The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
NORTH TOPEKA.


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Independent phone 1851
Mr.. Mark Putnam was in Kansas
City for the day.
Mrs. Isaac Sheetz went to C;cago
Sunday for a weeks visit to relatives.
John Howerter, of Rossville, candi-
date for representative, was in town
today.
Earl Bacon, who has been away WIS.,
iting friends, has returned to his home
in Shorey.
A. w. Long, superintendent of the
Curator mills, spent Sunday with his
family at Manhattan.
The receipts of wheat at the North
Topeka mills and elevators have been
very heavy the past two days.
The Business Mems league will hold
meeting at the fire station this even
ing to discuss the waterworks ques-
ton.
The regular monthly business meet
ing of the Epworth League will be held
this evening at the Kansas Avenue NJ.
Z. church.
Miss Ethel Morris returned to her
home in Horton today after a weeks
visit to Mrs. w. L. Hofer of 1925 Kan
SaS avenue.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E.
Jordan will be sorry to learn that Mr..
Jordan is still confined to his bed at
Excelsior Springs and is threatened
with typhoid fever.
Twelve cars of cattle came in yester-
day and seven cars last night on the
Union Pacific from the Kansas and
Colorado lines. They went froNA here
to St Joseph stock yards via the Sam
ia Fe.
The team of Shawnee Council No.
F. A. A, will give a Halloween dance
in Barretts hall Wednesday evening,
Nov 2. Admission % cents Per couple;
extra ladies 10c. There will also be a
"a q q n .
cake.
Mrs Charles Killian, of 1859 Kansas
avenue, was the hostess last Thursday
for the Merry Matrons who spent a
Those present were Mrs. Raymond Diff
fenderfer, Mrs. c. c. Berry, Mrs. Edgar
Winans, Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs. Fred
Clark, Mrs. Will Swartz, 31rs. Joe
meeting will be at the home of
Mrs. Will Swartz. 1913 Jefferson street
south.
At the ]. F. McAfee horne. 1905 Quin-
cy street, the following guests spent an
enjoyable time last evening: Mr.. and
Mrs. Shattuck, Mr.. and Mrs. Clay
Bowen, Mr.. and Mrs John Hofer, Mr..
and Mrs. N. F. Conlxle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kirkpatrick. Mr.. and Mrs. viii
Hofer, Mr.. and Mrs. James AfcAfee,
Mr.. and Mrs. John McAfee, Mr.. ard
Mrs. H. Nichols, Miss lisa Dodds, Miss
Myrtle Hofer. Miss Ellen shattuek'
Afee Mr.. James McAfee. Jr., and Mas
ter William Shattuck.
Miss Blanche Jones of 1910 Van
Buren, street, gave a Halloween party
last evening which was a very pleas
ant affair. The house was lighted with
pumpkin lanterns and the usual Hal
loween games played. Those invited
were Misses Meta Curry, Lulu Kluss-
man, lone Buchanan. &.thel Grant, An
nice White, Vera Bridge, Margaret Bur
ley, Mabel Fink, Messrs. Bert Conkling,
Ernest Priddy. Ed Collins, George
Saunders. Earl Boyce, Ray Miller, Rob-
ert Cutbirth, Harry Mckinley, and
Fred Young.
Two small boys of Shorey, Demmon
Ward and Guile Wray enjoyed halo
ween in a new fashioned way last ev-
ening. They have a young friend, a
crippled boy, who is the sole support
of his grandmother, and it was on him
that they decided to play their modern
halloween joke. The little boys started
out to have a donation party on their
friend and as soon as their intentions
were, discovered all their neighbors in
Shorey wished to help. BY the time
the boys had completed their rounds
they had two small wagons filled with
vegetables, fruits, wood and other use