The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-17

meets in Kansas city on the goth OF
the present month
The Methodists OF Topeka are plan
ming a religious campaign which will
open about the first Of the year. and
Will consist of services in all of the
churches of the city.
It is less than two weeks until
Thanksgiving. and an inspection of
the city markets would indicate that
turkey for Thanksgiving will be a
scarce article this year.
Two cases of chickenpox have been
reported to the city board Of health
and it is likely that later on this same
grade of ''chickenpOx' will be Quaran-
tined and called smallpox
The votes of three railroad men who
live in Topeka, but who voted away
from home, have been received by the
county clerk and added to the total
vote in Shawnee county
The Saturday Night club will hold
the regular monthly meeting at the
office Of Ferry e. Doran tonight when
a paper on '.Populisnl--A Retrospect
will be read by c. J. Evans.
The display window of one Kansas
avenue grocer contains twenty seven
varieties of vegetabl which should
be enough to tempt the appetite of
the most coflrmed dyspeptic.
Charles w McCord. who is employed
as n bookkeeper for Crosby Brothers,
at 627 Lincoln street from A. H. Bates,
the consideration being $4,000
DR. F. o. Burkett was out after
quails yesterday and had no trouble in
securing the limit The doctor says
the birds are not very wild and in OK
cellent condition for the oven.
The promised rain or snow and a cold
spell following predicted by the weather
department has failed to materialize
and the weather conditions today are
about all that one could desire.
The state charter board granted a
charter to the Alpha NJ Beta Theta
Pi organization of Lawrence yester-
day. which is the latest thing in a fra
ternity organization in the state.
A A. Robinson. who resigned the
presidency of the Mexican Central rail-
Grad this week, left for New York city
this afternoon where he will be detain-
ed by business for a week or ten days
It is expected that the Foster HUI
name society building now being con-
structed on Kansas avenue between
Ninth street and Tenth avenue will be
ready for occupancy by the first of De-
ceInber.
The stormy weather which was fore-'
casted for Topeka failed to arrive. This
makes the third time this fall that the
weather department has tried to start
some winter weather here bat they
have. been unsuccessful.
Not a word has been received from
William Curtis, president of the Percy
White Fudge club. for almost week
and some of the members are fearful
that he is marooned in the water flood
ed district of the northwest
W. A L. Thompson and party left
last night for Eagle Pass, Texas, for
their annual hunt. In the party are
Wilder S. Metcalf. H. P. Dillon, E. S.
Quinton and R. w. Blair besides Mr..
and several others.
AS weather prophet Charles K. Hol-
liday is not much of a success He no
ticed that the barometer was unusually
low yesterday and to every man he met
he predicted, and with a note of alarm
in his voice, that a terrible storm was
imminent
There Will be but one more chance
for the Topeka people to see the Wash
burn team play football They played
st. Mary's this afternoon and next Sat
urday they will play Ottawa. They will
finish the season at Oklahoma City
day.
Miss Beuhla Parker, who was raised
in Topeka and who yet makes her
home with her parents in this city