The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-04
NORTH TOPEKA.

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be left at the Kimball Printing company
S35 Kansas avenue.
Charles Dearborn Of silver Lake was
in town yesterday.
Ginie J7pdegraff and Merle King are
spending the Fourth at St. Joe.
Mr. and Mrs Maynard Dibble will
leave Sunday for a trip to Colorado.
Special prices on refrigerators.
Sturgis Hdw- Co. S447 North Kan. ave-
Miss Lou Huckstead went to her
home in Wamego Wednesday evening
to spend the Fourth.
Refrigerators. gasoline stoves lawn
mowers ETC.
sturgis Hdw. Co, s44 North Kan. ave.
Mrs Henry Knarr. Mrs. George SheIer
and Mrs Laurie Jones have gone to
Baldwin where they viii be the guests
OF Mrs. Chris Zook.
Mrs. Charles wolcott and daughter.
Jeanette, win return to their home in
Atchison Friday after six weeks
visit to Mrs. Wolcott's daughter AIRS.
L A. Ryder.
Miss Grace Houghtelin win leave July
s for Denver, Colo. where she will visit
her brother, Mr.. Guy Houghtelin She
viii be away several weeks and part
OF the time size vii spend on a ranch
near Denver
Miss Mildred Phillips will leave next
Tuesday for Alvord, Texas where she
will visit her cousin, Miss Sue Wright,
for several weeks MISS Phillips Will
Grove visiting her mother before returns
ing to Topeka.
The item in Tuesday evenings Jour
nal, purporting to be an announcement
by Mr. and Mrs. Kellar of the mar
riage of their daughter Zuras was a
mistake. The news was sent in over
Mrs Kellar's signature and was pub
hshed in good faith but Mr.. and Mrs
Kellar state that the report is erron-
eous throughout.
The following is taken from the juno
ton City Union: Miss Minnie Doering,
manager of the Union Pacific telegraph
Office at North Topeka, passed through
Junction City yesterday en- route from
Clay Center to Oakley. She has been
visiting friends at Clay Center for a.
week and will visit her relatives at
Oakley and vicinity for a month
The following members of the J. J. J
F. F. club spent the day picnieking at
the reform school: Mr.. and Mrs May
nard Dibble, Mr. and Mrs w. E. Bacon
Miss Nellie Grant, Miss Lille Wilder,
Messrs. Wesley Wills, Harry Nash,
Harry Zarker, Percy Reese, David Tay-
lor. Mervin Miller and mr.. Price.
One of the first of the Fourth of July
accidents was that of Fred Munsie, son
Young Munsie was preparing to fire a
toy cannon and had taken the dynamite
from one of the large firecrackers to
use as a load. While ramming this into
the cannon an explosion occurred The
palm of the boys right hand was badly
torn and the bones of tl2e thumb on the
left hand so severely splintered that
amputation was necessary at the first
joint. The boy has been employed at
the Santa F'e offices for some time
Benjamin Dennis died yesterday af-
ternoon at the home of his sister-in-
law, Mrs. MalOney on Quincy street
The remains We're taken this noon to
his late home in Rossville where the
funeral will be held. Mr.. Dennis death
was the result of a blow he received
Tuesday while working on the house of
Mr.. G. Myers three miles west of town
at which time he was struck on the
chest by a board. Mr.. Dennis was
brought to town Tuesday and seemed
much better until 2 O'Clock yesterday
when he was taken with a henorrhage
death occurring an hour later.
The members of the choir of the
Friday evening at the home Of Mrs. Joe
Davies on Monroe street for rehearsal.
The Inter Ocean mills have just re-
ceiyed four cars Of wheat from Cam
chester Kansas, and Oklahoma Terri
tory which is Of this years crop and
is unusually nice and dry for new
wheat The kernels are large and it
tests sixty-one and one-haIf pounds to
the bushel. The above mentioned sta
ton is located on the line between Kan
SaS and Oklahoma When the agent Is
IN MS ONCE selling tickets he is in Kan
sas and when out delivering freight in
his warehouse he is in Oklahoma The.
station was known as Manchester, Kan
sas, and Cameron, Oklahoma. The
railroad company for convenience sake
merged it into Camchester. Kansas,
Oklahoma.
Mrs. Atherton, of whom mention was
made In last evenings State Journal of
suddenly going insane in Kansas City,
is Mrs. Henry Anterior of 1884 Quincy
street. She is the widow of Henry
Atherton, who in fit of dependency
committed suicide a year ago this
month by taking poison, his body being
found in the barn by his brother when
he went to feed the horses. Mrs. Ather-
ton has three children, Mabel aged is.
Hurley aged II and Willie 8 years old.
She and her children made their home
with Mr. Atherton's parents. Last Sun
day morning Mrs. Atherton left the
house before any of the rest of the fam
lily We're up. and they knew nothing OF
her whereabouts until they saw the ar
ticle in the State Journal telling of her.
sad plight In speaking to a Journal
reporter Of her mother, the eldest
daughter said she had noticed for some
time that her mother did not seem her
self as she was very melancholy and
disincAned to talk. On Saturday she