The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-23
NORTHTOPEKA.

leave items for this column with Kim
ball Printing Co.. 912 North Kansas ave.
+ High school song books at Knoll's.
Fine Staver carriages. Pratt Bros.
day.
c. A. Jones was in today from Grant
vile.
The cider mill on Central avenue is
| ready for business.
! Roller skating at LukenS' opera
| house Saturday night.
J. N. Henry is in Arkansas looking
after business interests.
Wanted-Apprentice girls. Mrs. c. o.
! Burgen's millinery parlors, 91T North
Kansas avenue.
| Manager McAfee of the Western
Wooden mill has gone to Nebraska on
a snort business trip.
Mr.. William Lunger of Mayetta was
visiting his son, V. r. Lunger, Wednes-
| day and Thursday and also took in the
circus.
Samuel Wilcox, formerly engineer at
the Inter Ocean mills, is assisting in
placing the boilers and machinery at
the new Curator mills.
| Mrs. c. A. Lewis of Shorey returned
yesterday from North Stockholm, New
York, where she has been visiting rela-
tives for the past three months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Knowles and
son, returned last evening to their
home at Valley Falls after a short
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. G. Brockerman
| of Monroe street.
The patrons of the North Topeka car
line today had the pleasure of again
walking the Melan bridge as the cars
were not running over the car bridge
as the wires had to be repaired.
The Western Wooden mill has con-
tracted with the railroad company to
at once put them in a switch to enable
them to unload car loads of wool and
coal direct to their plant.
Mrs. Florence McMillin, formerly of
North Topeka, but now of SeabroOk,
leaves next week for Chanute to visit
her sister and from there she will go to
Moline and Arkansas City to spend the
winter.
Rev. and Mrs. A. F. Houser returned
today from their wedding trip, several
weeks of which was spent in Chicago
where Rev. Mr.. Houser conducted re-
vival services in one of the Swedish
Baptist churches.
r. b. McMaster & Son sold out their
stock of shoes this morning to the New
York Mercantile company. Mr.. McMas-
ter and family expect to leave about
the first of the month for Pomona,
Cal, where they will make their home.
The Morse Contracting company has
nearly finished the masonry work on
the Quincy street school building and is
shipping material, tools and supplies to
Emporia in order to rush and finish the
work on the new Carnegie library
building at that point.
George Collins, the U. P. yard master,
always has his eagle eye on the new
material yards east of the junction and
as fast as one lot of cars are emptied
he has another lot of loads to deliver.
Mr.. Collins says his road is the solid
road and that President Hartman does
lots of business and makes very little
fuss about it,
If the Street Car company would join
the county commissioners in rebuilding |
the Sardou avenue bridge and lay their |
tracks on East Gordon and Sardou av- |
enue it would give Oakland and North !
Topeka better street car service and
be very nice for summer evening ex
cursions.
At recent barbecue and reunion of
old settlers at Alamosa, Colorado. the |
fact developed that John Gerteisen. |
whose people reside in North Topeka, |
was the oldest settler and one of the !
pioneers of the San Luis valley. Mr.. /
Gerteisen served in the civil war four |
years as first lieutenant and quarter /
master of an Ohio regiment. He was
honorably discharged in 1865 and took |
Horace Greeleys advice and went west |
to grow up with the country. The |
Kansas Pacific was building westward |
and St. Marys, Kan, was the termi- |
nus At that point he took Barlow /
Sanderson & Co.'S overland stage ard !
abeth Town, New Mexico In 1872 he ]
moved across the Rio Grande river to |
Del Norte, Col, and in 1873 after visit
ing his mother in North Topeka he |
built the first store building in Ala
mosa. Col, which point the Denver & /
Rio Grande railroad reached shortly /
afterwards.