The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-25
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I G 81 8 AsSsT IN E5ss!
A Youthful Auntie.

A young lady of this city of the ma
ture age of years, whose brother has
recently been presented with a daugh-
ter, has received the following verses
from an eastern friend:
ISTHER'S WELCOME TO JEANETTE.
Queer little baby. why did you come
TO raise such a rumDus here in my home,
Turning this wav and that about
Yet never saying single word.
But the queerest noises ever We're heard
And I never was called an Aunt before
You came in by some unknown door.
But they say I must be "Auntie" to YOU
So funny and pink and awfully new.
God sent you to us my papa said
Why didn't they-zgives you some pretty
Like the dear little kindergarten girls?
But maybe in time you'll grow to be
Something less awfully funny to see;
And teeth to chew YOUR breakfast fine.
l don't see. anyhow. how you came
7 haven t. lust now. any more to saw
So dear little niece. Good-day. Good-day
Chief of Police Eaton and wife are in
Liberty. Mo. where they will spend a
week with Mrs. Eaton's family
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Topeka Canning company is called for
the afternoon of January 4 at o'clock.
The period when pledges of all sorts
and kinds will be made is at hand, and
the period when they will be broken is
not a great ways off.
Sheriff John Wilkerson and wife
left overland for the home of Mrs.
Wilkerson's parents fifteen miles
north of St. Joseph. this morning.
An old adage saws: "a white Christ
mas and lean grave yard and a fair
Christmas for a green grave yard but
that's an old adage and has long since
been exploded
Arrangements have been completed
for benefit concert which will be given
at the Auditorium on January 1. The
proceeds will go towards wiping out the
debt against the pipe organ.
The washburn Glee club is plan
ming an extensive trip after the holt
days. The club may go to the Pacific
coast under the auspices of the Santa
F'e reading room department.
]. Elmer Schultz, who has been at
tending the Missouri School of Mines
at Rolla, Mo, is in Topeka to spend
the holidays. Mr.. Schultz was for
merly a State Journal reporter.
A handsome monument has been
erected on the David Overmyer lot in
the Topeka cemetery, and that by an
out of the city firm, which is located
in the central part of the state.
Secretary Poole, of the Commercial
club, has been working for a week past
with representative of an eastern con-
Germ which will locate a cracker factory
somewhere in this part of the world.
Word has been received in Topeka of
the discOntinuance of the land office
at Colby which will be removed to To-
peka and consolidated with the one in
the federal building about the first of
April.
The Central Paper company. one of
the new Topeka institutions, is prepar-
ing to enlarge their present floor space
by erecting a two story building adj
joining the present store rooms on the
north.
The state house has been closed all
day. so has the court house and al
most every other public building in
the city, the notable exception being
the postal department in the Federal
building.
Captain H. E. wentworth was com
missioned by Santa Claus to deliver
small toy cannon to Sheriff Wilkerson
as remembrance, and performed the
ceremony with eclat. whatever that
word means.
Recent reports from the family of
a we'll known Topeka man who has
battled with King Boose for some
time past indicate that the battle is
about over and that the Topeka man
has lost the fight.
Here is where 1 make a noise like
Santa Claus said a fprominent Topeka
man as he sneaked in the side window
after a three hour wait in the cold in
order that his wife might entertain
the children upstairs.
A number of Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year" postal cards re-
ceiVed by the Topeka friends of w. H.
/. Pepperell of Concordia, secretary of
the Democratic state central commit
tee indicate that he has recovered
eaeOn the late political happenings and