The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-03
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items intended for this column should
be left with the Kimball Printing COM
pany. 1856 Kansas avenue.
]. r. Hart is building a house on his
farm one mile west Of Shorey.
Mrs. A L. Musson, of 52S Grant street
is suffering from a sprained ankle.
Henry Wolf went to Atchison yester-
day with Upchurch lodge No. PA A o.
U. w.
Miss Glare Ransom Of Kansas City
arrived today and will be the guest
over Sunday of Miss Edith Agnew.
Mr.. H. B. Wiley of Humboldt is
visiting his sister, Mrs. A. L. Musson,
at her home on West Grant street.
The home of Edward PItzer, 21S West
Gordon street was fumigated yesterday.
Mr.. Pitzer and little daughter having
recovered from the measles.
Six 10 cent magazines and Sunday
Globe-Democrat or Republic one month
for 80 cents. Offer good for one week
only. ]. w. Priddy's Newsstand.
The Praise service of the Epworth
will begin promptly at O'Clock Sunday
evening on account of the Union
League meeting at the First church.
Rev Mr.. Mooney, a minister of the
Presbyterian faith, is quite i'll at his
home, 1925 Kansas avenue. Mr.. Moon
ey has suffered from stroke of para
1ysis and the other evening was taken
with heart trouble.
The w. A w w. A club was enter
tanned Friday evening at a millinery
party at the home Of Miss Lille Nc
Kinley ON Van Buren, street Each
young lady brought hat and the trim
mings and each young man was allow
ed to trim one.
Little Helen Dolman has lost her last
rabbit. Some animal bit it the other
evening so severely that it died. The
rabbit had managed to keep out of the
way of all the dogs but this time either
a rat or a cat cornered her and give
her the death wound.
There will be a. session of the Sunday
school at $3.50 tomorrow at the Church
of the Good Shepherd. followed at II
o'clock by choral celebration of the
Holy Communion. Sermon, "A Word
Before Lent Canon Bywater. Evening
prayer and sermon at half past seven.
A meeting of the trustees of the
Rochester Cemetery association, was
held Friday afternoon at the home of
Miss Fannie Cole on Park street. Two
hundred dollars more was paid to Mr..
Fleisher. This leaves only two more
hundred due on the eight acres which
the association lately bought of him.
This ground will soon be plated and
laid out and the entrance road extend
ed to it. A committee composed of
Andy Scott, J. w. Priddy and w. w.
Reid was appointed to advise with the
county commissioners in regard to the
improvements of the roads leading to
the cemetery.
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
the little year old son of c. w. Hoyt,
the grain dealer, went up stairs at the
home on Jackson street and taking a
match set fire to the curtains in one of
the bed rooms. Some time afterwards
he told his mother what he had Adone.
She hurried up stairs and found that
the window castings and wall PAPER
were on fire and that the fire had also
reached a closet filed with wearing
apparel. Mr.. S. c. Miller and Mr.. AL
fred Hale who were passing saw the
smoke and went to Mrs. Hoyt's assist
ance. The smoke in the room by this
time was very dense but the gentlemen
finally managed to smother the flames
and prevent what might have been a