The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-23
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Holcraft-Flowers.-Adv.
AT HOME. NEWS

AOicraIt-F lOWerS--AoV-
Moose SNOWFALL Dance. Thursday
night. Public invited.-Adv.
See the line of holiday goods at
Building.-Adv.
Most of the school boards in Shaw
nee county pay the teachers for time
of the Christmas vacation.
The Junior Red Cross is well organ
lied in Shawnee county. About Is per
cent are enrolled for service.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv
There will be no ice delivery on
Xmas day. Parties wanting ice may
have it by calling City Ice Delivery
Fri6ey.-Adv.
Seaman rural high school and nine
public schools of that community will
give Star of Bethlehem" at the high
school tonight.
Truancy is not very frequent, but
many parents violate the law by per-
hitting or requiring children to stay
out of school to work.
There are two colored schools in
Shawnee county-the Pierce school,
southeast of Topeka. and the Kelsey
school, east of Oakland.
Thirty-eight dollars will go to starry
ing Armenians as the gift of the La
dies Aid Society of Tecumseh. The
society held a public sale for the fund,
Wednesday.
Cupid is slipping a bit in Shawnee
county this year. Twenty-six teachers
got married last year, but the pros
poets are that but two or three are in
line" thus far this year.
Christmas candy and fruit were
treats for everyone at the party given
by Shawnee Lodge No. -. F. A. u,
Wednesday night at Redman hall.
The gifts followed an oyster supper.
Public schools will close today for
the Christmas holiday. In most schools
no lessons will be heard this after
noon, as Christmas programs will oc-
cupy the afternoon session. Schools
will reopen January 8.
An appeal from the probate court,
where he was found insane few
weeks ago. resulted favorably in the
district court Wednesday afternoon for
Walter E. Thomas, 1922 Tyler street.
A jury declared Thomas sane. He is
a Santa Fe office employe.
An evening of musical pleasure is
promised Topeka by the Business and
Professional Women's club which will
bring a group of Welsh singers to the
city January IL for a concert at the
city auditorium. The singers are
known as the Mountain Ash choir"
The Santa Fe has ordered the con-
struction of ten new engine stalls in
the roundhouse at Amarillo. Tex, and
the lengthening of twelve of the old
larger engines. The improvem ents
contemplated will cost about $125, 900
, and will be of concrete.
Additional seating accommodations
in the Harvey House at Topeka will
soon be completed. The improvements
in the eating place will permit of the
accommodation of thirty more people
than the old arrangement. The
kitchen has been practically rebuilt
and the dining room redecorated.
The amputation of one of his hands
at a local hospital Wednesday after
noon was made necessary when VIII
| liam Day, a brakeman on the Missouri
Pacific, attempted to couple two cars
together. His hand was caught be-
tween the couplers and crushed. He
was rushed to the hospital in Pen
wells ambulance.
Rather than the grownups planning
a Christmas celebration for the chill
dren, the children will have the cele-
bration for the adults at the Security
Benefit Home. West Sixth avenue, or
Christmas eve. The children will fur
nish the entire entertainment. But
the thirty children in the home will be
provided with Christmas gifts and
candy by the grownups, with Mrs. ],
/ A Benjamin in charge of the program.
The Provident Association expects
a large number of requests for warm
clothing and bedding with the sud-
den cold weather. Families that have
managed so far this winter without
asking for help will probably come to
the association for assistance since the
weather has changed. and the associa-
ton is never too well supplied with
clothing and bedding, according to
Miss Helen Stage, office secretary.
Contributions of such character are
welcomed enthusiastically at the Prov
ident Association, particularly ut