The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
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AT HOME NEWS

Ray Halls orchestra will play for Sun
day dinner at the National
With the expectation of immense
crowd at the Thanksgiving football game,
ashburn is advertising for thirty ushers
on the field. A big crowd that day would
make the year successful for the Wash
burn Athletic association
Chief Clerk Gilliland of the general
passenger office of the Rock Island left
this evening for business trip to Chi
cage.
Wives who have been trying to keep
down their husbands grocery bills are
almost ready to throw up the sponge.
With butter and eggs climbing higher IN
price every day, the months pay check
looks small and insignificant
If the sentiment in Topeka counted for
anything the Shady Bend farmer boys
who painted the school teacher with tar
would be taken out in a body and soaked
in the same mixture.
In a few years Topekans will receive
the following telegram from their east
ern friends: I'VE take Ocean to-Oceau
road tonight for Topeka. If machine
works we'll we should see you in morn
ing"
The latest topic to be discussed before
the Washburn Prohibition association is
The Evolution of a Boozer-" Wash
burn debates on booze are attracting
wide attention.
The Emporia papers are still moaning
and grooming because they say the Nor
NAL football team found it necessary to
+AsANteAAN S-AA-NA
game with Washburn in Topeka. Moth
ing to it. The Normals were given the
use of the Washburn gymnasium. They
were extended the same couFtesles as the
Blue warriors.
L read lots of newspapers and have
enjoyed watching the enterprise of many,
but / can't figure out how the State
Journal is able to run color page every
day said James A Stewart. general
passenger agent of the Rock Island, to-
day
~ can't. r. I, eei.5a1e 14-ay., aF,la 70 tear
down the first round house ever built by
the road before an injunction was OBJ
tanned by DR.. Eva Harding.
Col. Cope Gordon has been in Topeka
81 years And it will be another 81 years
before Topeka and Kansas forgets the
famous hotel character Furthermore he
has erected a new building in Topeka
that will perpetuate his popularity in this
city.
The Rock Island has spent several hun
dred dollars in Topeka in the last few
weeks in improvements around the pas
senger station and general office build
ing. A new cement pavement new taxi
bumpers and several other expensive I'M
provements have been made.
Honolulu. Hawaii, has enterprising
commercial organization Upon receipt
of a Topeka Commercial Club Bulletin
which stated that a Hawaiian orchestra
had PLAYED at a meeting of the Topeka
toned wrote to the secretary of the local
Commercial club, sending advertising
literature.
The circulation of the Commercial Clup
Bulletin is on the increase. Now about
/ 100 copies are printed monthly Recent
" the. comm rcfaI secretaries in Logans-
port. Ind HoIyoke, Mass. and Twin
Falls Idaho. have written to Secretary
J. VIII Kelley asking TO be included in
the list.
Tickets have been printed for distribu-
ton to advertise the farewell to three
college men which will be held at the
Central Y. NJ. c. a. Sunday afternoon at
30 The men are going TO foreign fields
and are John Fl. Dadis-nan, Charles w
Whitehair and H. c. Herman
A rousing good roads meeting OF the
Topeka Motor league will be held this
evening at the Commercial club
A number OF the Commercial club menu
beers viii attend a good roads meeting of
the Civic club of the North side next
Tuesday evening for the purpose of eX-
planning the object of the excursion to
Usage Ciy December i.
An announcement of the Kansas Mid
winter exposition. which viii be held un-
der the direction Of Topeka Council No
A. United Commercial Travellers, Jan