. He has it in him.
H. w. Robertson, county clerk, and
o. A. Olson, clerk of the district court,
of Rawlins county, are in Topeka to-
day, the former to attend the state
meeting of county clerks which meets
thinks the meeting will be largely at
tended as the county clerks are taking
an active interest in the new tax bill
which will come before the legisla-
ture this winter.
At $50 o'clock Sunday morning the
fire department responded to a still
alarm turned in by pedestrians who
judged from escaping steam that the
new manual training school was on
fire. The steam which issued from a
pipe close to the central portion of the
roof made a cloud-like appearance,
and people in passing were deluded
into the belief that it was smoke. The
chemical engine responded
The Emporia Gazette says: The
Emporia and Lyon county teachers will
have an excursion to Topeka to attend
the State Teachers association. The
fast mail, and will leave here Tuesday
afternoon about $50. AS so many
Emporia people are on the pro-
gramme, large crowd is expected to
go from here. President Wilkinson of
the Normal will conduct the excursion.
The L. E. Myers Construction COM
pany, of Chicago, has sent out hand
somely engraved announcements of
the fact that Theo. p. Bailey, for the
past twenty years in charge of the
railway department of the General
Electric company in the west, will on
January l assume the office of vice
president and general manager of the
L. E. Myers company. Mr.. L. E.
Myers, the head of this company is
well known in Topeka, being vice pres
ident and manager of the Topeka
street railway company.
In reviewing Charles B. Hanford's
Don Caesar de Bazan," the Emporia
Gazette says: 'fWatching the 'supes'
who had been borrowed from fathers
and mothers around town, proved to be
one of the most entertaining spectacles
to the audience. company playing
one night stands can't be particular
about the extra help they choose, and
consequently one of the boys last night
stood over six feet in his stockings. No
provisions for this kind of a courtier
had been made and consequently the
long sweeping robes which he was sup
posed to be wearing struck him just
about the knees, and he had the ap
pearance of a woman who had just seen
a mouse run across the STAGE