The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

AT HOME NEWS
Too many Topeka men are good
sportsmen in shooting gallery.
What has become of the old fash
toned father who tanned" his sons
hide?
The city snow scrapers were in oper-
alton today on the main streets of
Topeka.
w. H. WATSON, city auditor. who has
been ill several days, Is reported I'M
proving.
The December issue of the CONNER
cial Club Bulletin will be distributed
early next week.
Topeka Temple No. 10, Pythian Sis
tiers, will hold q business meeting this
evening at K. p. hall.
A marriage license has been issued to
Clarence w. Boettcher and Miss Nellie
Meakins, both of this city.
The Provident association is still
shy on shoes for children. There was
heavy demand for shoes today.
A revival meeting will be conducted
at the Salvation Army quarters. 315
Kansas avenue, by Herbert Buffam of
Topeka at o'clock.
New coin and paper money for pres
ents and free Christmas cards, new
style with pocket. The State Savings
Bank, Topeka, Kansas.-Adv.
The Canuck recently put to sleep by
Topek2's Jack johnson will undOubt-
eddy endorse morning papers verdict
that the knockout was an accident.
It's too late to do your Christmas
shopping early, now. but you can help
some by getting down to the stores as
soon as possible after they are opened.
Rabbit hunting is the rage at the
present time in the country around To-
peka. There is a good supply of the
dressed Dummies at local meat markets.
Skating at Gage park is reported to
street railway station was cleared OF
snow for the benefit Of the skaters to-
day.
Do you want to hear Annie Laurie,
Old Black Joe, and Tipperary. played
by Marshalrs band? If you do. go tc
the auditorium tomorrow afternoon at
three O'Clock.
Asa Prendergrass was bound over for
trial in the district court on charge
Of assaulting s. J. Joy, after his pre-
liminary hearing in the court of Topeka
yesterday. Bond was fixed at $500.
Apparently the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Useless Giving has been ef-
fective with Topeka people. Clerks in
local stores say Christmas shoppers are
buying few presents that are not prac-
teal.
This is the kind of a day when you
can pick the good citizens by seeing
which ones got up early enough to
shovel the snow off their sidewalks be-
fore their neighbors were ready to use
them.
Topeka school children are enjoying
their first day of the Christmas va
cation season. Many of them are trying
to work out the problem of what to
buy for daddy and mother" Tor
Christmas.
The Shawnee Golf club will hold a
meeting at the Commercial club quar-
tiers next Tuesday noon. The Brother
hood of the Central Congregational
church will also hold a meeting at the
same place and time.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Allen w. Dawson and Carrie wood
ford, of Topeka. and to Charles
Thompson and Minnie e. Brown OF
Harveyville by the probate judge OF
| this county.
All the country around Topeka is
wrapped in a glory Of white today. The
snow which fell Friday night was damp
and heavy and the limbs OF trees ana
shrubs are bent with heavy deposits OF
the frozen moisture.
The following births were reported
at the office Of the city clerk today:
Thomas Allen Borman and wife. 1880
TYLER street, December Is, boy; Davis
| ROYAL Carrie and wife, 1OS Topeka
avenue, April IL, boy
| Bud Muir was taken into custody
yesterday by Undersheriff Hugh Lari-
mer for violation Of his parole from q
sentence for assaulting a special police
| man named Brown. Muir Is alleged to
have been selling liquor while under
| parole.
| w. p. Mclean, director Of physical
! training in the public schools. will
speak to the men and boys at the T.
n. c. A. colored department Sunday al
three o'clock. His subject is Good
| Sportsmanshfp." All men and boys are
| invited.
| The civil service commissioners will
conduct an examination Monday, jan
uary T. at 8 a. M, at the City hail. All
persons desiring to take the examina-
| ton must file their application with
the city clerk by Saturday, Decem-
Der g.
A story is being told that Ernest
Tucker, editor OF the shawnee Chief
after attening a meeting Of his Ma
sonic lodge forgot to remove his Ma
sonic apron and wore the white sheer
skin to the Catholic bazaar which wal
being held In the Auditorium.
| More than 5000 delegates from Kan
sas Sunday schools are expected to at
tend the big jubilee convention Of the
Kansas STATE Sunday school a1Doe1of1nu