The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
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NORTH WENNWS

Mrs. Homer Cunningham of 912
North Topeka avenue, will leave in
the near future for an extended visit
| in Omaha.
G. M. Morrow, principal of the
Grant school, will leave Sunday for
Rollins county, where he will be en-
gagged in institute work this summer.
w. E. Bacon of 900 North Van Blu
rem street, has returned from the
western part of the state, where he
has been on business.
Miss Lola Rogers of 1902 North
Quincy street, has gone to Colorado
Springs, where she will visit several
weeks, with her uncle, o. R. Owen.
Mrs. Grace Hitchcock and daugh-
ter, Miss Josephine Hitchcock, Of S34
North Kansas avenue, have left for
Shattuck, OKLA, where they will make
their future home.
Mrs. Agnes Gum and daughter,
Mrs. Chas. Edwards of Kansas City,
Mo-, spent Memorial day with her
mother, Mrs. B. A. Hewitt of S34
North Kansas avenue. They are on
their way home from Denver, Col.
Mrs. Clarence KiStler has returned
from a visit with relatives in ST.
Marys.
At Prairie Home, north of Menoken,
the attendance at the Memorial day
celebration, was hardly up to former
years, but still there were many there.
About 40 or more from Topeka. Some
thing like twelve Union and one Con-
federate soldier were present, most
of them from Topeka. There are only
six Union and one Confederate soldier
living in Menoken township. The
exercises opened at 2 p. m. by the
audience singing America and ap-
propriate prayer was offered by Rev.
w. H. Fence. The choir, led by Ed A.
Ward, sang THE Blue and Grey Are
One" Reading: first Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address by Miss Marie Skinner.
Recitation, The Spectre Cavalry" by
Miss Ethel Neiswander. Eat Rest
was sung by the choir.
The address, delivered by Rev.
John w Waldron, of the Kansas ave-
received by the comrades, relief corps
and audience. Several expressed a
hope that it might be printed that
they could preserve it. A brief synop-
sis of the address could not do it JUS
tice, so it is not attempted. Express
ions like these were often made: THE
best" None better, was ever deliv-
cred here" This is no reflection on
the able addresses delivered here in
the past.
The choir closed with another suit
able song, sang as the others were
so well as to receive special common
dation from the speaker and audience.
A rising vote of thanks was ten
dered the speaker, the choir and 9TH
ers contributing to the exercises.
| Thanks are also due Mr.. and Mrs
Smith for care and entertainment of
the speaker and others. The soldiers
and militiamen then formed under
command of Comrade S. G. Cromwell
and strewed flowers on the 81 soldier
dead.
! The exercises We're presided over by
Comrade ]. w. Priddy. patriotic in
structor of Blue Post and chairman
of the general memorial committee on
the North side.
Large. crowds visited The Rochester
cemetery. Edwin Barrett, bugIer for
the famous Twentieth Kansas, sound
ed taps at the close of the services
and Rev. j. Barratt gave a prayer.
The services were in charge of Blue
Post, under A. l.. Musson. The decor
ating of the graves took place at 10
o'clock in the morning.
A. L. Bicklehaupt, a farmer living
near Rossville, has gone to Chicago.
where he will take treatment for mad
dog bite at the Pasteur institute at
Chicago. A horse which had been Bit
ten by the same dog which bit Mr..
Bickelhaupt went mad. anC the trip
was thought advisable
H. II. Bair has presented the fire
men at station No 1 with an enlarged
picture of the fire at the Forbes mill
last year
The chug of the motor boat was
Sheard on the Kaw Tuesday.