The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-10

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There is a man living at Wamego by
the name Of Lard.
James whitcomb Riley is announced
for the Auditorium next month.
The patent fire escape on the rear of
the Masonic building is now in working
order.
The annual reunion of Sloan lodge
225 A. F. and A. NJ. will be held at two
o'clock.
The Perry lectures closed last night
with Mr.. Perry's talk on Authors 1
Have Known"
The Vinewood lines support only one
car now which runs every 40 minutes.
1t does bot go all the way to Vinewood
park.
The lay CT the helpful hen is now
selling at about % cents per dozen.
which makes good times in the poultry
business.
C. H. Kutz. member of the school
board from the Fifth ward. will be
candidate for county superintendent OF
instruction.
/ Small cars with wide trucks are be-
place of the large cars used during the
picnic season. Large cars are being
run regularly to Oakland.
Mr.. Carl Pyetzki, Santa F'e boiler
maker, is sick with typhoid fever at his
home, 20S Branner street. Mrs. Pyetzki
is just recovering form an attack of the
disease.
Caldwell. the co1ored half back on the
Washburn football team, will not play
on the team in the game at Columbia
against the eleven of the Missouri state
university.
Coach Deitz of the Kansas Agricul-
tural college football team says the
game Washburn put up against the
farmers Saturday was the flercest foot
ball game he ever saw in Kansas.
frozen last night. The two heavy
frosts of the past week have brought
down most of the leaves and people
are hustling to get them all raked up
before snow flies.
Hay on the local market is selling
for $40 per ton, and very little alfalfa
is being offered. The alfalfa cuttings
this year We're rather light on account
of prolonged wet weather. Most of the
crop is being held for high prices later
in the saason.
Now when Dean Ruskin Low goes
to Kansas City this is the way the pa
perS there announce the fact. 'Daen
Low, of Topeka, who met with an acct
dent while driving in the Kansas City
Horse show. and sustained broken
leg. was in Kansas City yesterday
The Topeka railway company is get
ting ahead fast with its building
preDarations at the yards at Twelfth
and Jackson streets. A large number
in the walls of the new shops have
been turned out and are piled ready
for uSS.
Salina Journal: The bowling contest
between the Salina and Topeka teams
will take place next Thursday evening
at Manhattan. The game will be play
ed on the new alleys at that place. The
Salina team will be composed of B. r.
Bra ssfield, Ray Hendricks, Glen Martin,
E. c. Hollinger and Charles Wentworth.
If a party can be gotten up special
railroad rates can be procured.
A story emanating from Topeka TO
the effect that L. E. Myers is a rep
resentative of the General Electric
company. and has represented an cleo
trio railway trust in the purchase of
the Topeka street car lines, was pub
lished in a Kansas City paper yester-
day. Mr.. Myers says there is no
foundation for the story. He says the
General Electric company is a manu-
featuring concern, and does not own
a single railway line.
The Lincoln football team claims
that the Branner players forfeited a
football game to the former team Mon
day at the end of the first half. AL
though the press agent of the Branner
team has not appeared at this office it
is quite safe for the sporting editor to
state that the Branner players "indig- |
nantly deny the charge and claim that
the decision was unfair. The Branner
players were ready and willing to con- |
tinue with the gaTce, but the Lincoln
ETC., ETC."