The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-28
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items intended for this column should bS
left with the Kimb&ll Printing company,
SS5 Kansas avenue.
E. Stockner was in from Silver Lake
today.
]. N. Stockton. of Meriden. was in
town today.
Tor sale, household and kitchen fur
niture, 923 Van Buren, street.
Miss Pearl Irwin was the guest Sun
day of Miss Grace Taylor, of ROssville.
Mr.. Clifford L-utes spent Sunday in
RossvilIe, visiting the family of Mr..
Taylor.
Mrs. Courtney will make special
prices on millinery this week. sos
North, 603 South, Kansas avenue.
Mrs. Sly, who has been the guest of
Mrs. Lodge, of 913 Jackson street, has
returned to her home in Salina-
E. Keplinger. of Usage county, is vis-
iting his brother-in-law, c. F. Bridge
and family, of Van Buren, street.
We are moving to the corner Of Kan
Sas avenue and Laurent street. North
Topeka Kas. COSTLEY & POST.
Clifford Priddy is in Salina attend
ing the commencement exercises of
St Johns military academy, Of which
he was formerly student.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Central
Avenue Christian church viii meet
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs A E. Robinson. 81 Quincy street
Mr. and Mrs. c N. Leeman and chill
Grove and visit Mrs. Leenan's sisters,
Mrs. June Baxter and Mrs. s L. Court
ney. 4
The funeral Of Mrs A Suman who
died Monday morning at her home in
Silver Lake. was held this afternoon at
o'clock from the NJ. z. church at Sill
Yer Lake
As Thursday viii be Memorial day.
the meeting of the Needle Ten which
was to have been held that afternoon
q IF Arc n47F~ EQe,.r hoe
been postponed
Supt- W. NJ. Davidson has made ar
rangements with Mr.. Pugh to take his
place and deliver the Memorial address
at Prairie Home cemetery Thursday
afternoon at ? o'clock
Committees will be at Quincy, Grant
and Lane schools Thursday morning at
o'clock to receive flowers to be used
for the decorating of soldiers graves at
Rochester that afternoon.
j. b. Jeffers will leave on Thursday
for St Louis, where he has taken a po-
sitiOn with a publishing company. His
family will join him in a week or two.
and they will make their home in that
city.
Wednesday afternoon Judge A L
Redden win deliver a n enoriaI address
to the pupils of Grant school; B. H.
Pugh will give the address to the pupils
of Quincy school, and Rev. ". L. Grant
the address before the Lane school
pupils
Mrs. Joseph Smith and little daughter,
who have been visiting Mrs. Smiths
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Troutman,
at their home in the country, have re-
turned to town and are again the guests
of Mrs. Smith. of Monroe street.
The engagement is announced Of Mr..
Simon Lacey, formerly Of this city, but
now of Peoria. III, to Miss Ida Bloom.
also of that place. The wedding viii
take place Wednesday. June s. Mr..
Lacey is son of Mr. and Mrs f. c.
Lacey. of Quincy street
John Nystrom has returned from
Randolph, where he went to attend q
meeting to decide upon the town for
the location of a new Swedish college. 4
Topeka was mentioned among other
places, but the decision was finally in
favor of Mcpherson.
Rev. ]. F. Bacon, who sixteen years
ago was pastor of the Congregational
church here visited Topeka friends
Sunday. While in town he was the
guest of his old parishioners, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Green and Mr. J. T. FOUGHT.
Rev. Mr.. Bacon is financial agent for
Iowa college, and left for that place
yesterday. His headquarters are in
Chicago.
c. F. Hawkins and Charles Small had
their new gasoline launch which they
have lately CON pleted on Soldier creek
Sunday. The launch which has been
christened '.Eloeve,'' is p feet long with
a 81 inch beam, and is a stern wheel
yacht. She can carry fifteen people,
and make five miles an hour up the
river or eight miles an hour up the
creek. She is a high draft boat built
on purpose for shallow water. On Sun
day afternoon Messrs- Hawkins and
Small took a party of friends from Gar
field park to the Kansas avenue bridge.