The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
NORTH TOPEKA.


bali Printing Co., 912 North Kansas ave.l
! ]. w. Reedy and family spent Sunday
| in Kansas City.
Frank Shields has returned to his
| home in Lindsborg, after a visit to To-
! peka relatives.
Mrs. George w. Crouch has gone to
Kansas City to spend two weeks visit
ing her parents.
Star lodge No. $751; A. o. U. W.,
will install their officers at their meet
ing this evening
The Sunday school board of the
Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church will
meet this evening.
]. H. FOUGHT has returned from a
visit to the ST. Louis fair and rela-
tives at Vandalia, Ill.
Miss Ethel Lewis, of zoos Jackson
street, expects to leave today for
Oklahoma to visit her sister.
We are closing out our stock of wall
paper, pictures and mouldings at whole
sale prices. Hawkins, 913 Kansas ave.
| Mr.. Ray Miller of Park street, would
| like to have it distinctly understood
| that he is not the Ray Miller mention
| ed in the State Journal of last Satur-
day.
t Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Morse. of PA
West Gordon street. are the parents
of a son. born Saturday afternoon, to
whom. they have given the name of
David Blair.
Shawnee council No. 3. K and L.
of s., will give a box social Tuesday
evening at their hall, 822 Kansas ave-
nue.. Each lady will bring a box.
| Everything free.
Mrs. NJ. H. PIumley, who has been
visiting her father, Mr.. c. D. Shields.
! left Saturday for her home in Den
yer, accompanied by her little niece,
Miss Dora Holmberg.
John d. Morse. of the Morse Con-
tracing company, who is busy at
Emporia on the Carnegie library
building, spent Sunday here visiting
his wife and young son.
The boys at station "A" spend all of
their spare time trying to unlock their
safe, which after the late freshet they
locked so securely that they have not
yet been able to unlock it.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Eldridge of Los
Angeles, Cal, who have been visiting
Topeka friends, left today for the ST.
Louis fair. Later they will visit
friends in their old home in Illinois.
The union services last evening on
well attended. The services next Sun
day evening will be at the same place.
Rev. Frank A. Houser, of the Baptist
church, preaching the sermon.
Mr.. c.. o. Burger and little son
Gilbert returned this morning from a
visit of several days to relatives at
Wichita and Oklahoma City. Little
Miss Helen Burger remained at
Oklahoma City, where she will be
with her grandmothers, Mrs. Phillips
and Mrs. s. N. Burger.
The drilIers of the Shorey oil we'll
are very. much encouraged over the
prospects. They have now reached a
depth of between thirteen and four
through oil sands. 1t is expected
that something will develop in a short
time.
Peter Stevenson, the young colored
afternoon while attempting to ride on
freight train, died Saturday evening
at Christ hospital. The funeral was
held this afternoon at o'clock from
the b street Baptist church, and the
burial was in Rochester cemetery.
DR.. MaGill of Silver Lake is doing
North Topeka today the guest of his
daughter, Mrs. c. L. Dolman of 122
West Gordon street. The doctor is cell
ebrating three anniversaries, his TWEEN
ty-fifth year in Kansas, his f1ftieth in
practice of medicine and his seventy
first year of age, and with it all he is
as lively as a cricket.
The toads under the street lamps last
night were thicker than the frogs in
Egypt in the days of Moses. There
We're hundreds if not thousands of
them enjoying royal banquet on the
bewildered victims of the electric
out and wondered whence came the
ugly but useful little creatures.
Mrs. Harry Stafford and sons. Cliff
ford and Turin, of Lincoln. Neb.,
who have been the guests of Mrs.
Saford's father and sister, T. ]. and
Miss Anna Roosa, of Central avenue,
for several days, returned today to
Louisville, KaS., where they will con-
tinue their visit to Mrs. Safford's other
sister, Mrs. Shaw.
Sneak thieves were visiting the nine
hundred block on Harrison street Sat
urday night. From the LindamOod
house.at s13 they secured some butter
and milk; at the Marcott place, milk
alone was taken. Keeping steadily
north they came to the Herbert Green
home where fine fat hen and some
cantaIoups were found. They seemed
not pressed for time, so sat upon the
back porch and ate the latter, which