The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31

NORTH TOPEKA NEWS

services which were to have been held
at Rochester cemetery were postponed.
Mr. Scott superintendent of the ceme-
terry, telephoned into town about II
o'clock that the ground was very damp
and the moisture dripping from
! the trees. Under these circumstances
the marshal of the day. DE- NJ. r.
MITCHELL concluded to abandon the
plans for the afternoon. However, at
Prairie Home cemetery the original
programme was carried out and the
exercises held at that cemetery in the
afternoon. The graves of the 10 SOL
dierS were all marked and decorated
with flags and flowers. The attendance
was not so large as if the day had been
pleasant, but there were present six
old soldiers. The address for the after
noon was made by Rev. j. w. White
head, who is now in his eighty-second
year.
The plans for the wedding of Mrs.
Ida Beeler and Wilbur Palmer which
will take place this evening at the
North Topeka Carnival are about COM
pleted. The bridal party will leave
1910 Harrison street for the Carnival
grounds on Laurent street and the av
enue promptly at $50 o'clock. S. ].
Henry, who furnishes the hack for
this trip, will have the couple there at
that time. They will be met by an es-
cort of members of the X P lodge
who be in attendance at the Carnival
this evening. The escort will include
the officiating clergyman, Rev. J. Bar
rett. A. N. Goodman, Charles Myers
and Charles Stewart. AS it will be
impossible for the hack to drive into
the grounds the bridal march will be
from the avenue to the Wild West
show, corner of Laurent and Monroe
street, where the ceremony will take
place. The ceremony will be promptly
at 10 o'clock and ten minutes is al
lowed for the wedding party to reach
the place selected for the important
event. The bridal couple, their attend
ants and Rev. Mr.. Barrett will occupy
a special place in the Wild West show.
A low truck wagon has beer. provided
for a platform. This will be appropri-i
ately draped with bunting and will be
reached by short flight of steps. This
imprOVised platform will accommodate
about 16 people, and here the ceremony
will be performed and after it's con-
cluson the newly married couple and
their friends will remain seated there
and witness the show. The bride will
wear a white wolfe princess gown,
trimmed with tuckS and lace. Her
stock will be of lace and she will wear
white gloves, slippers and hat. The
bridal bouquet will be furnished by o.
NJ Capron, and the ring will be donated
by A NJ. Cross. Mr.. and Mrs Palmer,
and their party will be escorted to the
various shows on the ground and later
taken to the Union Pacific hotel where
a wedding supper Willie Served When
this repast has been finished they will
be driven to 1872 Topeka avenue, where
they will be at home to their friends |
after June 1. Tomorrow will close the
Carnival and the attendance this ev-
ening and tomorrow is expected to be
large. The high dive which is given
every afternoon and evening by Prof.
Strahl is one of the free attractions
of the Carnival. The crowd who at
tend the various shows are unusually
quiet and orderly, and although there
is plenty of fun there is nothing OBJ
jectionable going on at the Carnival
grounds or in the shows.
CT do Of nd
an important day in the lives Of the |
school children. The threatening wealth |
er did not prevent the girls from wear |
ing the summer dresses and white slip |
pers nor the boys from appearing in |
their Sunday best. At the Grant school |
a class of ten was graduated from the |
A grade, c. NJ. Morrow, principal, and |
will be ready to enter the high school |
next fall. A good programme had been |
prepared for this last day as follows: |
Song by the school; recitation, Aunt |
Sylvias First Lesson in Geography" |
Ethel Wyatt; recitation. Buelah Camp |
bell; class history, Myrtle Rodgers; reel |
tation. Crippled Ben" Roy Booth; |
class poem, Ruth Murrell; piano solo, |
Buelah Campbell; essay, Panama Canal, |
Roy Slaybaugh; recitation. The |
SWING Lois Seger; Glass Prophecy"
Emmett Ferguson; piano solo, Medita- |
ton Roy SIaybaugh; recitation, Lin
coins Gettysburg Address" Ray Har- |
ries; recitation, "Baby's New Tooth" |
Clarence Belts; Valedictory, Lois Seger. |
The exercises closed with the singing of |
Dear Old Grant" by the school, writ |
ten especially for the occasion. The |
diplomas were then distributed by Mr.. |
Morrow The members of the class were |
Lois Seger, Ethel Wyatt, Ruth Murrell, |
Myrtle Rodgers, Buelah Campbell, En-
NETT Ferguson, Roy Booth Clarence |
Belts, Roy Slaybaugh, Ray Harries. |
The class coIors were green and old rose |
and the class officers were Clarence |
Belts, president, and Lois Seger, secre- |
tary. At the new Quincy school class |
of twenty-five girls and boys completed |
the course of the Sth A grade, E. F. |
Stanley. principal, and will be ready i
for tie high school next fall. A good |
programme consisting of music and reel J