The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-24
NORTH TOPEKA.

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r. p. Smith of Granville was in
town today
J. w. Paine, editor of the Meriden
Ledger, was in town today.
J. A. Sheetz and Harry Nichols
spent Sunday in Leavenworth.
Mrs. Florence Raub and son Paul
are visiting friends in the country.
Miss Mabel FOUGHT went to Kansas
City yesterday for visit of two days
to friends.
Mrs. Harry Nichols is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. McAfee, in
Kansas City.
Ralph Cross returned Saturday from
! Waldo, Kan, where he has been visit
| ing relatives for the past month.
| J. o, Wolf has returned from a trip
| to Alva, Ok. Mr.. Boyce and son will
not return before the last of the week.
| Miss Pearl Antrim spent Sunday at
| Elmont attending the camp meeting
which has been held there by Rev Mr..
| Guyer of the Elmont M. E. church.
| These meetings will close this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George ellsworth and
| family will move this week to Kansas
City, where they will make their home.
| Mr.. ellsworth. who has been there for
| the past week, spent Sunday here with
| his family.
Miss Grace Page is in town today
| from her country home northwest of
| this evening accompanied by Miss Nell
lie Dolman, who will be her guest the
| rest of the week.
w. E. Scotch of Menoken township,
| who over a month ago fell and sprain-
| ed one wrist and also broke both of
| them, was able yesterday to take off
| the plaster casts in which they have
| been since that time.
The members of the Baptist church
will give a reception Tuesday evening
~, IF GOva nd 0TrG
| Charles Curtis, sos Van Buren, street, in
| honor of their new pastor, Rev. and
| Mrs Walter E. Tanner.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. S. Evans of 1928
| Jackson street, have received word that
| their daughter, Miss Minta Evans of
| New York city, had met with an acci-
dent in which both of her wrists were
| broken. No particulars were given.
Miss Evans is engaged in mission work
in New York, working among the fresh
| air children.
Misses Edna and Harriet Staples,
| who went to Denver to attend the Ma
/ tional Epworth League convention and
since then have been visiting friends
Wednesday. Miss Viola Troutman,
who also attended the convention, is
at present camping at Green Mountain
Falls with Rev. and Mrs. ]. A. Stave-
~ and family of Junction City.
A party who went to Silver Lake
this morning to spend the week camp
ing near the lake was composed OF
Misses Minna and Myrtle McGrew,
Geneve Holman, Eva Roter, Messrs.
Sidney Smith, Merton French. Law
| renee Guild, Ralph Coon. Miss Ida
Henry chaperoned the crowd. At Sill
yer Lake they were Joined by Miss Fay
Martin, who will make one of the
| party.
, Lewis Frost, whose home is at Second
, | and Monroe street, had three fingers OF
his right hand crushed late yesterday
afternoon while making a coupling or
a Rock Island freight train on Curtis
street near the Taylor elevator. Young
Frost was not the regular brakeman
but intended to help him out with his
work from here to Kansas City. The
, injured man was taken to DR.. Keith's
hospital in Converts ambulance anc
: the injured hand dressed. at was nee
essary to amputate the three fingers
This morning he was resting easily.
/ A. c. Wallace, a well known residen
of North Topeka, died very suddenly
1 | this morning at his home, S33 Wan
/ Buren, street, of asthma and heart trou
/ BILE Mr.. Wallace had been suffere
4 | from asthma for some time but thi
: morning seemed to be in his usua
r health While eating his breakfast h
l. was taken with srnothering spell. H
l | was Immediately helped to his bed ant
{ a physician summoned but before tn
s arrival of DR.. Mitchell he died. MI
. Wallace was plasterer by trade. H
: was member of Star lodge NO. ~ A
D o. u W., and camp 1913 NJ. W. A
He leaves a widow and several chill
f dren The arrangements for the fun
: eral will be announced later.
e The w. C. Steele shoe store at 50
e Kansas avenue was entered about 1
f o'clock last evening and between IS
:. and SIS worth of shoes taken. En-
/; trance was effected through the cellar
r a rear window being pried open ant
e the fastenings of the cellar door which
s opened into back room broken
: When Officer Summers made hi
rounds shortly before 10 he tried tn
e rear door but everything then seeme'
y unmolested. But it is thought that a
that time the men were in the cellar
r It was shortly after this that some on
r on the street noticed men in the stor
:. and raped for the police, but befor
: their arrival the thieves made thei
: escape. taking with them their booty