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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
Notes and Personals.

Miss Hattie Hatfield and Miss Frank
Hatfield of Oskaloosa, who have been
visiting Mrs. Hattie Horning of Grant
VILE. have returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Talmadge Wright, en-
tertained a few friends at their home
in Granville Wednesday evening.
The Art and Craft Embroidery club
is meeting this afternoon at the home
of Mrs. c. E Jordan, 1922 North Jack
son street.
Mrs. J. C. Travis of go North To-
peka avenue, is in Lincoln, Ark, on
business.
In the grip of North side man,
who recently returned from Kansas
City, a bottle of beer was found. How
ever, he says it came from loaning the
valise to friend
George Lyon, state superintendent
of missions for the Christian church,
is i'll at the home of his brother. Rev.
David H. Lyon, pastor of the Central
avenue Christian church
Mrs L. Brutin, who has been visit
ing her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
Held Up at Noon.

was held up at the point of a revolver
and robbed of S13 by two men on the
Fourteenth street viaduct. a comparative
ly busy thoroughfare, shortly before noon
yesterday. A score Of teamsters and Pc
destrains saw the robbery but the men
escaped. The police doubted Dutton' S
story until they confirmed it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Notice is given that the stockholders OF
the Aetna Building & Loan Association
of Topeka, Kansas, will hold their annual
meeting in the office of the said Associa-
ton In the City of Topeka. Kansas, on
Tuesday, the 24th day of January, A. ID.
1911 at 10 o'clock A; NJ. of said day. for
tors for the ensuing year, and to trans
act any other business that may properly
come before said meeting. All proxies to
be voted at said meeting must be on file
with the secretary Of said Association on
or before noon of January IL. 1911
By order of board of directors
JNO. O. ROYCE, Secretary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30

OF Commissioners of the city of Topeka.
Kansas. deem it necessary for the best
interests of said city that West Sixteenth
to the west line of College avenue, be
graded, curbed with combined curb and
gutter and paved thirty (30) feet wide with
asphaitic plastic pavement on cohcrete
w. G. TANDY, Commissioners.
l. c. B. Burge. city clerk of the city
Of Topeka, Kansas. do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is true and cor
rect copy of the original resolution now
on file in my office.
lSeal] c. B. BURGE
City Clerk.
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0AII SUGAR q ~
III 1USFinest GrannIateds l sVV
(with a $500 order.)
Fresh Meats

Hens. dressed and drawn. Id. .15c
Shoulder Roast of Beef, cut from
choicest holiday beef, b. 80. .1Oc
SirIoin Steak, cut from choicest corn
fed Beef, ID. AOC
Round Steak, cut from choicest corn
fed Beef, lb. ................ .1oc
Hamburg Steak, ground fresh, ID 1Oc
Pork Chops, cut from nice small pork
loins, Id. ..............-.. .15c
Mutton Chops, or Steak, ID. -. .15c
Plate Boiling Beef. 10 for Csc
Rih and Rump Roasts of Beef. The
best roasts cut from fancy Christ
mas beef, ID. '1oc
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Armour'S S t a T
Hams, Id 1Sc
Wolff's Sunflower
Hams, Id. .15c
Lard, choice. rem
dered. lard, Id.
for 1Sc
Lard, Compound,
10. ....... 1AC
Butterine, Armours
high grade, But
tercup brand, 25c
value, a 2 ID.
brick, for $50
Breakfast Bacon,
good quality, by
the side, Id. .2Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30

RESOLVED. That the Mayor and Board
OF commissioners of the city of Topeka,
interests of said city that Garfield street,
from the south line OF Tenth street to the
south line of Thirteenth street be GRADED,
curbed with combined curb and gutter
ana ana payed thirty $50 feet wide with
w. g. TANDY, Commissioner.
+, g. B. Burge. city clerk of the city
OF Topeka, Kansas do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing Is true and cor
rect copy of the original resolution now
on file In my office.
1Seal.1 c. B. BURGE,
City Clerk.
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DREsSMAKING.

