The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-28
NORTH TOPEKA.

We have a New Idea. Costley & Post.
Pumps and repairing, phone Pratt 60s.
There is no improvement in the con-
dition of Mrs. r. W. Jenkins.
We have the New Idea patterns. Any
pattern for 1oc. Costley & Post.
Mr.. John Smith came up from Coffey-
vile today to attend the funeral of his
brother.
Miss Maud Martin of Pomona, Cal,
is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. c. A.
Crandall.
Go to c. B. Lyon. D. D. s., for fine
dgntal e11 tai work at popular prices Office
oil Kansas avenue Tel. 656-
Mrs. Faus has returned from Kansas
City, where she went yesterday to at
tend the funeral of Miss Menota Emery.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Chris
tian church will meet Wednesday after
noon with Mrs. Sloan, 918 Topeka ave-
nue..
Mrs. Zimmerman of Kansas City and
Mrs. Stevenson of Belleville arrived yes
terday to be with their aunt, Mrs. R. w.
Jenkins.
Mrs. J. T. Maze desires to thank her
friends and neighbors for their kindness
in assisting her during the sickness and
death of her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M Pollom of Indian
Creek, Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Day and Mr.
Walter Po1lOm left last evening for Ia
coma, Wash, where they will make
their future home.
Mr.. James Smith died last evening at
his home, four miles north of town, near
the Fairview school house. The de-
ceased had been an invalid for some
time. He was a brother of Mr.. John
Smith, formerly of this place, but now of
CoffeyvilIe.
Mr.. H. L. Sherburne has three soldier
cousins at Manila who were in the thick
OF the fight. In the recent battle one
of them, Mr.. Parker of CoffeyVille, a
member of Company G, was severely
wounded. The others are Mr.. Sherburn
of Company A, Twentieth Kansas and
Mr.. Whitcomb of the Fourth Illinois
infantry.
At the meeting of the Brave Boys
club last Friday evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reagle twenty two
answered by quotations from 1st and
2nd Timothy. After an interesting pro-
gramme the club adjourned to meet
next Saturday evening. Mrs. H. w.
Cheney presented the club with fifty
books of David c. Cook Sunday school
library and a number of Sabbath Read
ing papers, for which the club extends
thanks.
The Ladies' Duplicate Whist club
played their sixteenth game yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. D.
Small. This closes the series for the
winter. The substitutes were: Mrs.
e. S. Gresser for Mrs. Hurless, Mrs.
Harry Guthrie for Mrs. w. E. .Fagan,
Mrs. A. A. Rowley for Mrs. ]. A. Camp
bell. Mrs. J. c. Fulton for Mrs. A. w.
Parks, Mrs. A. NJ. Petro for Miss Mar
tha Kimball, Miss Jessie Warner for
Mrs. T. b. Reynolds and Miss Bertha
ROwley for Mrs. Mark Putnam.
Mrs. Rudolph F1esher, who was shot
Sunday near Mayetta by Henry San
dersOn, the young man who fired on his
sweetheart, Myrtle Fleisher, died last
evening from the effects of her wounds
Mr.. and Mrs Fleisher lived at Arkansas
City, where Mr.. Fleisher was an en-
gineer for the Santa F'e road. The cou-
pie had been married not quite two
months. Mr.. Fleisher had obtained a
thirty days lay off and had come up
here with his bride to visit his father,
w. H. Fleisher, the well known grape
man of Rochester. Mr.. Rudolph Fleish-
er had recently purchased the Hughes
farm on the Rochester road and intend
ed to make it his home. One particu-
larIy sad feature in Mrs. FIeisher's
death was her extreme youth, she being
barely II.