The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS.

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Most Of the Topeka. churches have
/ special music today.
Mrs G. Dudley has been very sick at
! her home on Clay street during the past
There is one nice thing about it any
+ way Most people viii have two Sun
/ days this week.
The postodice used three extra car
+ riers and three extra clerks last week
/ TO handle its business.
H J. Bone will take possession OF
/ MS office as United States district at
torney for Kansas on Tuesday.
At Mrs. Lords flower room you will
find American Beauties and other
roses; vIolets and lilies today.
This is the rest period for the archi-
/ tects- They don't have much to do
from now on until along in February.
The postofhce will be open an extra
half hour today at noon for the bene-
ut Of people who wish to get packages
there.
In judging from the snow still on a
good many Topeka sidewalks. Street
Commissioner Ramsey has not yet sent
out those notices.
The holly received this year was not
up to par. There were plenty of leaves
and stems, but the berries were few
and far between.
If you want to worry about some
thing figure out this: How much
money did Christmas shoppers spend
in Topeka this week?
Christmas dinner will be served at
the Hotel Throop both noon and
evening. Capacity 800. Tables may
be reserved by phone.
Probate Judge Hayden went to his
home at WetmOre yesterday to spend
Christmas with his parents. The fam
lily viii hold a reunion.
The small boy who has not been to
Sunday school for several weeks will
appear on deck this evening to get
that coveted bag of candy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter II. Hughes Of
Beaumont, Texas, are visiting Mr..
Hughes parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Hughes during the holidays.
The work of repairing the damage
done by fire to the PrOvident associa-
ton building is being rapidly pushed
and viii soon be completed.
The city employees received their
Christmas money Saturday in the way
of pay checks, paying their salaries
for December UP in full to Decem-
Der p.
The melancholy day has come, the
saddest of Me year-the day of home
made neckties. Cheerfully contributed
by a victim? Did you get one for
Christmas2
The o. K. boys entertained the c. o.
burndaIe on Friday night Both are
organizations of the high school class
of June '0S.
Governor and Mrs. Hoch We're
among the Christmas shoppers on
Kansas avenue last night The gov
ernor seemed to be having as good a
time as anybody.
Pliny Snyder, manager of the Wash
burn basket ball team, says that he
does not know what the next game
will be for Washburn. No schedule
has yet been arranged.
Four delegates have so far been ap-
pointed from over the state to attend
the delegate convention in Topeka on
January 20 for the purpose of arrang-
ing for the Kansas exposition for 1911.
The man buying hat for his wife
for Christmas looked almost as funny
as a woman buying a suit Of clothes for
a man. It is a twenty to one shot, how
ever, that the latter met with the bet
ter success.
Colonel A. R. Green, who unearthed
the land frauds in Kansas and is still
at work on more, says that the report
is untrue which says that he is to be
transferred to Nebraska now to look
into similar matters there.
Great preparations are being made by
Shawnee council No. 1 Fraternal Aid,
for the annual ball and luncheon. Don
Carlos, the national nresident of the or
der and large delegation are expected
from Lawrence.
The street car conductor had his
troubles last night. Between, amongst
and around climbing over parcels,
packages, bundles of assorted shapes
and sizes, he ought to be fit today to
scale the Alps without fatigue.
Buffalo steaks were common on the
tables OF Topeka people Friday and
Saturday There IS nothing much in
this Buffalo steak when you consider /
what you pay for it. However the nov
city Of the thing is worth the price.
James Neal, who sold the city three +
lots in the tract of land condemned for J
park purposes for the new Willow park
at Potwin, refuses. to pay the tax ON the
property and the transfer has not yet /
been made. The tax is for the past /
yea.
Lots of people wait until closing up
time the night before Christmas to do |
their shopping Sc as to get the adj /
vantage of the reduced prices. The !
usual number were in the Topeka |
stores last night Lots of the people /
who waited it out got bargains, too.
Instructions will have to be issued T
soon by Mayor Davis to Chief of Pc I
lice Goodwin to arrest some of the de-
linuuent automobile owners who have T
failed to purchase license numbers.
But twenty-eight owners of automo-
biles in Topeka have secured their I
license while there still remain on the I
outside thirty-two owners who have 7
failed to comply with the ordinance.
WINNER OF POOL EMBLEM.