The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02
Andreas Suppes Family Held in
New York.
Child of Russian Emigrants
\. Coming to Topeka Sick.
MORE WHEAT COMES IN
Eleven Cars of Fine Quality Are
Received.
Work on the ShOrey Extension
Delayed by Rain.
MORE WHEAT COMES in

Andreas Suppes and wife recent
arrivals from Russia are detained by
the United States authorities at Ellis
Island, New York harbor, on account
of having a very sick child. When
the child RECEIVERS they will not pc
allowed to continue their journey 10
Topeka until their relatives in Little
Russia, in Topeka, contribute GER
tain amount of funds and furnish an
affidavit that they are citizens or the
United States and that the Suppes
family will not become a public charge
upon their arrival in Topeka.
Eleven cars of wheat were received
at the junction depot Monday Tor
the North side mills from points in
western Kansas and Oklahoma. state
Grain Inspector Buell. reports the IN
spection o. k. and the wheat of a fine
quality.
Work on the Sherey extension is
suspended today on account of the
rain. Monday the grade was COM
pleted two blocks west OF Kansas
avenue on Morse and the excavations
were filled with water this morning.
The drainage board held a meeting
Monday afternoon. The secretary
was instructed to write to the Union
Pacific railroad company concerning
the condition of the river bank above
the coal chutes. Every rain under
mines the banks and it will be the
suggestion of the drainage board that
in order to protect the tiers above the
chutes, the bank should be "rip-rap-
Aped" with gravel and rock.
Rev. John w. Waldron. pastor of
the Kansas avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church, left last evening for Cas-
cade, Colo. to attend the Rocky
Mountain summer conference. The
conference is held under the auspices
of the Young Peoples Missionary
movement and is a cooperative or
ganiZation of the home and foreign
boards of the United States and Can
ada for the promotion of missionary
edt cation. Some of the greatest lead
ers from the evangelical churches will
be present and help make the con-
ference a great success.
Miss Minnie G. Wilson, Miss Fora
Reed and Miss Viola Troutman will
attend as delegates.
Rev. Mr.. Waldron viii visit in Mani
tou, Colorado Springs and other points
before he returns.
The Masons of North Topeka will
dedicate their new hall at GIL North
Kansas avenue. tonight. The main
lodge room is 81 feet wide and 50 feet
long; the banquet room is Is feet wide
by 90 teet long and the parlOr which
was furnished by the Eastern Star
members il 16 feet long by 16 feet wide
There is also a iulIy equipped kitchen
The different rooms of the hall are well
furnished, the lodge hall having 81
opera chairs besides a large number OF
folding chairs. The walls are all stem
ciled and the roof of the lodge room
has the different enblems of the order
painted on the ceiling. while there ar:
seven handpainted panels on the walls
Of the banquet room besides the border
above the picture molding which is
done in water colors. The followins
grand lodge officers will be present al
the dedication services: Marion K
Brundage, grand master; Alexander A
Sharp, deputy grand master; William
Frank March. grand treasurer; Albert
K. Wilson, grand secretary; Charles H
Chandler, grand senior deacon; Will
iam Silas Eberlc, district grand master
Elmer E. Miller. acting grand marshal
Rev. Joshua Barrett. acting grand
chaplain. The officers of the local lodge
are: Samuel E. Elder, worshipful mas.
ter; Albert H. Marshall, serior warden
James Allen, senior warden; Daniel ]
Hathaway. treasurer; W. H. L. Sher.