The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-08

]. G. Waters, H. Pierce and Sam
Tracy of Topeka were in Kansas CITY
yesterday.
The legislature convenes on the
eighth of January. just one month
from today.
There will be an exciting race at the
rink tonight between Kansas City and
Topeka's fastest skaters.
The Standard Shorthand school, $50
Kansas avenue, is d,! giving us speeiai
b. H. Pugh will read a paper to-
night at the meeting of the Saturday
Night club on ssAmericans, Their Own
Enemy"
Nine. Lydia Won Finklestein Mount
ford will lecture on Homes and
Haunts of Jesus at the Auditorium
this evening.
Merchants are beginning to put in
their Christmas decorative schemes in
the show windows in preparation for
the holiday trade.
The United States circuit court closes
its session in Topeka today and will
probably open at Kansas City, Kansas,
next week, Monday
A. H. Hagan, former manager of the
Novelty theater, who is at present
vtting in Iowa. expects to return to
Topeka for visit shortly
Contribution boxes have been plac-
ed in the business houses about the
city by the Salvation army, the pro-
ceeds to be used for Christmas char
ity.
Secretary t. I. Heron of the Tope-
ka Kennel club has received a certi-
acate emitting the Topeka club to
membership in the national organiza-
ton.
The bank clearings for Topeka are
again over the million dollar mark this
week and show an increase of AZ per
cent over that of the same week last
year.
s.As You Like IT. was given by the
senior class of the Topeka high school
last night but lacked at least one
thrilling feature of the rendition last
year.
H. L. Whiting will leave next week
for a three weeks trip in the east. He
will spend Christmas with his son. Hal
Whiting. who is naval cadet at
Annapolis.
The man who was scared to death
that his gas bill was going to run high
this month gleefully turned the gas
down low this morning when the sun
came out strong.
A new type for street car tenders
has been adopted by the street railway
company and viii be put into general
use. They are less complicated than
the ones formerly in use and not as
heavy.
Ensign E. F. Omann. of the Saliva
ton army. has sent out letters to a
ing aid for the Christmas basket din
ner for rs poor families to be given by
the Salvation army
Isaiah Lisemby. who returned this
week from Ashville, N. c. as delegate
to the National Y M. G. A. convention,
will address the Young Mems Chris
tan association, colored department,
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
L. D. Whittemore, superintendent OF
the Topeka schools delivered an ad-
dress today at Leavenworth to the
teachers of the Leavenworth city
schools Mr.. Whittemore's subject is,
1.-The Teachers Self Improvement
Twenty transfers of real estate were
recorded in the register or deeds Of
fee yesterday, which is about three
times the amount of this class of bust
ness ordinarily transacted in a day.
Chairman w. H. Ryan of the Demo-
cratic state committee announces that
the Democratic headquarters at the
Throop hotel will be kept open until
after the session of the legislature.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for the annual Democratic ban
quet which will be held on the 22nd
of February this year. and It is prob
able that Governor Folk Of Missouri
will deliver the principal address
If rumors are to be believed Presi-
dent William Curtis of the Percy
White Fudge club has met with an
other affair since his descent from the