The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-26


GoIdarn Thanksgiving Dayi
San Francisco Bulletin
Four weeks from tomorrow Christ
mas.
Five weeks from tomorrow New
Years.
The postofice was closed at 10 o'clock
TODAY.
The jury will be at work in the dis
trict court on Friday.
Leroy Powell, superintendent of the
city delivery at the postoffice, is i'll.
What do you suppose Will Sells big
elephant received in the way of a spec
ial delicacy for Thanksgiving?
One Shawnee county farmer had four
ducks that weighed over eight pounds
each fattened for Thanksgiving.
Rev. Father w. L. Rice of Wichita,
| is in Topeka today to receive the third
degree in the knights of Columbus.
1t seems that it pays to stand pat in a
| judgeship contest and not be bluffed
by the unknown hand of the other fell
low.
The Elks' yell at the last two foot
ball games in Topeka was, 'Rah,. Rah,
Rah. who are we? We are the players
of G.. S. F."
After Justice Pollock won and the po-
ker charges were refuted, there was an
unusually large pile of discards left in
Washington.
Dan Hamer, law clerk in the United
States district attorneys office here, is
spending Thanksgiving with his broth
er at Emporia.
George Reed, who was engaged in
the grocery business here, has left for
Los Angeles, Cal, where he will re-
main permanently.
THE Midnight Express will stop at
the Crawford this afternoon and tonight
and will not pull out from Topeka until
the theater closes.
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now of Wichita, is visiting in Topeka
today and attending the session of the
Knights of Columbus.
Ottawa Herald: REV. DR.. D. NJ
Fisk, of Topeka, will address the mems
meeting next Sunday. Those who miss
hearing him will have something to re-
greet
It seems that the contest in
Washington over the federal judgeship
was a sort of a game of freezeout in
which all but Mr.. Pollock were fro
zen.
After all this trouble in Washington
over the poker game 1t wasn't officially
decided whether the joker has any
rights, title or citizenship in game of
| draw.
Dean Harris, the co1ored boy who fol-
lowed two sacks of wheat out of a Rock
Island freight car, will be sent to the
reformatory at Hutchinson for a term
to pay the penalty for burglary.
The drug stores had a run on dyspep-
STA tablets and digestive fluids this
morning. People who had a large array
of goodies at home wished to be pre-
pared to counteract their after effects.
Poor Commissioner Hale kept his
store room in the court house open this
morning in order to supply any poor
people with something to eat on Thanks
giving day if they happened to have an
empty cupboard.
Lawrence World: George H. Phinney
and Anna May Farley, both of Topeka,
were married by the probate Judge this
morning They came down on the plug
this morning and were at once mar
ried.
Lawrence Gazette: Walter Keyes,
K. U. senior and member of the class
of journalism, who has been doing some
good practical work on the Lawrence
papers, left for his home in North To-
peka today for the holidays.
In the division of the estate of
Thomas Smith, of Burlington, Kas., by
the probate court, Mrs. J. H. Mcbride,
school. and Mrs. W. F. Miller are each
given one-fourth of the property.
Clay Center Times: U. E. Need
has gone down to Topeka to transfer
John Osborne, Lars Ostlund and Hutch
inson Dring from Bedwelps hospital to
on the jury II years ago when Mr.. Os-
borne was adjudged insane.
The Kansas City Star says: Topeka
breathes freer since it has been assured
that Lincoln ]. Steffens, who has beer
swooping around in search of another
"shamelessness" article for McClure's
passed through without stopping" Mr.
Steffens stopped in Kansas City twice
within week.
The Lawrence Gazette, still stingins
over the defeat of the Kansas university
football team by Washburn. filings this
taunt: Topeka makes the claim thai
Washburn has the champion football
team of the state. The Gazette en-
phatically and positively denies this as
sertion. Washburn has not yet defeated
the second team of the Lawrence high
school, and what is more, it can't do it. ,
The editor of the Lawrence Gazette
still has a case of indigestion brought
on by the fact that Professor Penny
left the State university to come to To
peka. The Gazette says: Or. McFar-
land, of Topeka, backs up Professor
Penny in the charge of the latter that
church music is rot When DR.. Nc
Farland and Professor Penny get to
heaven they will probably snatch the
harms away from the PLAYERS and smash