The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-25
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AT HOME NEWS

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Your child writes letter to Santa,
And wants gifts too numerous to name;
Then at Christmas" he doesn't receive
Now whom is he going to blame?
Nell Scribbler.
The widows Christmas.
''Oh, MOTHER said Willie, TON Brown
got a sled
And a picture MACHINE and train
And a whole lot OF candy and apples and
While / got this knife and game"
what sort Of a fellow is Santa, mother?
1 wrote him the first of last week"
But she only sat silently stroking his hair
As a tear triekled down her pale eneek.
Nell Scribbler.
Peace Earth.
IIarkl I hear sweet voices ringing
Echoed down thru all the ages
Peace on earth, good VIII TO men,
Do we understand the meaning
OF that message from the past?
Shall We come to know its blessings
Live IN H'f '"' Neil scribbler.
Police headquarters was the only
public building open today.
Dancin.; today-3 p. m.-Tonight-
D. nat Kellam Halliday.
This is The one day of the year that
the man must wear the Christmas tie
whether he wants it or not.
Girls receiving Christmas presents
today will have a good time tomorrow
figuring up how much they cost.
Every soldier you see on the streets
of the city today is man with rab-
bits foot. He was lucky enough to
draw a furlough from camp for the
holiday.
Don't talk to me about the Hall
fax disaster" well known Topekan
said today "a friend brought me a
quart of joy water from Kansas City
last night and 1 dropped it and broke
it."
Lights appearing in the windows Of
lazy homes, despite the holiday grant
ed the man of the house. indicated this
morning that the children heard a
noise around the chimney good and
early.
A Christmas tree and a children's
program were the features of Services
held at the st. Johns Lutheran
church Monday night. More than 200
were present and every child present
was remembered with gifts.
Forty thousand pieces of mail
passed thru the cancelling machine at
the Topeka postoffice the day before
christmas. special auto tTuckS were
used in distributing mail this year for
the first time in the city's history. One
postman delivered 5000 pieces of
mail.
The Rev. P. D. Mueller, pastor of
the ST. Johns Lutheran church, has
announced that any member of his
congregation or any German Ameri-
can in the city who needs the services
of an interpreter in filling out his
QUESTIONABLE can get assistance by
applying to him.
Governor Capper has been chosen
by DIR. Eva Harding to be her charac-
ter witness at her trial before the fed
essary, Doctor Harding says, to call at
least one witness to establish her char
acter. She has announced that she
will not employ an attorney.
A Christmas eve burglar busted
himself in the vicinity of Seventeenth
street and Kansas avenue. He first
broke a window in the rear Of the
Economy market. Evidently he found
things inside too economical as noth-
ing was missing. Then he broke a
window in Pinney's drug store and
took $37 in cash. Nothing else was
missing.
An enemy alien and married since
December Is. Herman Hoppe. former
state hospital attendant, is doubly as
sured that he will not be obliged to
serve in the army. The Shawnee
county draft beard has been search
ing for him. Finally they received a
letter from Hoppe notifying them he
was at Crete. Neb.. and had married
December IS.
Jess Leegrand Jarvis of Cherokee
county was the first man to get his
QUESTIONABLE before the first district
appeal board. 1t came to the board
rooms Monday. and was followed by
ON l.
and Samuel B. Pyne. both of Cherokee
also. The appeal board has commend
ed the Cherokee machinery for it's
prompt action.
Mrs. George F1eisch. of heaven
worth, has two telephones in her
home. One is in the house for the
use of the Fleisch family. The other
is located on the back porch for the
use of neighbors without a phone.
Mrs. Aurenda NJ. Sheldon, 50 years
old, died Monday afternoon at her
home, 10S Taylor street. Mrs Shell
den was the mother of E. NJ. Sheldon
and Mrs. K. L. Copeland, both of To-
peka. Mrs Sheldon came to Topeka
five years ago from Roc kford Ill. to
be near her children. No arrange
ments have been announced as to the
funeral
There are no Christmas babies in
Topeka hospitals. There were none nm
until noon today and so far as is
known there will he none-oh. well.
you never can tell. Patients in the
hospitals were comparatively few. an
who could possibly leave had gone to
their homes for Christmas. There are
a few seriously ILL The halls AT 81
Francis and Stormont hospitals were
decorated and relatives of some of the
patients did as much decorating as
modern hospital sanitation rules win
permit Each hospital had a good