The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-03
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One. of the new phrases floating
around in the polite world is shut
your face and give Your teeth q sleigh
Glorious is about the only word
which describes the weather of the
last few days and at that it is made
quate.
A. D. Gray read an essay on Shelly
at the first meeting of the Fortnightly
club at the home Of ". ". Mills last
night,
Crowds continue to attend the per
forrnances at the Novelty theater this
week and they certainly get their
moneys worth
The eastern papers are printing a
paragraph Ike this In Topeka, kan
sas. they are naming the babies after
Ftichard Cooleyss
About two hundred Tepeka people
went through the trying ordeal Of at
tending tie Priests of Pallas parade at
Kansas City last evening.
The first intercollegiate football
game of the season IS being played this
afternoon. Washburn and the Friends
university are the opposing teams.
If anyone notices falling of in the
tbrilliancya of the snapshot column.
charge it up to the fact that ''the best
reporter in the world" is on a tsrike.
The regular Taonthly meeting of the
Shawnee County horticultural society
Afee Saturday morning at 10 0 clock.
.Cranberries are selling at 81 a
barrel, which probably accounts for
the absence of the crimson sauce on
/ the menus Of most of the city hotels.
An epidemic OF colds and sore
threats seems to prevail in the city,
accompanied by about the same num-
Der OF cases of frightful dispositions.
The Topeka White Sox play ball at
Nortonville today and then go to Sol
der for two games and will return to
| Topeka where they will disband for the
season.
J. z. Hurley, general manager of the
Santa Fe, leaves the Santa F'e hospital
| today where he has been undergoing
| treatment for his eye injured during a
/ golf game.
The rigid enforcement of the game
law in this part Of the state has had
the effect of making the purchase of
game OF any kind on the city markets
nearly an impossible
1t is almost a month until Hal
/ loween but talk of parties for that
night is about all of the real interest
strata of Topeka life.
T. B. Hacker, captain and commits
sary at Omaha, asks for bids for sup
plying Jefferson barracks, Fort Leav-
enwqrth. Fort Riley and Fort Des
/ Moines with potatoes.
All of the spare time of the en-
ployes in an office in the city, and con-
siderable time which can not be spar
ed, is devoted to operating a new PEN
| ell sharpening machine.
While watching the football squad Of
| Wash burn at work last night one of the
/ fair coed admirers Of the game was
| overheard to remark that she wish ed
the boys would "squirmish."
A. II. Hagen, who retires from the
management Of the Novelty theater on
! Oct 15 went to Knasas City yester-
day. He has negotiations under way
for the control of theater there.
Mr.. Will Lyman. a brother OF DR.. S.
/ Lyman. was brought to Topeka yester-
/ day from Kansas City for treatment
/ He is seriously i'll at his mothers home
! with an aggravated case of pneumonia.
Some of the local newspaper men,
! who are touring the state with the
! gubernatorial nominees. are being re-
feTred to in the newspapers in the vari-
Gus towns they visit as field cores
pondents.
The Sells-Floto shows were given q
warm hand of welcome at Ell Paso
| where they showed last week. The e.
| Paso Herald says that no circus ever
had the crowds that the Sells-Floto
shows secured during their date at
that place.
Among the chose present at the
Priests of Pallas parade in Kansas
/ City last night, Who were mentioned IN
the newspapers there. were R; D.
johnson. G. K. Holiday and William
Curtis, of this city.
The first lecture in the years uni
versity extension course will be deliv-
cred this evening in the assembly hall
at the high school by DR.. Toyokichi
Iyenaga. His subject viii be The
Land and Sea of the Mikado's EN-
pire-'
Mayor W H Davis is hunting fol
delegates to send to Denver on Octo-
Der It, Is, 10 and 20 to attend the ses-
sions of the American Mining congress
at that place. Anyone who is going to
Denver at that time will be given the
credentials.
Atchison Globe: Pat Sherman
depot master at the Topeka depot. ano
. his daughter, Mrs. r Lamb, who have
been visiting John Dougherty, left this
morning for Savannah. Mo. Mr. Sher-
man IS taking a vacation, and viii visit
a number of towns.
T. J.. Barnes. steward of the Elk
club. has received a quotation Of Sc
a dozen on pheasants imported direct
from England and delivered in To
peka. and that foreign delicacy may
be expected to soon appear on tbs
menu at the Elk club.
1t has been announced that the new
motor cars which were to have beer
put on the new line of the Union Pa
cific between Topeka and Onaga vii
not be put on for some time owing t
the fact that the cars can not bl
manufactured as fast as they arr
needed.
The work of grading the block be
tween Twelfth and Huntoon on West
ern avenue has all been completed. Tht
work Of paving will commence tmme.
diately. As soon as the contractor
| are through with this block they vii
commence work on the new paving
between Tenth and Thirteenth on Clay
x,<,.v,.y 10 ~ 1,-f-t,fv,er n r,oa1ro q faa.
bic noise ike an oriental, and also dis
courage the mosquitoes, stuck light
ed stick of incense in the foot board o.
her bed the other night and then curleo
up under the covers and went to sleep
It was not long before she Weakened K
find her bed IN flames. the incense hay.