The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-27

Get a Home telephone to reach, your
friends.
The young people of the high school
are giving number of parties this
week.
Press notices advertising the Mid
winter exposition are being sent out to
the newspapers of the state.
Miss May Williams, physical director
at the high school, is spending her
Christmas vacation in Milwaukee.
A chicken with two tails will be
shown at the Topeka poultry show. But
why should any chicken have two
tails?
Principal A J. Stout of the high
school will go to Emporia this week
for the purpose of INDUCING in a short
hunting trip.
Within week or two the stores of
the cities will be advertising all sorts
of bargains in order to clean up the
Christmas stock.
Several loads of steel rods for the
reinforcing of the ]. C. Gordon build
ing on the old Copeland site were off
loaded this morning.
| Tomorrow evening game tourna-
ments will be held at the Central Y.
M. c. A, which will include contests in
chess, checkers, pool, billiards and
bowling.
There was noticeable lack of hurry
on the part of the business people of
Topeka today. 1t was probably mat
ter of too much Christmas with the
| majority of them.
| w. r. Fisher of 915 King street,
who has been seriously sick at his
home, is somewhat improved and will
| probably recover, according to the at
| tending physician. DR.. Otto Kiene.
A large poster of clever design has
been hung up in the lobby of the Cen
trail Y. M. c. A. 1t advertises the
coming minstrel show under the di
I've ID oil Ii aL,
be held January 2-3.
The Frank FARRELL story about Cen
eral Freight Agent Koontz in indie
| pendence. published for the first time
in the State Journal about four months
| ago, has become so popular that local
papers are printing it over again as
! new. -
The floor of the girls gymnasium in
the manual stratning building is now
being refinished. 1t became so smooth
! that it was really a dangerous matter
to venture out on it. The work of re-
finishing will save the girls many z
| tumble.
For the second week of the Kansas
Midwinter exposition have been book
ed a list of acts which should be crowd
drawers. The Eugene Trio. are Eur
| opean triple bar wonders. They give a
performance which is both clever and
| humorous.
According to the announcements
Pacific in ST. Louis the running time
| in the southwestern part of the state
| will be shortened. The announcement
failed, however, to say anything about
the suit case line running between
l Topeka and Fort Scott.
The advance sale of tickets for the
| Midwinter exposition will commence
next week. Every purchaser of a
ticket will be entitled to a guess as to
the total attendance at the show. The
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$40 prizes for the three persons who
come nearest to the exact figure.
At the meeting of the board of city
| commissioners this morning it was
found that $S,025.97 was needed out of
the city funds to turn into the
general revenue fund for the purpose
of paying current expenses. This trans
| fer of funds will come to an end when
the taxes arrive the first of the year.
A. M. Debow. an inspector in the
engineering department of the city of
Topeka, was informed by telegram the
other day that he was fairly wealthy
man. A relative died in the east and
he fell heir to about 100000. Debow
lives at 1914 Lane street and is in the
east settling the estate of the relative.
/ No special meeting of the board of
| education has as yet been called for the
purpose of choosing a teacher to fill
the vacancy left by the resignation of
Miss Winifred Everingham. English in
structor in the high school, 1t is pos
sible that the choice will not be made
until the regular meeting of the board
the first of next week.
| Norman PlaSs, ex-president of
Il Washburn college, has now been sued
for $4,000 libel This is simply an
addition to his other collection of
| troubles. And usual the telegraph
reports use as the strong news feature
of the whole deal-that DR.. Plass was
formerly president of Washburn col
lege of Topeka. Does advertising pay
Six attorneys are holding their breath
until January when Governor Stubs
will make the appointment of the
; Judge of the court of Topeka the
bench recently deserted by Judge
, Simon, who was elected county attor-
ney. They are Robert Carver, Hugh
Wilson, Judge S. S. Urmy and Frank
. Foster.
The fifth annual Christmas enter
| tainment given by the street railway
:. to the employees of the company was
given at the club rooms last night and
) included entertainments of various
kinds playlet entitled the ''Klepto-
maniac was the main feature of the
program. Street car men are supposed
. to have considerable experience with
kleptomaniacs.
City Engineer Fulton, who has been
writing to the different cities in the
country asking for their favorite filler
for brick paving, has been informed
that the cement filler is the best on
entirely instead of the old style sand
filler. Engineer Fulton is getting mat
tiers lined up for the paving work in
Topeka next spring.
John Dawson, attorney for the state
= board of railroad commissioners, has