FIRST-CLASS dressmaking done prompt
ly; reasonable prices. Topeka Garment
Co., 800 Kansas ave.
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First published in The Topeka State
journal December e6. 1901

OF Commissioners of the city of Topeka,
Kansas. deem it necessary for the best
interests of said city that the east side
or Topeka avenue from Euclid avenue Cor
seventeenth street, to Eighteenth street,
be graded and curbed with combined curb
and gutter, the cost of said curbing to
pc paid for by the property owners in
one assessment
w. G. TANDY, Commissioner.
l. Z. b. Burge, city clerk of the city
Of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is a true and cor
on file in my office,
tSeaLl c. B. BURGE,
City Clerk
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Omice OF the City Clerk,
Topeka, Kansas, Dec Is, 1910.

MI Ck5fAAAo
Sealed proposals will be received at the
office OF the city clerk of the City of To-
Thursday, January II. 1911, for the priv
flege of controlling and operating conces-
s1ons and ATTRACTIONS In Garfield Park
with the specificat tons on file in the office
of the city clerk.
A certified check in the sum of Fifty
(s50-0O Dollars must accompany each pro-
posaL
The Mayor and Board of Commissioners
reserve the right to reject any and all
bids.
Eseal-l c: B. BURGE.
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RESOLVED. That the Mayor and Board
OF commissioners of the city of Topeka.
Nansas. deem 1t necessary for the best
interests OF said city that jackson street.
from the north line of Fourth street to
me me packs OF the Chicago. Rock Island
Feet wide with vitrified brick
w. G. TANDY, Commissioner.
Z. b. Burge, city clerk of the city
OF Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is q true and cor
rect copy OF the original resolution now
tSeal1 c. 3. BURGE,
City Clerk
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LEGAL.

First published IN The Topeka State
Journal December q, 1e10l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30

Part of the famous old Sells estate,
once owned by the circus people two
miles west of the Reform school, has
been sold by John Beh1, the recent
owner to Elmer Steck of Logan
county. It sold for $4,000 or $500 an
acre, as it consisted of ten acres of
we'll improved land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30

WANTED you to order your cider from
Washhurn's. Ind. 2S15 Black
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FRAMING, regilding, mat making. mount
ing done by J. D. Sullivan, 122 W. Eighth
street. Packing, shipping, etc.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-08

