The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-30
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

What would you think Of business
without telephone, an Independent
The newsboys of the Topeka Daily
Capital were given dinner today and
We're treated to candy Prior to the din
ner the boys paraded up and down on
Kansas avenue.
Many of the business offices of the city
will be deserted tomorrow or nearly so,
as hundreds of business men will go to
Usage City on the trade extension and
good roads trip.
Mrs. Susan Belts, aged 81, mother of j.
B. Belts Of this city, sustained an in
jured hip as the result of a fall at her
home near Granville.
The aged women at the Ingleside home
enjoyed good Thanksgiving dinner
The Modoc club of Topeka will be with
the delegation of hundreds which will go
to Usage City tomorrow The members
volunteered their services and will sing
at the meeting of the Santa Fe Train as
ISOLATION tomorrow afternoon. The Com
mercial club will pay the railroad fare Of
the singers. but they will receive
compensation otherwise.
I'VE are going to try the experiment of
using advertising space in the papers to
get crowd out for the sermon which
the Rev. Robert Gordon will preach
Sunday evening" said a member of the
Mems club of the church today. II be-
heve it will pay to put in ten dollar dis
play ads" Rev. Mr.. Gordon will speak
Sunday evening on 1.-THE Kind of Girl
to Marry.
pected at the annual convention of the
Kansas State Temperance union which
will be held in the First Baptist church
December and s. Among the speakers
will De Governor W. r. Stubs and DR..
F. L. LoVeland.
The city and county offices are closed
today.
Since the gas scare has been sent out
by experts from the State university a
number of persons in Topeka are trying
out crude oil burner in their furnaces.
The neighbors watch the experiments
with interest.
The street railway company has placed
back in effect its fifteen minute service
on the Washburn-Hun line. For some
time the cars on this line have been run
ming every twenty minutes. The patrons
are loud in their qualification.
Only one mail delivery was made by
postoffice carriers today. The general de-
livery window was open until 10 o'clock.
The Washburn College Athletic associa-
ton has been the Xictim of a false
rumor. Tt has been reported about the
city that it would cost 81 to get into the
gates and $50 for reserved seats at the
game this afternoon. It is 81 at the gates
and 50 cents extra for the seats.
Nearly 125 couples attended the first an
nual mask carnival of the A o. u W.
held Wednesday night in the steinberg
music hall In addition to the 125 couples
on the floor OF the hall, large crowd
witnessed the program from the galleries
There were 20 dances on the program.
Sheriff ]. D. Norton left last night for
Musca tine, Iowa. where he will spend a
few days visiting with his brother.
w E. Wilson and wife and baby of
Washington, Kansas, are spending the
week with Mr. Wilson's brother-in-law,
Richard l.. Thomas and family. Mr..
Wilson was called to Topeka as petit
juror in the final session Of the United
States circuit court.
Mrs. Chaplin and Miss Ann Ballard
clerks in the probate court, are spending
Thanksgiving with out of town friends.
Mrs. Chaplin left last night for Clay Cen
ter and Miss Ballard is spending the day
with Emporia friends.
Miss Corine Ripley will entertain the A.
3. T. alumni of the high school Friday
afternoon at her home, 1900 Topeka ave-
nue..
While the Topeka Poultry show is be-
ing held in the Auditorium next week a
number of meetings of poultry associa-
lions will occur. The Kansas branch Of
the Rhode Island Red Club of America,
the state branch of the American Buff
Rock club. the Kansas branch of the
American Barred Rock club. will all hold
meetings The Kansas branch of the
American Poultry association will also
convene.
Governor w. r. Stubs and W. T. Yer
non of washington, D. c.. assistant SUI
perintendent of Indian schools, will SPEAK
at a banquet given this evening by the
Colored Business Mems league for the
editors of the Western Negro Press as
ISOLATION who are meeting in Topeka.