The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

D. Y. c. s. E!
Several shipments of Christmas trees
have been received in Topeka by COM
mission merchants.
A concert will be given at the Euclid
avenue Methodist church this evening
by the Euclid orchestra.
The first quarterly conference Of the
First United Brethren church will be
held Saturday evening at o'clock.
Three weeks until Christmas and
nearly all the store windows in the city
have been decorated for the holidays
The Current Topics club of the Y.
NJ c. A. will hold a meeting next Mon
day evening at the Y. NJ C. A building.
Apparently, the stork has taken a
vacation. No reports of births in the
city were received today at the city
clerks office.
The most popular restaurant cashier
in town has quit her job to get mar
ried and all the Stag" boarders at that
particular cafe are in deep mourning.
The meeting of the Central Park par
ent-teachers association which was
planned for tonight has been post
poned until next Friday evening De-
cember IL.
According to the report of George
r Mattingly. city license collector
for the month of November $2,6S9.OS
was collected by his department dur
ing that month.
A white opossum, recently captured
near Whiting by DIR. L. w. Rowles
city milk inspector, has been added to
the Gage park zoo. The white species
! OF the OpOssum is rare in Kansas.
Grover Cleveland, sentenced to three
years in the federal penitentiary at
Lansing on white slavery charge. was
last night taken to the penitentiary by
| q. E. Need, deputy United States mar
shall.
Building permits issued today to c.
! s. Rucker, 1874 Grand avenue, tc
erect dwelling costing $500, and
| to Charles Curtis, North Topeka, fol
the erection of a business building tG
cost 500.
Topeka" observed q man who has
been watching with interest the effort
to crowd picture show prices up te
| higher price level, has nearly as
many picture shows as 1t used to have
drug stores
Seven dollars was the amount of the
| war tax the United States govern
ment received when 100 acres near Te-
cumseh was transferred from NJ. Snat.
| finger and wife to Joseph Ingenthorr
and wife. the first real estate transfer
in this county to carry the new rev.
enue stamp.
! The Current Topic club of the Cen
| tral Y. M. c. A. Will be addressed mex
| Monday evening by Leon A. Congdon
assistant chief food and drug inspec
tor for Kansas. His subject, 9TH,
Present Status Of Food and Drui
Adulteration and Their Brandings.'
Dinner will be served at 6:15 to clul
members and their friends.
"A Shawnee county school mistress
| who has been observing the attention
paid to decorative art, slanting pen
manship and music lessons in the cit!
schools, is authority for the remarl
that rural school children of equal ag,
can read better, write better, thinl
better and get along better in higl
school than do the city youngsters VIII,
spend SO much time on side-issues.
While Topeka is figuring on a mum
! |eipal farm for sthe~is reformation o
DRINKS and pickpockets, it might b
worth while considering a municipal O
county farm scheme by which the hard
up families with too many small chill
dren could be given a chance to rails
pigs and chickens and keep healthy il
the country instead of living on count
} pittances in the same old surrounding
in the poorest residence districts. TIL