The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
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The Copeland hotel is now serving
six o'clock dinner.
Mrs. Harry French, 11O8 Harrison, has
recovered from an attack of appended
tbs.
The former London subjects of King
Edward felt at home in Topeka today
with the fog about them.
The Aggie visitors had possession of
the city Saturday night and no one OBJ
jected to their celebration.
The open season for quail is the
cause of fifty-three new hunters
licenses during the past few days.
The quail hunters who have returned
tell tales of woe about the scarcity of
game and the hostility of the farmers.
]. r. Young, editor of the Oakley
Graphic, is in Topeka visiting friends
and getting in touch with the political
situation.
Washburn had a band after all Sat-
urday. 1t should be made a permanent
thing. A college without band suffers
a handicap even if it can't play much.
The Ministerial Union has arranged
a series of union Thanksgiving SER
wives which will be held at nine of the
churches in different parts of the CITY,
Turkeys are being shipped into To-
peka in large numbers and the pros
poets are that there will be plenty of
birds for local consumption at the reg
ular rates.
The Independent Telephone Co., can,
give employment to three or four ladies
in the operating department. Refer
ence required. Apply Sd floor, Tele-
phone building. 10
Marshall's band is planning a'series of
Sunday afternoon concerts, which will
be given during the winter at the Audi
torium. The concerts will consist
largely of sacred music.
Judge Pollock convened the Novem-
Der term of the United States circuit
court here this morning. The district
court will also be in session at this term
and the same jury used for both courts.
George w. Banter, manager of the
Midwinter exposition, has engaged an
office room in the Columbian building
and will go to work Immediately on the
big winter attraction at the Auditorium
The council will hold it's third spec
iaI session for the month tonight. The
raising of the grade of the street car
tracks on Madison street is the matter
on hand that demands immediate atten-
ton.
There are enough friends of the COM
mission plan of government in Topeka
to carry an election on the proposition,
but they must first get together and the
work necessary before it can come to
a vote.
Justice Henry F. Mason, who read a
paper on literature in the time of Ad-
olson before the Saturday Night club,
took the position that Addison has been
overestimated. He says that Walt Ma
son of Emporia has better style than
Addison.
The committee of the council ap
pointed some time ago to rename the
streets has prepared a list of changes
which affect North Topeka and the |
Martin & Dennis addition. The changes |
are mainly where the streets now have |
two names.
The football season will close in To- |
peka Thanksgiving day, with game |
between Washburn's team and the |
Oklahoma university team, coached by |
Bonnie Owen, the we'll known football |
instructor and once a leader of WASH |
burns team.
Topeka people who attend football
games on Washburn field this year, |
talk of the prospects of the present
team before the game, but on the way |
home they invariably discuss only the
glory and achievements of last years
great team. There is a reason
George w. Banter. the newly ap- |
pointed manager of the Topeka Mid
winter Exposition company, has opened
his offices in room No. 40 on the top
floor of the Columbian building. The
last two weeks in January, 18th to the
Both, has been decided on as the time
of holding the exposition.
The little 4-year-old daughter of w.
II. Davis, living at lib West Eleventh
street had narrow escape from death
or serious injury Saturday evening
when her father snatched her from un-
der the hoofs of a runaway horse. The
animal was hitched to transfer wagon
and had broken loose further west on
Fleventh street and was almost upon
the little girl who was playing in the
middle of the street unconscious of her
danger when the father rushed to the
rescue- The spectators gasped with ter
ror at the baby's danger, and it is a |
safe bet that the residents of that
will keep close watch on
the little folks playing in the street for