The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-11
NORTH TOPEKA.
Items of Interest from the North Side of
the River.

the River
Miss Lima Pliley is quite i'll at her
home.
Charles Caldwell was up from Perry
this morning.
Someone has poisoned Ed Arnold's
Irish setter dog
Deb Metzger of Meriden visited friends
here yesterday.
Mrs. W. w. Marlett is i'll at her home
DR.. Thomas went to Hiawatha today
to be gone ten days.
The little son of Olei Oleson, who lives
on Fairchild street, is sick.
J. II. Todd's father and mother are
visiting him on jackson street.
Malcolm James won first place at the
high school rhetorical Friday.
Charles Pettitt is moving from 1924
Kansas avenue to the south side.
A man has been found who never
played marbles when he was a boy.
S. Fl. Pitcher visited his family over
Sunday and returned to his school at Va
lencia today.
The town is overrun with dogs, but it
seems the most valuable dogs always
get the poison.
Miss Katheryn Walk ms spent Sunday
with her sister, Miss Byrd Watkins, at
junction City.
Samuel and Lee Dolman's railroad
grading outfit left Saturday night to be
gone during the season.
Despite the new anti gam bling law
you can get a game for keeps" on al
most any corner on fine day.
minister said IN his sermon at one of
the north side churches yesterday that
some people do not know an ace from a
spade
A former north slider writes from New
Mexico, that the Trilby craze has just
reached there. North Topeka isn't so
slow after all.
Mrs. L. A Mason of Hannibal, Mo-,
travelling evangelist preached to large
congregation at the B Street Baptist
church, colored, yesterday morning.
Will Sheetz is seriously sick at his
home, 1929 Madison street, with rheu-
matism and heart trouble Mrs. Sheetz
is just recovering from quite sick spell.
One of the best jokes of the political
season is the circulated report that W.
Fl. WATSON, whose name will be voted on
at the Republican primaries, is POpu-
list. Of course it is all mistake, as
MI. WATSON is and always has been a
staunch Republican.
For one week only at
Arnold's Drug Store.
The kaleidoscope.
A communication has beer received
| by Blue post, G. A r from "Old Abe"
camp of the south side requesting that
members look into organizing a camp of
! Sons of Veterans. The post has accord
] ingly appointed ]. Nj. Steel, J c. Crom-
we'll and T. NJ. James as a committee to
! look up the matter and see what can be
/ done.
Farmers coal. I sell it.
+. P. EwART, 1912 Kansas ave.
Rev. Calvin Holman and Rev ]. R.
| Madison will go to Leavenworth tomor-
row to attend the fortieth annual session
| of the Kansas conference of the Metho-
dist church which begins Wednesday
morning. with Bishop GoodselI of
Omaha presiding. There will be $50
ministers there representing $4,000 Kan
sas Methodists.
See the kaleidoscope at ArnOld's Drug
Store.
A petition is being circulated among
the citizens of North Topeka and farm
ers of this vicinity to secure donations
either of money or labor for the macada-
MIXING of the Rochester road for half
mile south of Soldier creek. The county
commissioners have offered to give as
much in money as the citizens do in
labor or money and furnish the crushed
stone free besides. This is a most ex-
cellent opportunity to put much travel
ed road in firstclass shape.
The delegates to the state convention
of the Knights of the Maccabees are ar
irving and VIII assem- Bile tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock for business session in
J the lodge room of National Tent No. 19
of North Topeka. In the evening, pro-
gramme will be given at the Bijou thea
ter on the south side, at which D. P.
Marley of Port Huron, Mich, supreme
commander of the order, will address the
meeting. Mr.. Marley was expected tC
arrive today.
w. c. Sly is opening spring millinery
at S42 north Kansas avenue.
A North Topeka man made the old ho-
tel room mistake on a large scale the
other day whom he got into the house ad-
joining his, thinking it was his own. He
lives in one of number of houses which
look exactly alike, and absent mindedly
he walked into the one next door to his
His loud exclamations, condemnatory Of
his wife's buying so much new furniture
| which she had been threatening fol
some time, brought the lady of the
house, and only then did he discover hi
mistake. 1t is almost unnecessary tc
add that life is not what it once was t.
him.