The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-02

And now the plumbersi
The chicken show is open with an
excellent showing of birds.
The advance sale of tickets for the
Kansas Midwinter has begun.
There will be something doing in
the capital city all the time this
month.
Do you remember the Kansas av-
enue sign few years ago, which read,
$4,000 in 1911 %
"open house was observed this aft
ernoon at both the Railroad and Cen
| trail Y. NJ c.. A. buildings.
Some of the local stores were open
this morning. but practically all OF
them are closed this afternoon
! There is somthing wrong with the
| street car schedules-at least little at
tention is paid to them by the COM
pany.
Charles Sessions read a paper ar 81 at on
| ss,The Fourth Estate at Washington
before the Saturday Night club Satur-
day night.
| The work in the city school will be
IresuIned tomorrow. This evening the
nuniIs of the Harrison night school
will report for work.
| Despite the fact that very few people
| came down town to offices or places OF
business this mornins, the street raii-
way company ran extra cars. The cars
| were not filed.
R. r. Wagstaff who has been clerk
| in the Felix store since 1t was started
| was married to Miss Nellie Nye last
! night. They have gone to Hutchinson
for a. brief visit
w. G.. Tandy, city commissioner, has
| announced his stand on the "old man
| enploy1nent'' debate at the city hall.
G. E. Barnaby, chairman OF the civil
| service commission, says that the city
has too many old men on the pay rolls
All of the trains running into Topeka
i are late today-and were late last mSnt-
The railway stations are crowded with
angry passengers who have missed con-
nections and who find it necessary to sit
on the steam radiators until their De
! lated train arrives.
The lighting committee of the Com
/ mercial club is still working on the
! white way proposition. The commit
/ tee hopes to hear from the city com
missioners at an early date in respect
+ to what they are willing to do to
push along the project.
| w. A. Reeder. of Logan, congress
man from the Sixth district, is in To-
: peka today on his way to Washing
81 ton. d. C. He has been spending the
u holidays in his home district and Wis
| tied several hours today with friends
in Topeka before returning for tns
completion of the short session
Contrary to the general rule Judge
A. w. Dana has q full days work ahead
, of him in the district court and there
! is no holiday for the court house crow!
. except in the court of Topeka. which j:
without a Judge. until Governor Stubb:
| announces successor to f. X simon
whose resignation became effective Sat
urday night
4 Twenty years ago New Years tn
Santa Fe railroad couldn't get a trail
: out of Topeka on account of the Sbliz
zard that swept the state the nigh
before. Many people and thousands o
cattle died that day on account of tn
sudden cold spell-it came up unde
= conditions similar to- the manner II
! which the storm arrived Sunday.
4 At the annual Y NJ. c. A. ninstre
/ show this evening and tomorrow eve
: ming Knapp Brothers, fancy dancers
!. | will give the Sailors Hornpipe' il
lcostume. Palmatier and F'rantz, aero
g bats and mblers, will entertain Wit
: unprecedented" feats- A "distin
: guished and mysterious East India
e magician and slight-of-hand per
e former will be introduced to Topek
d audiences for the first time
4 This is day to be remembered i
d the minds of the Topeka rural ma
: carriers. New Years is one of the Yer
few days when the men who carry tn
II sawbuck eatalogs to the farmers al
It given a rest Clerks in the postoffie
we7eelikewise given a rest after the
o'clock morning distribution. The ger
? eral delivery window will be open tn
- evening between the hours of 5 and
ID O'Clock.
'. This evening the first perfornnau n.
= central 7. NJ. c. A. will be given. v
alb. Collinson is the director, and wor
lis given out to the effect that som,