The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
NUkIH SIDE VIEWS
Silver Lake High School Is Com
pleted.
Will Be Turned Over to School
Board Soon.
HIT BY LIGHTNING.
Two North Side Women Have
Painful Experiences.
Meeting of the Civic Club To-
night.
HIT BY LIGHTNING.

Saturday will mark the finishing of
the new Silver Lake school house, dis
trict No. 46, with the exception of the
inside painting and the grading Of
the pldygrC und. Work was started Oh,
this modern building the first of March
ana when the school boys and girls are
| called together for the first day Of
school which will begin about the 18th
day of September, they VIII march into
different school house than they lave
| had heretofore.
It is constructed of wet press brick
and is two stories high, there being
two large school rooms on each floor
In the basement is the automatic reg
| iStering furnace, which furnishes hot
air heat for the building. On this floor
are also found the toilet and Mushrooms.
The first and second floors contain the
school rooms, each room having large
cloak closets together with all the
school eqtlI. ment that goes with mod
ern building of this kind. The two rooms
on the second floor are arranged with
the Flexifold partition doors which en-
able the throwing together of these two
rooms into one large assembly hall. 1t
is here on this floor that the first year
high school will be taught.
The feature OF each class room is the
large number of windows which will
give plenty of light and another big
Improvement is the individual seats
which are now being installed. The
inside finish of the woodwork will be
mission stained G ak, the painters hav
ing started this work in the principals
Office on the second floor.
Mr.. J. S. Kelly, of Silver Lake, was
, one of the early agitators for a new
school and said this morning, THE
people of Silver Lake are very proud
of the new building and this year Prom
iSeS to be the most successful, both in
the accommodation Of students and
their advancement that we have ever
had. The contract was let to J. B.
Belts and the entire cost of the build
ing completed and furnished WIZ be
about $4,000"
The following will comprise the teach
ing force for the ensuing year: Mr.. f.
G. Arnold Of Cottonwood Falls, princi-
pal and teacher of the first year high
school; Miss Bernice +. yles interrfedi-
ate department, and Miss Naomi An
derson, primary department.
Miss Shore. of 1908 North Quincy
street, had a very narrow escane from
death Wnen lightning struck a tree
near the corner of Gordon and Quincy
streets, Wednesday night. Miss Shore
was returning h me from one Of the
neighbors and was passing on the walk.
directly underneath the tree, when the
flash came. She was somewhat stunned
by the bolt and a splinter struck her
across the forehead. leaving a 5ruise
Aside from this Miss Shore was not
injured but sustained a pretty severe
shock in her dangerous experience Mrs
Hutchinson, of 927 North Quincy, which
is about a half block from the tree
that was struck, was sitting on her
front porch and was rendered uncon-
scipus for several minutes by the shock
received from the lightning, and has
not entirely recovered from its effects.
q did rot see the flash at all but all
of a sudden things turned black and
I had the funis. st sensation 1 have
ever felt in my whole life" sad Mrs.
Hutchinson this morning. MY right
arm seems to have suffered the worst
ard it is so sore that 1 can hardly
raise it up
The condition of the sidewalks along
North Kansas avenue could be great
ly improved by an ordinance prohib-
iting the placing of goods, wares and
show cases in front of the stores and
extending partly on the walks. The
windows of the stores are fer just such
purposes and the display of articles to
be sold should be confined to hat place
1.-The Civic club should look this matter
over and see if some such improve
ment along this line can be made said
!. II. FOUGHT this -Ors,ipg when asked
about this matter. Il, for one, do
this very sort Of thing but l would
| like to see an ordinance put in effect
which would d away with al this
kind of display. North Topeka is no
and we should Improve it as SUCH
There will be a meeting of the Civic
club tonight at the North Topeka fire
station. 1t is expected that at this
meeting the question of sanitation,
which was to have been held last
| Wednesday night but postponed on ac-
count of the storm. will be brought up
and settled. The last meeting of the
! organization was held last spring and
so a large attendance is expected to-
night.
Attention should be drawn to the
improvements which have taken place
at the Maple Grove addition. which Is
located just north of the end of the
! ShOrey car line, on the Rochester road.
! The ten room modern house, belonging
to Mr.. S. Rude has been completed, and
is one of the finest houses in this
| vicinity. Mr. Rude seems to have
started this move for improvements as
he has kept his lawn and yard in fine
condition all summer The houses haVe
all been painted up and taken as 2
whole, this part of North Topeka is ar.
attractive place.
Mrs. Hazel Fiederling of Shorey en-
tertained her Sunday school class, of
the Oakland Christian church, at a
lawn luncheon Wednesday evening.
There were games, contests and music