The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-28
NORTH TOPEKA.

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Abe LaFramboiS, of Silver Lake, was
in town yesterday.
Berry Bros. are now using a hand
some new delivery wagon.
Mr.. Frank Grear returned yesterday
from a business trip to Kansas City.
Mrs. S. C. Lands and daughter,
Linda, were in town today shopping.
Miss Emma Trickett, of Kansas City,
will arrive tomorrow for. short visit
to Miss Julia White. --
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Blair have re-
turned to their home on Jackson
street near Savwell. .e-.s
Mr.. and Mrs. George Blume, of Cen
trail avenue, are the parents of a
daughter, born Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kaiser have gone to
housekeeping in the second story of the
property at s14 Quincy street.
The seven months old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rigby is quite i'll
with dysentery at the family home, 124
West Curtis street.
Mrs E. B. Holcomb, of 1916 Topeka
avenue, returned yesterday from Over
brook where she has been spending
some time.
Lee Collins. who has been at Christ
for appendicitis, has so far recovered
that he will be able to return home to-
morrow
Mrs Harvey Fowler is very i'll with
appendicitis at her home in Rosedale,
Kas., and her sister, Miss Anna Henry
a graduate nurse of Stormont hospital,
has gone there to take care of her.
Willie Lands, who has been spending
his summer vacation at the home of
his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. S. c.
Lands, of Breezy Point. near Kiro.
left today for his home in Peoria, Ill.
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formally last evening for her niece,
Miss Hattie Dodds, of Independence,
Mo. Those present were: Miss Dodds,
Miss Permelia Curtis. Miss Myrtle
Lukens, Miss leila Lukens. Miss Helen
Haynes, Miss Hazel Haynes, Miss
Lolah McAfee, MesSrs. Ed James, Oran
Layton, Edwin Campbell, Carl McGrew,
Arthur Small Reamer Billiard, Bob
Thomas and Jim McAfee.
Mrs. Permelia Curtis, the venerable
grandmother of Congressman Curtis is
gradually sinking and her death may
Charles Curtis. will come up from Law
renee today, and nearly all of her
children and grandchildren are now
with her. Mrs. Curtis, who has been
feeble this summer, was taken worse
about two weeks ago when she was
found by her daughter one morning
choking in her bed. She does not seem
to suffer any pain, only she has a diff
Guilty in breathing. She seems to be
only partially conscious, and pays no
attention to anyone. Mrs. Curtis was
90 years old last May.
Extensive repairs have been made at
the Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church, and
the building both inside and out will
be in better condition than it has been
for years. The walls have been re-
papered, the woodwork vanished, while
/ the exterior of the building has been
freshly painted neat red, and new
cement steps made at the east and
west entrances. These repairs are not
a result of the flood entirely. as the
trustees had planned them before that
calamity took place. The church will
be opened for the first service a week
/ from Sunday, when Rev. DR.. Edwin
Locke, presiding elder of the Topeka
district. will be present and preach the
sermon
Thursday evening crowd of young
people met at the home of Miss Bessie
Sheetz and enjoyed a hay rack ride to
the Tom Wendell home four miles
north on the Central avenue road where
they spent the time with games and
other amusements. Late in the evening
refreshments of ice cream and cake
were served. Those in the party were
Misses Maud Kellar, Mary Kearns,
Ethel Hinzman, Winnie Hayes, Bessie
Sheetz, Zura Kellar, Jessie Kearns,
Ethel Burdge, Grace Payne, Ethel
kearns, Matte Payne. Bessie Burdge
and Grace Hinzman; Messrs- Sam Mel
llinger Harry Graves, Laurence Barnes,
Herman Wendell Sam Williams, Homer
Offfeld, Burke Kingman, Arthur
Tucker, Fred Barstrum and Mr.. HIM.
man of Lawrence
The people in the vicinity of Kiro
who left their homes during the recent