The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-31
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Auto Turns Turtle Twice Close
in Succession.
Phillip Billiard Confined to Bed
With Bruises.
RUNS INTO DITCH.
Near ROssville and at Reform
School.
Driver Avoids Buggy Collision
Second Time.
RUNS INTO DITCH.

AS result of a couple of automobile
accidents In close succession Friday
afternoon, Phillip Billiard is confined 20
his bed with bruises sustained. Robert
Billiard is able to be at work but some
what bruised and c. S. Bailey was also
badly shaken up.
The men were riding west of Topeka
in Phillip Billiards. auto to look for the
2 Glidden autos. About a mile east of
Rossville the machine went into
ditch. The auto fell so that it covered
all of the party. They managed to
crawl out and telephoned from a farm
! house to Topeka for a machinIst to
: come out and repair the machine. The
man arrived and repaired the damage.
A little later, near the reform school,
q buggy turned into the road and was
going the same direction in which the
autoists were headed. 1t was too late
to slow up. The driver had either to
run into the buggy or turn into the
ditch He took the latter course. The
machine turned over on it's occupants.
This time they were all badly bruised
and the auto was practically wrecked.
Another time the men managed to
get out from under the auto. Homer
.Woodox was notified of their plight
and brought them home in his ma
chine.
The death of P. o. Ridenour which
occurred from heart failure at Kansas
City last night recalls that Mr.. Riden-
our stated in the wholesale grocery
business on the North side. His part
ner was z. w. Baker. The firm was
known as Baker & Ridenour. It was
first located in a frame building about
so by $50 feet near the Rock Island
and Union Pacific crossing at the west
edge of the city.
Later the business was transferred 70
the building now occupied by the u. P.
pharmacy across from the Union Pa
cific depot.
About this time the Baker & Riden-
our had branch houses at Lawrence
and Emporia with headquarters here.
George Farkhurst and VIM. Davis,
afterwards of the now dissolved Park
hurst & Davis Wholesale Grocery COM
pany, were employed by the former
firm.
In the early SOS Baker & Ridenour
moved their headquarters to Kansas
City and discontinued their branch
stores elsewhere.
Community Comment.
There is one thing that is worse
than being Judge at competitive
lodge team drill remarked Kansas |
avenue man this morning who has
been there. and that is being
Judge at a baby show"
"Thaw takes little interest in his
wife's divorce proceedings" said a |
Menoken man today. "I1is life is not |
at stake this time"
mobile race is over far as Kansas is
concerned. the dogs in the state can |
go about in safety said a Perry man |
yesterday evening.
st would like to know" said a
Granville man today, "what has be-
come of the tramp whom the comic |
supplements picture as carrying a
tomato can tied to his waist?"
Notes and Personals.
Word has been received here that
Mrs. VIM. Casey, the sister of Mrs.
J. V Marshall, is very i'll with
stomach trouble at her home in Den
YER She was formerly Miss Sophie
-Falk of the North Side. Mr.. and
Mrs. Marshall have gone to Denver in
this account the band concert which
was to be given Monday night at the
city park has been called off.
The Balm. the best wagon on earth,
Is sold by Pratt Bros.
c H. Steward of the North Side
and Guy Trude of ST. Marys left to-
day for Albuquerque, n. M, where
they will work for the Western
Union Telegraph Co. Mr.. Steward
will have charge of a gang of men.
He started working as lineman for
the Western Union few years ago.
The Church of the Good Shepherd
will give an ice cream social at the
home of w. r. Barrett, at SIS
Horne street Tuesday night, August g.
instead of Thursday, August 5, as was
announced by mistake.
Mrs w. H. Rupard of 916 Jack
son street and son, Homer. and
daughter Dorothy returned last
night from Kansas City, where they