The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-06
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Turning THE NEW LEAF.
with reVerent heartswe turn anew
It's ours to fill with noble deeds
Or stain with sin and crime;
Then ere we mar its surface pure
Ere we begin anew
lis wei that DER our last years work
we take a short review.
Alas! we scan through tears the page
We meant should be so fair
The blotted page where records live
OF hope and toll and care;
The page that ends the finished year
OF loss and gain and strife,
OF love and homes sweet happiness,
And peace that blesses life.
So much there is of pieasantness
Our record has to tell
And so much done unworthily
We might have done SO well,
That shine exceeds the shade;
Too late we would erase the blots
or past mistakes we made.
Then turn the new leaf Look not back
TO grleve Ger loss and pain,
But view the futures sporIess page
And here resolve by Gods own grace
That we will do our best
To keep I1fe's record clean and pure
And trust Him for the rest,
Margaret Scott Hall.
The skaters at least appreciate the
change in weather.
The peach buds are things of the past
today. The crop next year viii be a
minus quantity
1t was Edna Bear, daughter of S. j.
Bear, who was the model for Albert T.
Reds midwinter fair poster.
The annual meeting of the commercial
club Will be held Friday evening, when
a new board of directors for the ensu-
ing year Will be elected.
The present spell of cold weather is
the coolest recorded in Kansas since
February 1905, nearly four year ago.
1t is the first zero weather in two
years.
The sudden drop in the tempera-
ture caught many unawares, and the
coal merchants are enjoying a big
that gas is the chief source of heat for
most Topekans.
Just have all of the boys come down
a little early in the morning." remarked
the owner of a plumbing establishment
to his foreman, as he prepared to leave
for home last night.
The alumni association of the Kan
sas State Agricultural college will meet
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
RAIDER, 1911 Jackson street, Thursday
evening, January {.
One of the graduates of last years
class at Washburn, is now a trusted
employe of the Topeka White Wings.
Several others are working at sal
aries of forty dollars month.
This is the kind of weather that the
street car company has been needing for
the past month"; said a street car con-
ductor, as he attempted to pack another
passenger in crowded car this morn
Ing.
c. W. Jones, the new general sup
erintendent OF the Rock Island, left
last night for a ten days trip over the
southwest district of this road, with
view of acquainting himself with his
new work. ~tAs
The board of education has granted
superintendent OF the City Schools L.
D. Whittemere, a. leave of absence dur
ing the latter part of February and $50
expense money so that he may attend
the national meeting of school superin-
tendents in Chicago at that time.
Peter" He'll, who was the star
high school quarterback in the state
when he played on the local high
in Washburn. and football stock at
the local college has taken another
boost. Heips only handicapH is his
light weight.
A drink crazed policeman went on a
rampage Sunday and endangered the
lives of half a dozen pedestrians and
was fined ten dollars for his spree. An
old soldier living in Oakland broke the
city quarantine regulations and was
fined $40 for so doing and lien taken
on his next pension check to assure the
payment of his fine.
Albert Hoskinson, who has consider
able more than his share of the legal
business of the western third of the
state is in Topeka today arranging for
the hearing of a Stevens county con-
test case in the supreme court. Major
A NJ. Harvey of. Topeka will be as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Hoskinson in the trial
of the case.
mo, my son. assured a loving
father, "those men you have seen carry
ing rugs, carpet sweepers. sausage
grinders and family bibles are not rep
resentatives of Topeka installments
houses. They are something new or
rather old in the way of newspaper
solicitors who carry with them prem
iums they offer to those who will sub
scribe for a morning paper which they
represent