The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-22


will be open on Christmas day.
| Good service and all your friends
| reached over the Independent tele-
phone.
The floor of the gymnasium in the
| manual training school will be refinish-
ed in the holidays.
The Christmas entertainment at the
Unitarian church will be held this even
ing at 1880 o'clock.
The city schools will close at noon
tomorrow. The scholars will return 20
| work Tuesday, January 8.
The school board has ordered lin
oleum for the office of the clerk of the
| school board at a cost of about $50.
Street railway patrons of the south
west part of the city are waiting anx-
| iously for the seven minute Washburn
| service.
| The buster past, two more days of
promising fairness intervene in which
the @. s. l. advocates may finish with
the bunch.
| students work of the Y. M. G. A. in
Colorado. was a visitor at the local as
ISOLATION building.
The son of George Hetherington, chief
clerk to General superintendent Smalley
| of the Rock Island, is seriously ill with
| neutrality-suspicious.
Won't you please save some Christ
| mas garbage for the city-the $1,000
crematory has got to run in January
| Or the sparrowS will nest in the stack.
The Southwestern Furniture COM
pany of Topeka has issued an elabor-
ate Christmas booklet of poems, copies
of which are being distributed today.
| The directors of the Topeka ball club
will hold secret session tonight to fur
| Their discuss ways and means of putting
a top nOtcher OH the field in the spring.
There are number of Kansas uni
versity and other college students
| spending their Christmas holidays in
Topeka with their parents or with
friends.
| Lundgren & Carlson have been
awarded the contract by the school
| board for supplying five wardrobes for
the Polk school. The contract price
was $75.
and other flowers that make your eyes
sparkle. Spend a few minutes and
feast your eyes at Hubbard's, $40 KAN
saS avenue.
The $500 subscribers to the White
Elephant fund will receive statements
next week officially announcing the
fact that the entire amount-$45 600
has been raised.
| Upwards of 80 working girls took adj
vantage of the first supper served at
the 7. W. c. A. for their benefit. The
suppers will continue to be served the
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The educational department of the
Central Y. M. c. A. is in receipt of a
copy of Chadman's Dictionary of Law
which was presented by the American
School of Correspondence.
There was not the rush of Christmas
shoppers in the stores last night that
there would have been had it not been
damp underfoot, but at that the mer-
chants did lively business.
Much more thought, it is safe to say,
| is accorded the poor people than the
rich during the holiday season. There
are at least dozen organizations work
| ing for their happiness today.
Mayor ]. B. Billiard has offered a sill
yer cup valued at SIS for the largest
display of birds at the Topeka Poultry
show, January 2-7. Entries mailed as
late as tomorrow will be accepted.
The snow scheduled for Topeka and
vicinity last night did not arrive. 1t
of the state and before it could recov-
er it's strength had drifted apart and
| scattered over the state.
The Topeka baseball association evil
IDENTIFY has a secret motto something
like the following: Buy them early,
buy them late, and run a farm in the
| Kansas State-with a gold plated cleav
er, you can cut the cheese"
ssIf the officers of the Topeka Ad
club don't get busy, and put the club
in proper working order once more,
said business man today, I'm going
to drop out. The club is not the live,
hustling organization it once was"
Sanitary Sergeant Vanderpool is re-
ceiving orders from people who wish
city garbage cans. The cans come in
| a number of sizes and cost from IS
cents to $3.50. The city commences on
! the garbage collection system in Janu-
airy.
The city of Topeka, through w. G..
Ralston, city attorney has fled in an
swer to the suit of the contracting firm
| of the Fillmore street bridge, a suit
against the contractors for $4,000 and
| $40 a day since September 1 for not
completing the bridge on time.
The work of Miss Winifred Evering
ham, instructor in English at the high
school, who has resigned through the
matrimonial route, was highly compli-
mented by the members of the school
board, who expressed regret when
they accepted the resignation.
The city schools close tomorrow
noon. This will enable the teachers
who live out of town time to get to
| their respective homes before Christ
mas, and the local instructors will
have an opportunity to finish their
| holiday shopping. The teachers will
receive their pay tomorrow
The annual meeting of the Y. w. c.
| "A.
combined with the annual membership
banquet. An elaborate program is be-
| ing arranged by a committee composed
| of Mrs. T. r. Paxton, Edna Haywood,
| Mrs. c. E. Eldridge, Mabel Cuthbert
and Eva Kelly.
1.-The Bralninos," a comedy musical
act, which viii be seen at the Midwin
| ter will furnish contrast to the 9TH
err numbers on the bill, for while very
amusing, as far as the comedy element
| is concerned, is highly artistic, the
Braminos being skilled musicians and
having a choice repertoire of both
classical and popular selections
George H. Hoyes, educational director
of the Central Y. NJ. c. A, is the
recipient of silver shaving set from