The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-30
NORTH SIDE NEWS
GerteseiR's Postal Card Delayed
Seven Months.
Mailed at st. Joe February 81
Received Today.
LOST BETWEEN CITIES
Grace Forbes Mentioned as Kar-
rival Queen Candidate.
Other Items of Interest on the
North Side.

NOICn OtUCs
How would you like to receive a
postcard seven months after it was
mailed?
This is the experience Of Charles
Gertesein, agent at the Santa F'e juno
ton depot This, his first experience
of the kind, although in his long ana
useful career he has had almost every
other bad luck liable to humanity be
sides delayed mail-and marriage. He
received the card this morning 1t was
dated February q, sent from ms
nephew, John Goodrich, passenger
agent for the Santa Fe at st. Joe. 1t
asked Mr. Gertesein to meet relative
at Topeka.
This morning MI Gertesein also re-
ceived card from his nephew from
San Diego, Cal, and dated a few days
ago The receipt of the two cards, from
two different places, the morning, IS
one thing which made him notice the
dates on the mail. However, ne IS not
At the station a. the postofice peo-
pie say that the card did not reach
the office until Tuesday evening They
are inclined to think that the postal
slipped behind a box or pouch on the
train between here and St. Joe ana
was not found until this week 1t Is
noticeable because it is an aoVertlse-
ment for the Santa Fe containing
picture of the dear old lady who said
a trip to California on the Santa Fe
was like sitting in her rocker at home;
1T sometimes happens that postal
cards slip behind a pouch on tram
and are delayed a long time, said A.
e Robinson, postmaster at station A,
this morning. 1.-The men here remember
of the card reaching the office Tues
day afternoon.
MY dog has gone to the country'
Hurrahi Hurrah"
A North side woman has s4l ,l,, the
some neighbOrhoods is as vex1ng
question as the servant question IN
others For if you keep a dog your
self Won have no right to forbid the
neirhhor's dog from visiting your dog.
No not although they dOggedly persist
in choosing the most unseernly hours
of night for visiting your dog ana uls-
cussing their pedigrees in the doggonest
annovine manner But this woman has
sent her dog to the country Now she
has served notice on the nelghpors uoss
that if they continue to use ner yd!u
for their conventions their owners Will
De ~0 9fl- Where, oh where, is my little dog
gomez"
Miss Grace Forbes name has been
,,oaT1+ioned as a candidate for KarnivaI
o11een from the North side. The otner |
Candidates are Mrs. Charles Suit, Miss
Sylvia Spetter, Miss Pearl deaG Gu, any
Miss Marguerite Sturgis- Miss Forpes
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs L. M.
FORBES, of 1101 North Monroe street.
she is well Known on both SIDES OF the
river SO far no votes nave pes si.a Ss.s'
for anv of the North side candidates
what's the matter with the young men
of the First wardE
Mrs NJ r Mitchell, who has been
on the Mitchell claim near First View
COL is expected to return in the near
future DR.. Mitchell who but re
Gently returned from there, says tnat
neighbors, including the Mlllers, the
Faxons. Harrises and Miss CRAWFORD
and Miss Adams, all OF Whom nave
claims The young women mentoneu
are school teachers in the Grant sciiooi
The Kansas Avenue Epworth league
held farewell party for Miss mary {
T Stephens at the home of Rev. j. W.
WaIdron. $40 North Park street, last
evening. The house was decorated
with the league colors ana
scores of miniature Maltese crosses
hung in clusters from the decorations
over forty people attended the party I
and many games were played during
he evening
Miss Stephens will leave for Chicago
n a few days. where she will attend L
Moody Bible institute and prepare u
herself for Christian work.
Rev J. w. Waldron, on behaf OF -
he Epworth league, presented Miss =
stephens with a very beautiful leather a
oxford bag Suspended from the bag q
~ tiny red ribbons were Maltese y y
.rosses containing farewell messages
rom the friends of the party. Miss
stephens has been one of the most
.ctive workers in the Kansas Avenue
Epworth league and the Sunday
chooI, a young lady of charming man
Ter and magnetic personality, with a
arge host of friends who know she
viii succeed in the busy city by the
axe. The following people We're pres
mt Rev. J. w. WaldrOn, Mrs J. w. Z
Valdron Miss Alice Waldron, Thomas e
reed Waldron. Mr.. E c. Seger, Mrs. n
:. c. Seger, Lois Seger Mr. Roy Stay p
laugh. Mrs. Roy Slaybaugh. Mrs A.
J. Musson, Mrs. e. M Bissell, Mrs. A. Q
. KistIer, Mrs. M. r. Linn. Mrs. s. S
french. Mrs A. Curry, Miss Mabel p
hore Miss Flora Shore, Miss Baird, !,
Hiss Myrtle Hofer, Miss Mary Steph- -
ms. Miss Carrie Stephens. Miss T. Ris- ~
niger, Misc Viola Troutman, Miss Min II
Hiss Edna Kistler. Miss Pearl Nash, II
Hiss Edith Nash Miss B. Nash. Miss n
enid Tanner, Miss Myrtle McGrew,
Hiss Ida Henry, Miss Annie Henry,
1iss A. Fowler, Miss Effie Wells, Miss
Alta Grooms, Miss Ruth Murrell. Miss
Emma Murrell. Miss Pansy Antrim, IL
Iiss Minnie McGrew, Mr.. w. A.
Dodge, Mr.. Harrison Euler and Mr..
ohm Davis.
Notes and Personals. II II
Miss Beulah Hughes, who has been p
isiting her aunt, Mrs. Sturtevant. in g
Kansas City is expected to return tt
ONE next week. fc
Mrs. NJ Green and son. Frank al
ireen, of 1927 North Harrison street a,
eft today for visit in Boston. S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Palmer of 1925 pi
forth Topeka avenue will visit in En-
lett this week.
Throngs of Gypsies are passing
through the North side today. in