The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-12
~ JOE a H0ME NEWs.


Wen, the chrysanthemum season is
nearly over.
Perhaps you noticed that the wash
purn bell did not ring last night.
lf you have never had a good hard
Kan take try at the skating rink
The first city directory was issued in
Topeka In 1868.
Walter Arnold, draughtsman in the
city engineers Office is taking vaca-
aon Of two weeks.
D. n. Taylor has been granted build
ing permit for the erection of dwelling
at 1I0l Fillmore street to cost $1,000
The regular term Of the federal court
begins at Fort Scott on next Monday.
a grand jury viii be emDanelled-
Kansas university enthusiasts burned
Ped fire on Kansas avenue last night
red, one of the university's cOlors
IL you did not have a banner of blue
OF OF red yesterday you did not count
Tor much
Screen doors have about all disap-
peared and the heavy storm doors Of
winter have succeeded them.
There were nearly twenty-five hum
oreo paid admissions to the football
game Saturday.
The First United Brethren church,
northwest corner OF Twelfth and Quincy
streets, viii hold d Thanksgiving din
ner at the church parlors November 30.
Sam Radges has figured out that
the creditors of the First National bank
will receive rs cents on the dollar when
final settlement is made.
Lest you forget we say it again.
have consideration for the nose of your
neighbor for he likes not the smell of
burning leaves
How many of the fellows who bet
and lost on yesterdays football game
win have TO eat snOWballs this Win
ter?
This Is the season of the year just
between hay and grass. one starting
on a trip does not know whether to
take an overcOat along or not.
There was a time or two in the
game when the old "ROck Chalk, *.
u" yell sounded like a funeral dirge.
Washburn put UP a great football
game and should have won, but that is
poor consolation to the man who
placed his money on Washburn-
A certain ward in the city has
been dubbed "Kidburg' on account of
the constant arrival of babies in that
section of the city
Col w. r.. Hopkins of Garden City
Kansas. was in the city Saturday taking
dispositions in case which viii soon
come up before the supreme court
Dummy" Taylor, one of the pitchers
with the champion New York Giants
this year, was up from his home in
Baldwin yesterday to see the football
game
Maybe it is not generally known, but
number of Topeka women dabble
quite extensively in the stock market
and some of them have met with a
good deal of success
There was not much noise in town
last night considering the fact that one
football team had won a victory and
the other claimed that its defeat show
ed them to be the better team.
The first regular winter advance in
the price of coal has reached this city
and the second one will probably be
here before you can order your winter
supply.
house all deny that they are interested
i'm football, but the fact remains that
there was hardly head Of a depart
ment in his Office Saturday afternoon.
The Lowman Hill football team de-
feated the Auburndale's Saturday by a
score of IL to 8. The features of
the game was the playing Of Smiley
and Holt for Lowman Hill.
Three spans of the Sardou bridge
have been completed and the board of
county commissioners predict that the
entire bridge will be completed by the
18th of November
There is one thing to be thankful
for In this city. A person is not
crowded out of his seat by the yellow
peril in the shape of a Chinese laundry
man.
The proceeds of the K. L. football
game Saturday viii amount to some
thing over $500, and at that most of
the seats in the west side bleach ers
were sold to students at half price
A. certain young lady in this CITY
who is flirting around the thirty mile
post i'm life claims that she can tell
married woman after hearing her ut
ter one sentence.
A disagreeable crusty Topeka wild
over propounds this question: Should
a gentleman remove his hat when rid
ing in an elevator in the company of a
lady If SO, why SOP
r.. S. Cone and wife of Garden City
stopped off a few hours in the city to-
day. They are returning to their home
after a bridal trip of a month, spent in
visiting in the east.
There will be more chicken used for
Thanksgiving dinners this year than
ever before. This is no reelection on
the quality of turkey, but rather on
the price that is being asked for the
bird.
The bIeachers at the football game
Saturday resembled a chrysanthe-
mum show There was about every
variety of the flower present, and the
big white fluffy fellows divided atten-
ton with their yellow cousins
Now that Halloween is past and the
*. U.~Washburn game went against
the capital city, what viii be the next
excuse offered for the youth of the
land to devastate without interference
by the pOlice2
Since w. Y. Morgan's return from
abroad his grip shows all kinds of
foreign labels. Maybe Morgan doesn't
know it but there is a firm i'm New
York which furnishes these labels at
% much per thousand.
The directors y the state fair held
meeting this week and authorized
the treasurer to borrow $4,000 from
one of the city banks on a note signed
by the members of the executive com
mittee.
A ''yauer dog" which crept under
the fence at the football game Satur-
day looked as though he felt like the
X u man who boosted before the
game that Washburn was not in the
same class with the university team.