The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

new members secured the whistle on
the Continental Creamery company
will give a. long blast. This will be the
worst feature of the day.
Two weeks from today will be
Christmas. After that there will be an
opportunity for the oVerWOrked mer-
chants to take few hours leisure and
allow their clerks a little chance to
recuperate.
The United States circuit court will
be in session at Kansas City, Kan, for
the major part of next week The next
session of the United States district
court in Topeka will not come until
next March.
THE Fire Escape From Commercial
Ruin is the subject which has been
chosen for an address at the Y. M c.
A Thursday by M. W. Van Valken-
burg, one of the leading fire insurance
men Of the city.
Members of the trade extension COM
mittee of the Commercial club of which
H. H. Glenn is chairman will hold a
meeting at the club rooms Wednesday
evening for the purpose of considering
the parcels post.
According to the plans of a number of
| Topeka sportsmen they will attend a
gun club shoot to be given at South
Cedar tomorrow and compete with the
| local shots for a number of prizes
AS soon as a load of Colorado sand
stone arrives the paving company will
commence the removal of the oak head
ers and substitute the stone for Them
when this is done their contract with
the city will be completed.
Another theatrical company ~has
struck the rocks which seem to be so
abundant in the vicinity of Topeka for
second rate companies and the members
OF "A Mad Love" company. find them
selves disbanded in Topeka.
A Topeka music teacher telephoned
to the State Journal Office this morn
ing: II want to endorse what was
said by one of your subscribers in
Mondays paper about local talent for
the pipe organ concerts. At least $50
people have expressed the same opin-
ion to me-"
burn college is again in a state of
alarm. 1t now fears that the state uni
versity will take its football coach
away. It is hard to see how Topeka
are so frightened all of the time that
they violate every health rule.
The Topeka Kennel club has selected
March 6, Z, s, and 9 as the dates for the
first annual meeting of their society
which though known as kennel club
admits cats as members in good stand
ing when accompanied by pedigrees
showing that they are from aristocratic
parentage.
The December meeting of the kan
sas Authors and Book Lovers club will
be held tomorrow evening at the home
of Mr.. L. Anton Smith, 421 Topeka
avenue. Three departments of the club
work will be represented on the pro-
gramme tomorrow evening, fiction,
poetry and criticism, and the depart
ment chairmen promise an interesting
variety of original productions.
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furniture dealers of the state have made
arrangements for the use of the Com
mercial club rooms for the annual
meeting of the association, which viii
be held January 16 and II. The Re
tail Furniture Dealers association is
formed for the purpose of mutual pro-
tecLiOn in the way of freight rates, and
to combat cheap mail order and cata-
logue houses
At the last regular meeting of the
Shawnee Camp, Modern Woodmen of
America, number $500 the following
officers were elected for next year: C.
H. Kutz, consul; j. c. Wallace, adj
wiser; E. Z. Croker, banker; Edward
T. Hearick. clerk; F. Curry. assistant
clerk; w. J.. Jones, escort; J. F. Lewis,
Waterman; J. H. Baker, sentry: J. r.
johnson, c. K. Oliver and c. E. VIII
son, managers; F. H. SchoHe, w H.
RICHTER and Charles Messick, physi-
clans.
Mary F. Bass has petitionedy for a
permanent getaway from Gail A. Bass
whom she married just a year ago. AL !
though their period of life together was
short, she alleges in her petition that
the husband began early in the game to
callher by unprintable pet names and
clinch his arguments by resorting to as
sault and battery. She also states that
he is. high tempered and quarrelsome |
and makes life misera bic for this plain !
tiff" and is therefore an undesirable
life companion.