The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-24
acknowledgements.


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Dance tomorrow at Kellam. Matinee,
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All issues or Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue. ADV.
Bids on plans for the building i'm
plant will be advertised for Tuesday,
December IS.
George Weaver. formerly of Topeka,
is making his first visit here for the
past seventeen years at the home OF
his aunt, 1175 Buchanan street. He
has been in Milwaukee since leaving
Topeka.
Fewer passes than usual, for Holt
day trips have been applied for by
Santa Fe employees in Topeka. The
fact is taken to indicate that most of
the employees are going to spend their
Christmas at home this year.
The colored walters at the Cham
Der of Commerce dining room, who
have served faithfully turnout the
last year. were remembered today by
quarter and half-dollar contributions
from all diners There will be no &C
tivities at the chamber tomorrow.
A man on jackson street chalks a
witticism on both sides of a blackboard
in front of his oil station each day.
The one yesterday read: "Presants, not
absence, make the heart grow fonder.
Will some one 'presant" him with a
spelling book for Christmas?
| The new addition to the plant of
| the Beatrice Creamery company was
| dedicated" Thursday night at a
| Christmas party attended by 400 peo-
pie. employees of the plant and their
families. program. which included
a Christmas tree, entertainment, and
| dance was given.
The annual midnight Christmas
service will be held at Grace Cathe-
| dral at midnight tonight. The service
will include the communion and the
singing of Christmas carols. Dean
Kaye will take the service Bishop
| James Wise and Mrs. Wise are spend
| ing the holidays in Wichita. as the
guests of Rev. Otis e. Gray.
! The Sunday school OF the West Side
| Christian church will hold a program
and Christmas tree service tonight al
! the church. Supt. ]. F. Roose, of the
Sunday school, will have charge of the
| services. Santa Claus will be there
with toys for the little ones. and bas-
kets will be sent to the aged and sick
| of the city. An offering will be made
| for orphans of America and other
| countries.
| At a Christmas entertainment at
| the Seaman rural high school Thurs
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| the RELIEF funds being asked this year
| The total of $3.50 collected, will be
divided among the Chinese relief. the
| anti-tuberculosis fund and theSNeaI
| East relief A Christmas cantata
| Star of Bethlehem" was given by the
Seaman school and nine district
| schools of the community. 1t was
| highly successful, demonstrating the
worth of community programs.
The regular early morning Christ
mas service of the Swedish Lutheran
church. at Fourth and Tyler stree s
| morning, and the children's program
| will be held at O'Clock Saturday
| evening. The offering which is usually
| taken for the Sunday school at this
| time. will be used for the relief of the
| starving Chinese. A special car will
leave Oakland at O'Clock. to carry
| members of the church to the early
| service.
| The remarkably generous gift sub
scribed to the fund for starving Euro
pean children by the Westminster
Presbyterian church Thursday night
| amounted to $463.46. The meeting
| was for a missionary program, with ]
H. Engle, secretary of the State Sun
| day School association, who has trav-
| eled in the Orient, as the chief speak
| err. Musical numbers were given BY
| the choir and by William Neiswanger
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of the Sunday school were given 4
| Christmas treat
Many of the poor children of the
| city will receive toys which We're made
by the boys of the Topeka high school
The toys, made in the high schoo
| manual training classes will be dis
| tributed by the Provident Association
and the Salvation Army The gift.
| are cleverly and neatly made. They
| are all of wood. and were painted in
the art department of the school. II
cluded in the lot of gifts are sleds
wagons. animals, windmills, blocks
lairplanes. wooden handles jumping
ropes and other articles
The Trinity Methodist church, Six
| teenth and Harrison streets, will
| branch off from the regular service;
| Sunday in an unusual way when the
| preaching services conducted by Rev
| w. E. Blackstock will be punctuateC
| by illustrative songs from the choir il
the regular loft. assisted by a quarte
| stationed in the gallery. Doctor
| Blackstock's sermon will be on the
| four agencies connected with the brit
of Christ-the stars, angels. shepherd
and the Magi. The songs by the choiI
| win serve as illustrations for the ser
mon.
West Orange. y. ]. Judge Lander