The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-05
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The regular December meeting of the
board of education will be held this
evening.
Every home in Topeka should have
an Independent elephone-everyone
| will have before long.
The housewives in Topeka are re-
| joicing today because the price of but
4 ter has taken tumble from SO to 35
| cents a pound.
W. NJ. Forbes & Co. have sold the
| dwelling at 400 Madison street, owned
, by Mrs. Margaret Coggins, to John
Rollheuser for the consideration of 3d.
| 100.
Buffalo Bone" is the new name that
| has been attached to Roy L. Bone, city
commissioner. who has gone to Michi-
gan to capture a herd of buffalo for
| the Topeka zoo.
Tim Donovan is the proudest man in
the court house and in Topeka today.
Last night he received the distinction
of becoming a grandpa. Tim is mar
shall of the court of Topeka.
The Rock Island and Santa Fe Off
Gals report that the snow last night
extended over all of their lines in Kan
/ sas They also report that there are
thousands of happy farmers in the
state today.
President Nudge of the Rock Island
and big party of directors and stock
holders of that road passed through
Topeka Sunday afternoon. The train
did not back into the station-it SIM
ply went through"
Tomorrow evening an entertainment
will be given by the Singles family at
the Central Park school for the purpose
of raising money for paying the bal
ance due on the play ground apparatus
which the patrons of the school have
purchased.
Saturday evening to the effect that the
Santa Fe had warned all employees
against the use of cigarettes, scores of
young men with the company in To-
peka have discarded the pills" And
they say that they sleep and eat bet
ter already.
; The local branch of the National Red
Cross society is planning to build
sanitarium in Highland Park on the
property known as the NJ. o. Frost
estate for the purpose of carrying out
the slogan Of the association, For the
cure and prevention of tuberculosis
and other diseases
do your Christmas shopping early
is the cry that comes from the stores,
postofices, ETC., but from what has
, been seen in majority of the stores
l in Topeka, there is nothing along the
holiday lines to buy. 1--WE haven't our
holiday wares out YETI is the answer
that greets the average buyer.
There has been complaint in the
city that Commissioner Holman should
have the new garbage wagons built by
local wagon builders instead of send
ing out of town for his equipment. Mr.
Holman replies that the wagons are
built under patent and the factory
is the only place to get them.
The city engineering department
made brilliant record this month.
They sold enough dirt to Topeka citi-
zens to pay the salaries of the men
employed in the office. This is a new
record in this office, Usually an en-
gineer's office is a dead weight as
far as treasury returns are concerned.
The annual meeting of the Shawnee
Medical association will take place at
the Throop hotel this evening where a
banquet will be served. A program of
speeches by prominent men has been
arranged. Plates viii be provided for
$50 persons. DR.. M. c. Porter will pro-
badly be the next president of the or
ganizatfon.
War has been declared between the
citizens of North Topeka and South
Il Topeka over the keeping of the herd
of buffalo North siders make ali sorts
of promises and the South siders come
right back at them. Which. ever way
the city commissioners choose tomor-
row, there Will be a disappointed
crowd of supporters.
Roy L. Bone buffalo Bone), who is
in Pontiac. Mich, capturing the herd
of Topeka buffalo, has wired to the
city commissioners of his progress. He
says that the buffalo are out on a big
/ prairie and that they will have to be
captured and Grated one at time. He
1 expects to get them loaded up before
the end of the week
THE Starry Heavens is the title OF
the lecture which will be given by DR.
William Duncan Macmillan of the I'm
iversity of Chicago on Friday evening
in the high school auditorium. This is
the fifth and next to the last of the
series of lectures on astronomy which
are being delivered by DIR. Macmillan
under the auspices of the Topeka
teachers. The lectures have been wei
attended.
III City Electrical Inspector Stewar
has issued a warning to the merchant:
who persist in having their windows
1 | decorated with electric lights, TIL,
work being done by their clerks. 9Th,
city ordinances say that no one but
tIlicensed electrician shall do this work,
said Mr.. Stewart this afternoon. ST
is against the city electrical rules t.
| change the lights the way a number O
the business men have done. This i
| the last warning I will give. After thi
III will turn over everything to Judg
Urmy of the police court "
/ blizzard IN OKLAHOMA.