The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-06
PUT DRONES TO WORK.

merged. One almost new house has
been completely tipped over. 1t looks
to be one of tne best constructed build
ings in that locality. A large number
were at work Friday washing OUT
clothes from their houses and hanging
them on the fences TO dry. Little Russia
people are industrious. and viii recover
some of the more wealthy residence
portions
CITY WITHOUT HORSES
on Friday North Topeka was town
without horses The pontoOn bridge
had not been rendered sufficiently sub
stantial to take over horses and none
were TO be seen on Kansas avenue. 1t
looked like sort of street fair
Merchants and laborers We're at work
in their stores, bringing out the mud
soaked goods and placing them on
tables in the middle of the street One
old battered up road wagon, picked our
of the debris, was being used by the
prOorietors of the New Era to haul
goods not damaged by water to the pom
toon bridge, whence they were carried
across the river by men. The wagon
was hauled by men. and made it pos
sibie for the New Era to transport Il
large portion of its stock.
There are likely TO be the biggest
series of bargain sales in North Topeka
next week that the town ever saw. A
great many merchants are getting their
stores sufficiently cleaned out 50 that
tEey are marking down damaged goods
and getting things ready to sell off their
damaged stocks at low prices as soon
as people are allowed to come to North
T0nelza.
one shoe dealer said yesterday: ii
expect within TWO or three DAYS to have
my stock in shape to begin selling it off.
We viii have a bargain sale worth at
tending when we do start in.
Some of the largest damaged stocks
have been sold off in lump lots to job
and put on the market Many of the
goods viii be taken away from Topeka
to be sold. There are buyers here from
other towns who are making offers To
the North side merchants for all their
damaged goods. Some of the North
siders are refusing to sell any portion
of their goods for the present. in thN
hope of closing wholesale deal with
some of these jobbers.
J. S. WARNER S SUGG GESTION.
j. s. Warner. who owns third in
terest IN the Sturgis hardware company.
makes this suggestion.
If I owned a stock of clothing or dry
goods, l would put an advertisement in
the papers and offer to give to any
woman who would come and identify
herself satisfactorily. bolt of cloth or
a quantity of other kind Of merchandise.
/ would agree to give her, free of charge,
a certain percentage of all of the cloth
which she would clean and press. If she
would clean bolt of cloth, and get il
IN shape TO De SataDle, would give nef
. per cent of the cloth on the bolt
Another Topeka man makes the sug-
gestion that al the damaged goods be
sold at nominal price to the relief CONF
rnittee. and the refugees be set TO work
ciea ming it up. after which IL could be
used either to make clothing for the
refugees, or sold. This 81 a good sug-
gestion, because the relief committee is
now buying thousands Of yards of new
cloth for the express purpose of having
it made up into garments.
GIVING AWAY CIGARS
Some of the dealers in cigars handed
out free boxes of smoking to their
/ friends yesterday. The boxes of cigars
were wet and plastered with mud. but
I some think that by careful treatment,
+ they can be dried out and saved.
I Tt is q question whether anyone would
want to smoke a cigar which has laid
j in the mud and water accommodating
malaria germs. How would it do to boil
the cigars before using2