The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-14

yesterday. Mrs. H. G. Larimer was in
| charge of the sale. The proceeds of
the sale will be used to equip a bath
room and sewing room at the home.
H. F. Steward of Topeka was elected
grand Waterman of the Occidental
lodges of Kansas and Oklahoma at
their meeting which was held in Sa-
lima the first of the week.
Otto Hughes, 4 clerk in George
Stansheld's drug store, fell from the
top of a step ladder yesterday while
decorating one of the windows, and
broke his leg
Salina Journal: c. G. Witwer of
Topeka, came in last evening for a
short visit with his brother. Del Wit
wer, of the National hotel. He left
for home today. N4
1T may be all right as long as the
people who use them pay the charges,
but 1t seems to me-" said the city kick
er this morning, that there is a large
amount of room In the express wagons
occupied by Christmas trees and other
green 'flxens' that will be of no use
and mighty in the way several days
before the first Of the year
TO an outsider 1t appear as though
General Manager F. o. Me1cher raised
cane when he relieved Dan Cain from
his position of general manager of the
western lines of the Rock Island as
Mr. Cain has been offered a better
position than the one he held In To-
peka.
IT is reported that Christmas trees
will be higher than usual this year but
to man who in the past has been
compelled to traffic in them they have
always appeared to be as high as the
ceiling of the room would permit, and
higher in price than the ordinary
purse could stand.
1t will be- Just as well for the min.
listers who made the rounds of the city
a few nights since and saw things" If
they will make a note of the exact To-
cation of the sights" as it is more
than likely that some of them will be
given an opportunity to air their dis
coveries in court before a great while.
1t was a very clever act on the part
Of Frank Grimes to turn $4,000 into
the state treasury, especially as he
other sixty or seventy thousand dol
lars which the expert accountants say
is missing?
With the intention of favoring it's
employees the city will pay them the
day before Christmas, which suggests
the question, Is it really favor to
them?
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $50, 900
to Washburn college is sonnet hing sim
liar to the pocketboolk that is found on
the sidewalk on the first day of April.
1t has a string to It,
A dispatch from Junction City says
that the next annual meeting of the
Kansas Oklahoma Bottlers' assoeiat ton
and Gath of January. This leads a To-
peka man who knows more Of the con-
ditions of the city than he does of the
bottlers' association, to remark that ev-
erything is open here and that the bot
tiers should be able to have an enjoy
able time while in Topeka
Now that President Roosevelt has
agreed to abide by the decision of the
congress relative to simplfed spelling.
1 suppose that / will cor8e in for even
a greater amount Of criticism from my
correspondents than in the past said a
Topeka man this morning who adopted
the reform while attending a country
school
Not having heard of the accident TO
the Percy White Fudge club the water
works commission Of the city Is urging
that another Is inch water pipe be laid
from the pumping plant to the large
mains further up town.
The pipe organ in the Auditorium
win not be used as a roosting place for
pigeons at least not for another sea-