The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-20
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Miss Jessie Putnam has returned
home after months visit In Nevada
J and Utah.
i A large number of new members
] were initiated into the III. H." cluf
yesterday.
Il home entertainments will not be
complete next Wednesday without 6
Christmas tree.
An Epidemic of colds prevail in the
city at this time and are undoubtedly
directly traceable to cold homes due ia
the lack of natural gas
The meeting of the North Topeka
Civic club which will be held at No. ]
fire station this evening will be one OF
the most important of the year.
4 Every family should have a Christ
mas tree this year. The demand has
increased to such an extent as to en-
able our merchants to receive in car
lots.
, There is where some fellow gets a
lemon" remarked clerk in a Kansas
avenue store as he wrapped a box of
two-for-f1ve cents cigars for a lady
patron.
A picked team of Topeka football
players will make the Journey to Cha
mute Christmas day for the purpose of
meeting a like team on the gridiron
in that city.
Among other things that Topeka
| needs, according to the guess of the
members of the city council, is an or
dinance further restricting drivers Of
| automobiles.
1t is not to be wondered at that Clar-
ence Young wanted a change Of date
as we'll as a change of venue from the
| city court which set the date of the
hearing for the 23rd.
Justice Henry Mason of the SUI
preme court. is reported to be in
| about the same condition as yesterday.
| The doctors have not determined what
kind of fever he has.
r. v. Hicks, manager Of Poultry
Culture is in New York city attending
| the American Poultry association of
which he is a member.
According to Billy Morgan of
Hutchinson who was in town yester-
! day, Topeka is a strong contender for
| the meeting place of the state Republi-
| can convention next year.
| The shortage in the supply of gas for
| Illuminating purposes has produced
run on the stocks of lamps and much
| of the stock which was considered out
of date has been disposed of.
Senator Chester I. Long is planning
| to arrive in Topeka December 27 to
attend the political conference which
will center around the meeting of the
Republican committee on Decem-
Der %.
Sunday night at the First Meth
odist church, the entire evening will
De devoted 10 special CHRISTMAS nu-
steal programme by the church choir.
All music lovers will undoubtedly
hear it.
The action of the athletic board of
Washburn college in re-electing Coach
Weede and Manager Stahl for another
season indicates that the members
rather favor a season such as the last
proved to be.
The first edition of 1000 copies of
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter's book,
ond edition of 1000 is now being
printed. The book is on sale in about
fifty towns in the state.
cit seems to me-" remarked a close
observer, that if the able bodied men
who are watching the Salvation Army
Christmas pots would go to work and
turn their salaries over to the cause
that there would be a large increase
in the funds of the army"
w. T. Benton, the Texas contractor
who has a grading contract for the
construction of the first seventeen
miles of the Topeka and Southwestern
railroad, has notified President Taylor
that he will be in Topeka the first of
the week for the purpose of resuming
work.
. Tonight in Gemmell Hall of Central
Y. NJ. C. A. the boys will be served to
pie supper. This will be given to the
boys who were on the winning side of
the recent membership contest. COun-
Gilman T. H. hutZ VIII give several
of his humorous readings to entertain
the boys.
Topeka Post No. II, Grand Army of
the Republic, has elected the follow
ing new officers: Commander. G. w.
Rake; senior vice, D. H. Fay; Junior
chaplain, J. Tregise; quartermaster,
A. Stone; o. D. H. McClain; o. G.. E.
Simpson; delegates, D. H. Fay, J.
Tregise ]. Eldridge; alternates, E.
Croft. M. Powers, B. Hopkins.
Monday evening at o'clock the boys
of Central Y. NJ. C. A will have an old
fashioned Christmas tree and every boy
that comes is supposed to bring pres
emf for some other boy, the present to
cost not more than five or ten cents. |
The gifts are to be as comical as posi-
BILE and the boys say 'there'll be some |
thing doing" Every member of the |
junior department is invited but he |
must bring some kind of gift for an |
other boy.
The secret is out at last. Jack |
Halla the popular southpaw pitcher of |
the Topeka team has been married for |
over three months and his friends are
Just beginning to find 1t out. A few
DAYS after the baseball season was
over Jack and Miss Fay Wright
secretly took a train for Alma where
thew were married They are living
at 31s East Eighth street. Jack is
working for Griley & Kriepe In the
gas stove business
There is an epidemic of smallpox at
willard small town on the Rock
Island west of Topeka. The first case
vas that of young farmer named !
MetzIer. There are now large num-
her of cases at Willard, and on We'd
nesday afternoon and evening medical
closed the postoff1ce anu
telephone exchange, for the purpose
of thoroughly fumigating the rooms
and their contents. The mail in the
postoffice was fumigated. Among the
cases already developed are those of
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