onions. Peel and slightly parboil, then
remove the heart of each onion and fill
the vacancy with equal parts of moist
ened bread-crumbs and chopped cold
beef or chicken, season well and fill as
full as possible Arrange in well-but-
tered baking-dish, and pour stock over
them; cover the dish and bake in a mod
crate oven one hour. If you lack stock
place a piece of butter on top of each
onion and haste frequently with hot
water.
When Madame of the Twentieth
Century wishes to serve something novel
at a company luncheon or breakfast she
orders that something planked. 1t may
be steak or fish of some sort, "broilers, -
chops, or if the function be Lenten
one, perhaps eggs will be used. The lat
ter lend themselves to this method OF
cooking most graciously, and they make
tempting appearance.
Somehow a planked dish breathes of
the wild life that brings men near to
Natures heart; it speaks of a primitive
existence when game was killed and fish
were caught, not for pastime, but to sup
ply life's necessities, and it is this very
primitiveness of the scorched, food-laden
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board that satisfies Madame's desire for
novelty with which to surprise her
guests and appeal to their gustatory
sense. For there is something very zest-
full, if almost 1udicrous, in the appear
ance of the scorched. plank, so sharply
accumulated in its contradistinction to
the Immediately laid table aglitter with
up-to-date table furnishings.
An Indian Practice
While no one seems to know positive
ly just where or by whom this method
of cooking was first practised, it is gen.
orally ascribed to the Indians. In an old
history of Virginia, allusion is made to
the custom as followed by the alb
origines. Probably the hunter, the fish
errnan, the camper living in the wilder
ness copied the method from their In
dian guides and handed it down from
generation to generation, until to-day it
is recognized as the most notably per-
feet method for cooking fish and Ger
tain cuts of meat.
Successive generations of Southern
colored ''marmies" always cooked their
cornEbread on a plank before the fire,
and it is reasonable to suppose they got
the idea from the red man.
"Johnny-cake"
A well-knownewriter on things domes-
tic, Virginian by birth, has this to say
anent her mammy's johnny-cake There
never was, and there never will be this
side of the millennium, such johnny-cake
as my old mammy-rest her dear white
soul-used to bake in front of her open
wood fire. She measured a generous
quart of meal into her wooden tray and
sifted with it teaspoonful each of salt
and soda. Then she wet it with a cupful
of buttermilk and one of sweet milk.
Lastly went in tablespoonful of melted
butter. The dough was rolled out half
an inch thick and spread smoothly upon
sweet, clean board, which stood'in the
sun most of the time when it was not in
use. This was propped up in front of
the red Goals at such an angle that it got
the glow of the fire. yet could not slide
off, and basted with butter every other
minute until it was brown and crisp and
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or melted butter before using each time
Of'course it is needless to say the food
must be served on the plank, which can
rest on large, napkin-covered tray or
platter. To slip the fish or steak to a
serving dish, or to hide the edges of the
plank by an ornamental silver band, as
advised by some chefs, is. to destroy the
whole cachet of the dish. An edible
garnish that partly hides the burned
edges of the plank is in harmony, and
can be used with fine effect
Planked Shad
When one speaks of p1anked fish, shad
Immediately suggests itself as the one
plankable fish, but white fish, blue fish,
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fragrant and delicious fit for the gods.
Such a recipe and description makes
one feel that hereafter her johnny-cake
shall be made after manmy's recipe, and
like hers, baked on a board. 1t is not
alone the entertainer to whom this meth
cd of cookery commends itself; the
housewife can give to the daily steak or
chop a most appetizing appearance by
serving it planked; it will be found far
preferable to the so-called broiled meats
cooked in the gas range, preserving to
the full flavor and nutrition.
To possess a perfect favor, broiled
meats ought to be cooked over a low,
clear fire of hard woodruff who in the
cities these days burns wood ?-and gas
broiled meats are poor substitute, but
in planking, the housewife has an easy
method of cooking, and one that will
give to meat the sweet favor of meat
cooked over wood fire.
The Plank
These planks are to be found at all
house-furnlshing stores at a very rea-
sonable price. They are made of hard
wood, about two inches in thickness and
to retain the juice or gravy they are
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The ''Old Virginia" Fashion of Cooking, Beloved
by All Who Know 1t

lake trout, halibut, or any large, white
fleshed fish are equally good. For our
demonstration lesson we will take lake
trout.
Scale and cut it open the entire length
down the middle; with a very sharp
knife loosen the backbone until you can
take hold of it at the neck and draw it
out. Wipe the fish with damp cloth
and then pat it with a dry one, brush
it on both sides with melted butter, sea-
soning with pepper, salt and lemon juice.
Set the plank in the oven until it is
heated through, then fasten the fish to
it, skin side up, with the clips or tacks.
Place the plank on the upper CRATE, in
very hot oven, and let the fish cook
for about ten minutes. Then carefully
utes longer, basting frequently with a
mixture of one-third of a cupful of but
ter, tablespoonful of lemon juice and a
dash of cayenne. Send to the table gar
nished with parsley, and with lemon
cups holding savory chopped pickle.
Planked Steak
Another culinary delight is planked
steak. The steak ought to be a sirloin
"a porter-house is not fat enough
and cut about two inches thick. Rub 1t
over with lemon juice and butter, tack
it to the heated board and place in a
very hot oven. After leaving ten or
twelve minutes, draw the tacks, turn,
and tack it again in place, returning to
the oven for another ten minutes cook
ing. This can be garnished with rice or
potato cakes, latticed potatoes, little
string beans or peas. Lamb or mutton
chops can be cooked in the same way
as the steak, an added savoriness being
given by basting them quite often while
| cooking with well-seasoned tomato
sauce.
lacking meats to the board is not
really necessary when the cooking takes
place in an oven, but it is pleasantly re-
miniscent of the days when the board
was propped before the open fire and
the food had to be tackled to keep it from
slipping off.
Now for our bonnie bouche-poachet
eggs. Prepare the necessary amount Of
well-seasoned, creamy mashed potatoes
With a pastry bag and tube cover the
board with wreaths of the potato PURGE
Brush with melted butter, make Sigh
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and place in a well-greased broiler. Broil
about ten minutes over a clear fire,
watching carefully to prevent burning,
and turning broiler so that all parts may
be equally brown. When done, remove
to a hot platter and serve on toast
Birds being very apt to burn before the
cooking is finished, a better way per-
haps is to season and brush with butter
as directed, put into dripping pan, skin
side UP, and bake about fifteen minutes
in hot oven; then if not sufficiently
brown, finish the cooking in a broiler or
under the oven light in a gas range.
To smother quail, season with salt and
pepper, put into dripping pan, skin
side up, brush with melted butter, dredge
with flour, add a little boiling water and
put into very hot oven. After about
| ten minutes reduce the heat, haste every
five minutes until done, which will re-
| quire about forty minutes Turn as
needed to brown all over Serve on toast
noistened with the liquid in the pan.
POtted SQUAD ....
Squads are procurable at any season
of the year and they may be roasted,
broiled or snothered as directed for
quail. Another favorite way is ''potted.' u
! The birds are left whole, stuffed and
| then Drowned in little butter, turning
as needed. Then add a little water,
cover closely and simmer until done
| When done, which will require about an
hour, thicken liquid, pour over toast and
serve bird on each slice.
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planning by making lace insertion or
fancy stitches connect the two pieces, or
by frankly making the division wide
and putting plain or braided piece
underneath the opening and connecting
the edges with straps.
Careful Planning Means Success
Understand that am not counseling
any changes in the constructive part of
the pattern, beyond necessary fitting
changes, and certain amount of fitting
must always be necessary, since all
women have not figures cast in the
same mold. If you buy both pattern and
material with their relation to each
other in mind (the ideal combination for
new gown, no further planning is
needed; but if you want to remodel a
dress, or have two remnants to COM
bine, you may build, on suitable pat
tern, a gown that will be satisfactory
if you carefully plan the disposition of
the materials at hand.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-08

