The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Ladies' free tonight at the skating
rink at Music Hall at 526 Quincy ST.
| No bear stories are emanating from
the Washburn football camp this
year.
| Ladies' and children free Saturday
| morning and afternoon to the skating
| at Music Hall.
Strickland, the musical rube, contin-
| ues to make a big hit with all of the
audiences at the Olympic.
Roy Crawford, manager of the Grand
and the Majestic, has been laid up for
the last few days with an attack OF
| grip.
appear at the auditorium tonight as
the fourth number on the Pipe Organ
course.
F. A. Snow, member of the state
board of pharmacy, is in Garden City
attending the regular quarterly examin-
alton of candidates for registration.
Edward A. Kimball, authorized lee
turer of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Boston, Mass, will deliver a
free lecture at the Grand opera house
this evening.
There have been all kinds of argu-
ments in progress today as to just
when and where the heavy fog hit the
town this morning No two persons
seem to agree on the subject.
Professor George Washington Jack
equaled colored Shakespearian' will
recite a the entertainment given at
the auditorium Thanksgiving evening.
Arrangements have been made to
connect Washburn college with the
outside world by means of telephones.
The Bell company will install a switch
board and facilities for making con-
nections with the various buildings.
The Washburn second football
team and the second team from Has
kR II will an he S0-
burn gridiron Saturday afternoon and
the local youngsters hope to add a
scalp to their collection of trophies.
An invitation has been extended by
Mr.. Crawford, the manager of the
Grand, to the members of the Wash
burn and Oklahoma football teams to
be his guests at a box party for 1.-The
District Leader" on Thanksgiving
night.
In a letter written by Emmett Dali
ton to a friend in this city he denies
that he will open a tailoring estab-
lishment in Oklahoma City. On the
contrary he expects to return to To-
peka within short time and will en-
gage in business either here or in
Kansas City.
The commission men of the city in
sist that there will be an abundant
supply of turkeys for Thanksgiving.
1t has not been the shortness of the
supply in the past which has kept
turkey from the average table, but the
price which is asked for them and
that will probably be the case this
year.
Being told that he can get anything
he wants by just asking for it, one of
the funny men at the Majestic this
week steps to the wings and calls out. |
"Give me a glass of beer Getting no
response he says, Its all right. Robert |
Norris is not here" And this good |
joke falls fat. Robert Norris, secre> |
tary of the State Temperance union, |
evidently has not much Of an ac- !
in the city.
The incubator baby who is spend
ing a few months in Topeka while the |
shall mother it evidently has warm |
friends in Lawrence. The theater in |
that city will give a benefit Tuesday, |
during which the Incubator baby's" |
picture will be thrown on a curtain, and |
the proceeds will be donated to Mrs. |
Charlotte Bleakley, the mother who IS
lighting to maintain possession of her
child.
That the troubles of man who owns
was demonstrated to a West side family
Sunday when their telephone refused |
to respond to the hello's calls. The
lives in the cellar most of the |
time and the connection with the tele-
phone is made through this part of the Il
house. The trouble was traced to this !
ocality and the search for the cause Il
commenced, though the monkey pro- II
ested Vigorously against the intrus ion. /
Attra cted by the insulation the mon
xey had made a meal off of it and Il
short circuit resulted and the telephone Il
went out of business.