The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Christmas Spirit.
Come gaddah round nah knee nah little
And listen what youah dady has to say,
He heahs you-all talkin' bout ole Santa,
And tellin' what you wants on christ
Now de world am full of folks what's al
ways wantin
It's de folks what's satisfied dat's mighty
So don't be always pIannin on de gettin'
But Jest be glad foh all DAT comes 70
Dah's lots OBJ little chillen all around us.
Dat Santa Claus don't chen know dey
So gaddah up de pennies you been savin'
And we'll get in old Santa Claus
An when you gets to thinkin' bout youah
Remember what de Bible says am true.
If you busy youah self givin' to HIS
De Lord will see to givin' things to you.
Mrs. E. A. Van Fleet. 1872 North
Van Buren, left today for an EXTENDED
stay in San Diego, Cal.
r. II. Fox, of Denver, travelling pas
senger agent for the Colorado South
ern, was in Topeka today on business.
F. C. Fox, general manager, and w.
r. Smith, general attorney of the
Santa Fe, left today on business trip
to Emporia.
Waving his preliminary on the
charge of violating the prohib1tory
law Ed. Davis. a negro, was bound
over to the district court today under
a bond of $500.
In Difference to the holiday season
the Rotary club has eliminated its
| Thursday noon meeting this week
from the calendar and will not meet
again until January 4. a big affair in
mpliment to the wives and lady
10 a
feature of next years Rotary program.
A number of fire chiefs and motion
picture operators from Kansas towns
are today attending a conference in
the offices of the state labor depart
ment The conference will probably
make recommendations for several
| changes in state fire and building
laws as affecting motion picture the
aters.
! Miller kirkpatrick, a negro, charg-
ed with robbing the Economy grocery
at the corner of Huntoon and Clay
streets, was bound over to the district
court today The original case against
Kirkpatrick was dismissed last week
because the information located the
grocery store robbed on the wrong
| side of the street.
DIR. S. ]. Crumbine and other Off
GERS of the state board of health will
go to Independence this week, where
they will attend hearing concerning
water conditions in the Verdegris riv-
er. Complaints concerning Verdegris
river water are based on the fact that
refuse from the Standard Oil company
| refinery at NeOdeSha empty into the
stream.
Ollie Burns, a negro. was found
guilty of two separate charges in the
court of Topeka today and was sem
| fenced to five days in the county Jail
The sentences will run concurrently
and he will be released in time to
| celebrate Christmas eve. His sentence
calls for release at 5 o'clock December
"a. He was convicted of disturbing
the peace and carrying weapons con-
| cealed.
Uncle Sans navy, while it is being
augmented to a certain extent by re-
| cru1tS from Topeka, will suffer for the
next two weeks, because of the fact
that the holiday season is just open
ing. There won't be many to enlist
during +he holidays" said a recruiting
sergeant Everybody wants to spend
| the holidays at home, and doesn't like
being hiked off to some training ship
or station. Not much doing for us for
| the next two weeks" He was en- route
to small towns near Topeka, with a
heavy roll of advertising lateria1 un-
der his arm, as he spoke.
A new magazine published in To-
peka makes it's initial appearance this
month. 1t is a labor publication en-
+ titled kansas Industries" and is edit
ed by Roy H. Hope, secretary of the
Kansas Employers association. The
names of the officers of the associa-
+ tion appear at the head of the editor
| ial page. Mr.. Hope states that the
policy of the paper will be to discuss
| labor problems, questions of transpor-
| tation, insurance, cost finding and
economic conditions in the state.
/ Economic authorities of the country
will be asked to contribute.
! Patrolman Holman saw two sus-
picious looking Mexicans talking to-
gether near the Santa Fe depot Mon
day evening and walked up to them.
Before he had time even to ask a
question one of them, Thomaso Flores,
drew a revolver. Before he had time
to use it, however, Holman tapped
| him on the head with his club with
sufficient force to dislodge the re-
volver from his hand and overbalance
1 the Mexican. Then the wagon was
called and Flores was taken to the
police station. The revolver was a 3S