The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-21
NORTH TOPEKA.

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J. w Ream, of Silver Lake, was in
town today.
was the guest yesterday of Mrs. j. F.
Herring.
Schuyler c. sykes left this morning
for Yankton, S. D., to visit his grand
parents.
Miss Minnie Kuehne has returned
from a six weeks visit to relatives IN
Chicago and Michigan.
The city is filling up Tyler street
where the water was let through on
Polk street at the Rock Island track.
When a dealer sells ]. r. S. sc
cigar, he makes a friend for his store
and friends are money in the cigar bus
mess.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wilson, of
Houston, Tex, are the guests of their
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Wilson, of
$50 Quincy street.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Fuller, of st.
Joseph, who have been visiting in To-
peka for a short time. returned yes
terday to their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Howard and
the Misses Skinner are camping at. Ma
pie HILL Miss Nellie Howard will
spend Sunday with them .-rfcS
The regular midweek prayer serv-
ice of the Presbyterian church will be
held this evening at the home of Mrs.
A. j. Arnold. z927 jackson street
A force of men twefe at work this
morning pumping the water from the
excavation corner of jackson and
Gordon streets, the site of the new
Presbyterian church.
Rev and Mrs. George Brown. of
Carbondale.- left yesterday after a
short visit to Mr.oand Mrs y, K.
be the guests of relatives.
Jerry Springstead attended the re-
ception and garden party given last
evening by Chief Justice and Mrs. w.
A. Johnston in honor of their daugh-
ter. Miss Margaret Johnston.
A party of young girls chaperoned
by Mrs. T. B. Reynolds left this morn
ing for Calhoun bluffs, where they
will camp until saturday Among
those in the crowd were Misses Stella
Campbell, Polite and Rebekah Camp
bell of Boulder, Colo, and Bessie
Anderson.
The Union Pacific have begun their
preliminary work on their double track
to Kansas City by the building of
switch to the 20 acres east of the juno
ton, which will be used by them as
storage grounds for their material. A
number of the Union Pacific officials
were in town yesterday. They are
making a trip over the road.
Smith Nichols, who came in yester-
day from Silver Lake with the inten-
ton of taking his little grandson,
Charles Parsons, VINO has been at
Christ hospital for several weeks suf-
fering from a gunshot wound, home
with him. was obliged to return with
out the boy as it was thought better
for him to remain another week at
the hospital.
1t was reported yesterday that Mrs.
George Clark, an aged colored woman
who lives near the blacksmith school
house. ten miles from town; had died
which seems to have been mistake.
Mrs. Clark is nearly 90 years old and |
her death is expected any time: put
yesterday it seems she had suffered
from a severe sinking spell. Rev. Mr..
Smith of the Asbury church returned
this morning from visit to her and
reports that while she is extremely fee |
BILE she may live week longer
The committee composed of ]. B. Bill
lard. Charles Curtis, Jonathan Thomas, |
Thomas Page and Edgar Arnold, who i
are to see to the dyking of Soldier
creek, accompanied by the city eng1- |
Yesterday along the creek where the |
dykes would be built. They went as
far west as the bluffs where the creek
first broke through. The city engineer
plans and specifications of the
work and Chairman Billiard says the
iykes will certainly be built.
The second son of Rev. A. Frank
Iouser caused his father and friends
some uneasiness yesterday by what
vas supposed to have been his disap-
oearance from home. The boy left the
house at very early hour in the morn
ng to go and work at one of the
1l1rseries and later in the day when
he was missed. telephone messages
we're sent to the nurseries but as the
10Y was a stranger it was reported
hat he was not there. His father put
n rather an anxious day looking for
lim but in the evening the boy re-
urned none the worse for his days
work.