The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-31
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Watch your front gates tonight.


Watch your front gates tonight.
The tacky skating party is tonight.
The Central Y. M. c. A. will have a
'spook" party for the junior members
OF the association in the attic tonight.
The polls will open at o'clock in
the morning and close at o'clock in
the evening in the city. They open
two hours later in the country.
The last Democratic rally of the sea-
son Will take place at the Auditorium
tonight. F. NJ. Pearl of Hiawatha, can
didate for congress, will be the prin-
cipal attraction.
There will be no more looping the
loop by the residents of Oakland for
the new street car line and the Branner
street viaduct were formally opened this
morning for traffic.
The Central Y. NJ. C. A. will give
Halloween party this evening to the
Junior association members, when
spooks will walk and form the princi-
pal form of amusement.
In one of the hardest football scrim-
images of the season, Friday afternoon,
the high school team and the Washburn
freshmen team held each other at bay,
neither side being able to score.
The Santa Fe will run a special
train to the Washburn-Kansas univer-
in Lawrence next Saturday. The train
will leave Topeka at las and will re-
turn following the game.
The Drake football team arrived in
Topeka late last night and are quarter
ed at the Throop hotel. The Drake team
is a husky looking bunch and trouble
for the Washburn aggregation is evil
dent from one glance at the Hawk
eyes.
Lest you forget, this is Halloween.
the evening when spooks, gobblins and
the like are said to stalk about and
the evening Whpr the h0VS and the girls
take liberties with the property of 9TH
ers which would not be tolerated at any
other time.
People who do not wish to vote a
straight ticket and still declare their
party allegiance may make a cross
make cross marks opposite the names
on any other ticket. This will not
invalidate the ballot.
The first case of typhoid fever re-
ported to the board of health for
month is that of Esther Muhrung of
PIG North Jefferson street, who has
light attack of the disease. There is
one case of smallpox and three of
scarlet fever in the city at this time.
Mrs. Ella S. Burton. candidate for
superintendent of public Instructions,
will speak at the Auditorium this even
ing on the school book situation in
Kansas as related to the American
Book company. Her knowledge of the
situation and ability to handle it prom
Uses an evening of revelations.
Street Commissioner Snyder, who
has been busy all week cleaning the
streets of leaves and debris and clear
ing out the manholes in the sewers,
reports that he has hauled $50 wagon
loads of dead leaves from the streets
in the past few days. The foliage
was exceptionally heavy this year.
At the invitation of the manager
of the Novelty theater the football
players of the Washburn college and
Drake university teams will occupy
the boxes at the second performance
at that playhouse tonight. All the
boxes in the theater have been placed
at the disposal of the athletes for the
second performance and every mem
Der of the two squads will be ac-
commodated.
Street cars were run today for the
first time over the new Branner street
viaduct The old route to Oakland
along the south bank of the Kaw and
under the Santa Fe bridge will be
abandoned. The Oakland cars will be
run east on Sixth to Lake, thence
north to Third street and west to
Branner where the viaduct crosses
Santa Fe tracks. The viaduct in
sures a passage to Oakland during
the high water. 1t will be a week or
two before the flooring of the viaduct
will be ready for teams and buggies.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth reports that
the departments of the city have
answered calls for thirty-four fires