The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-25
Thanks
giving to Be SeIebrated in Bing-
vile on a Big SkaIe This w.
Turkey ShOOt---LunCh by Ladies
Aid 6 Horn Band Base Drum
Benefit in the Evg---Read Par
tiCkIerS Below

Next Thursday Thanksgiving will ar
rive in our midst again
We make this publick announcement
beng as we have been asked on the
street several times when THANKSGIVING
arrives this year or whether it has got
past, and also for the benefit of SIGH of
our readers to who THANKSGIVING might
come and go and them be none the
wiser.
1t don't seem no time sinst last
Thanksgiving, does it? Answer-it does
not. My goodness, how time does fit
past and the Older we git the filter time
fits.
Great preparations is now being
made to give Thanksgiving in our midst
hitting celebrashion. Enos McCracken,
who lives two miles west of Bingville,
and allus raises turkeys to sell, was in
Bingyille tother day taking orders for
gobblers or hens, according to which it
is perferred. Enos says he amt never
raised as fine a assortment of turkeys
IN all his born days as he has this year
he says they are as fat as butter and
can't skarsely waddel they're SO plump
Folks don't take much stock in what
Enos says, however. being as he says the
same thing every year. Last year Enos
give us turkey for a years back
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without first seeing the turkey, and when
Enos brung it to the office it was so
gosh-blamed thin and scrawny and poor
that 1t wouldn't cast a shadder in the
sun. 1t looked sick and it seemed a
shame to kill it, but we done so. Our
wife roasted that turkey nine hours in
the oven, and then it was SO alfred
tough that we cracked our upper set
tryin to bite into a drumstick That
turkey lasted US and our wife two weeks
and by the time it was about ct up in
stews it begin to git tolerable tender
This year we have arranged to secure
our Thanksgiving turkey elsewhere.
Next Thursday morning, beginning at
10 o'clock a. m, sharp, Yves Woodruff,
Our expert hunter and trapper, will give
a turkey shoot in the lot back of his
house. WEISS friends is glad that it
amt possibil to hold a turkey shoot in
doors, being as Yves got snarled up recent
with a skunk which he ketched alive in
one of his traps and sinst then he amt
been very poplar in Bingvile, as you
might say. Hen Weathersby prop. of
our general store, had to ask Yves as
favor not to kindly loaf in the store
evenings until the skunk aroma kind of
blowed often him, as you might say, be-
ing as it driv away trade. One night
OcdCon buteTWOIIn, VINO happened 10
be in the store when Yves drapt in had
to git up and go home being as the
Deacon has very delilate stumnick
and begin to git sick
Yves has fatted up the turkey for the
shot on picked cor and them as have
saw it callilate the bird will weigh IA
pounds if it weighs a ounce. The tur-
key will be tied by the leg to a peg in
the ground at the fur end Of WEISS back |
lot, then Yves will step off 100 steps as
long as he can step and them as desires
to take chanst on the turkey will toe
the mark and shoot at the rate of 10 cts. |
per shoot. The turkey must be shot in 1
the head and nowheres else-enny shoot !
er shooting the turkey in the body will
not only mutilate it almost beyond hui