The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
NORTH TOPEKA.


ball Printing Co., 912 N. Kansas ave-1
Mrs. J: c. Brown and Mrs. w. L..
Eofer are spending the day in Grant
Vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter .Anann have re-
turned from a. six weeks trip to Cali
fornfa.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Brockerman and son
left today for their future home at
PIainsville.
Miss Lou Skinner has taken a posi-
ton as stenographer at the Mid Con-
tinent mills.
be the guests tomorrow of Miss Myrtle
Perdue at her country home.
Mail Carrier Howard Hannah is TAX
ing vacation and Ernest Priddy,
substitute carrier. is doing his work
The Merry Matrons' club will meet
next Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Fred Clarke5 1914 Jackson
street.
Miss Clara. Graves of 225 West Cor
don street left today for sanction City
to visit her brother and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Graves.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church will meet
"wednesday at 1870 p. m. in the Sun
day school rooms.
Mrs. D. ]. Hathaway of 1117 jack
son street left Sunday for Boulder,
Colorado, where she will visit her
mother, Mrs. tIngerSolI.
Miss Marcia Williams has gone to the
Page farm northwest of town where
she will be the guest this week of
Misses Grace and Effie Page.
Mrs. ]. C. Calender arrived today
| from Wichita for a visit to Mrs. ]. K.
| Withers of I'LL Kansas avenue. From
Topeka Mrs. Calendar will go to Kan
sas City.
Mrs. C. L. Dolrnan and daughters.
| OF n rim nnIr10an
went to Silver Lake today for a weeks
visit to Mrs. Dolman's parents, Dr. and
Mrs. McGill
The ladies' society of the Kansas
Avenue M. E. church will hold an all
day meeting Wednesday, July 10, at
the home of Mrs. J. H. Allen in Hol-
mans addition.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
r. Gordon died last evening at the
home of Mrs. Gordon's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Davis, 719 Morse street
The funeral was held this afternoon
Mrs. Isaac Sheetz and little daughter
Mary Mildred, Mrs. Waiter Shook and
sons, Gilman and Ralph, and Mrs. Fred
Clarke are the guests today of Mrs.
| George Clarke at her home In Shorey
Misses Bessie Campbell and Stella
Mitchell will give a farewell reception
Friday evening at the home of Miss
CamphelIs aunt, Mrs. A. J. Arnold,
| 927 jackson street, in honor of Miss
Blanche Reynolds.
Miss Lucille Critics, who has been
visiting in Macksville, Kansas, has re-
turned home accompanied by Miss
Nora Wallace and they have gone to
Meriden where they will be the guests
of Miss Critics sister. Mrs. Dan
Becker.
Mrs. Charles Curtis and children,
Misses Permelia and Leona Curtis and
Master Harry Curtis and Miss Dollie
Curtis returned this morning from a
three weeks trip to the Pacific coast.
They visited San Francisco and the
Lewis and Clarke exposition at Port
land, Oregon.
Mr.. French, who was principal last
year of the Lyman school and also
was principal several years ago of the
Rochester school, has been offered and
accepted the position of superintend-
ent of the Onaga city schools. Onaga
has d good high school and up to date
grammar schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Q. Maze of 52J
LFairchild street gave a watermelon
social last evening at their home. Their
guests were: Mr.. and Mrs. A. Shock
ley Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Maze, Mr.. and
! Mrs. John W. Holiday and family and
Mr.. ziegler of Portland. Oregon.
Fred Goodman of Birmingham, N.
Y, is visiting his uncle, W. NJ. Van
Ness. of 1903 Kansas avenue and his
aunt, Mrs. F. P. Elmore, of Potwin
Mr.. Goodman formerly lived in North
Topeka and was q member of Mar
shalls band. He is the inventor OF
the self playing piano.
Glen Bryan left last evening for Nc
Farland where he has the position OF
commissary clerk for the men who are
putting stone ballast on the Rock Is.
land tracks. From Mcfarland the gang
will work southwest. Mr.. Bryan ex.
= poets to be away all summer. Mr.
Bryan has had the position of Superin
, | IoI1
macadam road. near the Rochester Gem
} etery. His uncle Mr.. Clay Morrow, will
succeed him at this position which viii
) last about a week or ten days longer
Miss Geneva Holman will entertain
: informally this evening at her home il
Holman's addition in honor of Mis-
Blanche Reynolds who leaves Sunda.
for Fort Harrison, Mont, for a visi
of months to her uncle, Colonel Pen
: nington Borden, commander of tn
fort, and Mrs. Borden. Miss Holman
: guests will be Miss Reynolds, Mis-
/, Bessie Campbell, Miss Minna McGrew
Miss Myrtle McGrew, Miss Stelli
| Mitchell, Miss Elizabeth Anderson
= Miss Kate Hall, Misses Nellie an
Alice Skinner, Messrs. Norman Whit
< ney. Sidney Smith, Merton French
S Ralph Coon. Homer Haynes, Cliffor
s Nystrom, Halle Reed and Calvin Hol
e man.
This morning about three o'clock fir
I was discovered in the loft of the Morn
s & Myers barn on Laurent street i'm
Q mediately east of their grocery store
9 In the barn at the time were the firm
. horses, IL in number, and the harnes:
q all of which were saved. The fire wa
e first discovered by Mr.. Bechtel who's
: home is just south of the barn, acros
the street. He aroused the neighbor
: and the stable man, Mr.. George Ware
1 and Mr.. Charles Myers rescued all c
l the horses. One horse however wa
4 badly scalded about the neck and shoul
: ders by the water which was throw
= upon the fire which seemed to be most
ly confined to the loft which was file
: with baled hay. The origin of the fir
= is unknown. Shortly before the alarl
was turned in Officer Summers. was
. that neighborhood and everything wa
all right. The loss is covered by insul
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