Cuts of venison correspond to those
of mutton. Roast leg of venison the
same as leg of lamb. Roast saddle OF
venison the same as saddle of mutton.
Venison steaks and outlets are prepared
as beefsteak- Serve venison rare with
currant jelly.
Sweet Potatoes and Pork
Boil, peel and mash a sufficient guam
tity of sweet potatoes and moisten with
butter and egg. With them cover the
bottom of deep dish, then put on a
layer of slices of fresh pork sprinkled
with minced sage or marjoram. Next
another layer of mashed sweet potatoes,
then another of the pork and so on
until the dish is full. Finish with a
layer of sweet potato and bake brown
on the surface.
A New Floating Island
For this delicious dessert have round
sponge cake or a pound cake that will
weigh about one and one-half pound.
Slice this down almost to the bottom,
but do not take the slices apart Stand
the cake upright in the center of glass
bowl or deep dish. Sweeten and whip
pint of rich cream tinted green with
the juice of spinach boiled, strained and
sweetened. Whip to a stiff froth an
other pint of sweet cream, flavor to
taste and pour around the cake and pile
over all the whipped cream.
Cream Pufs
This formula, which has been tested
again and again, makes two dozen
cream puffs and, if directions are care
fully observed, there can be no such
thing as failure. Mix together to a
smooth consistency one cupful of sifted
-four and one cupful of water; then add
one-half cupful of butter. Place over
the fire and boil one minute. stirring
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sheet of batting into strips two or three
inches wide, clip half way up, and then
pull carefully apart, using the inside for
the outside. The tinsel fringe is made
by unraveling silver cord. These home
made ornaments will be found most
satisfactory, and far less expensive than
those shown in the shops.
A Present for Baby
A darling rattle for a baby is made
by covering the pasteboard foundation OF
bolt of baby ribbon with two thick
nesses of batting sprinkled with sachet
One l saw recently had a Santa Claus
seal on one side and stork on the
other. A strip of batting was put
around it, and glued securely to this
was loop of ribbon. Then band of
ribbon, to which were tackled three silver
bells, was put on. The stork flew
from scrap of kinono cloth, and was
pasted to a stiff white paper, before the
figure was cut out.
a Magazine Case
A magazine case is easily made, re-
curing only careful cutting and FASTING.
any well-kept library. If you have a
Ivy HI lIlC liAo AiSoA :
by allowing him to make one or more
for some grown-up friend. One | have
in mind is made of two sheets of gray
cardboard. 1t is held together with
three bows of red satin ribbon, and or
namented with an artistic head cut
from the cover page of magazine. In
making these cases, have the cardboard
an inch longer and broader than the
magazine for which it is intended.
The match scratcher is another gift
boy will take pleasure in making.
Farmer John was cut from familiar
advertisement. His hat was cut care
fully from his head, and pasted on the
wrong side of a sheet OF black sand
paper. 1t was then cut out and pasted,
rough side up, in its proper place. In
one corner of the red cardboard mount,
which is 1914 81 inches, is fastened a
pasteboard box, ornamented with a
bunch OF dried grass. The match is
caught with a stitch of red thread. The
lettering-"This is where you strike
your - Farmer John !"-is done in
water-color.
Other Gifts
Other gifts cali for little money and
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constantly. Stand aside until perfectly
cold, then stir into the mixture, one
at time, three nnbeaten eggs. Drop
by large spoonfuls on a buttered pan
leaving plenty of room between them
for spreading. Bake twenty-five minutes
in a steady oven. If the oven is too hot
the puffs will brown before they have
sufficiently risen. When cold, cut a round
from the top of each puff, fill with sweet
ened whipped cream or thick, nicely
favored custard, then replace the top
They may be kept for several days, il
filled as needed.
Boneless Birds
One of my choicest recipes with
which l have surprised and pleased many
friends is "boneless birds" Take pork
tenderloins and have them frenched
that is, cut in round slices. Make a
bread dressing as for poultry, and
placing portion between two slices OF
the tenderloin hold them together with
wooden toothpicks. Season with salt
and pepper, fixing as many as are needed
for the family. Lay piece of salt pork
over each side and bake a rich brown
They will look very much like SQUAD:
and have the flavor of game. After
each IS served the toothpicks can be re-
moved. This is novel and pleasing
dish.
Stuffed Onions
These make delicious and substan-
t1al dish for luncheon. Select large
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PREPARING AND DRESSING
POULTRY AND GAME
Seasonines Favored by Epicures

