The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-19
this week. There will be some great
bargains. Don't fail to see them
TOGTT .ITY e. POST


bargains. Don't fail to see them
COSTLEY & POST.
Mis- Edith Putnam, after a short visit
to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Putnam, of the Union PACIFIC hotel. re-
turned this morning to Liberty, Mo.
to resume her studies at the Ladies'
college there.
25 doz. Ladies' Wrappers bought es-
pecially for the Loom End Sale. Heavy
deeced lined from 75c to s1.sS; these are
worth one-third more.
COSTLEY & POST.
Congressman Curtis and ]. S. Morse
having removed the houses which they
purchased from the Wooden Mill COM
Architect Traver for a wool storage
house on the south side of the new
plant.
Samuel Haynes, county commissioned,
has received the shipping notice from
Clinton, Iowa, of a car of tubular pipe
for the Sardou avenue bridge. 1t will
arrive shortly and will be unloaded at
the Santa F'e junction side track, which
is the nearest point to the new bridge
site.
NJ c. Holman, president of the Wool
en- Mill company has returned from a
business trip of two weeks duration IN
northern Kansas and Nebraska, which
| he took in the interests of the new con-
Germ. MIR. Holman says the corn crop
is exceedingly short in Nebraska The
effect of the summers drouth is greatly
felt by the people there.
AS the Santa Fe company has opened.
graded, fenced and donated Sardou ave-
nue. from the railroad to the Ennis line
to the county free of all expense Mr..
| Haynes, county commissioner, will now
4 have Joseph PolluIn, the township truS-
| tee, work the road from the Ennis line
| to the river 60 feet wide and nearly 900
feet long
Frank Young. the superintendent of
1 TQrid
was on the North side Saturday and
! closed a contract with A. 3. Fulford to
haul the bridge material from the Santa
| F'e junction down Sardou avenue to the
river bank for the new Sardou bridge.
George Frisbie, of Granville, is erect
| ing a neat five room cottage on his lot
at GIT Madison street for rental pur-
poses. AS Manager McAfee will allow
his employees overtime and work them
! mostly until 10 o'clock p. m, they are
all anxious to live in close proximity to
their work and Mr. Frisbie experiences
no trouble in finding a tenant for his
new house.
Messrs John Morthland, Arthur
Small and Gaylord Miller were the
| hosts last evening at a game dinner
which they gave at the Morthland
home. Their guests were: Miss Jessie
Priddy. Miss Cora Priddy. Miss Mabel
Skinner and Miss Helen Haynes. Mr..
JAG. Campbell and Mr.. Walter Skinner.
The bill of fare included turtle dove,
teal. squirrel and rabbit. Mrs. North
| land and Mrs. Charles Small assisted
| with the serving.
Mrs. w. f. Snyder, of Emmett street.
| received word today that Mrs. w. r..
Moore, formerly of this city. but now
living in WeSOpOrt, No. is very SER
| iously ILL Her daughter, Helen Moore,
was student in the Topeka high school
| in "a Mrs. Moore was one of the early
settlers of Northern Shawnee where she
lived a number of years ago. Her many
friends in Topeka and vicinity hope to
hear of her speedy recovery.
The Union Pacific has several car
| loads of structural iron in the yard for
| the new Gage Park bridge across the
| Kansas river. The Rock Island refuses
| to haul the cars from North Topeka to
! the sugar works sidetrack, which is the
! nearest point to the new bridge site.
/ They claim they should have had the
! long haul from Kansas City direct to
the sugar works siding. The wires are
| being freely used in an endeavor to get
the matter amicab1y adjusted.