The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-24
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A cHILD's CHRISTMAS SONG.

cHILD's CHRISTMAS SONG.
Oh. Santa Claus. where do you stay all
Where do you live. 1 pray?
Or in fairy land so gay?
Is 1t always cold in Santa Claus land?
Please. are the nights all long?
Do you ever have summer day?
Have you heard the birds sweet song ?
CHORUS.
Santa Claus, dear Santa Claus, will you
come when the lights burn low?
We always love you. Santa Claus. but
that You surely know.
Come again, dear Santa ClausI Oh. come
with your Christmas cheer,
And make the children's holiday the glad
dest of all the year.
And, Santa. 1 wonder if Old Jack Frost
Wakes ", your reindeer fleet?
Does he fill your sleigh as the sun goes
And help you out to the street?
And does he tell you what each child
How do you find each place?
Oh how wish might ride with you
AS Ger the world you race. j.
McRae's matinee dance Wednesday
afternoon.
All union barber shops will keep open
until 9 p. m.
McRae's social dancing Wednesday
afternoon and night.
Members of the III H" club get
more for their money than outsiders.
Skating and MarshaIrs band at Mu-
sic hall Christmas afternoon and even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Krauss of 231
Tyler are the parents of a son born
Saturday, Dec. 21st.
The holiday rush is on today. The
railroads which converge in Topeka
report a very heavy business today.
Many of the students at washburn
college have taken advantage of the
holidays to spend a visit with the home
folks.
The Topeka football team which
goes to Chanute tomorrow commenced
practice at Washburn park yesterday
afternoon.
Mantells Marionettes, the leading
number on the bill Of the Olympic this
week, is one of the best acts
ever seen in Topeka.
The state house is about deserted by
the officeholders and employees who live
in various parts of the state and are
spending Christmas with their families
and relatives.
at the Topeka Orphans home this ev-
ening at o'clock when the candles on
the Christmas tree provided for the oc-
casion will be lighted.
Judging from the number of mar
riage licenses issued by the probate
Merry Christmas in more ways than
one to several young couples.
A deed filed at thee curt house yes
terday indicates that A. A. Townsend
in Shawnee county $12,260, his latest
purchase being a farm of 100 acres.
The influx of school teachers to To-
peka will commence tomorrow. The
janitorS of the state house are putting
the senate chamber and representative
Ioa ir,f0 che he
The indications at the present time
are that Topeka will have green
Christmas, though, with the weather in
the present unsettled condition there is
no telling what "a hours may bring
forth.
Rev. Homer E. wark. of the Walnut
Grove Methodist church. read a paper
on The Religion of Robert Steven
SON." at the regular meeting of the
Jayhawker club which was held at the
Y. NJ. c. A. last night.
Marriage licenses were issued in Kan
sas City yesterday to William Steele.
aged % and Ethel Redmond. aged 25 of
Topeka, and Antenor Valladarius, aged
% of Topeka, and Helen Margaret Og-
den, aged %, of Kansas City.
The petition signed by two hundred
Topeka busine ss men praying for a
different Sunday closing law, was re-
ferred to the committee of which
Councilman H. B. Howard is chair
About the busiest man in Topeka to-
day is the driver of one of the big ex-
press wagons. The company has fur
nished him an assistant, but they have
also furnished him with extra
wagon with which to deliver the over
flow packages.
The number of signatures attached
to the petition asking the city council
to repeal the Sunday closing ordinance
indicates that there are a few mer-
chants in Topeka who favor the present
blue law under which the city is OPP
Grating at this time.
Representative Chalk Beeson of
Dodge City will spend Christmas in To-
peka. He came down 60 assist in con-
fering the 33d degree in Masonry on a
class last night and will remain in the
city until after the meeting of the CEN
trail committee Saturday.
The council committee on police will
meet next Monday evening at 1880 to |
consider the petition to revise the pres |
ent ordinance against selling merchan- |
disc on Sunday and also the new thea |
ter ordinance. The meeting will be wide |
open to all of those interested.
At the meeting of the city council |
last night the talk of annulling the |
contract of the Topeka Bridge COM
pany for the construction Of the East
Sixth street viaduct was revived as 1t
has been at about every council meet
ing during the past six months.
Today is the last day on which to
purchase Christmas presents. It is
also the day when the biggest crowd
IF buyers is thronging the local stores
md Kansas avenue. There are doubt
ess hundreds of persons who are now
Wishing they had bouTht their Christ
mas presents earlier.
An item recently ap.sared in the
State Journal to the efrest that s. R.
tOwan of Abilene owned the oldest |