The Topeka state journal., 1910-12-23
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The Commercial club will be closed
Monday.
The rooms at the Commercial club
are being retinted.
The wife will appreciate an Inde-
pendent telephone for Xmas.
Lee Forbes has been taken to St
Francis hospital suffering from typhoid
fever.
DIR. F. L. -Loveland will preach Sun
day morning on international Peace
VS.. the Menace of Militarism.''
The teachers of the city schools re-
ceived their pay today, twenty-four
hours earlier than the usual time.
The board of directors of the Com
mercial club transacted the ordinary
routine monthly business this noon.
! The majority of the merchants viii
I close their places of business all day
| Monday The Santa F'e offices will be
| closed on that day.
| Today is the Christmas pay day at
the city hall and the ESQ employees
of the city will receive half-monthS'
chech-all of which will be applied
to. the good cheer of the holidays.
| The different members of the board
of city commissioners are setting forth
their ideas for amendments to the
Kansas form of commission govern
ment and they will have them pre-
sented to the next legislature. F
/ The city schools closed this noon. For
about ten short days the children will
| be in their element. Until Christmas
| they will be busy getting ready for
be various and sundry toys with which
| to, experiment.
From the looks of things" Christ
| mas day will be a nice, warm Summery
piece of nature. The old theories and
sentiments concerning snow and
1 ell ;nI, wiz l,.;f
away in the. dim past. George WASH
| ington's birthday is the only cold day
| in the year, nowadays.
There is. a rumor to the effect that Il
| special meeting of the board of educa-
tion will be called for the early part of
high school instructor to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Miss Winifred Everingham.
| The attention of Mayor Billiard has
| been called to the actions of socalled
| "hoodlums" on Seward avenue, near
the Baptist and Methodist churches,
where they gather every night and dis
turb the peace of pedestrians and resi-
dents. The police have been notified
to stop the disturbance if it take a
number of arrests to do it.
will the new pay-as-you-enter cars
f, have gates on them ?" asked an an
xious street car passenger of con-
! QucIOT tn6 Olner- udN- dS ne luSSSO
frantically at the iron bars which kept
him penned in the car like a two-year-
old kid. Gosh, I hope not" answered
| the conductor as he opened the gates
and ushered the six-foot-three athlete
| to the ground. Why the gates?
Mayor Billiard, Commissioner H. P.
Miller. Jesse Shaw and w. c. Raj
| ston representing the city of Topeka,
i called on the county officials this
| morning in reference to the taxation
\ OF the city for the south side dixie. The
city officers believe that 100000 is too
high and they will attempt to procure
from the county a damage amount of
$4,000 for the purpose of cutting down
/ the dixie assessment.
| This evening and tomorrow-this is
| the last chance that the people of the
city have to buy presents for the
''kids'' and hide them away in the at
( tic until late Saturday night. Then
comes the strange noises, the gum
shoe pussy-footsteps of dad and the
/ curious peeks of the pajama trio as
they look out of the key hole of their
! bedroom door-only to see dear old
father climbing the stairs
| The attorney for the street railway
stepped into barber shop this morn
4 ing and while waiting for chair, he
strolled over to the water faucets for
| the purpose of washing his hands. He
| turned omething-nobody but the
barber knows what it was-and a
shower of cold water squirted over the
iroom dampening the clothes of the
| customers. The lawyer had turned
| on the shampoo sprinkler.
| No better act to delight ladies and
/ children could have been secured by
| the Commercial Travellers for the first
| week of the Midwinter exposition than
| that which will appear on the program
1 under the heading of La Belle Helene
and Her Trained Greyhounds." These
beautiful and graceful animals perform