The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27

mas ruSfls IS over
A misty sort of a rain made things
disagreeable for those who had to be on
the streets last night.
The Mothers club of the Provident
association held their Christmas
meeting yesterday afternoon
Schoolmarms, young and pretty,
and schoolrnarms, old and ugly, are to
be seen hiking down the city streets
Some bargains in the way of Christ
mas trees can be picked up this morn
ing You might buy them for fire.
wood.
DR.. Julius Smith will give free IL
Illustrated lecture this evening at the
Walnut Grove NJ. E. church at $3.50
sharp.
There will be four big attractions at
the rink next Monday night. The adj
mission will be loo. Skating until
past midnight.
According to the butchers, goose
will be the prevailing piece de resis-
tence at most of the New Years din
ners in this city.
A mission study class will be con-
Quoted at 1880 O'Clock tonight at the
Walnut Grove NJ. E. church by Miss
Viola Troutman.
The work of rebuilding the Craw-
ford will begin January 3rd. 1t is ex-
pected that the theater will be COM
pleted by April 1st-
Yesterday every time you asked any
one a question, he would look at you
with a dazed expression OF the cola gray
dawn of the morning after.
This is the time Of the year when
YOU meet people who have been out II
town so long that you have forgotten
that they were in existence
Alas and alaek the glory has now fad
ed from the brow of the football hero
and he is forced to live in the common
class with the rest of the students.
Isaac Cohen, formerly of Topeka,
who is now travelling for the Chicago
Record-Herald. has returned east
after spending Christmas in Topeka
1t sure would be pleasure to go 20
schools presided over by many OF the
teachers who are here to attend the an
nual meeting of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION.
This evening the Salvation army
will have their Christmas tree. Pres
ents of new shoes and stockings viii
be given to a hundred poor children
of the city
The Increase in the Christmas bust
ness of this year over last al the post
office amounted to $4,000, according
to figures compiled by A K Rodgers,
postmaster.
Suing seems to have come to a tenn
porarv cessation as far as the United
States circuit court is concerned at
least. for over three weeks not a suit
has been filed in that court
The buildings on the washburn col
lege campus are being left open for
the next two days in order to accom-
modate visiting teachers who make it
a point to run out to the college while
here.
Tom Anderson and his Modocs are al
ways bound to have their little joke At
the reception to the members of the
State Teachers association last night
one of their songs was The Hens
Convention"
c. E. Fairchild. of this city. will be
h..
poultry show Of the Kansas City Fan
ciers' association to be held in Conven-
ton hall, Kansas City, No, during the
week Of January l5-
One man who heard the Modocs
sing at the Teachers convention said
that the only objection he had to the
famous chorus was the fact that It
took them so long to pass off the stage
and come back again IN response to
their encores- es
William Jennings Bryan, the famed
Nebraskan will deliver his new lee
ture on 1.-The Old World and It's Ways
at the auditorium tonight. Thia lee
ture is primarily for the benefit of
those attending the state teachers as
ISOLATION meeting.
The city engineer is preparing a re-
port for the council covering the
amount of public work done by the
city during the past three years. The
report shows among other things that
laid in that time
Girls who are writing the WashbuIn
comedy, which is to be given the Ilth
of January. have come to the conclu-
sion that it is no snap to write play
and that Bill Shakespeare earned all the
glory he has gained and all the adver-
Using which the Baconian theory gave
the boy.
Topeka, U. S. A, has a home man.
ufactured article that appeals to the
desires of the residents Of far away ST.
Petersburg Russia. The fame of the
city's school system has reached the
home of the czars and a request comes
here for information as to how we run
our schools.
The warm weather of the past two
days has been too much for the ice
on the Central Park lakes and the
skating is now a thing of the past.
However, the prospects are good today
for some more cold weather and it is
not unlikely that the lakes will again
be frozen over in a few days.
Chances are that a good many Tope-
kans who went to see Louis James at
the Grand last night had never read
1.-The Merry Wives of Windsor" for
they looked rather uncomfortable when
.'Falstaff'' got busy with the rather bold
and bald lines put In his mouth by
Shakespeare, and seemed to expect al
most anything to happen.
Robert Cheney, the White Sox
pitcher who was sold by Manager Gus
Alberts of BartlesviIle to the Chicago
White Sox after he had been loaned
10 the Bartlesville management by To-
peka is in Topeka where he has been
for a few days spending Christmas
with friends. Cheney has been spend
ing the winter at his home in Republic
county where he has been working,