Ouails should be dry-picked, carefully
drawn and cleaned After a thorough
washing rub with salt and pepper
Leave whole for roasting and roast as
other fowl, allowing from forty min
utes to an hour for cooking. Fill with
either bread, oyster or peanut stuffing
and serve on slices of toast, moistened
with the gravy in the pan. Rice cro-
quettes with currant jelly are nice with
quail.
Oyster stufhng
To make oyster stufing season two
cupfuls fresh bread-crumbs with salt
and pepper, add third cupful melted
butter and one cupful oysters, cleaned
and drained from their liquor. Or fill
the birds with oysters dipped in cracker
crumbs, then in melted butter and again
in crumbs, allowing about three oysters
to bird.
To make peanut stufing, remove Skin
covering and finely chop sufficient
roasted or sailed peanuts to measure
half cupful, add one cupful cracker
crumbs, salt, pepper and cayenne tc
season, two tablespoonfuls melted butter
and one-half cupfui rich cream. A few
drops onion juice may be added, il
liked.
Cooking Quail
Quail to be broiled or smothered
should be split down the back, then laid
open. To broil them, rub with salt and
pepper, brush all over with melted butter
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A LOOK FORWARD TO
CHRISTMAS
Making Little Gifts at Home More Valued Than
the Most Expensive Purchased Article

a bow of holly ribbon and seal with
silver fringe, that gives very Christ
massy touch.
Simple Gifts
There are any number Of gifts that
require no sewing-only careful FASTING.
A cornucopia is made simply by twisting
double sheet of heavy note paper and
holding it in shape with holly seals. A
fringe of cotton batting is pasted around
the top, both inside and out. 1t is orna-
n1ented with knot of tinsel, and a
Santa Claus seal, set in medallion of
silver and white.
These medallions are excellent for
ornamenting a Christmas tree, or the
tops of boxes to be used as favors at a
Christmas dinner They are made on a
circular or diamond-shaped foundation
of white paper, covered with batting.
The "snow Fringe"
To make the Snow fringe" cut a