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

| Kimball Printing Company, 912 North
Kansas Avenne.l
NJ. ]. Mattern left last evening on an
extended trip to Thunder Mountain.
| c. D. Myers and family returned yes
terday TO their home at 1015 Central
avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. w. H Kellar and fam
| lily have returned to their home at 1905
Harrison street.
Temporary office of North Topeka
| Dental parlors in Central Natl bank
building, Seventh and Kansas avenue.
The building occupied by A NJ Cross
/ jeweler, is being painted and otherwise
repaired and put into first class shape.
Mrs. Jonas Lukens has returned from
Kansas City where she spent the Fourth
| the guest of her sister, Mrs. VIM. Ryan.
Mrs. Edgar Etter. who was called
here to look after her property left this
morning to join Mr.. Etter at Lincoln,
Neb.
Miss Mildred Phillips will return to-
day from Kansas City where she spent
the Fourth visiting her sister, Mrs. June
Baxter.
B. o. Purdum and family have re-
| turned to their home on Harrison
street between Grant and st. John
streets.
chinery in running order and opened up
for business at their old stand this
morning.
Mrs Lee Mills and little daughter,
Fay, are in Ell Dorado visiting Mrs.
Leonard, formerly Miss Minnie Martin
of this side.
We are selling furniture and wood
cleaner at 60c per gallon. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Booher & Hawkins, 913
Kansas avenue.
Mrs. Fred lies. Miss Nellie lies, Miss
Cora Goddard and Mrs. A. E. Woodman
| Will leave this week for ManifOI1 n
spend the summer.
Miss Mabel Bonewitz and Mr. Bert
Hunt were married Monday afternoon,
July 6. They viii make their home at
92S Van Buren, street.
Mrs. Lille Bryan. Miss Nettie Reamy
and Miss May MeNoun, formerly clerks
at the w. NJ. Costley store have taken
positions at the Topeka Cash.
Work cleaning out the mud from the
cellars on Kansas avenue is progressing
slowly and it is thought that it will be
nearly two months before the cellars
are all cleaned.
The work of repairing the building at
1000 Kansas avenue is now about COM
pieted and the painters are now busy
/ painting the shelving Mr.. Thompson,
formerly of the Blue Front grocery, ex-
poets to open up his grocery in this
building this week.
See our sewing machines and ranges.
$4,000 machines at S15.0O; $500 ma
Z
$1,000. Steel ranges al the same figures.
We are closing out our stock and have
many good bargains. H. NJ. Cline &
Son, a07 Kansas avenue.
Word has been received of the mar
riage Thursday. July 2, of Miss Edna
Beam of Bardstown, KY, to Mr.. Frank
Hutchins of Queenstown. KY. The bride
is a cousin of Mrs. S. L. Courtney and
spent year at the Courtney home.
She has many friends here who will be
interested in this news.
Mrs. c. D. Myers met with quite a
painful accident last evening. She was
coming to North Topeka and when get
ting off the car at the south end of the
bridge stepped on a brick which slip
ped under her foot twisting her right
ankle severely. She was taken to her
home in a carriage and today her ankle
is so badly swollen that she is not able
to put her foot to the floor.
Kansas avenue from the bridge to
Gordon street was thoroughly sprinkled
this morning The men from the hre
station have taken this matter in hand.
The hose is larger than one generally
used for such work and as more water Is
put in the street the dust is effectually
laid. If the city would do as well on
tie bridge matters would be greatly i'm
proved.
C. F. Kimbal1.this morning received
letter from his cousin. Gen. Sumner I.
Kimball. for so many years the super
1HJeQQenI OF the u. -. lie SdNlliS StINitC
in Washington, in which he says; 4
had read in the newspapers, more or
less. of the terrible flood which swept
down upon your city. but l find that |
had not half realized its awfulness until
read what you sent me. do not claim
to fully realize it now, for I have never
seen or experienced the like. Probably
nobody can fully realize a blow or great
sorrow which, or the like of which, he
has nsver himself experienced As much
as 1 can. I appreciate the horror of the
! catastrophe, and with all my heart L
synpathise with those who have so
overwhelmingly suffered. At the same
time I admire beyond expression the
heroism and energy of your people No
shock in their past history has ever
daunted their courage, and therefore we
have the assurance that they will sur
mount all the discoura gements and OBJ
stacles of this lamentable visitation.
In this connection a word may be sai4
in reference to q recent article written
by the secretary of the Kansas State
Horticultural society, Mr.W- H Barnes,
| in which he advises the establishment