The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
NORTH TOPEKA.

Leave items for this column with Kim
ball Printing Co. 80 n. Kansas ave.1
Mr.. Merton Forbes was in town to-
/ day from Silver Lake.
F. Berney of Silver Lake. was a North
side visitor this morning.
Mrs. E. D. Small returned Saturday
from short visit to AtchisOn.
Amity lodge 231, K. of P, conferred
the second rank on a candidate last
evening
Rev. James ". Reed of the Kansas
Avenue NJ. e. church went to Tecumseh
this morning to officiate at the funeral
of Nesbitt ElTnOre.
Mr.. Whitelaw of the meat department
of the J. K. Withers' grocery, who has
been confined to his home for the past
week by illness, is able now to be back
at work.
Mrs. W. S. George and son, Mr.. Har-
vey George, of Kilmer returned last
week from a visit Of several weeks to
Mrs Georges old home at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio
Mr.. 0. d. Wilkerson is still very seri-
ously i'll at the home his father, ex-
Sheriff Wilkerson, 1910 Kansas avenue.
Mr.. Wilkerson's venerable father is also
i'll and is lying at the point of death
at his home near Meriden. Mr. Wilker-
son is at his bedside.
Mrs. George Allen, Miss Gertrude Al
/ len, Mr. and Mrs John D. Pratt and
/ little daughter Gladys, went to Tecum-
sch this morning to attend the funeral
of Nesbitt Elmore who died Saturday
night at Ft. Collins, Col, from the ef-
fects of injuries received while work
ing there. Mr.. Elmore was a nephew
of Mrs. George Allen.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Taylor wife of John
Taylor superintendent of the county
farm. died last night at 8 o'clock at the
farm Of dropsy from which she had
n sniff for time She 6
As years old and is survived by her
husband and two children, a married
son who lives in Oklahoma, and a
daughter, Miss Grace Taylor Short fu-
neral services win be held tomorrow
morning at 9 O'Clock from the home
north of town and the remains will be
taken to Rossville on the IL o'clock
train. The burial viii be in Rossville
cemetery.
And the cat came back. It certainly
pays to advertise, that is, if you wish
to make known what you have lost so
that it can be returned to you over
a week ago Miss Adele Small lost her
cat, one she had brought with her from
Delavan park which was a great pet.
The loss was published in the State
Journal and widely read, that is, if you
can Judge from the number Of boys
with cats who appeared at the Small
home anxious to leave their burdens
and receive the reward offered. Not one
cat answered the description Of the lost
feline and all were declined. Last night a
stray cat wandered to the Cross home
on jackson street which seemed to an
swer in every particular to the one ad-
vertised. The Cross boys were hur-
ried to the Small home with the bundle
of fur. purr and scratch, and as the
cat provd to the lost pet the boys left
him and went away with the reward.
The west approach to the Sardou
| avenue bridge is to be put into fine
shape; in. fact, the work has already
commenced. The expenses viii be
borne by the Soldier township trustees
and number of the North side citi-
zens For this work $3.50 has already
been secured, 500 by the trustees and
$3.50 by the citizens, which sum was
| placed in the bank Saturday for this
purpose. 1t is said that the trustees
/ will contribute an equal amount with
the citizens. This approach when com
/ pleted viii be an excellent road and
much superior to the old approach
/ Tt is the intention of the trustees tc
put in a IS foot wide sand fill run
ming as FAR west as the Jones barn
/ On the top of this the county com
missfoners viii put all the macadam
which was not needed in the tubular
piers Of the bridge. Along the south