The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-22

Let's add another letter to
The seasons list Of Jokes
To change his middle name
Before n crop OF inneceHts
Is saddied with the samef
Walt Drummond-
Holcraft-Flowers ADV.
Moose SNOWFALL Dance, Thursday
night. Public invited.-Adv.
See the line of holiday goods at
Rosser Bros. Orpheum Theater
Building.-Adv.
An Issues OF Liberty Bonds bough,
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co, 534 Kansas avenue ADV.
The November report of the state
oil inspector shows inspection during
November of l1s.471 barrels of kero-
sene and 126,5o5 barrels of gasoline
A Christmas gift of candy and flow
ers will be presented to each woman
guest of the Throop hotel on Christ
mas day. according to an announce
ment by e. r. Barbour, manager
The state headquarters of the Bap-
fist church is collecting money from
the churches of that denomination in
Kansas for relief funds, and is turn
ing the funds over to the leaders of
the relief campaigns
A suit to collect $500 from Paul ].
Launan was filed in the district court
by Roy Payne. who claims he was
damaged in this amount when one OF
his taxicasbs and Lannan's car collided
in North Topeka October ..
The Union Construction and Paving
company of st. Joseph, which recently
finished the work on the West Tenth
street road, has been sued in district
court by The Standard Oil company
for $S57.5S, which it is claimed is due
for asphalt purchaser.
After a preliminary hearing in the
couft of Topeka Tuesday afternoon
Judge Rad Lee bound Vern and Evo
Imhoff over to the district court for
trial on charge of stealing S20.4o
from John Bechtelheimer, eo7M North
Kansas avenue, where they roomed for
time.
A feature of the dance at the Moose
lodge hali Thursday evening is to be
an old fashioned SNOWFALL dance"
which will be staged. under the direc-
ton of DIR G. w Hin. who is manag-
ing the dance. The steps may be new
err, the doctor says, but the spirit or
the dance will be the same as in the
old days.
Every patient at the State hospital
will receive a Christmas gift, accord
ing to plans of employees at the in
stitution. Gifts from relatives and
friends viii be distributed from a
Christmas tree and no inmate will be
forgotten. Roast duck and chicken
will head the menu for Christmas din
ner at the hospital.
A report from the Santa Fe states
northern New Mexico for ex-service
men suffering from tuberculosis are
entirely inadequate to care for the
men who are being sent there. There
are thousands of the ex-service tuber-
cular patients in the territory. accord
ing to the Santa Fe.
Eugene Union and Joe Porter, two
negro youths charged with trespassing
on railroad property. were placed an
the county Jail twenty-five days ago
to await trial and apparently forgot
ten. When they We're brought before
Judge Rad Lee Tuesday he consid-
cred they had been punished enough
and ordered their release.
Rather than send out the children
as Christmas guests in childless homes,
the Kansas Children's Home Finding
society will keep the children in the
home Christmas day, according to d.
E. Shirk,' superintendent. The chill
dren will have a Christmas tree at
the home Christmas morning, and will
have Christmas dinner at noon. A
Christmas party will be given for them
dt the nome OF MT anu h1FS- " W.
Hascall 1927 Lincoln street, Christmap
afternoon.
The Christmas day program at the
Boys Industrial school will include a
Christmas tree-Santa Claus party III
the afternoon. with the members of
the Square Circle club as hosts. The
party will follow a plentiful turkey din
ner, provided partly by a fund from
members of the Kansas official coun-
cl and from the members of the vari-
Gus Rotary clubs of Kansas. In the
morning the boys will stage an ath-
letic program. Moving pictures will
be shown at night