The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS.
A Collection of Important Para
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United States Attorney ]. S. Dean is
in Kansas City looking up matters rela-
tive to the suit which he plans to bring
in the federal court to determine wheth-
er or not the Kaw is a .navigable
stream He may file the action before
Christmas.
Dan Hamer of the United States at
torney's office is expected home on
Thursday. He has been in New Mex
leo for over a month with his sister who
is i'll with typhoid fever at Albuquerque
Professor Gleason has four horses,
from a western Kansas ranch to put
on at the Auditorium tonight. Besides
these an attempt will be made to ride
King Carlo.
Those elegant folding platinum
pictures at I'VE dollars a dozen would
make twelve Christmas presents for
your friends. Why not have a dozen.
Made only by Colville, 623 Kansas ave
nue.
A Kansas City paper says: Mrs. Car
RE Nation was given a reception by
her friends in Kansas City, Kan, yes
terday afternoon at the home she found
ed for drunkards' wives In spite of the
cold large number attended At
o'clock Mrs. Nation started to Topeka
There are only a few days left in
which you can have Christmas photos
taken and there is nothing that will
make such a desirable present and so
inexpensive. Have a sitting at Col
villes, 623 Kansas avenue.
Barbara Gathers filed suit in the dis
for a divorce from Arthur Gathers. She
charges that Gathers has not been true
to his marriage VOWS.
Four regular ten cent packages of the
celebrated Cero Fruto for twenty-five
cents at Warmers new grocery and
meat market, 1901 Kansas avenue.
The street cars are mostly running
without any close adherence to sched-
ule time nowadays. The trouble is that
the reconstruction of the track at Sixth
crossways.
We have a supply of holly, mistletoe
greens, ferns, ETC., for the holiday dec
orations. Rodman, the florist.
The Taxa Art Embroidery club will
meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Charles Fuller, 1897 Garfield avenue.
There's no use talking said a man
today. no woman can bake bread like
Vesper's Mothers bread"
d. w. NALL of Harrington, who wants
to be warden of the penitentiary, is in
Topeka today trying to line up polite
ians for his boom. There is a scramble
for the warden'S job. A good many
Republicans say that Warden Jewett is
the best man that ever held the place
and he ought to be kept there.
Why not include in your wifes Christ
mas presents, the stopping each morn
ing of the Vesper bread wagon with
'Mother's'' bread.
The Christmas concert by members of
the Washburn musical faculty took
place at the college last night, and was
an unusually fine musical event The
programme included two ''song cycles
by Mrs. George w. Parkhurst and Mrs.
Florence Thatcher, a string quartette
led by Prof. Wiley and piano selections
from Chopin by Prof. Alf- Klingenberg.
One of the popular magazines for De-
cember has a list of the most desira BILE
Christmas presents for women and
third on the list is tpotted plants" So
you can make no mistake in giving your
lady friends a growing plant for her
present. ROdman, the florist, has a
most complete assortment at all prices.
Some of the Washburn senior and
Junior boys had a fight Monday night
at the Delta Phi frat house for the pos
session of the new caps and gowns of
the senior class, which were in charge
of s. w. Pressey, a senior, at the frat
house, About IL o'clock Pliney Snyder,
John Vandemark and other juniors tried
TO get away with the whole outfit of
about 40 caps and gowns. Mr.. Pressey
summoning some of his classmates to
the rescue, succeeded in saving the caps
and gowns. The fight is said to have
been a good natured one, but it contin-
ued till about midnight.
If you want to give her something
real nice, why not box of cut flowers
from Rodmans.
At this time of the year buckwheat
Hour is at the height of its popularity,
and no breakfast is complete without
buckwheat cakes. The celebrated Tay-
lor's absolutely pure buckwheat can be
had at most all grocers and it is the
kind you should buy. 1t contains no
shorts, siftings. or leavings, nothing but
the very purest buckwheat. Ask your
grocer for it, and if he hasn't it tele-
phone US and we will tell you where
you can get it.
The preliminary meeting of the Social
Bowler's club took place last evening
"wednesday at the Royal Bowling par
lors. Twelve couples are included in the
membership.
We positively guarantee not to shrink
woOllens, or fade delicate colors in
laundering. If you have anything of
this nature you want done do not hest
tate to send it to us. The Common
wealth Hand laundry. both phones 11O7.
There was stormy meeting of the
streets and walks committee before the
council meeting Tuesday night, at
which the rival delega lions in the Clay
street paving row were present and
made speeches. One crowd wants Clay
street from First to Second paved; the
other doesn't. Petitions, counter petit
tons, remonstrances and counter re-
monstrances have come in so thick that