The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-07
NORTH SIDE Jews.
New $4,000 School House for
Silver Lake.
Will Be Two Story Brick, Strict
ly Modern.
ON PALMER'S LOT.
Late Old Settler Donated Land
in Early Days.
use for School Purpose Only
He Said.

new modern SO, 900 school house will
be built in Silver Lake in the near flu
ture. 1t will be located not far from
the old building in the east part of the
town on the ground donated by the
late Charles Palmer, an old settler, eX-
pressly for school purposes about 80
years ago. The new building will be
two story brick. 1t will contain four
rooms. The heating, plumbing and
other equipment will be modern in eV-
cry respect. The plans were drawn up
by order of the school board by a Kan
sas City architect about a month ago
The contract for the excavation for the
mouse Will be let soon and work Will
be rushed. 1t is hoped that it may be
ready for occupancy by spring.
The increase Of pupils and growing
interest in the schools is party reSpon-
sible for the proposed building. The
school has been held for many years
in the present two-room frame struc-
ture. The enrolment this year is 81.
This includes 81 pupils in the upper
rooms and 46 in the lower. The course
includes nine grades. 1t is not impro-
bable that in year or two that d cou-
pie of years of high school course may
be added. NJ. c. French. a Baker uni
versity man, and Miss Bernice Boyles
are the teachers.
Mr. French, in addition to his regular
work is teaching advanced algebra
classes and also a first year Latin
class. Besides he has organized a lit
erary society, at which high class and
Instructive entertainment is furnished
to packed audiences. DR.. Rooster, of
Topeka has given demonstrations of
magic" and other good numbers have
been on the program.
Mr.. Palmer, who donated the grounds
in the early seventies. is well known in
northwestern Shawnee county. He kept
the Palmer hotel for several years. He
gave the grounds for school purposes
solely on condition that if the land was
used for anything else it should revert
hack to his heirs. He died several years
ago.
While looking over magazines, which
he donates to fire station No. l, c. F.
Adams, 935 North Kansas avenue.
found a paper supposed to have been
printed January 4, 1900. just after the
death of washington, the first preSi
dent of the United States. 1t is a copy
of the Ulster county, N. Y. Gazette.
Whether one of the original edition or
4 facsimile. it is interesting. The Dor
der on the inside is in heavy black in
mourning for the death of the illustri-
Gus general and statesman poem
by a young LADY, also bewails the
fact that the silent tomb invades our
Washington" The paper contains much
of the doiDgs of congress and letters
from London. Closer home is sec
Ond notice from a Matys Van Steen-
bergh warning the public not to trust
or harbor his wife Hannah as he was
determined to pay no debts of her
contracting evidence of domestic
infelicity even in the good old days"
Writing, wrapping, and bonnet paper,
is also advertised for sale. Legal no
tees also occupy a great portion of
the sheet.
At the meeting of the Civic club last
night no action was taken on a COM
munication from the state board of
health asking the club to pay the ex-
Iense of heat, light and rent of LukenS'
opera house for a tuberculosis exhibit
Friday and Saturday of next week The
sentiment expressed was that the state
should be able to afford to pay that ex-
pense itself and that not enough bene-
fit would be derived to warrant the club
to foot the hill.
D. R. Parkhurst proposed that Il
skating pond be formed in Garfield park
by sprinkling the bikes and low part
of the ground just south of where the
buffalo fence now is. His idea was that
it-WOuld make Il safe recreation for chill
dren without the risk of drowning
which comes from skating on Soldier
creek and the Kansas river. A commit
tee may be appointed to look into the
matter. 1t is thought that the expense
would lie slight.
appointed a committee to circulate ne
titions to form benefit drainage dis
trict north of the Union Pacific tracks,
east of the Rock Island and west of
the Santa Fe. When sufficient signers
are obtained the papers will be pre-
sented to the city commissioners The
plan is to install drainage sewers
emptying into Soldier creek to relieve
the surface water which collects after
q hard rain.
Mrs. VERNE V. Oakford of Garden
City, candidate for secretary of
state on the Socialist ticket last wear.
and a strong suffragette as we'll as as
ISOLATE editor Of the Prolocutor, a So
cialist paper, has returned home after
a visit to her mother, Mrs. G. V Han
nah, 423 Park street Her husband, DR..
Oakford, is editor of the paper at Gar
den City. 1t is considered one of the