The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-08

dust. Besides this big sum she has sew
eraI valuable claims, which she expects
/ will net her much larger sums.
| Miss Grace Kennedy of Atch1son
/ weighs only 81 pounds, and a yard and
quarter of goods will make her waist
| Three yards of binding will go round her
skirt and two and a quarter yards Of
goods will make her skirt
Miss Ruth Plumb, second daughter OF
the late United States Senator Preston
| B. Plumb, is to be married soon to
Schuyler Colfax Brewster of the gallant
Twentieth Kansas regiment and now
district clerk-elect of Allen county.
Miss Lottie Garrison of Linn county
has rejected an offer Of $500 week from
the management of the Bostonians. Her
reason for declining the offer was that
she feared light opera would injure her
prospects for grand opera, which she VIII
enter soon.
Miss Nina Marbourg of Atehison, Is
, years of age, never went to school a day
in her life. Until recently she was en-
ployed in a railroad ticket office She
is now writing stories for the Metropoli-
tan Magazine, New York World and
other publications for which she receives
Miss Eva Netcalf- Grant, an ottawa
girl, has been awarded a diamond locket
for being the handsomest unmarried wo-
nlVal ball Miss Metcalf-Grant is five
feet four inches tall and weighs 13S
POUNDS. She wears a five and one-half
glove She is p years old.
miles west of Galena in what is known
as Quaker Valley, is one of the most en-
ergetic farmers in Kansas. Miss Good
man is "A years Of age. With the as
sistance of her younger sister she OPP
crates and manages a farm of so acres
and is getting rich.
Miss Helen Raymond and her sister.
Edith of Jackson county, left orphans
became farmers. They SOW and reap,
shock and stack, cut and husk pillow and
cultivate, raise and feed stock-in fact,
do all that farmers do-and like most
Kansas Farmers of recent years, have
accumulated a comfortable competence.
Miss Olive Jones, the 19-year-old
daughter of Buffalo" Jones of Topeka,
has sold a story to Harper's for $150 It
tells of the capture of two mountain
sheep which Buffalo" Jones was re-
Gently delegated to find by the authori-
ties Of the Smithsonian institute. The
sheep were captured in Colorado and
Miss Jones was with her father on the
trip.
Miss Rose Murphy of Hope township
Dickinson county, is not only an accom-
pdshed young woman but a practical
and successful farmer. She can SOW and
reap, pillow and husk corn and do all
that is required to be done on a farm
during the past year she raised over
1,4O0 bushels of corn, 200 bushels of
Kaffir corn and 400 bushels of oats as
field crops.
Miss Lizzie E. Wooster. formerly
primary teacher in the public school at
Salna, is the author of series Of
school books which she published with
in the past two years, and has a stand
ing offer of $4,000 for her interest in
them. Her publications have been
adopted by the United States govern
ment for use in the Indian schools.
About $4,000 Indian children will use the
books the coming year.
Miss Anna Smith of near Cawker City
was married a few days ago to Mat
thew Mersch. Among the refreshments
at the wedding feast were a beef. fifty
fowls. three hogs, twelve kegs of beer
and fifteen cakes. A tent was used as
a dining room, as the house could not
hold the guests. One of the presents
received was a tract of 100 acres of
land, given the couple by the parents
Of the groom.
Miss Mary Scroggins opens the school
house in district No. rs, in Reno county,
and then sits at her desk all day long,
while not a pupil comes to receive in
structfons. All the families living in
district No. IS are Catholics and send
their children to a nearby parochial
school. Miss Scroggins has the usual
contract with the school officers, and
she viii continue to open and occupy her
lonely schoolroom through all the win
ter months. Last year she had no
pupils at all during the first four months
of the term, and only two pupils dur
ing the remaining three months