The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-29
NORTH TOPEKA.

lLedVe items Tot TINS column Win tne
Kimball Printing Company. 912 North
Kansas Avenne.l
w. c. Steele went to Larkin, Kan, to-
day for a short visit
Mr.. Vilott and family have moved into
the Ward property at 119 West Gordon
street.
w. T. Schaeffer and family have
moved into their new home at 316 West
Gordon street.
Temporary office of North Topeka
Dental parlors in Central National bank
building, Seventh and Kansas avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Cunningham and
family have moved from 316 West Cor
don street to the Hanley property at
1923 Topeka avenue
Mr.. E S. Ward and daughters, Misses
Ella and Ida Ward will leave next week
for Los Angeles. Cal, where they will
make an extended stay.
The Dibble Grocery company expect
to be back on the North side in a short
time. Their store room, the Haywood
building, is almost ready for occupancy.
The members of the Church of the
Good Shepherd will give a lawn social
Thursday evening a the home of Joseph
Davies, 800 Monroe street. Music and
graphaphone. Ice cream and cake will
be served.
Mrs. Courtney will have a clearance
sale of all millinery Friday and Sat
urday. Trimmed hats for soc, 75c and
$1-O0. One dozen sailors Csc each and all
flowers and trimmings reduced below
cost to make room for early fall goods.
6O3 Kansas avenue south upstairs.
Lee Pendergrast, 14-year-old boy,
escaped from the Reform school this
morning. The boy, who is known as u
! "trusty" was working in the kitchens
and it was while making trips between
these rooms that he got away. The
boys home is in North Topeka and his
term at the Reform-School was almost
finished
One of Morns & Myers delivery. teams
ran away at noon today. They had just
been unhitched from the wagon when
they decided upon this move. The
weight was attached to one horse but
that was lost in an early stage of the
game. When last seen the horses were
going at a lively gait up Central avenue.
Clarence, the 7-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. David Gordon of 1917 Topeka
avenue, was quite badly burned yester-
day afternoon. The little fellow had
procured a bottle and decided to make
a lamp He found a wick and after
filling the bottle with oil. lighted it. The
bottle exploded throwing the burning
oil over the child's left arm. The burn
though painful, is not thought to be SER
ious.
A meeting under the auspices of the
Tuesday evening in Hanley's hail. cor
ner of Topeka avenue and Gordon
street. This club is a new organization,
and one of it's objects is declared to
be to ascertain what has been done by
the relief committee with the fund
which was raised for the benefit of the
flood sufferers. At the meeting last
night all those who had received any
of this relief fund were asked to raise
their hands. and out of the 175 persons
present not a hand was seen. There
are manv heads of families now here
whose homes and other property were
swept from their foundations, and if
they could now have some of this
ready money to restore their homes
and have places for their families, they
would be able and willing to make
their own way this winter. Speeches
were made by J. S. Morse. w. NJ G.
Lane, and others. 1t was finally de-
cided that the president of the club
T. NJ. Hanley, should today appoint a
committee TO confer with those having
the distribution of the funds in charge
and get from them a full statement of
what has been spent: that they should
also demand that whatever money was
left be turned over to North ToDeka
parties for distribution.
Many of the flood sufferers present
testified that they had applied for aid
to the Commercial club and that any
Some at the meeting said that they had
been charged up with $3.50 worth of
goods when the stuff which they had
received would have been dear at 81.
ne Sl50V OulHl, lney Sdlu, consisted OF
a small gasoline stove. a table and
few chairs Some who had been given
these outfits by the relief committee de-
clared that they had priced similar arti-
cles at the different stores in Topeka
and had found that they could duplicate
the goods at an expenditure of from So
to so.
Many different courses of action were
suggested, some of those present being
in favor of employing an attorney and
| legally forcing the Commercial club to
show what had been done with the re-
lief fund 1t seemed to be the general
opinion that there had been no fraud
upon the part of the officers themselves,
but that the merchants who had sup
! piled the goods had sold articles far in
ferior to the prices which were paid
There were present merchants, CAPT.
talists, clerks and laboring men. The
opinion of all present, was declared TO
be that fraud had been practiced some
where and that the matter should be
| investigated. About $50 new members
of the club were enrolled at last nights
meeting. The next meeting will be held
at No. L fire station Saturday night, at
O'Clock.
Atlantic Yacht Club Race.