The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-16
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Y. w. C. A. Friday evening at o'clock
Topeka is being deluged with whisky
literature which is being sent out by
a Kansas City firm.
Install an Independent telephone
take no chances, you may want 10 ldlh
to some one in Topeka.
The office of the clerk of the school
board, W. J. Stage, is being rearranseu
so al to make more room.
The special Thanksgiving number OF
the High School World Will be lssue1
on Wednesday of next week.
Grade cards for the first half terms
work at the high school will be dis
tributed to the students on Friday.
President Henry ]. Waters, of the
State Agricultural college, will be
speaker at the high school in the near
future.
Plans are being made for a midWin-
ter exposition that will be bigger than
ever The L. T. c. of Topeka mas lh9
event in charge.
F. S. Hazelton postmaster OF Nor Nor
ton, is in Topeka today looking aILer
business interests and visiting with the
officials in the federal building
Representatives of the Y. M c. A.
and Y w. C. A. will take part in the
Thursday evening prayer services Ut
the First Congregational church-
James c. Hughes of 41S Taylor
street ran over a dog with his MOTOR
cycle this morning. The dog was XIII
ed. but Hughes escaped with few
bruises. ,, 49,
that the turkey prices for ThanksglV-
ing will be the highest in years
THANKSGIVING will soon be as expensive
a pleasure as Christmas.
The annual fall time card meeting
of the operating officials of the Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad will
be held in Topeka next week When d
number of changes for the winter serV-
ice will be made.
A large attendance is expected at the
neighborhood meeting at the Central
Park school building Friday evening.
eood deal of interests is being taken
in the old fashioned spelling match
that will be pulled off"
DR.. r. L. Hayes will address the res
uIar bimonthly meeting of the Topeka
Local union at the First Congrega-
tionaI church next Monday evening.
An excellent musical program has been
arranged for the occasion.
George F. Sharitt, clerk of the
United States district court, returned
to Topeka Tuesday night from Fort
Scott where he has been attending the
November session of the Fort Scott
division of the United States court.
Less than eight thousand dollars is
now needed to wipe out the Whlts
ELEPHANT. People are getting tired of
reading about the beast so here's hop
ing that some one will dig way down
deem before much more time has
elapsed.
The street cars in the city are being
equipped with heaters for the winter
service. Superintendent Patten has
ordered all the cars in the shops for
this purpose and a big gang of work
men will complete the job in a short
time.
Ward H. Green, director of athletics
at the high school, hopes to be able to
arrange for a return game OF toot6aIl
in Topeka with the Lawrence highs"
on Thanksgiving day, a substantial
money offer having been rendered the
Lawrence management.
The people who have been backing
the Gage park street car line PROPOSE
ton will appear before the city com
missioners Friday morning and ask
that they be granted franchise to
build their line to the park. The city
officials will grant the franchise gladly.
1t is said from good authority that
If the city commissioners placed their
order for wagons today, the apparatus
would not reach Topeka before the
middle of January. And UP to date
nothing has been done toward the or
dering of these wagons or a schedule
for garbage collections and cans
There is the usual story making the
rounds to the effect that turkeys are
rare birds. Local dealers are now
paying from n to % cents a pound,
live weight, and there is but little pos
sibility of customers being able to buy
the flesh of the fowls for less than 20
OF 30 cents a pound.
The C. S. Burton stock sale at the
fair grounds Tuesday afternoon was
largely attended and the stock brought
good prices. About eighty head of
thoroughbred Holstein and Durham
cattle were offered in the sale. A num-
her of out of town stockmen were in
Topeka Tuesday to attend the sale.
DR.. William Duncan Macmillan of
the University of Chicago will speai5
To the students of the high school to-
morrow morning in the fifth period He
will tell something of the mysteries of
the starry heavens" illustrating with
stereopticon views. DR.. Macmillan
speaks this evening in the high school
auditorium.
A large crowd of Washburn rooters
will accompany the team to Manhattan
Thanksgiving day when the big game
of the year will be called off. The
Kansas Aggies are not playing under
as strict eligibility rules as WashburT
and it is expected that with their team
of old heads they will be able to de-
feat the Blue-but it will be a bloodI
battle from the start.
E. Ridley, a coIored teacher of the
Monroe school, has applied for per
mission to show his pupils through tbs
county Jail and the request has met
with the approval of Sheriff ]. D. Nor.
ton, and Under Sherig Henry M Raw.
less. Il believe it is a good plan,' SAID
Sheriff Horton. Ct believe that goof
can come through giving the children
the right kind of teaching to avoid the
Jail"
There will be big gathering of tn;
Modern Woodmen of America at the
Auditorium Tuesday evening and if i:
expected that in a parade which viii
be formed at the ThrOop hotel at 7:3l
O'Clock there will be delegations in lin.
from nearly every city in the eastern
third of the state. Head Consul r.
Talbot of Lincoln will be the guest o.
honor, while there will be other prom.
inent men present The meeting vii
be open to members of the organiza,