The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-08

/ agement is doing everything possible
to make the show this year different .
Reese V. Hicks and Russell F. Pal
mer, editor and associate editor of
Poultry Culture, are attending the
midwest poultry show in Chicago.
They expect to interest exhibitors to
enter their birds at the Topeka show.
William B. Collinson, who is man
aging the Y. M. c. A. minstrel show
| which will be held December 80 and
81, reports that judging from the in
terest which is being taken in re-
hearsals the show will be better than
ever this year.
The high school basketball team
will play the Kansas City Manual
training school team in Topeka De-
December %. Later games will be
played with Kansas City, Kansas, st.
Joe and Lincoln, Neb.
DR.. H. H. Keith has bought an irri-
gated farm of so acres near Roswell
N. M, at $262.50 an acre, the total pur-
chase price being $21. 900. The farm. as
/ the price would indicate, is a valuable
one, being partly in alfalfa, and partly
in orchard.
George He'll has been reelected
captain of the high school football
| team, and Alvin Carlson has been
/ high school basketball team. The
high school has two teams in the city
league this year.
The Railroad Y. M. C. A. has re-
-ceived the donation of a billiard table
and will install it Immediately. On
| Sunday afternoon moving pictures IL
Illustrating the funeral of King Edward
VII will be shown, and DR.. E. L. Love-
land will speak on 1.-THE UncroWned
King"
The Washburn College Glee club is
working out in great shape this year
| and the students QXn6PfinP great
performances from this organization
| The glee club is composed of young
| college men who have discovered that
their voices were adapted to the man
! se ment of tunes.
The young people of the Central Con-
gregational church instead of meeting
on Christmas eve to receive the usual
| cheap candy will gather at the time 20
| bring gifts to the poor. If some of the
other young peoples organizations
would take the hint Christmas would
be frightened for many a person.
! Among the special attractions at the
coming poultry show, January 2-7, will
be Peggy" the $4,000 White Orping-
ton hen. This bird is owned by Ernest
| Kellerstrass of Kansas City and has
Won first prizes at the Crystal Palace.
/ London, in New York, Boston, Baltf-
more, Chicago st. Louis, and other
| places.
The Brotherhood of the First United
Brethren church will hold its annual
| BANQUET next Monday evening in the
basement of the church. Rev. E. R.
Barber and Professor R. e. Ashcroft
/ of Holton will make the addresses of
the occasion c. H. Kutz, president or
| the organization, will act as toast
master.
Representative Sheppard, of Texas, is
| bound to be famous. He has started g
| sentiment in congress to cut the post
| age rates in two and make 1t possible
/ to send a letter for one cent instead OF
| two cents. People don't get poor buy
ing stamps, however-it is meat and
eats that rip holes in the pocketbooks
/ of the common citizen.
| Arkansas on Wheels will drift into
| Topeka over the Rock Island about
o'clock this afternoon. The CONNER
| cial club will remove them from the
Rock Island wheels and put them on
pneumatic tires and also on Topeka's
paved streets. It is possible that after
| "Arkansaw'' sees Topeka an empty
train will pull back home.
| Osborne Larimer, a graduate of
| Washburn, college, and a student at
Ann Arber this fall, has returned to
Topeka on account of sickness and will
| not be able to return to school until
after the holidays. None of the Chi
cago physicians who attended him SEEM
| ed to know the cause of his sickness
| but an operation was successful.
The state fair management is soon to
award the privilege of printing the
premium list for the show next fail.
| The lucky printer will be given the
right to pocket the money on all ads
| obtained, and the fair management
| will award the job to the highest bid
! der. Every printing shop will be given
an opportunity to bid for the privilege.
President Nudge, of the Rock Island
and a party of officials of the Rock
Island lines, are expected in Topeka
| tomorrow evening. They will spend the
night here and leave early Saturday
morning for Chicago. President Nudge
| has been out over the Rock Island lines
on a tour of inspection. 1t is possible
that he will be entertained by the Com
mercial club while in the city.
One of the foxy classes of rah-rahs
at Washburn has stolen the college bell
and no one has been able to find it
| It was resting comfortably in front Of
Carnegie library when last seen. The
faculty will get out search warrants
or else give Miss Dean, the registrar,
authority to dig up the lost treasure.
! Miss Dean is 'long' on finding lost
| treasures derelict stud
ents.
There is just one more lecture to be
given in astronomy by DR.. William
Duncan Macmillan at the. high school.
Last night Dr. Macmillan spoke in All
interesting manner on The Starry
Heavens giving his idea of their
origin. The last of the series will be
given next Wednesday evening and will
be entitled. Astronomical Conceptions
Ancient and Modern The lectures
are illustrated with stereopticon views.