The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-22


This snow is good for the country but
| hard on the rabbits.
No one has built new theater in
Topeka for a month.
Frozen water pipes brought visions
of plumbers bills this morning.
A. H. Hagen who started the Novel
ty theater in Topeka, is now in Denver.
One day more of this kind of wealth
er and sleighing will be only a memory.
People who own sleighs got a little
more interest on their investment this
wee--.
There are still a few antelope left
in Kansas but it is contrary to law to
kill them.
John Waters will not object to be-
ing called johnnie" until after the
Elks Ministries
The sidewalks are not entirely safe
for navigation. Many people forgot to
clean off the snow.
Not a great deal of the snow. which
fell during the last couple Of days, re-
mains on the ground.
The new addition to the Santa Fe
office building will be completed in 80
days-at least that is the present inten-
ton.
Tom Doran. Major A. M. Harvey and
judge z. T. Hazen are planning an old
fashioned hog killing to get their Win
ter's meat.
W. II. thompson the OiAAC1 y
peka man who was elected judge in
the Garden City district, had a plural
ity of 100 votes
The warm weather which is now i'm
minent will put an end to the numer-
Gus bobsled parties which nave been
flourishing all week.
Ex-Mayor g. A. Fellows. who is
erecting the Santa Fe buildings on the
China basin at San Francisco, still
calls Topeka his home
~ loo
has elected the staff of editors for the
'.Kaw," the college annual which makes
its appearance every spring.
large number of Topeka football
fans are planning to go to Manhattan
tomorrow to take in the game between
the Aggies and Kansas university.
Ten men took the examination for
c1erk-carrier in the postofhce depart
ment of the civil service examinations
held Yesterday at the federal building
The small boy, and a few of the large
ones as well, are counting the days now
until turkey and plum pudding will be
the pieces de resistance on the dinner
table.
E. L. Copeland expects to leave the
forepart of next week for Texas points
to ioin the committee which is there
looking into the commission form OF
municipal government. ss--
The art exhibit in the manual train
ing high school is popular among the
in the grade schools gets an afternoon
off to visit the exhibit.
1t is now d pretty dangerous PROPOSE
ton to walk in front of any of the
Topeka schools when school is not in
session. The volley of snowballs which
greets a passer-by Is quite fierce.
A paper on Sewers Up-to-Date" has
been prepared by James McCabe, city
engineer, for the smeeting of the Kan
sas State Municipal league which will
be held in Salina on December 1919.
If, according to a New York dispatch
Dick Hodgins is the Charles Murphy of
Shawnee county, the Republicans Of
this locality must be on the same polit-
icaI plane with the heelers of Tammany
Hall.
David E. ellsworth. treasurer and
vice president of the Potter Printing
Press company, of Plainheld, N. J., |
spending a day or two in the city on
business.
In going from classes in the high
school building TO the manual training |
building, the pupils evidently try to see |
just how much noise they can make
There is no semblance of them trying |
to observe any kind of order
The Debating league of Washburn
college will take on two debates this |
year. They will debate Kansas univer- |
sity and Baker. The debate with Baker
will be held at Baldwin but the place |
of the K. u. debate has not yet been
agreed upon.
Arrangements are being made at
Washburn to take a large crowd of
rooters to the Thanksgiving game be-
tween Washburn and Oklahoma uni
versities at Oklahoma City. If enough
people can be secured a special rate
and special train will be provided.
Arrangements have been made for all
the children attending the public |
schools to visit the exhibition of fam
Gus pictures which are on display in
the gymnasium at the manual training
building These pictures are also on
exhibition to the general public at a
nominal admission.
Reports from various localities are to
the effect that turkeys will be cheaper
in those places this fall than they have
been in many years. It is not likely
that these conditions will maintain in
Topeka Butchers and grocers say that
home grown turkeys were never scarcer |
in these parts than they are this year.
There are plenty of the cold storage va
riety, but these are not popular with
the epicures of Topeka.
Dreyfuss Favors Long Schedule.