The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-09
NORTH TOPEKA.


fTaave items for this column with kim
bail a. SON al2 Kansas ayenue-9
G. e. Houston was in from Elmonr
yesterday
scrim sale, short lengths, lie each; one
lot ladies' belts for sc COstley & Post
Mrs. Bacon began lessons in batten-
berg August 3, 3 a.. m, S57 A. KAN Ave
George Bressmer and family have
moved from this side to near the SANTA
F'e shops.
Miss Maude Ira OF Holman's addition
is entertaining Miss Dollie Richards OF
Lyons, Kansas.
Miss lone Woodman viii leave week
from Sunday for St Louis to spend q
week at the millinery wholesale house
Dr. Burns Of the Bobby Burns Mining
Co has returned home from ColoIS 4
where he has been looking after mining
interests.
Miss Pearl Jones returned to her
home at Bradford, Kansas, today aISsI
a short visit to Miss Pearl Henry or lOSo
Quincy street.
Mrs IL Ia RYDER and son Charles
went over to Atchison yesterday for 2
short visit TO hrs. Ryder's mother, Mrs.
Charles Wolcctt
The North Topeka mills yesterday
shipped out ten carloads Of flour TO dlI-
ferent points in Missouri, Iowa ana
southern Kansas.
Little May Spear, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Richard Spear, IS quite III
with typhoid fever at the family home
on Kansas avenue
Charles w. Mum. travelling freight
agent for the Santa Fe route, was on
the North side yesterday in consulta-
ton with the wooden mill people
Saturday bargains-Our entire line OF
ladies' oxford ties for esc par, emil
dren's and Misses OEfOrds and sanuals
4Sc pair: soc and 75c belts for Z4c; ladies'
trimmed hats $780, paper hats z3e; noW-
ers &c bunch. COSTLEY & POST
w. J. Mattern left for New Mexico
and Colorado yesterday on a business
and pleasure trip combined of two
weeks duration. Frank Nannice is in
charge Of the business during Mr.. Mat
terms absence
The Inter Ocean elevator can only un-
load wheat on the Union Pacific side of
their elevator. They expect in the near
future to put track scales and grain
conveyors on the south side so that
both sides can be used in unloading
wheat and save time and switching.
Mr.. and Mrs c. E. Jordan of 1016
Quincy street returned yesterday from
NermilliOn, S. D., where they went to
attend the funeral Of Mr. Jordan
brother. They were accompanied home
by Mr.. JOrdan's mother, Mrs Thomas
Jordan and his little niece, Lenore
Craig, who Will be their guests for some
time
Alpha Robinson. superintendent Of
station a. is taking a few days en-
forced vacation to nurse burns on his
face received the first part of the week
by gasoline from one Of the lamps at
the office. The generator had been
heated in the usual way but when
lighted the burning fluid was thrown in
Mr. RObinsOn's face
Mrs. NJ J. Washburn, for many years
a resident of North Topeka, died
Thursday evening. August I. at the
home Of her daughter in L.awton, Kan,
from q complication of diseases extend
ing over a period OF two years. Mrs
Washburn was the wife of Z. Wash
burn, and viii be remembered by the
older residents here, the family coming
to North Topeka in 1888 where in fif-
teen years wide circle of friends was
made. Mrs. Washburn was a charter
member of the Old Lincoln Post w r.
C. and later changed from that to Lin
coin circle. to which she belonged un-
been in Webb City. No, at which place
she was buried
Mrs. A Firner died this morning at
two o'clock at the family home 1928
Central avenue from diabetes from
which disease she had been confined to
her bed for the past two weeks. She
was a native of Germany but had lived
In this country for about IS years. She
was twice married her first husband
Mr. Hohnbaum, dying i'm Germany She
leaves q husband and ten children.
daughter in Germany and Misses Mary
and Lena Hohnbaum. Messrs- Al and
ErneSe Hohnbaum. and Susie Rosa
Eddie, Fred and Henry Firner of this
city Mrs. Firner was a sister of Fred
Buechner who lives near Elm0nt and
of the late Ed Buechner- The funeral
win be held Sunday but the hour is not
yet known