The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-28
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

J. D. Buckelew will speak at Lincoln
Post hall next Monday evening.
1t is said that the electric effects for
the Midwinter exposition will be excel
lent.
Miss Beatrice cron of indianapolis VIII
sing at the Y w c. A vesper services
Sunday afternoon
The Barley and Bay-um Indoor Cir
Gus, will be the title applied to the an
/ nual entertainment at the Central Y. N.
C. A. January 2-3-
There has been a general rise in the
wholesale price of canned goods in the
last week. This is by no means the first
jump this season
The membership committee of the Com
| the campaign for 500 new members which
will start about January TO-
Telegraph reports tell of a surplus OF
coal supply. This doesn't seem to bother
vary on account of a surplus.
The Y. M. c. A. is arranging a series
OF Sunday theater meetings for the com
ing winter months Warden J. x. Codd-
ing will be the speaker January p.
say, is that rosy checked youngster al
the head of these shops?" asked q
stranger of Santa Fe man as John Pur-
cell walked through the shop gate the
other day.
Men live in their own narrow circles
said Warden J. x Codding today. and
if the church men want to help them they
must go where they are and be part OF
their lives
with or without music?' asks one
man of another as he feels the new suit
worn by the proud one. And of course
the answer is: Neither. I have had this
suit for several weeks.
The Rev. H L. Nelson of the Potwin
Presbyterian church Will leave next week
for Onaga and other points where for a
month he will work in the interests of the
Men and Religion movement
Every small boy in town is including in
his prayers at night request that the
ice stay on the creeks and parks And
who could invent a better thing for the
boy than ice and snow during vacation
time?
The man that falls on a slippery side
walk now and breaks sack of eSgs
might well fall in sewer and lose
his pocketbook. The loss is about the
same, depending somewhat upon the
man.
The brotherhood of the First Baptist
church has organized according to the
plan suggested by the Men and Religion
experts. Gilbert Carter has been chosen
as the superintendent of the organiza-
ton.
Fe say that in western Kansas the cuts
filled up with snow drifts fifteen minutes
after the snow pillow went through them
The wind and loose snow on the ice COW
cred ground was the cause.
1t is about time now that the average
17-year-old girl slyly suggests to her
mother that it would be nice If she could
stay I'D until after midnight New Years
eve with her gentleman friend" that
they might see the old year out.
A young Topeka married couple that
had been living in apartment and
moved last summer to the -rhubarbs'
where they could grow, are now planning
to move back to the flat. I'VE can't
stand the gas BILL IS their cry
Gas users in Topeka are complaining
because in the fall man came to their
door and said he wanted to examine the
gas meter. Patrons declare that the gas
bills never were high They hint that
the mysterious stranger tickled the meter
until it is running faster
H. L. Gilmore, of the Gilmore Adjusting
company of Chicago, who has been IN
charge of the Marshall Clothing COM
pany's sale. winds up his affairs here
Saturday, when he will leave for SAT-