The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-13
ALL WILL INSPECT NORTH SIDE NEl
City Commissioners Make New Talk North Side Concert
Order For Employees pany Proposition.
More Than $50 People to Look Organization Good Advt
1a.se For Paving Defects. ment Is Sentiment.
COVER ENTIRE CITY. FIRTH LAUGHED
Every Person From Mayor to And Also Best-JOke Az
LabOrer Must Make Report. Boomerang
Recent Injury Claims Arouse Other Items of Interest
Action Of City Officials First Ward.
Talk North Side Concert Conn
pany Proposition.
Organization Good ADVERTISE
ment Is Sentiment.
FIRTH LAUGHED LAST
And Also Best-JOke Acts as
boomerang.
Other Items of Interest in the
First Ward.

! A SO W ga Os
This is the season when the talk of
North side concert company is re-
Vived- At this time of the year with
the approach of the Christmas season
mans thoughts turn to music This
is partly because the noise of choir
practising is abroad in the land.
| Seriously, with the musical talent in
| the First ward it ia not improbable
that the singers and musicians of the
different churches may organize
| choral union, or a sort of concert COM
pany.
The idea expressed on the North
| side is that business as well as senti-
/ nent would behind such PROPOSE
ton. A musical company of this kind
| advertises the section of the city
| where it originates. While at first
| its sphere would probably be within
the city, as it reputation grows invita-
! lions to appear at gatherings in other
cities and towns would be received.
In this connection it will be remem-
bered that the Van Ness chorus made
good at the chautauqua two years
4 ago last summer. The singing attract
ed much favorable comment, not only
! from Topeka people, but visitors as
| well. 1t was composed mainly OF
| North side singers and musicians.
| This is a story of how she who
| laughs best laughs last" The man
| who laughed first is James McDan-
4, iels, general surgeon to the sick and
/ lame autos, when the machines are
/ brought to the garage at 911-913 N.
Kansas avenue. The man who laughed
| last is Charles Firth, the owner of the
| garage.
It happened this way according to
Mr.. Firth, McDaniels had shown his
/ skill by repairing a cast off engine SO
that with it in an auto he raced up
and down North Kansas avenue at
the pace of a millionaire's son TAX
ing chorus girls on joy ride.
4 Later Tuesday afternoon a voice in
formed Mr.. Firth that Mechanics was
wanted at the police station for Eek
ceeding the speed limit
/ A few minutes later McDaniels him
self appeared grinning from ear to
ear, but when Firth told him that he
/ was wanted at the police station, he
| burst out laughing:
Il was talking instead of the po-
lice," he said.
mo, the station called me up said
Mr.. Firth land told me to send you
/ over"
McDaniels went and as he left it was
F'rith's turn to laugh. He had called
the police station, explaining the sit
!, uation. When McDaniels arrived at
II the station. the laugh was on him.
Between daylight and .daxk last
evening a North side boy entered his
. rooming place. Just before going in
he saw through the window, the figure
of woman, dressed in black, sitting
at the drawing room table. An open
door led from the hallway to the
drawing room, and when the boy en-
tered the hallway he stopped with a
: shock.
: The mysterious woman in black
was not at the table where she had
been a second ago Not enough time
had elapsed %tween his seeing her
and his entering the room for her to
have left-but where was she?
For an instant the lad thought he
had only imagined he had seen the
woman for he doesn't belive in visible
spirits.
Finally his puzzle was solved. His
landlady had just put on a new black
dress. As the boy entered the hall she
happened to lean back in her chair sc
| that her body was hidden by a screen
placed near by.
A North side woman who teaches
| school was afflicted with a peculiar
| case of absent nnindedness recently
| One morning she arrived at the school
before the door was unlocked. She
could not unlock it for some time
Then she found that she was trying
to get a nickle into the lock instead OF
I
book.
A. G. Merritt, road oyerseer for ~ssol-
dier township. says that he is ready to
fix up the Calhoun Bluffs road as soon
as he gets word to do SO from the
county commissioners. AS the cost
of repairing the road will be about
900. the trustees of the township
decided to ask the county to help pay
The commissioners stated as soon as
the Union Pacific retaining wall below
the road was done, they would helE
in the matter. The wall has been fin
| ished for some time, but nothing has
| been done on the road.
At present it is only wide enough tc
allow two teams to pass at one time
1t is planned to make it twenty-five
feet wide, by cutting back into the
bluff and putting the earth behind the
retaining wall.
Notes and Personals.
: See the beautiful $25 vase in oul
window to be given away free. Buy you
:. candies and Christmas gifts at Bair':