The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-29

| ISOLATION. a branch of the club. may
take hold and do something"
| The ways and means committee of
! the city council meets tomorrow
| evening.
Social dancing tonight at Huson's
dancing class for beginners only Thurs
Gay evening.
The Washburn Review is of the opin-
ion that the football team this year is
a good one. Every man is entitled to
his own opinion-a consoling fact.
The Washburn college and Campbell
Washburn gridiron Saturday aftern noon
in the second big clash of the local sea-
son.
The Topeka merchants have laid in a
new supply of coIlapsible drinking cups.
The last supply was exhausted in four
days. 1t is an i'll wind that blows no.
| body good.
The chances of the washburn foot
| ball team have been materially ad-
vanced by the appearance of Osborn
Larimer,- last years right end, on the
field in uniform.
Now the city proposes to furnish cleo
trio power to private concerns for the
proper amount of money. Some of the
ccuncilren must be figuring on free
Juice to their homes.
The treasurer of a Topeka social club
will soon receive a check for two cents
from the receiver of the defunct First
National bank. He proposes to frame
it and hang it on the wall.
In view of the dwindling enthusiasm
for wild west and Oklahoma excitement,
three small. coiored boys held up a train
crew at Menoken yesterday, though it
was not a successful engagement
weeks work has been wasted at
washburn college because the college
has failed to receive the text books
they ordered. The worst part of it is
that the students are kicking about 1t.
Spencer Arthur Abbott. the Topeka
first baseman, just can't quit working
for Cooley. Last night the team dis
banded, ard this morning Abbott went
to work as manager of the Smoke
House.
George Hart had another famous
dream last night. He dreamed that ne
saw a line of people at the Auditorium
waiting to register for the commission
form of government-he woke up in
sweat.
All of the city Sunday school super
intendents will meet at the Westminster
Presbyterian church tonight and dis
cuss a number of important matters
The meeting will be called to order al
o'clock.
Some of the residents along West
Eighth avenue are up In arms. They
claim that the pavement just laid along
that street between Kansas avenue and
Harrison street is the poorest ever laid
in this city.
Malon Burgett, the mute prognosti-
Gator, has said all along that Des
Moines would win the pennant. He
made this prediction a week ago when
things looked bad-thus he is happy
man today.
The infantile paralysis reports which
were circulated through an unreliable
source are not true. The deaths were
altogether from another cause. People
will son learn to consider the source of
some of these reports.
In spite of all the reports to the con- |
trary and the attempts of the morning
paper to organize score of their own
the official standing in the State Jour |
nal bulletin window has remained cor |
rect throughout the season.
Some of the children of the city are |
asked to write essays on the commits |
sion form of government. There are
only about ten men in Topeka who |
know anything about it-thus the par
ents have chance to steer clear of the |
embarrassment accompanied by the |
failure to answer the child's question.
The Indian Creek Grange fair will be |
held Thursday of this week at the |
Grange hall, on Central avenue, north |
of North Topeka. The fair will take |
place all day, and during the lunch hour
the ladies of the Grange will serve