The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20

| Seldom, If ever, have the chrysanthe
NUNS grown around Topeka attained
| season.
The next issue of the Washburr
Review will be football number
This it is expected will be the bes
number of the Review this year.
The golfers say the Country clut
links are in the best condition this fal
they have ever been and the weather
until today has been ideal for golf.
James Twyford. formerly police
/ prosecutor in Topeka, has been ap-
| pointed assistant county attorney OF
| Oklahoma county at Oklahoma City.
Manager John Chambers of the
Throop hotel has promised big
turkey dinner to the Washburn foot
ball team after the Thanksgiving
| game.
Frank Foster has made a discovery
| which every patron of the Auditorium
since gas was Installed has known, and
| that is that the building is not half
| lighted.
Rev. Harry L. Nelson of Rossville
| has been rendered the pastorate of the
\ Potwin Presbyterian church, though
| he has not signif1ed his intention Of
| accepting.
The Commercial club will hold no
annual Topeka Day banquet this year.
| Interest in the anniversary of To-
peka's founding is too lax for the
banquet to be held.
The building at 1923 Kansas avenue
| which is owned by James Going is be
ing improved at a cost of $1,000. The
second story is being rebuilt and refit-
ted into Office suites.
Members of the Washburn football
team express hope that they may be
able to meet Nebraska in a post sea-
son game, though believing that there
is small hope of such thing.
The visit of Manager Stahl of the
Washburn team seems to have been
successful the Washburn- Okla
homa university Thanksgiving Day
game has been transferred to Topeka.
Mrs Ella S. Burton's suit for $4,000
damages for libel aginst l. L. Dayhoff,
former state superintendent of public
instruction, is on the calendar of the
district court for trial on Friday of
this week.
The Gamma Sigmas of Washburn will
hold their open meeting in the college
chapel on Saturday evening, November
%. The question which Washburn will
debate with K. U. will be used in the
society's debate.
For the benefit of the Atchis on Globe
which is printing things about Edgar
Arnold and his recent escapade in Cali
fornia, the statement is made that
Edgar is not a relative of Benedict of
Revolutionary fame.
The green paint with which the mail
boxes of the city were .daubed week
or ten days ago has been the cause of
considerable loss of temper and has
ruined many gloves. It's almost as
fresh as 1t is green. CO.
The second team of Washburn col
Iege will play the second team from
Haskell university in Topeka next
Saturday afternoon. The game is ex-
pected to he a good one as both teams
are evenly matched.
The fourth annual conclave of the
knights and Ladies of Protection will
be held at Metropolitan hall this even
ing An interesting programme in
which number of out of town people
will participate has been arranged.
After all it appears that there will
be something else to do Thanksgiving
day besides eat turkey and cranberry
sauce Arrangements have been COM
pleted to transfer the Oklahoma-
Washburn game to Topeka that day.
J. M. Mccarthy, who has been APP
pointed as the successor of E. P. JEFF
fries, general purchasing agent for the
Rock Island, is a formerly of Topeka
man, being a protege of J. J. Frey
when he was general manager of the
Santa Fe.
The freshmen and sophomores of
Washburn college will play a post
season game to raise funds for the
purchase of a new bell for Rice Hall
to take the place of the cracked bell
which is now doing service. Let the
good work go on
ct have read a number of accounts
of a bundle of $4,000 in gold reaching
Topeka from the east, since the recent
stringency has made itself felt" re-
marked a poverty stricken one. ''but if
it has arrived it has not relieved the
situation with me in the least
Talk about hard luck" grumbled a
slave who rarely arrives at his desk
on time in the morning. Il came down
half an hour early this morning only
to find that the boss was half an
hour late himself and he will prob
ably never learn of my early arrival
This rain, which has been continuous
for many hours, brings home the fact
that, with it's many pleasures, Subur-
ban life is not what it is cracked up
to be, when the car line is three or
four blocks away and these blocks are
covered with mud from one to two feet
deep.
The Mercantile club of Kansas City, |
Kan, has asked the city attorney for |
some of the booklets giving the city |
government by commission law which |
were published by the local city club. |
The Kansas City organization is push |
ing the commission agitation there |
while Topeka sits idly by and does /
nothing.
A few days ago a State Journal re-
porter had occasion to watch the |
football practice on the Washburn
field. One of the substitutes of the |
team came to the reporter with re-
the paper as he did not want to be cut
off from his monthly allowances from
home. 1t was kept out.
The Washburn Review in its cur
rent issue takes half column to tell |
of the excellent punting of Glenn
Millice who has booted his last punt
on the Washburn field. His last punt |
was turned loose just before the /
whistle sounded the end lof the game.
The ball went Seventy-hve yards and
then rolled several more past the |
Paramount safety, but after all it
wasn't his last punt.
A young woman on Harrison street
disturbed the neighborhood with I'M