The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-24


He'd go right on a-slipping.
On, on, they ran around and round
The turkey gave a gobble loud
And Bobby gave yell.
Then mamma to the rescue came,
| .e ana oathed the poor bruised head;
| A present from Uncle Ned"
And as the bird was served to Bob
He whispered quite low to his mother:
why, mamma, this one tastes fine; /
One turkeys as good as another
! Geraldine Stockvis.
The postoffice closed at 10 O'Clock this
morning.
Dan Hamer is in New Mexico visiting
his sister who is very i'll.
The record load for one of the new
green street cars is 112 people
| The Third Presbyterian church gave
a Thanksgiving dinner today noon.
The Elks' Minstrel company will re-
hearse at the asylum on Friday night
Howell Jones will return to Topeka
from western trip tomorrow or next
day.
Ducks and geese gave the turkeys a
hard race for first place onsthe platters
! today.
The Elks' minstrel performances
Will be given next Monday and Tues
day nights.
Washburn and Ottawa are finishing
the local football season on Washburn
field this afternoon.
A Topeka father chats with his out of
town daughter over the long distance
telephone every evening.
Tse Elite bowling alleys have been
closed. Col Sam Radges foreclosed a
chattel mortgage on them.
The Independent Telephone company
has installed a new 300 phone switch
board in the Topeka exchange.
The Sunday School Teachers union
will ENT~i6 lf Mrc
Ida H. Hardy, 1871 Lane street.
One Quinton Heights car took So peo-
pie to the Santa F'e plug at 1880 this
morning. They were bound for Kansas
City.
C. w. Jones, division superintendent
Island, has been in Chicago all this
week.
The Topeka high school football team
will close the season today at Fort
Scott, playing the high school football
team there.
Today ends the football season. Be
| tween now and the baseball season the
only athletic contests will be the whist
and chess games.
The Interior of the knights and La
dies building at the corner of Seventh
street and Kansas avenue is being en-
tirely redecorated.
L. NJ. Wood will sing 1.-THE Evening
Bell' at the Elks' minstrel show in
inally announced.
Judge Pollock returned on Wednes-
day afternoon from Fort Scott. He will
open the Topeka term of the federal
court next Monday.
The street railway company has not
yet installed the new switches, cross
over and curves for the Sixth and
Kansas avenue crossing.
Coal cars are now being hauled
through town on Jackson street from
I, Toll dol
to the state house heating plant.
Reports from the wheat belt in
Kansas indicate that the average of
wheat sown this year is 10 per cent
less than the amount sown last year.
H. L. Hutchinson, formerly secretary
of the Retail Grocers' association and
lately manager of the Topeka Trust
Book and Credit concern, has left town.
If Washburn wants a new yell SO
badly why do not the faculty and the
trustees of that institution hang up q
suitable reward for the discovery of a
good one
Grant Cornish was found guilty in the
city court yesterday of stealing ten
cents worth of corn from r. J. Junkin.
He was not fined but the costs of the
case, SASS, were assessed against him.
The Sunday School Teachers union
will meet Friday at p. m at Mrs.
Hardy'S home, 1871 Lane street. at
which time the union will have the first
lesson on practical Plans"
The Scottish Rite Masons of Topeka
are planning to give a Midwinter re-
union in Topeka during the time that
the legislature is in session. This will
make three reunions for the year.
William Curtis. one of the travelling
passenger agents of the Santa Fe, has
been in town all this week with quite
a severe case of tonsilitis. He is now
sufficiently recovered as to be able to
resume his duties.
Tom King will do clog dance at
each and every performance of the
Elks' MINISTRIES. He is the best anna
teur clog dancer in Topeka, but here
tofore like George Grossmith he has
been a parlor entertainer only.
A warrant was sworn out in the city
court yesterday afternoon for Fred
Cunningham, charging him with shoot
ing Lii Wells, a 3-year-old colored boy,
with a slingshot The shot struck the
boy in his eye and he lost the eye as a
result of the injury.
DR.. Fisk was platform superintendent
of Lincoln Park Chautauuua last sum-
mer, and had occasion to hear Mr.
Parlette there times. DR.. Fisk says of
him: Ralph Parlette is a master of
his art, one of the spiciest of American
humoriStS. Before an audience of over
5000, keenly disappointed by the fall
ure of Rev. Sam Jones to appear Mr..
Parlette spoke. In a few moments he
had completely captivated the great
throng and before he was DONE the
general verdict was that they got more