The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

housekeeping at AIT Park street where
they will be at home to their friends
after September Is. Mr.. Collins is yard
master at the Union Pacific railway.
Miss Katharine Holiday. who has
been staying at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. c. Neiswender, 1890 Jackson
street, while she has been under the
care of Topeka physician receiving
treatment for an abSceSs on her head,
has recovered and returned to her home
in Augusta, Kan.
Teams are. busy carting away the
rubbish under the bridge and it begins
to look as if the congestion that has
prevailed for months on North Kansas
avenue near the river will soon be re-
moved. We ought to have a celebration
then.
Theodore, the nine months old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Elkins, died yes
terday afternoon of cholera infantum at
the home of Mrs. Elkins' parents. Mr..
and Mrs. M. ]. S1aybaugh, 1911 Topeka
avenue. The funeral viii be Sunday af-
ternoon from the Slaybaugh home and
the burial will be in Rochester ceme-
terry.
The work of paving the new bridge
approach was finished this morning.
The concrete on each side between the
sidewalks and the paving covering the
water and gas mains was also finished
this forenoon. Workmen are now
filling the space between the tracks
with asphaltum, which will make the
whole waterproof. The paving will
then be covered with sand to fill any
remaining interstices.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Northern Shawnee Development
company is to be held at Lukens'
opera house Saturday night, when
perhaps the salvage, amounting to
something like $780, may be divided.
The money contributed for the Shorey
coal, oil. or gas hole was not generally
lott ft7f
f, experiment. Anyone who gets any
| thing back of the unexpended contri-
/ buttons may consider himself in luck
to just that extent.
Nothing is doing on the Sardou ave-
nue. bridge WHY is it? Some time
ago the roadway leading to the part
of the bridge left by the flood, which
was washed away, was filled in again,
some of the wreckage was removed,
and at one time a Scow containing an
engine was moored at one of the
standing piers, as if it meant business,
and the report was that the contract
for restoring the bridge was to be at
once carried out. Since then nothing
has been done. Now what is the mat
ter? North Topeka and Oakland are
vitality interested in this matter.
Messrs. Commissioners, can you give
US any light? Is there any interest at
work against this improvement?
Several new residences, perhaps a
| dozen, nave been built on the south
| side of Sardou avenue since the
flood, and one on the north side is just
finished. The next street north, which
goes by the name of East Gordon
street, has been well built up on both
sides and two new houses are now
building. These streets are known as
Little Russia, or Garden Place addi-
ton, and are two blocks or more long,
running east from the Santa Fe tracks
The houses are all neatly painted and
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vegeta BILE gardens in the rear, some Of
them growing the large Russian sun
flowers. These sun1owers grow large
seeds that afford a favorite luxury,
and even food. They are roasted like
peanuts and used in the same way.
In the large Russian settlements in
Kansas these sunf1owers are raised to
a very considerable extent.