The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-23

And wild geese flying high.
Trace out their dusky arrow heads
| Along the gloomy sky.
And so no longer let us roam,
| But turn to Grandma's cozy home
| Behind the poplar trees.
For Grandma's hearth is warm and bright
And scents of spicy pies
In steaming vapor winding light
| From Grandma's chimney rise.
And Grandma's smile is. oh. SO sweet.
And who could stay away,
| When all the little cousins meet
On dear Thanksgiving day.
| Anna vass.
Lay in a good supply of pepsin for
| tomorrow.
| The football game will be called al
| D m. tomorrow.
| The Deer creek oil well is down /. 200
feet, and lis all i'm
Box suppers are being given at the
country school houses.
F. j. Lynch left yesterday for New
| Orleans on a business trip.
p. w. Griggs is making chalk talks
to the country Sunday schools.
| Paul Walker, of the Rock Island law
office, is sick at Stormont hospital.
The Y. NJ. c. A. social planned for
Thanksgiving night has been postponed.
Shawnee county apple growers are
buying patent fertilizers by the car
load.
Mrs S. Delt has filed suit in the
| district court for divorce from Will
liam Delt.
Monday the divorce mill in the dis
trict court will begin to grind out
separations.
There was quite an exodus of Topeka
people today who were going home for
Thanksgiving.
The Lutheran "pipe organ recital
has hQon nOSfnOn0d from DaP6m a
to December 5.
The Salina Journal says Miss Carrie
Shultz has returned from a three
months visit in Topeka.
The Washburn Review speaks of the
Haske1l-WaShburn game of Saturday
as victory in disguise"
If it takes snow to make a genuine
Thanksgiving this years feast day
will certainly be incomplete.
This is the day when the combina-
ton of the turkey, the block and the
Ratchet is in working order
Ottawa has strengthened its team
for the football game tomorrow and
expects to spring some surprises.
All the animals of the Sells &
Downs menagerie carry life insurance.
The beneficiaries are Sells & Downs.
This is the season of the year when
visit of the city people to 1.-The home
folks
Peter Navarro, of Rossville, who has
been clerk of the Indian building at
the ST. Louis exposition has returned to
his home.
The Shawnee county farmers are
busy husking corn. With ten days more
of pleasant weather the crop will be
about all cribbed.
A large crowd paid $3.50 to see Will
liams & Walker last night at the
Crawford. People in other towns paid
81 for the best seats.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Williams, of the
Williams & Walker company, were
entertained while in Topeka by Mr..
and Mrs. John NJ. Wright.
In New York turkey costs the
Thanksgiving feasters 80 cents a
pound. There are some advantages in
living outside of New York.
Professor ]. H. Mcbride, director
of the manual training in the Topeka
schools, has gone to st. Louis to study
some special feature of manual train
ing.
The fires made by burning leaves
these nights look like the fires of an
encamped army From any elevation in
town 40 to so bonfires can be seen any
night.
The local contest to determine
Washburn's representative at the state
intercollegiate oratorical contest will
be held at Washburn chapel on De-
cember 9.
The Ottawa Republican says: Mrs. M
c. Hulet, of Topeka, who has been Wis
iting her son, A. S. Hu1et Of the Smith
& Zellner establishment, returned home
this morning.
The most absent minded teacher in
Topeka is employed in Clay school, She
locked one of her pupils in the room
the other evening just after she got
talking to her.
The Ottawa Republican says: Spe-
cfal Pension Examiner Kinsley of To-
Got TO oh ofx
copy of the probate records in the
noted Walker insanity case.
E. R. Simon. pro tenn police judge
once in while, has a poem in this
weeks Washburn Review. entitled a
DAY Dream in Arcadia" Wonder if
he wrote it in the police court?
William Turner. of Rock Creek, who
is serving a four years enlistment on
the battleship Florida, was land lub-
bering on the streets and not a band
played Sousa's new march, Jack Tar
Since Ottawa will have Jack
Evans, its coach, play on Thanksgiv-
ing day against Washburn, why should
it not also get Nick Carter again, its
pitcher with the Topeka Saints.
AS soon as the Williams & Walker |
reached Topeka yesterday
those who knew the comedians in the |
days when they were whistIing picka- |
ninnies in Lawrence began to recount |
the early days of the comedy pair.
The regular meeting day of the |
board of county commissioners is the
day after Thanksgiving. Each mem |
her of the board has planned to eat |
turkey, mince pie, pumpkin pie, and a |
few other delicacies the day before |
and consequently a quorum may not |
be present.
The Crittenton Home is in need of
many things. Some of the things need |
ed are COAL groceries, canned fruit tow
els linen, flannel, muslin, dishes, kitch- |
en- ware, infants and womens clothing. |
Mrs.S. l.. Wilson, president of the board |
Of managers, requests that contribu- |
tons be left at the Hughes furniture
store.
Emily B. Jones filed suit in the dis |