The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
NORTH TOPEKA.

ILeave items for this column with Kim;
| ball Printing Co, 912 North Kansas ave.1
H. NJ Fox was in town today from
! Granville.
| MI and Mrs. Ira Williamson and
| son John. are visiting relatives at Sill
| yer Lake.
Mr.. George ellsworth and family
moved today to the Schaeffer place at
! 316 West Gordon street.
Mrs. Eric Nystrom has returned
from Carbonate where she has been
since the recent high water.
We are closing out our stock of wall
paper, pictures and mouldings at whole
sale prices. Hawkins, 913 Kansas ave.
| The committee appointed to arrange
for the dykes around North Topeka
went out this morning to look over the
land.
Mrs. S. S. Myers went to Hoyt today
! to be with her SiSter-in-1aw, Mrs. Nick
| Ehrhart, who is seriously ill with in
| f1ammation of the bowels.
Harry Fowler was in today from
Silver Lake. Mr.. Fowler reports that
the recent high water damaged him
more than did the flood of last year.
Mrs George Clark, colored, died
yesterday at her home nine miles
north of town. The funeral will be
held tomorrow from Asbury church.
Rev. and Mrs. T. j. Pearson went to
Herington Tuesday for a visit of sew
eraI days to their daughter, Miss
Emily Pearson, and their son and
family.
Mrs Hugh Rodney and Miss Rose
Campbell of Kansas City are the
guests of their relatives, Mr. and Mrs.
George ellsworth of 316 West Gordon
street
Miss Annie Nystrom of 1919 Jack
son street came home today from
short visit to her brother and sister
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nystrom of Kar-
sas City.
The pianos which were taken away
from the North side two weeks ago for
safety are being brought back slowly.
Every day finds more pianos on this
side.
The funeral of w. S. Morgan, who
died suddenly from heart failure Mon
day evening was held this morning
and the remains shipped to the home of
his father at WaKeeney, Kansas
There is a case of smallpox at the
corner of Kansas avenue and Norris
street in one of the rooms over the
Citizens bank, the patient being
man who makes his home there
w. T. Scheaffer has closed out his
little grocery at 316 West Gordon
street and the building will be moved
away from those lots. Mr.. Schaeffer
has gone into the grocery business
again on the south side and is located
on Seventeenth and Clay streets,
where his family moved yesterday.
Mr. Smith Nichols came in today
from Silver Lake to take his little
grandson, Charles Parsons, who has
been at Christ hospital, home with him.
The Parsons boy is the little fellow
who was accidentally shot before the
Fourth by a playmate and he has
been at the hospital ever since.
Since the river has fallen and made
it possible work on repairing the sewers
will be resumed. At some places the
sewers have caved in to such an extent
that the streets have to be closed to
travel. Such a condition exists on Jack |
son street and Park street where there
is such a large hole that these streets
at this point have been closed for sew
eral days.
Since the high water of two weeks
ago the Misses Hohnbaum and their
brothers and sisters. the Firner young |
people, have been making their home |
at 1921 Van Buren, street, south, but |
they expect to return shortly to their
old home at 1923 Central avenue. At
the time of the overflow of the creek |
this place had several feet of water
in it.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. MARBLE of Snorey |
entertained the Juniors who took part |
in the programme given Sunday even |
ing at the Baptist church yesterday |
afternoon and evening. That these |