The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-29
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Noon lunch Cremerie CafeLsrta.-AdY.
NJ A. Moore. general chairman of
the Railway Clubs of Topeka is in
x ashington on business.
Since the president has made an
other wet spell possible. Kansas City
Fagaia takes on lure and enchantment-
A new. overcoa1 this year Is real
mark of prosperity With the high
prices old overcoats are more popular
than ever
II the coal strike holds up Christmas
presents it is going to be the task Of
a lifetime explaining TO the kiddies the
relation between coal and the Santa
Claus sleigh.
The o'clock crowds on the back
platforms of the Topeka street cars
7 fled The 8 o'clock crowds declare it
/ Is an outrage
If oil is struck at Herington scores
of TopekaES Will stand a good chance
I OF becoming wealthy If dry holes are
brought in weII-thOusands of dollars
viii be soaked in perfectly beautiful
! leases
Cold weather Is coming on and the
state house IS full of employees who
now will begin their crusade against
Topeka. Whenever the state has a new
law TO test, it is tried out on the cap
itaI city
Under the rules enforced IN juve-
7 hearings. the officers may do anything
they desire with children and can per-
nit as many guilty men go free as
they desire and the public can never
know anything about it.
Whenever you walk thru the eoun-
try these days you would better carry
: a red flag or a flare or a gas attack
warning a Topekan said today. You
never know when you are going to
jump into the face of a shotgun in
the hands Of a hunter
A Topekan who has been forced TO
/ begin building a home that he may
have a place to live this winter has
completed a beautiful garage on the
lots he purchased Now that the car
5 comfortably situated the Tooekan
IS figuring on a house for his family
The telephone rang call for
Nearly fifteen huge trees, some of
them as old as Topeka. have been feHed
nue. and Van Buren, street. the site of
the new Masonic temple. As fate
would have It, the trees on the park
IHss are dying while the trees on thz
lots were staUnch and healthy.
papa announced the small girl of
the family. Papa Jumped from his.
chair Why are you so startled %
asks mamma. +-WeIl-er-you know"
father threw back over his shoulder
as he walked 10 the phone. II was
z
thing
y H woIff. Topeka tailor. sent to
his sister in Germany recently 4 10
pound box of coffee His sister wrote
back saying it was the first coffee in
her town for more than four years.
Recent letters to Topekans from Ger
many agree that the country is pitt
fully short Of fats and that the resi-
dents of the larger cities are suffer
ing
A two-day conference of inspectors
Of the federal bureau of animal in
dustry from five states closed Tuesday
in the office of H NJ. Graefe head of
the Topeka bureau The conference
was held at the suggestion of the de-
partmeut OF agriculture and ideas for
handling work Of the bureau cleaned
from the meeting will be submitted to
The department
Cold and rainy weather make walk
ing an unenioyabIe Pastime for resi-
dents of Oakland The street railway
company is paving along tracks north
OF the Santa Fe Viaduct- Passengers
must transfer and walk a block, time
wait from five to twenty minutes for
j car. Small wonder that scores of
Iaboring men own automobiles when
they cannot afford to.
Mrs. Agues J. Caller. national lee
turer fer the Welfare and Uphft
league of Denver, viii lecture in To-
peka Saturday evening in the high
school assembly hall at 8 o'clock On
The Spirit of CpIift-" Individual eff
fort and uuseIfishness on the part of
every citizen, regardless OF sect or
creed TO the end that America may
be betted nation will be Mrs. Callers
plea
The Topeka firemen sold more than
soc tickees for their annual bail held
Tuesday night in Steinberg's hall
From the crowded condition of the
hall It looked as tho every fellow who
purchased = ticket attended the dance.
hula dance 70 the acompa Hiruent OF
music by the Hefgh-Io Hawaiian quar-
tet during the intermission at 10
o'clock