The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-31
SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
A NEW YEAR REFRAIN.
Not many hours will pass away
Before a million men will say
Oh, Goodbye Booze.
This is the last day on which you
can write 1905.
Just one more day of grace for the
mistletoe and holly.
Well, you have time today to make
up your New Years resolutions.
Season tickets for the baseball games
are selling at SIS for next summer.
Five marriage licenses were grant
ed by the probate judge Saturday af-
ternoon.
Geo. Hampe, Ind phone 1895, has
| plenty of good wood for sale at IS and
Sc per cord
Some new fling cases are being
placed in the United States circuit
court offices.
Since Christmas there is a noticeable
falling off in the attendance at the
Sunday schools.
The contractors expect to have the
roof on the new 7. M. c. A. building
within two weeks.
Now that the Christmas rush is
over the mail carriers are taking time
/ for shaves and meals.
Miss Alice Peyton. who has been
/ seriously i'll at DR. Kieths hospital for
some time, is convalescing-
/
At Mrs Lords flower room today
you will find roses, all colors, violets
and carnations. Both phones S27.
Now that Christmas and New Years
are past. the big gobblers who have
been hiding out can come home to
roost.
The admission to the grandstand at
/ the baseball park next season will be
4 Is cents instead of 10, as 1t was last
year.
The public schools open again on
Tuesday next. Washburn college has
still a week before the vacation ex-
pires.
Don't lose your temper if you write
it wrong the first time, but make a
second attempt, and be sure that you
1 write it 1906.
The next meeting of the Commercial
/ club Will take place on January u.
/ incidentally it is the annual election of
officers as well.
Master Harold Parr. of Chicago,
viii sing at the First Cumberland
Presbyterian church IN POtwin at to-
! nights services.
New Years dinner at the Throop
| hotel will be served both noon and
evening, capacity 800. Tables may be
reserved by phone.
There will be three of last years
baseball players who will play on the
White Sox team next year-Jack
Henry, Cole, and Murray.
With the advent of vaudeville
theaters Sunday night, the attendance
at the evening services at the churches
has fallen off percepubly-
If man did not smoke or drink
what on earth would he do to keep
perpetually broke, and it is said that
money is the root of all evil.
There has been thin ice for over a
has not been a single casualty as faI
) as the small boy is concerned.
The average man already has about
all of the unuSaDle ChFlSlIndS pres
| ents which he received during the re
cent unpleasantness located in attlcs-
Dick Cooley will play first base fol-
the White Sox during the season OF
1906 But then he is the manager
of the team and can do just as he
likes.
It is noticeable fact that tie ga:
: company is using steam from thC
Edison electric lighting plant to hea
the building which it is occupying as
an Office.
A picture of Walter Boles of this city
/ appeared in the last issue of the Sport
| ing News. Boles was member OF
the pennant winning Fort Worth team
! in the Texas league.
The dates for the Midwinter fair are
from January % to February g. Man
ager r. S. Brigham has signed up some
good vaudeville attractions. Practical
ly all of the booth space is sold.
After circulating among the schoo
marTns who thronged the city the lat
ter part of last week it is easy to guess
what prompted Joe Waters to dedi
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