The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-28
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This is souvenir night at the rink.
Friday will be open house day at the
Cr1ttenton home.
Tonight is the night for fun at the
rink. See the big Masquerade Car
nival
Thanksgiving dinner will be served
at the ThrooD hotel both noon and
evening.
About one more days work and the
repaving Of Kansas avenue will have
been completed.
There is joy in the hearts of most
people just now and simply because
the fine weather is keeping up.
The paving company expects to be
able to complete their contract with
the city by the end of the week
G. W. Dessenberger has sold his farm
near Salina and will move to Topeka as
soon as he can decide on a location
There is no doubt about it. Home
grown turkeys are as scarce on the
local market as hens teeth generally
are.
All Indications at the present time
seem to point to good weather for
Thanksgiving, much better IN fact
than usual.
Opie Read, humorist and writer, will
lecture at the auditorium tomorrow ev-
ening under the auspices of the Pipe
Organ association.
A few of the people VINO are not busy
getting ready Thanksgiving dinners to-
morrow or paying for them will attend
church in the morning
One of the turns that comes in for
an encore at each performance at the
Novelty theater this week is the auto
mobile song of the Langdons.
With a holiday on tomorrow and in
the midst of the hunting season there
is surety that the country roads about
Topeka will be filled with hunters
The Topeka Turn Verein has arrang
ed for three days midwinter fair and
carnival to commence Thursday even
ing, November 18th, at Turner hall.
The rink will be open all day to-
morrow. Admission will be free to
everything in the morning. Ladies
will be admitted free in the evening.
With a football game in the after
noon and a boxing exhibition sched-
uled for the evening Thanksgiving
should not be such a dull day after all.
Washburn students will hold their
breath now until late Thursday evening
when the results of the football game
with Oklahoma university will be made
known
Bets posted on the Washburn
Thanksgiving Day football game are
even money, which indicates that the
experts are unable to agree as to the
winning team.
The BARRIERS Of the city have ar
open this evening until nine o'clock
owing to the fact that they are to be
closed on Thanksgiving.
Crowds continue to attend the fine
art exhibition in the gymnasium Of
the manual training high school build
ing and It will be kept open nightly
until the end of the week.
So far this season the Washburn
football team has made first downs
one hundred and forty-seven times.
while her opponents have succeeded in
accomplishing this feat but fifty times.
c. S. Gleed is among the speakers
who will deliver addresses at the meet
ing of the Kansas City alumni associa-
ton of the Phi Kappa Psi college fra
ternity at the University club in Law
renee tonight
The weather man has promised that
Thanksgiving Day will be cold and fair
and there is not storm cloud any
where in sight on the big map which
is supposed to control the weather sit
uatiOn in this district
Now that the rate which was offer
ed to Oklahoma City for the football
game tomorrow has been calIed en-
large number of football enthusiasts,
who were planning to go to Oklahoma
City, will stay at home
one of the employees in a Topeka Of
fee appeared for work about forty-hve
minutes late this morning A glance
at him. however. revealed the secret
of his hardness, as he was neatly at
tired in a new suit of clothes
The turkey dinner which was served
at the Elks' club yesterday by the U
and I. club was the biggest kind of a
success from every standpoint. and the
funds of this really philanthropic or
ganization were augmented consider
ably.
Thanksgiving day services Will be
held in many of the churches tomor-
row Most of the services will be held
at $50 O'Clock so that the housewives
will be able to attend them and get
home in time to put the finishing
touches on the dinner.
J. H. Squfres, city clerk. made a
lucky investment in one Of the mines at
Goldheld, New, recently. He purchased
Soma stock at 20 cents which has since