The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-04
NORTH TOPEKA.


leave items for this column with the
Kimball Printing Company. s12 North
Kansas Avenue.]
Mrs ]. S. Kelley of Silver Lake was
in town today
Miss Myrtle Seymour went to Horton
Saturday for a short visit to Mrs.
Kuhn.
Mr.. Munger and family have rented
the Miner Gordon cottage at 1909 Quincy
street.
Mrs Miner Gordon and son Ralph are
in Hiawatha visiting Mrs Gordon's
parents.
Don't forget Mrs. Courtney's mill
linery sale Wednesday. 603 Kansas ave-
nue. south. upstairs.
DR.. and Mrs. A. A. Raub will move
this week to the old Huntoon place at
Fourth and Harrison streets
Temporary office of North Topeka
Dental parlors in Central National bank
building, Seventh and Kansas avenue.
The young people of Rochester will
have an ice cream social Thursday
evening on the Charles Lukens' lawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Dibble have
moved to the house at S14 Quincy street
formerly occupied by DR.. T. B. Reynolds
and family.
Mrs. James Miller and daughter Ruth
of 1917 Quincy street have gone to Kan
sas City where they will visit friends for
a few weeks.
Miss Annie Nystrom of 1919 Jackson
street, went to Kansas City Sunday
where she spent the day. From there
she goes to Chicago for a visit of several
weeks to friends.
Frederick, the 7-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick West of 217 Para
more street died yesterday. The funeral
was held today from the home and the
burial was in the Topeka cemetery.
Miss Berta Shields of Meriden was
given pleasant surprise party Satur-
day evening by number of her friends.
About nineteen young people were pres
ent, among them being Misses Edna and
Harriet Staples of North Topeka.
One of Morns & Myers delivery teams
ran away yesterday at noon. They
started on Topeka avenue and went
south to Hanley Bros store, where they
ran into a telegraph pole, breaking the
tongue of the wagon They were
caught before any other damage was
done.
The rain Sunday morning filled the
lake in the western part of town and
travel out Gordon street was cut off.
The driver of the Standard oil wagon
started for Menoken yesterday morning
but when he reached this lake was
obliged to turn back and return to
town. People going north were obliged
to use the Shorey road.
N Stanley. who has been here for
the past month experimenting the re-
pairs on his property, was obliged to
return to his home in Denver today to
attend to his business interests there.
He has part of his property here re-
paired, and has traded one-half of his
store building to E. c. Seger who will
have charge of his business here.
Mrs. c. D. Myers and daughter, Anna,
who have been visiting Mr.. Myers
daughter, Mrs. Herbert French at New
ton, are today in Hutchinson. the guests
of Miss Anna Fenton, matron of the
Hutchinson hospital. Mrs Myers and
daughter Will return to Iopeka tonor-
row and at Newton will be Joined by
Mrs French and little son who will ac-
company them home for a visit.
Ever since the flood Quincy street at
Kistler has been blockaded by a small
frame house which was swept there
stands directly across the street. and
takes up about all of the roadway. The
people living in the neighborhood have
never made any complaint, as they say
the house was their safeguard when
the current was so swift, as it kept the
current and drift from them. This
building, which was the property o.
Mr.. Mulligan, has recently been sold
to a South side man. who intends to
have it moved across the river.
Considerable Roadway is being made
in repairing the different business
houses on Kansas avenue At the
Moody building at S26 Kansas avenue
a portion of the front wall has been re.
paired. At the J. Thomas building at
$50 Kansas avenue the north wan.
which fell down last Friday. has been
rebuilt. On the opposite side of the
street at the FOUGHT building and the
North Fair and Letter buildings the
tearing away of the fronts is finished
and work will shortly be commenced
in rebuilding these fronts. TWO blocks
north is the Willis building, which will
have a new pressed brick front The
repairs on this building will be finished
within the next thirty DAYS.
A marriage that will be of interest 10
North side people is that of Miss Martha
French and Mr. Byron Player which
was solemnized Wednesday at SPRING
field, Mo. Miss French is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John French Mr.. French
was formerly foreman of the Santa Fe