The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

snow begins today.
Washburn and Kansas university
play football here next Saturday.
This is the night for the monthly
meeting of the board of education.
Paramount college is playing the Ag-
ricultural college at Manhattan today.
President Plass of Washburn win
not return from the east until Christ
mas.
State Auditor Seth Wells returned
this Afternoon from his home at Erie,
Kan.
DR. William A. .Quayle will lecture at
the Auditorium on Monday evening,
November 13
There are still a few flowers bloom
ing in the state house grounds. Dande-
lions are on the list.
Ladies viii be admitted free at the
skating rink on Monday evenings and
Wednesday afternoons.
w. r. Stubs, of Lawrence, is being
doomed as president of the Kansas
Semi-Centennial exposition.
Employment agencies say that they
have more WOod-sawing jobs on their
lists than men to do the work.
Jonathan apples cost more now than
oranges Csrocers say that the price is
higher on them than for years.
The city council will likely have a
hot session this evening on the ques-
ton of Kansas avenue pavement.
The members of the Paramount col
lege football team spent Sunday In
Topeka, and left today for Manhattan.
superintendent Dayhoff returned this
afternoon after being away Tor ten
days attending to school matters over
the state
viii VanOrsdal is starting in early
on his campaign for county clerk. He
is already lining up the voters in his
interests.
]. G. Carter Troop. of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, will lecture at the
high school Wednesday on the sub
ject of George Eliot"
Secretary II. J. Anderson of the To-
peka Commercial club is in charge of |
Semi Centennial exposition matters
while John z. Frost is in Mexico
Betting on the Washburn- Kansas /
game is likely to start at about 10 to
Z. the odds favOring kansas on ac-
count of it's vastly superior weight
The report that a Kiehl laundry
wagon was wrecked by a street car
Saturday night was incorrect. The |
wagon belonged to the Mutual laun-
dry.
Some of the Washburn students are
talking of organizing Caesar club.
to make specially Of the works of
the famous Roman general. Want to
join
Swarthmore college. which beat
Cornell at football Saturday, has only
$50 students. Dartmouth college |
which beat Princeton. is about the size
of Washburn.
The price of coke is lower this year
than last. Last year crushed coke was
Sc: this year it is $3.50 per ton. It is
still so cents higher than it was about
five years ago.
Judge Reeves. of Streator. ILL., was
the only receiver of the Devlin estate
who attended the funeral of Mr.. Devin
last week. J. E. Hurley and Cyrus LIE
land could not go.
T1,Ti1o ffore or.o. t1af at
a this years K. U.-Washburn foot
ball game, to be played Saturday, viii
break all previous records. The man
ayers expect 5000 people, if the
weather is good.
The first of a series of evangeiistic
meetings which is to continue the rest
of the week began last night at the
First Methodist church, led by DR..
Evans Harry Pribble will sing a
solo at each meeting
The lecture Of DR.. Dwight Hills
which was TO take place on November
10 has been postponed until January
p. The next number on the pipe
organ lecture course is the Siegel-
AIyer-Read musical combination.
Captain VIII Davis of the Fairmount
football team. sent plaintive note TO
the state journal today in which he
asks to be presented with the excellent
cut of himself which this paper print
ed Sunday Il want it." he says, "as
a last reno OF the game.
A Chicago paper says that Kansas
needs 10000 men to husk corn and is
paying 3 cents a bushel, free board and
railway transportation. This is the
kind of fairy stories that make trouble
for Kansas. The farmer who pays
cents for huskers is a scarce article.
Harry Z. Bailey. formerly a Topeka
decorator and artist. was married at
Concordia last week to Mrs. J. B.
Taylor of that place. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. T. J. H. Tag
CART in the presence of about thirty
guests.
c. X Holiday has heard nothing
further about the payment of the
wages due to the laborers employed
by the Ajax Construction company on
the pipe line. q expect that the men
viii get their money today or Tues
day" said Mr.. Holiday.
DR.. w c. Evans, of the First Meth
odlst church, yesterday received a
letter from DR.. J. Wilbur Chapman,
the noted evangelist here recentlv
asking him to come to New Jersey
and aid in meetings there. DR.. Evans
has not yet decided about the matter.
Rev. c. M Sheldon has recovered
from his recent attack of illness and
was able to be back in his pulpit both
morning and evening yesterday.
| Don't commiserate with me-" he said
/ to his congregation. II am feeling
very well and it won't hurt me to get
back into the harness"
The Great Bend Daily Item says:
Emmett Putnam returned last night
from Topeka where he went to see his
brother Roy. Roy is recovering and
is able to sit up. the only danger now
seems to be in his taking cold. Roy
claims that his being overcome by gas
was purely accidental-that he turned
the light out Saturday night when he
went to bed and evidently turned the
Jet past the putting out place and al
lowed the gas to escape. He was not
out of the room from Saturday night
until he was discovered in an uncOn-
scious condition Sunday afternoon
HILLS MAY NOT COME.