The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-18
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

hour.
a meeting of the Topeka Anti-Horse
| Thief association will be held this even
| ing at Lincoln Post hall.
A delegation of Commercial club men
will attend a good roads banquet at
WakaTusa Tuesday night
The chances are that this will be one of
the warmest Decembers on record in
. Topeka-if not the warmest.
A meeting of the men of the First Pres
| byterian church will be held tomorrow
night to organized for Men and Religion
work.
There is no getting around the fact
| the complexion of a clothes line certainly
| changes when there is baby in the
| house.
Raymond Robins spoke at a wen at
tended union East side meeting held
Sunday evening in the Third Christian
! church.
DR.. Arthur s Henderson of the Firsx
Congregational church will deliver the
memorial address in Lincoln Post hall,
| February IL.
The Gideons held religious meetings
Sunday evening in the Iobbies of the Ma
tional. Throop, Fifth Avenue, and Ches-
terrified hotels.
The annual dinner of the members of
the First Presbyterian church will be
| held January l. A business meeting will
follow the dinner.
Cheer up. you peeved taxpayers The
Santa Fe had to pay out three million
dollars in taxes this year-and they will
have more next year.
Beginning today Miss Eta Coven is
deputy city clerk following the resigna-
ton of Miss Hattie Holman. Miss
Blanche Bates is assistant deputy city
clerk.
Express companies in Topeka are cele-
brating the holidays. One company has
ordered motor wagons for city use and
the other decorates its apparatus with
| greens and signs.
The anti-electrolysis ordinance prepared
by CITY Commissioner Miller for the pur-
a M he n
pipes was passed by the city commission
ers this morning.
Fire caused by an overheated oil stove
caused about five dollars damage to the
interior of the Road Metal and Supply
plant at Fourteenth and Santa Fe streets
Saturday evening.
A shack standing at 915 Morris avenue
has aroused the anger of the neighbors.
They have petitioned the city commits
sioners to have the barn removed. They
say it is an eyesore and Laughing
stock"
s.Since the eight-day Men and Religion
campaign began said Secretary Guy T.
Justis of the Provident association, many
people have expressed to me their desire
to do active social service work in To-
peka.'
There are only four more school days
before the Christmas holidays, but that
is not information for the youngsters.
They had it figured out long ago. Many
of the schools will hold special exercises
Friday afternoon
City Treasurer Wright is still out of
the city and the combination to the city
treasurers safe has not been worked out
by the assistants in charge This safe
has been closed since Friday night-no
one can open it.
Matt Weightman, the new county treas
urer, has listened to every swear word i'll
the English language-to say nothing of
what is said in other languages when he
informs the taxpayers the amount of
their tax for the year.
streets and public improvements, moved
his family today to his new home on Col /
lege avenue between Twelfth and Hun |
toon street Mr. Tandy purchased the |
Plank home recently built
There are a great many people in To-
peka who would welcome a heavy snow |
storm prior to Christmas In fact ac-
count of the balmy atmosphere since the |
Christmas shopping began it has been I
hard to realize that Christmas is near al
hand.
The board of city commissioners has
decided to take in to the city the terri
tory lying between Topeka and Kansas
avenue and south of Twenty-first street.
Five houses have been built in this tract.
number of the property owners OBJ
jected.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Congregational church will hold
cam social Tuesday evening. Each
can of fruit meat or vegetables for dis
tribution among the poor at Christmas
time
Spark from a Rock Hand locomotive
caued a fire that did $500 damage to the
house owned and occupied by George T.
Matthews al 700 West First street at II
,ountered difficulty in running through |
the railroad yards and the delay was
fatal.
The Burlington railroad is building L
sixteen story office building in Chicago.
When it is completed it will place the To-
oel1a Santa Fe general office building in
second place in the highest railroad office
league. But the citizens of To-
oeza will not complain if the sky line
S dented again.
The paving petitions asking for the
paving of West street between Huntoon
and Fifteenth streets and Branner street
between Second and Fourth streets were
approved by the board of city commits
;ioners this morning. Arch street from a
lalf block near Eleventh street will be
,urbed and guttered.
All of the new motor fire equipment for
he Topeka fire department will have 10
'omotive bells for gongs- These bells are
similar to the gong on the large trucks
Ind steamers. The average fire wagon
gong sounds SO much like the noises of
he street that the new apparatus is
differently.
superintendent c. c. Starr has received
communication from J. NJ. Rodrig, the
lew director general of primary educa-
ion in Mexico, asking for copy of the
Attest report on the work or the city
chools In return he promises to send
literature on educational work issued by
he Mexican government.
BY the way, in this rush and hurry of
he holiday season, have you stopped to
hink what fine weather the man on top
# the Bank Of Topeka building has been
living to you? But sunny Flora says
le has awful surprise saved up for
lext week. It will come in packages of
now ice and cold winds
Fifteen hundred circular letters are be-
ng mailed today by the management of
he Provident association asking for funds
With which to carry on the work in 1912. |
IN account of the interest in social ser
ice work created by the Men and Re-