The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-24

Put in stocks one day;
Measurin' up the shrinkage
| When it leaked away.
Figgerin' on the record
That horse can get;
Measurin' up your trouble
If you made a bet.
All our worry started
On the double-quick
| When some one invented
Washington Star.
Dean Low is suffering with appended
tbs, and it is likely that an operation
will be necessary
Dorothy Tenant, of Robert Blossoms
company, is a niece of Lady Stanley
wife Of Henry M. Stanley.
The Topeka gunners are arranging to
attend some of the turkey shoots to be
held in the country on Thanksgiving
Day after tomorrow is Thanksgiving
Yesterday a Topeka man, whose family
| turkey.
Mayor Bergundthal and City Engi-
neer McCabe are in Kansas City today
comforting with the Kaw river commits
sioners.
It is merely a coincidence that Fred
Beckham, who was in Topeka. yester-
day. should be the advance man for In
| Old Kentucky.
The Delta and the Phi Lambda foot
ball teams of the high school will play
at 3 O'CLOCK morning O1 tAC
Washburn field.
There will be a meeting of the di-
rectors of the Topeka & Council Grove
electric line at the Commercial club
rooms Friday night.
"a Jolly Mans Troubles" will be the
matinee and night attraction at the
Grand and 1.-THE Midnight Express will
play matinee and night at the Craw-
ford Thanksgiving.
Just think. the fellows who play foot
ball Thanksgiving afternoon on the
! Washburn field will not be allowed TO
eat any turkey, cranberry sauce and
oyster dressing until after the game.
The dog which bit the young son of
James Nillirigue last Sunday does not
belong to Lon Townsend. as was re
ported. The animal is owned by a
Harrison street man. Townsend's dogs
are fox terriers.
Captain Dadisman, of the Washburn
football team, has had no dream yet
about the outcome of the Washburn-
Iowa game on Thanksgiving day. He
says that this is sure thing; no dream
means success.
S. s. Rice, one of the old time grocery
men of the city who retired from busi-
ness recently was last night elected sec
rotary of the Retail Grocers' association
to succeed A. E. McCollum, who has
been appointed chief of police.
The Topeka Gun club will hold the
annual Thanksgiving day shoot at the
grounds on East Sixth street. com
mencing at 6 a. m. Thursday There
will be live birds and targets. and the
shoot viii be open for all.
The children of the primary depart
ment of Central Church Sunday school,
will bring their Thanksgiving offerings
| to the church on Wednesday afternoon
at 4:30. The gifts will consist of food
and clothing for needy Topeka chill
dren.
A party of government engineers will
be in Topeka on Thursday for the
purpose of investigating the course of
the flood in the Kaw valley here. They
have been at Lawrence and numerous
other points between there and Kan
sas City.
East Eighth street people are clamor-
ing for somebody to fix up the Eighth
street bridge across the, Shunganunga
creek, which has been down ever since
the flood. The city advertised once for
bids on the repair work, but the bids
were all too high.
Judge John A. Riner is one of the
most businesslike judges who has sat
upon the federal bench in Kansas He
hates delay and keeps things moving
in the court room. Monday night he
held a night session of court, thing
which has not very many presidents
in Topeka.
Robert Edeson, whose Soldiers of
Fortune" has been so successful. is
going to pose as actor author. He and
a member OF MS company are Drama
tizing 1.-THE Conjurer's House, the
scenes of which are laid in the fur
country, by which name the Hudson
bay territory is known.
DR. Bert Kennedy, the coach of the
Washburn football team. is the papa of
! baby boy, born Saturday, at Law
renee. Mr.. Kennedy also has a daugh-
ter about two years old There's no
doubt that the WashbuFn football team
will claim the new Mr.. Kennedy as its
mascot. It beats the bear.
Ready responses have beer received
by the Commercial club to the an
nouncement of the meeting of Deem
Der for the organization of a. con-
struction company for the building of
the railroad line to Frankfort, in Mar
shall county, and it is anticipated that
the meeting will be very well attended.
The Dry Goods Economist of New
York is an authority in dry goods cir
cles. The paper comments as follows on
an advertisement which it noticed in
the State Journal: Crosby Bros, To
peka, Rampage ad. Would do credit
to any concern in this country-bar
none. In fact, we could point out more
than one prominent metropolitan firm
whose publicity output would suffer by
comparison with this"
Clues Are Found.
Victor, Colo, Nov. 24.-Parts of the
remnants of a revolver which were
found in the 6OO-foot level of the Vim
Dictator mine after the explosion last