The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

was no exception TO the rule
and enough rain fen to make most of
the football grounds sloppy.
Weather Observer Jennings is con-
lined at his home with what threat
ems to be an attack of typhoid fever.
Saturday was not a busy day for
the sun at all, in fact it was its. day
off.
Mrs. Webb Anderson. OF kansas
! City is visiting her cousin, Mrs. NJ. Il.
Angle, at No. 322 West Gordon street
While you are saying a benedictionl
to the passing ice man, prepare to
meet the coal man.
Paramount college plays the Agri-
day.
Saturday was fine day for the mer-
chants who had an over-stock of rub
/ bers and mackintoshes.
/ The please. shut the door, signs
are beginning to put in their annual
! appearance.
! Hardly screen door remains in
/ sight and slowly but surely the signs
OF summer are disappearing.
Farmers are securing the town
4 these days looking for men who can
Shuck corn.
Hens are either on strike or TAX
4 ing vacation. If you don't believe it
I go and price a dozen Of eggs.
Mrs. Hannah Haynes Letord of 2411
Lincoln street leaves today for Chi
cago to spend the winter with friends
The Shawnee County Sunday School
association will hold a meeting next
Thursday and Friday at the First Bap-
fist church
The sun rises at 6:55 tomorrow morn
ing and if you doubt this assertion
/ there is way that you can find out
as to its truthfulness.
As soon as the winter season sets in
for sure the skating rink will probably
! have strong competition from the frozen
lakes on Kansas avenue.
The pension office in this city issued
/ pension vouchers Saturday and will for
the next fifteen days pay out four mill
lions cS dollars.
Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch of
Mississippi will lecture at Shiloh
lehurch on November "a. under the
auspices of the Cosmopolitan club.
The man without ready money enough
to purchase winter overcoat, or credit
for the same. is really to be pited
/ these frosty mornings.
If the proprietors of the new skat-
ing rink to do the right thing by their
patrons they will place hand holds of
some kind on the side walls.
Here is where I get my month off .
said the Office boy as he stepped to
the calendar and tore off October and
left November exposed to view.
Rain, rain go away and come
again some other day." is a song of
childhoom that REQUIRED to the To-
peka merchants yesterday.
Washburn college has a new song
the words for which were written by
Margaret Hill McCarter. 1t is sung
to the tune of Fam Harvard"
Mrs. A. F. Short is i'll with bron-
chitis at the home of her daughter,
Mrs A. B. Murray, No. 3Os East Ninth
street.
Did it ever occur to you that a barber
! a Of hi IL
ing customers to have a haircut when
their hair is so short that a pair of
clippers would not touch it?
A majority Of the members of the
Topeka club have taken advantage of
the offer made to them to make them
selves at home in the Elk quarters while
their new home is being completed.
The merchants are commencing to
complain of the fact that every SaturA
day brings a rain and the big day of
the week is ruined as far as their pat
ronage is concerned.
So far this season not a charity pa
tient has applied to the poor commits
siOner with the story that they are
freezing to death at home and there
is not d loaf of bread inithe house.
The G.. A. r. Of the state has passed
memorial resolutions in honor of
Chaplain II. D. Fisher. All posts,
charters and colors of the department
viii be draped for ten days.
Mrs. Rose Hiatt entertained the
4 members and friends of the Capitola
lodge at her home, 81 East Third
street, on Saturday night. Thirty-five
people were present.
The officials at the court house will
drink common hydrant water for the
remainder of the winter as the county
commissioners have ordered the ice
man to leave no more ice.
There is one consoling thought that
may occur to you when the coal man
presents his monthly bill. There won't
be much doing for the ice man, for q
season at least.
The Longevity club will meet on
Sunday evening at O'Clock in the
parlors of the National hotel. Mrs. c.
B. Morgan the president of the ma
] tional organization, viii be there to
explain the work
Will Hindman IS wearing a pair OF
Z crutehes this week. His friends say
that it is a plain case Of a sprained
ankle but he insists on giving out
the impression that he is suffering from
= a slight attack of govt.
John E. Frost will go to Mexico this
; week for a months business trip
T Secretary Anderson of the Topeka
: Commercial club will look after Semi
= Centennial exposition matters during
: his absence.
The force of the county clerks office
was kept busy Saturday from O'Clock
+ in the morning until o'clock in the
: evening acknowledging the papers o.
= the pensioners who had received theil
regular quarterly allowances
According to the stories circu
lated by the local commission mer
chants, Gran berries will cost SO mucl
at Thanksgiving time that there won
be enough Of them put in Thanks
7 giving pie to keep the crusts apart.
A man to be the engineer in an.
of the larger buildings must come nea
being a human Thermometer with tn
I conditions changing as they have beel
t this week, to be able to satisfy tn
/ tenants.
That personally conducted raid b.
Special Attorney General Carve