The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-21

With. eggs so high they knock you dumb
-cieveland PLAN Dealer.
Thanksgiving but five days hence
as Colonel Major Jeltz might say.
County Clerk Newman, who has been
sick with malaria. is reported much inn
proved.
Mrs Wigs of the Cabbage Patch
will come to- Topeka before going to
New York.
Topeka Sunday School Teachers
union, Central church, Saturday after
noon. $3.50.
John Stark was taken to the county
poor farm Friday afternoon by Poor
Commissioner Hale.
The Good Government club will meet
Monday at 2:30 with Mrs. Deborah K
Longshore. III Topeka avenue.
Judge John Guthrie has returned to
his desk in the postoffice after an alb
sence of several days from Illness
Mr.. Stephen Quinlan will deliver an
address at Lincoln Post hall Sunday
afternoon at o'clock on Socialism.
The district court jury was given
vacation today. There is a rumor that
Judge Hazen has gone rabbit hunting.
Master Horace Schwartzkopf will
play violin solo at Unity church for
the children's services Sunday morning.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Gas, Water and Electric Light associa-
ton will be held in Leavenworth in
1904
The most artistic job of printing ever
turned out in Topeka is the prospectus
of the Kansas Midwinter exposition just
issued.
Ovid Musin and his concert company
will be at the Auditorium tonight The
concert will begin promptly at 7:30
o'clock.
Arrangements have been made for
holding the 1904 meeting of the Kansas
Missouri Hotel Mems association at st.
Louis.
1t is expected that the new street
sweepers and sprinkler, which the city
has bought will arrive here about De-
cember 1.
Ladies of the Maccabees will hold
their bazaar in the Palace clothing
store the 9th and 2Sth of November.
Everybody welcome.
There is now some prospect that tur-
keys will be obtainable for about Is
cents a pound, instead of 20 cents as
some dealers have prophesied.
The Rev. Canon Burke will conduct
services with a sermon on Sunday
evening at 7:50 at Calvary chapel, on
Lake, street between Fifth and Sixth
The Fort Scott high school team ar
rived in Topeka Friday night so that
they could get a good nights sleep be-
fore the game today with the Topeka
Highs.
Irving Poindexter, the son of E. w.
ton football team this year. He is
new man but is regarded as a very
promising candidate.
On Thanksgiving night at the Young
Women's Christian Association Dean
Kaye will give his stereopticon lecture
on Comedies of Shakespeare" The adj
mission will be free.
Work has temporarily been abandoned
on the old electric car bridge which the
Street Railway company has partially
ont A 7IH1. Of oil nil
bents still remain in place.
The annual parish meeting of Grace
cathedral. for the election of a Mestry
for the coming year, and other bust
ness, will be held at o'clock Monday
evening, November 49, at the cathedral
The remains of a deceased dog have
been lying on the pavement by the car
track at the corner of Tenth and. Fill
more street for two days This is fer
the information of the Topeka Desiccat-
ing company.
Major A. M. Harvey's walk down
town each morning can always be fore
told. If you see a blonde Chinese dog
on his way toward the Columbian build
ing you may know that the major is
block in his wake
The students around Washburn COL
lege made last night hideous for the dis
interested residents of the neighbOrhood
by prolonging the celebration of the re-
turn of the football team until far past
/
"Papa's Boy was headed toward To-
peka to appear as Sunday night at
traction. but as nearly the entire outfit
was jailed at Des Moines on the charge
of fleeing an old farmer who backed
the enterprise with cash, out of 1000,
the show may not come
Original joke submitted by a Topeka
wit Mucker-Cheer up, old man. What's
the matter? Marks-Ive got to go and
get a tooth filed. Mucker-That's moth
I've three stoves and crate
that I've got to get filed and keep that
way all the rest of the winter.
The fire department committee of the
city council met Friday night after the
ways and means committee meeting
and talked about moving fire alarm
box from Eleventh and Van Buren, to
Twelfth and Jackson to better accom-
modate the street car company.
The town teams which represent Glas-
CO and La Harpe should fight 1t out on
the gridiron. Both are composed of ex-
college stars and professionals, and
would make a decidedly lively game
What's the matter with offering
purse for them to play at Topeka, which
is just about half way between the two
towns?
Several candidates have presented
themselves for the position of secretary
of the Retail Grocers' association made
vacant by the resignation of A. E. Nc
COllum. Among the candidates are Sam
Rice, Andy Riley, A. L. Harrington,
Fred Jewell, J. B Zimmerman, H. l.
Hutchinson, ]. S. Ensminger, George E.
Overmyer and R. S. Semple.
Fatty Clark, the old player on the
Washburn and Kansas Medic football
team is said to be working in a butcher
shop at Perry. Clark says that he has
been offered a place on the K. u. foot
ball team next fall if he will keep out
of the game for a year. 1t is very
doubtful whether he would be eligible
| to play on any amateur team, as he re-