The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19

Coach Bates and his Paramount football
| team.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Cooley are plan
| ming to spend the rest of the winter on
| the vaudeville circuit.
A meeting of the veterans of the
| Spanish war is called for this evening
| at the office of DR.. S. A. Hammill.
The Kansas City. Kansas. high school
has been scheduled for a game with the
local high school Thanksgiving day.
James ChappelIe has turnip on ex-
hibition at the Copeland that he raised
| on his farm at Seabrook that weighs
six pounds.
Morton A1baugh, clerk of the United
states district court, has been spending
| several days hunting in the vicinity or
| Medicine Lodge.
Stories which have reached the city
from the country indicate that quail
are more plentiful this season than FOR
many years past,
George Satterthwaite, formerly man
aging editor of the Wichita Eagle, who
has been visiting in this city for few
days, left for home today.
Six weeks from tomorrow will be
New Years day. AS this will be the
first day of leap year the event will be
welcomed in certain quarters.
Brick masons are working on the vault
of the new German-American bank
which will be built at the northeast
corner of Third and Kansas avenue.
more than anything else,'' complained
merchant" is not more currency. but
drop of about ten degrees in the mer-
curry"
There will be a meeting open to all
of the Real Money league of Shawnee
county at DR.. Taylor's office, 121- East
Sixth street, Wednesday evening at
o'clock.
Some of the arrangements of black
and gold ribbons, the high school colors,
,foI, Ia
pupils for hat bands, are wonderful
creations.
George Stansfield has bagged anoth-
er rare duck. 1t is a crested mergansef
and is rare indeed. 0. w. Bronson IS
mounting the duck and it will be added
10 Mr.. Stansfields collection.
Reports are coming from rural com
munities that the farmers are talking
of organizing unions for the purpose OF
holding on to their products and DOING
other things to keep up prices
The Washburn football team com
menced practice last night for the hnal
game of the season with Oklahoma IN
iversity. The team will be In trim py
the time of the game, THANKSGIVING
day.
DR.. C. N. Hensley, who for four years
was assistant physician at the Santa
Fe hospital, has announced his canol-
dacy for coroner to succeed Dr. II. n.
Keith, who will be candidate 1or
sheriff.
The contractors who are working on
a new building on West Eighth street
are evidently not satisfied in blockaoIHs
half of the street but have gone SO 1ar
as to dump several loads of dirt on the
other side of the car track
1t seems to be stretching the truth 10
sayythat a man lives in hotel building
in a pitched tent But that is just what
the night Waterman does at the Ma
tional. He has his tent pitched in the
corridor near the Kansas avenue en-
trance. r a..
Word received from John McManus.
who moved to Dallas, Texas; some
months ago for the benefit of his wire
health, indicates that the changs oiu
not prove as beneficial as had been
hoped and the family will Immediately
leave for Ell Paso, Texas.
Local football sports are still clamor-
ing for a game between Washburn COZ
lege and Nebraska university. Such
game and it is doubtful if the players
on either team would consent to playing
after the season is over
The sale of unclaimed baggage which |
department of the Santa Fe railroad
during the past six months commenced
today on Fourth street directly opposite
the R. r. Y. M. c. A. building and VIII
continue until the properly Is us
posed of.
Five members of the Railroad Y. M. |
c. A. will leave Wednesday for WASH
ington, D. C., to attend the tnlrtyo
Young Mems Christian association !
which meets in that city November ~
The delegates are Thomas p. trout, /
John Runyon' Edw 11e Sordill' f'oi'o
An enterprising friend has made an
and finds that there are
only two really, truly hoodoo days our
ing the year 1908. Those days, which
fTsnr 10a NJ
lucky for folks to get married on, are
the Fridays that fall on the 18th OF the
month, The two of these occasions next
wear happen in March and In Novem-
George r. Peck of Chicao, but a
we'll known Topekan, has &C
cepted an invitation to denver the
principal address at the semlcentennlaI
lodge No. IT, which are to be held IN
November 25. Mr.. Peck Joined
lodge No. II in Topeka about thirty
years ago and will speak on the SUD-
ject my Home Lodge.
About two hundred women crowded
the corridors leading to the United
States court room on the mira moor
of the federal building with the nope
of seeing something sensational In the
hal nv Incubator case. They were
finally persuaded to leave by the ba1l1f
who told them that the baby would not
appear in court and that most OF the
arpnment in the lawsuit had taken
place in the morning.
An incident is being related frequent
ly in the community about Tenth and
Topeka avenues relative to the forget
fulness of one of the housewives re-
siding in that part of the city BY her
with a widower she acquired
a mothers interest in a little girl
though the little one has been seen
with her but infrequently. one day
last week she took the little girl with
her on a shopping expedition ana AFTER
waiting at the transfer station for some