The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-17
NORTH TOPEKA.

| SIS Kansas avenue, before 10 O clock in tbs
/ morning.
NJ. s. Evans of Versailles, No. is Wis
/ iting in town
! DR.. O'Brien of Beloit is registered at
/ the Union Pacific.
| Miss Fay Wise has recovered from an
| attack of the measles.
Sanford ]. Anderson left Friday for
| Erie, Penn, to visit relatives.
| c. G. Chapman will go to Lincoln,
/ Neb., tomorrow to visit friends.
| Miss Edna Parkhurst has been enter
| tanning Miss Beverage of OsI1aloosa.
Miss Clara Burger spent Sunday in
! Burlingame with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
| Burger.
Stewart Henry has returned from a
! visit with relatives at Manhattan, Kan
! sas.
Miss Gertrude FaIley has returned
| from a years visit with relatives at
| Peoria, Ill
The W. T. K. club will meet tomor-
row afternoon with Mrs T H Davis
4 OF Topeka avenue.
Miss Ada Branscomb of Granville,
/ and Miss Eleanor Holiday returned
/ from Wichita today.
! DR.. Maggie L. AIcCrea of Winchester
| has been the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
A. Fuller at 1928 quincy street.
J. H. MARBLE. Major Jenkins and NJ
/ A Blanchard will attend the 18th an
| niversary of the K of P. at Wichita
Mrs W. c. Sly went to Wichita to-
| day to attend the 18th anniversary of
| the Rathbone Sisters, of which she is
past chief.
Mrs. W. H. Bruffy has returned from
| Rock Island, Ill, where she went as
| delegate to the grand lodge of Royal
| Neighbors.
G. ". Currier Of Denver has return
| ed to Topeka to live. Mrs. Currier and
| children, Donna and George, will ar
| rive shortly.
| The Hughes banjo club has offered to
/ give one or two numbers at the con-
| cert to be given for the benefit of Miss
| Wilma Mills.
Section one of the Ladies' Sewing So
| ciety of the Kansas Avenue church will
| meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs.
| Warner of Monroe street.
| The Vincent Reading circle will take
| up the fourth study in the life of St
| Paul at their meeting at the Kansas
Avenue church Wednesday night.
| Miss Mabel King, who has been very
} seriously i'll with typhoid fever in a hos
| pital in Duluth, MINI, is improving
| nicely and her friends are very much
! encouraged.
| Mrs. Coburn and Mrs Lyon left yes
| terday for a visit with friends in Mis-
! souri, They will be gone several months.
/ Mrs. Lyon will also visit in New York
| and Pennsylvania
| The male choir of the Baptist church
| celebrated their fifth anniversary last
| evening at the church. Some exception
/ ally fine music was rendered and the
/ new anthem books used. The church
! was we'll filed.
| Leon futile, Mr.. T. L. Evan and Miss
! Byrd Watkins returned from WamegO
! this morning. Mrs. Leon futile will
| visit in WamegO until Wednesday, when
! she will go TO COncordia to spend a
| week with Mrs. Katherine Craig.
| The EpwOrth League of the Kansas
| Avenue NJ. E. church will celebrate
! their Sth anniversary Tuesday evening
at the church. at which time Bishop
| John H-Vincent will deliver an address
! There Will also be special music. Ev-
| erybody invited.
| Charles Corlson, foreman of bridges
| and buildings, is giving the platform
| at the Santa F7e junction thorough
| oVerhauling and repairing. Mr.. CorlsOn
! is the Oldest foreman on the Santa Fe,
| he having served that company faith
/ fully and continuously for the past q
| years.
Amos Beeler the genial Santa Fe en-
| gineer, whose duty it is to break in all
| the new engines on the Santa F'e on
/ their Meriden trips, between North To-
/ peka and Meriden, is the heavy weight
| engineer on the Santa Fe. He dropped
a penny in the slot machine at the iunc-
| ton depot few days since, expecting
| to be correctly weighed, but as the ma
| chine only weighs geo pounds it fooled
| him. Amos tips the beam at 323 pounds
| and is the jOlliest engineer on the Santa
Fe.
Mr.. F NJ Kimbau of Aetna Loan
company and C. F KimbaH, editor Of
| the North Topeka News, are in receipt
| of a large volume OF 1900 pages. Civ
! ing a history of the KimbaH family in
| America and its ancestors in England.
! The first emigrants of the name to
| come over were Henry and Richard
/ who arrived in Massachusetts colony
| in 1884. William Laud had just been
| appointed archbishop of Canterbury
| and begun his prosecutions of the Pur
] itans No attempt was made to pre-
! vent their movements, as there was
10 her FRN- dor of
| King Charles three vessels were de-
| tanned. on board Of which were John
| Hampden. John Ppm and Oliver CrOm-
| we'll. who twelve years afterward sign
| ed the death warrant of the king. The
| KimbaHs of the United States are
| nearly all descended of the ernigrant
| Richard and are found in all parts of
1 the country. They We're early in Kan
| sas and one fell a victim in Quantrell's
| raid upon Lawrence, where several had
| settled a an early day, and where one,
| George a leading citizen for many
| years. recently died They are found
| in Parsons. Wichita, Manhattan, To-
| peka and other parts of the state.
| Among the descendants of Richard on
| the female side are Daniel Webster
| the Arctic explorer A. W. Greedy, and
| in Kansas Cyrus Leland, the political
| boss now aiding J L BristOw in dis
| tributing plums at Washington. The
I family, however, mas not been notable
| among politicians but has been more
/ given to business. to literature and to
| music, and in Utah to marriage. The
| family however, has numbered its
| Judges. mayors and generals, as well
| as editors and ministers, including
| EpiscopaIians as we'll as dissenters. to
| say nothing of directors of the mints
| and superintendent of the life saving
| service The book has many portraits
| as we'll as a beautifully printed coat
| of arms in gold and silver from the
/ HeraId's college. London, bearing the
/ motto Forts non F'erox.'