The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-26

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Washburn closes its football season
/ next Thursday, Thanksgiving day
I with Colorado college. Then watch
the BARRIERS get busy trimming football
locks.
Ell1s' benefit show. all week at the
4 Auditorium. Performance every night
/ and matinees Thursday and Saturday.
/ Curtain goes Up at SIS at night and
/ $3.50 In the afternoon.
! John T. Yates, sovereign clerk Of the
WoOdmen OF the World, left Topeka
/ for Omaha, Neb., on Saturday after
noon. He will stop in Kansas City
I over today.
The Eagles are talking of buying
i the property in which the Whiting
/ Paint and Glass company is now 10
Gated on Quincy street. and making
/ their lodge rooms out of the upper
floors.
/ OF course everyone knows that one
/ of the best football games of the sea-
son is to be played on the Wash burn
/ field on Thanksgiving day, so there is
really no need to announce whom it
will be between.
Garden City has a new million dol
lar sugar factory in course OF con-
/ struction. AS soon as this is com
/ pleted she will expect that the state
capitol be located on a vacant quarter
section Of land near the city.
There is one thing about the salt
rate case which has been up before
the board of railroad commissioners
this week. It does not affect Topeka
as far as the shipping of the product
/ is concerned.
There is. one thing about the fellows
who will lose out in this county in their
/ candidates. for the Office of sheriff
They win have so much company that
they won't have an opportunity to get
lonesome.
Four well known men in the city
were walking down the street one
/ mfr ~
marked: fDo you fellows realize that
every one of you are out of step, ex-
cepting me?'
What has become of the poultry
show which was to be held at the
Auditorium and Major General J. w
F. Hughes2 They seem to have gone
into a total eclipse at about the same
time.
THE Topeka joints are now run just
as the trains on the main line of the
Santa Fe." said a clerk in the general
Offices. "A man who wants a drink
must have a time card to find out when
he can get it,.
Rev. J. r. Edwards, recently Nf Los
Angeles, Cal, now pastor of 81. Johns
A. NJ. e. church, will address the Y.
M. G. A, colored department, Sunday,
November 20, at 406 Kansas avenue,
3 p. M, on the subject, Cots Meas
urement of Man.. Isaiah Lisemby
viii sing a solo.
During the trial of Cal Heck last
week In the district court there was
not standing room in the court room,
and considerable OF the space was
/ taken up by women who had no fur
Their interest than to crafty their
curiosity.
With the assurance that natural gas
is liable to be turned into the mains at
any moment the question naturally
arises, "Will the meter on the pipes
act the same when natural gas is turn
ed on as it does now?" If it does what
is the use of having natural gas?
With only a little more than fifty
thousand hunters licenses issued in
the state, Shawnee county feels that
she has done more than her share, as
she alone has turned in the cash for
more than one thousand five hundred
of them.
With disappearance of the big yellow
! pumpkins and the squashes which have
been on exhibition in front Of the gro
/ Gerry stores for the last two months, the
question arises, What has become Of
I them? Did you ever see any one buy
/ one of them?"
Bv the short grass philosopher: There
/ Is one satisfaction to the man who is
compelled to attend church Sunday
( morning; It won't happen again for
seven days, but the man who is work
I ing on a seven day newspaper has not
/ that satisfaction.
III advised improvements, an made
/ qUate system of accounting and the
/ lack of a systematic effort to pay off
/ bonds are the cause for the hard
/ financial shedding which the city al
ways finds confronting it according to
/ City Attorney +. G. Dreaming.
The Orphans Home association
wishes to thank the q. and I. club for
! the kind donation Of thirty-five pairs
! Of stockings received at the home dur
! ing the past week. Thanks are ex-
tended other friends who have also
/ kindly remembered the home.
Plant of an i'll natured Topeka
/ bachelor: The man who wants to do
a real favor to humanity viii devise
some plan whereby door bells will
have a. uniform location, so that
/ prospective caller will not be COM
PEELED to scratch all of the paint OF
By the short grass philosopher: It
is really quite a reflection on the in
! telligence of a man, when he stops to
/ think of the amount of money he
! spends for drink and cigars. But then
it might be worse, surprising that this
same money was expended for lottery
tickets or insurance policies.
Times are getting dull in a town
when it becomes necessary to tie a
can to the tail of a. dog to liven things
up. yet this is just what happened in
/ Wichita this week, and the man who
l.tied the can on is standing for the re-
suits of damage suit. He formerly
lived in Topeka.
by the snort grass philosopher: 1
am against the man who eats at the
lunch counter and always wipes his
knife and fork with a napkin before
/ he commences his meal. It is an even
bet that he is a bachelor and that he
has been used to washing and wiping
), dishes just before or after each meal.
The address to be issued to the
state Of Kansas regarding the Semi
Centennial exposition to be held in 1911
viii probably be given out tomorrow.
]. Z. Junkin, chairman of the publicity
committee win be IN Topeka tomorrow
ton ready.
This issue closes the football season
so far as a Sunday issue is concerned.
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