The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-03
NORTH TOPEKA.

leave items for this column with the
Kimball Printing Company. 912 North
Kansas Avenue.l
The grocery stores will close at noon
tomorrow
The rain today. caused the street force
to quit work.
r. p Stone has opened up his gro
Gerry at 915 Kansas avenue.
D. c. Hewitt and family have re-
turned to their home on Harrison
straet.
J. K Withers and family will return
tomorrow to their home at I'LL Kansas 4
avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nystrom and fam
lily are again at their home, 1913 Jack
son street.
W. d. Lacey left today for Peoria. Ill.
where he will join Mrs Lacey and make
their home.
Temporary office of North Topeka
building, Seventh and Kansas avenue
Mrs Fred lies and daughter, Miss
Nellie lies, will leave Tuesday for Man.
itou, where they will spend the sum-
mer-
A. NJ. Petro has returned to his home
at 1914 Van Buren, street. Mrs. Pe.ro
and son Kelsey are visiting relatives in
Cawker City
Frank Berry and family will occupy
the Albright house on Topeka avenue
until their cottage on Harrison street
can be repaired.
Mrs Mahan will move from 127 West
Gordon street to ITO West Gordon the
house formerly occupied by Dr. A. A
Raub as soon as this place. can be re-
paired.
Mr.. Yount and family, who since the
J flood have been living in the Jones house
on Van Buren, street, win leave Tuesday
1 for Jewell county where Mr.. Yount will
work in the mines.
/ The mud is now about out of the
/ basement of the Bernstein building at
S34 Kansas avenue and work VIII soon
/ be commenced in putting in a new floor
and making other repairs.
/ Mr.. D. w. Blair, who came here to
attend the marriage of his daughter.
Miss Kate Blair and Mr.. John Morse.
which was solemnized Tuesday evening,
returned today to his home in Chicago.
Henry Smith, age 49, died Wednesday
night of old age at his home on West
| Norris street. The funeral was held
this afternoon and the burial was in the
Topeka cemetery. The deceased was an
old soldier.
The hole on Laurent street near
Quincy is gradually being filed up
and now only a small part of the for
mer pond remains. The water that
now stands there, however, is black and
very foul smelling.
The frame cottage, corner of Van
Buren, and Gordon streets, owned by J.
S. Morse, which was swept six feet 20
the east during the flood, will be moved
TO the rear of the lot and win front on
Van Buren, street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hoyes and w
H. Rutter will go to Spring Hill, Kas..
/ tomorrow. Mr. HoyeS and Mr.. Rutuet
will only be gone few days, but Mrs
Hoyes will be the guest for some time
of her mother. Mrs. Smith.
Miss Dora Stoker, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George c. Stoker who was
graduated from Wellesley college, Welles-
lev. Mass. last June. has been elected
one of the teachers in the Topeka high
school.
Mrs. Smith. who is en- route to her
home in Spring Hill, Kas., after a trip
| to California, has been the guest for
I a short time of her daughter, Mrs. W.
H. Rutter She left yesterday for her
4 home, accompanied by Mrs. Rutter who
will make an extended stay in Spring
Hill
Mrs. Nora V. Nading of Flat Rock
Indiana, but who has recently been in
India doing missionary work and pub
fishing paper in the interests of this
work, is in town to look after her pro-
perty, corner of Kious and Monroe
streets, and have the necessary repairs
made.
The repairs on the building formerly
occupied by B. A. Barrett's drug store
finished c. w. Thompson will open up
his grocery store on that corner. For
the present Mr.. Thompson has his stock
and the stock from the Barrett drug
store at 1910 Kansas avenue
Kansas avenue in the evening is
about deserted, and deadly lonesome
ness prevails. Now and then person
can be seen on the avenue. but gen.
orally except for the trips of the street
car and the men from the fire depart
ment exercising their horses quietness
settles over the avenue in the evening,
and there is no sign of life
The yards at the w. NJ. G. Lane
place, at 1921 Quincy and the H. C.
Bowen home, at 1919 Quincy. have been
graded and filled in. These lots wer-
originally higher than the street, but
the dirt taken from the houses and
cellars was put in the yards, filling
them in at the back 20 inches and i'll
front II inches. There was not enough
mud in the houses to fill in as the
owners desired, so they were Obliged to
take some from the sidewalks.
There is q great demand for houses
on this side. the demand exceeds the
supply. One of the real estate agents
gave two reasons for this great cry for
houses. one is that many of the North
siders only rented on the other side for
one month and their time is now up,
and the other is, that many houses
were so badly damaged that the owners
have not attempted to repair them; in
some cases the houses were swept en-