The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-25
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81 wouldn't care" the oyster said.
Between his gasps for breath,
If /, like otehrS, could but meet
A quick and painless DEATH.
''But in this private boarding house.
BY degrees I must diminish,
AS L each day swim in the soup
Say, can see my fnish-''
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Washburn college will close today for
the Thanksgiving holidays.
Wilder S. Atetcalf, pension agent, was
in Kansas City yesterday.
The court house will be closed tomor-
row. Even the fireman will take days
vacation.
C. NJ Knowlton has a unique pet. 1t
IS half-grOwn 'poSsum which he
caught while hunting.
The rank of esquire will be conferred
upon two pages by Valiant lodge 155
K. of p, at the hall this evening.
It would be well to remember that the
football game will begin promptly at
p. m. tomorrow on Washburn field.
F. D. Popenoe. who is in business in
Kansas City, still registers at the
hotels in the hilly city as from Topeka.
County Clerk Newman, who has been
seriously sick, is able to leave his bed.
He will be at the court house next
week.
G. F. Fleming was divorced Tuesday
III Inc QlSlIlCl court from Jennie f1e11-
ing. She was charged with abandon
ing him.
Mrs. Herbert Fairchild of Colorado
Springs, is the guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs William Starr at 1921 Quincy
street.
day afternoon to Maude Marshall from
W. Z. Marshall. The charge was
a abandonment.
THE Midnight Express" is running
ahead of time. It is expected to reach
the Crawford by half past 2 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
The biggest turkey brought to Topeka
this year was purchased by a Topeka
grocer Monday. 1t weighed Al pounds,
with it's clothes on.
There are a good many people who
Highland Park, east of Topeka, sup
ports a football team.
Prof. Louis Heck sat on a jury Mon
day. He heard the case of Charles
Kohl, Deutch apotheke, charged with
illegally selling liquor.
The advance sale of seats for the
Washburn-Des Moines football game is
larger than for any game in Topeka
not excepting the K. U. game
There will be no court business in the
federal court this week. Judge John A.
Riner left last night for Denver where
he will open court next week.
Rev. J. D. Countermine, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, is threa tened
with pneumonia. Hes suffered severely
from congestion of the lungs Tuesday.
The county commissioners have final
& D. railroad bonds of 81, 900 each due
in 1907. The price paid per bond was
LOGO.
A farewell dinner was given in the
Copeland hotel Tuesday night by the
fire insurance men of Topeka in honor
n Rates who's l6aUoS OKLA
homa to remain.
Lawrence Gazette: This paper is
willing to admit that while it hopes a
whole lot of oil will be discovered in
Douglas county, it is dead sore on To-
peka for getting to it first
The ten federal penitentiary mutt
neers were taken back to Leavenworth
Tuesday afternoon to begin their terms
under the sentences imposed by Judge
Riner in the circuit court.
Deputy Sheriff John Ostrand was put
ting pork grease on an old seven foot
squirrel rife today preparatory to going
to a, turkey shoot in the country tomor-
row.
The notice in the State Journal last
evening gave the date of the James
Whitcomb Riley entertainment as next
Monday. 1t will be a week later. De-
cember Z.
The Topeka postoffice will close at 10
a. m. Thanksgiving day There will be
one QellNSEy anu Ouc COlleCI1OA OI HAL.
Rural mail carriers will be given a
holiday with pay.
AtchiSon Globe: Dean Low, who has
had everything fashionable since NOV
ing to Topeka, has at last succeeded
in running down the appendicitis An
operation may be necessary.
Rev. P. w. Crannel. was in Ottawa
yesterday as a representative of the
American Baptist Missionary society
for the examination of a candidate for
appointment to the foreign field.
Washburn should make it part of
it's next years contract with Coach
Kennedy that Kennedy's son, born
last Saturday, shall enter Washburn
as soon as he is ready to play football.
Arthur Kane, who saw the show in
St Louis says Robert Edeson in SOL
diers of Fortune Saturday night will
be one of the most complete. artistic
and satisfying things Topeka will have
this wear.
Street Commissioner Snyder made a
test of the newly invented two horse
street grader Tuesday He found it TO
be very satisfactory for light work, but
not heavy enough to fill the needs Of
Topeka's street department
Every Washburn player who has par
ticipated in a match game this fall viii
be given a fine blue sweater with
Washburn W on the front. Only q few
substitutes will get in this distribu-
ton, as the rule is that Is minutes in
the game is required 70 constitute par