The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-24

jail day or two ago, and for time no
one could either get in or out.
The putting down of new stones and
the levelhng of the sidewalks on Kan
be stopped until it is completed.
there win be no entertainments at
say the building will be dark
To show his faith in humanity west
niybt same 17orniper f[af T,a1 g-iI1 ana
both his faith and his coal gone.
Chairman Albaugh and Secretary Frank
Brown of the Republican state committee
committee in Topeka. December G.
The court house officials have adopted
fn o[i9 9noa ift1 In
doesn't come around and claim property.
When most men go down in defeat on
election day they give it out to their
but few of them are wise enough to stay
There is a butcher in Topeka who re
fuses to sell good steak in ten cent lots.
He says he can't afford 10 cut it up. It
is needless to say that his trade is lin
Bailtff John Coyne. of the district court,
is wading through the intricacies of Mr.
Dooley in Peace and in War" He pro
fury.
The annual state conventions to be held
in Topeka this winter will receive more
attention from the public than. they did
last winter. Last year the legislature OBJ
secured them.
The farmers are making these days
to revise the proverb about making hay
while the sun shines to apply to Kan
sas corn fields
H L. Nudge began his railroad life
carrying water to a construction gang.
This is another evidence of what an Am
er1can boy with push and perseverance
can accomplish.
A TropeiI!a girl who recently had palm
ist read" her hand steadfastly refuses
anyone questions her about it she bushes
and looks happy.
On account of the revival services be-
ing held this week the singing classes of
the Presbyterian church will meet on
at the usual hours.
Many people have got along with little
OF no Iire -r IuIllg me gTeated part OF No
month thus far was on the day of the
Twentieth Kansas reception.
One of the fierce bloodhounds'' almost
| forgot his lines at the Uncle Toms Cabin
show last night He got in the middle. Of
the stage and could not remember which
way he was expected to go next.
The man who has been prophesying
that this would be an open winter, is en-
joying this kind Of weather more than
having ones prophecies come true.
Hat dealers don't like quiet elections in
which there is little interest such as
there was locally this year There is no
boom in the hat business afterwards. as
there is when the interest is lively.
Appeals have been flied from the city
court to the district court in the cases
.
who are charged with breaking into a
butcher shop on lower Kansas avenue
The moonlight schedule of burning the
city street lights is all right provided
the moon shines when it ought to. When
it goes on strike and the street lights
TRANS.
Thanksgiving furnishes a greater va
riety of entertainment than any other
holiday. There are the church services,
big dinners, football theaters and balls,
but they all cost money except the church
servi,les.
When the cold spell came along the
first of November people thought the flies
were all dead and the screens were taken
down. But it proved that the flies were
only hiding. and now many houses are
SWarming with them
The sidewalk in front of Crosby Broth
ers' store and for some distance on each
side was blOckaded for hour last night
with people who were trying to get into
| the opening and who were unable to
do so on account Of the jam
There is a dearth of the sticky kind
of fly paper in Topeka. Dealers do not
usually expect to sell any after the last
although the flies are still abundant.
A Topeka man is planning to go rab-
bit hunting Thanksgiving, and his
friends who know the outsome of pre-
vious hunting expeditions Of his; are adj
Vising him to hunt the back yard of some
family where the boy has a pen Of pet
rabbits
Nine boys were arrested yesterday for
trespassing the Santa F'e railroad pro-
perty. J. J. Kinney, chief of the santa
F'e secret service department. gave them
a lecture. The detective is not famous
lecturer and as the boys listened to
it all without making any demonstration