The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-21
NORTH SIDE NEWS
"Kansas Crops Look Best"
Says DIR. MI. R. Mitchell.
Eastern States.
OTTAWA TO PLAY FRIDAY?
North Side Horseshoe Team
Receives Request.
East Topeka to Play First
Ward Tonight.
OTTAWA TO PLAY FRIDAY?

kansas crops look better than those
in any of the eastern states"
This is according to DR.. NJ. r.
Mitchell, who has returned from Can
nonsburg, Pa. He attended the cele-
bration of the fiftieth anniversary OF
the graduation of his class from the
Neutrality-suspicious. college. He
went on the Rock Island to st. Louis
Cincinnati and Wheeling.
''In the three thousand miles I
travelled after leaving Kansas, think
did not see as good crops as in this
state said DR.. Mitchell this after
noon. I'm Missouri the crops look
poor. This may be because so much
of the ground has been flooded. And
in Ohio and Pennsylvania the looks
of the crops could not compare with
the prospects in Kansas this season.
LAS to our class, thirteen are now
left out of the fifty-two. We sradu-
ated in '62 and many of US enlisted in
the Union army just after leaving col
lege.
Among the graduates I saw this
week was DR.. A T. Jeffries, now
president of Wilmington college,.
John Blankenship. a barber at the
Knobs shop today is handicapped in
his work by severe bruises received
last night when an auto struck his left
side about o'clock when he was
crossing Laurent street and North
He says the auto number was 106,
which is the number of the car of
Charles Wolff. president of the Wolff
Packing Co.
Mr.. Blankenship saved himself seri-
Gus injury only by a quick jump
backward. He did not see nor hear
the machine until just before 1t hit
him. His coat was torn off His NIP
was bruised and bled considerably
Young man was driving the machine
which was headed north. 1t stopped
after the accident but did not come
back. Mr.. Blankenship was not
knocked down. He rooms at 113 East
Ninth street.
Notes anc Personals.
The ottawa Horseshoe team today
asked for a game Friday with the
North Topeka Horseshoe team. Inc
time and place will be decided at the
meeting of the Horseshoe club tonight.
1t is probable that Friday will be
chosen as the day. Tonight East To-
peka will play the North side
R. r. Baer, secretary of the North
Topeka Horseshoe team, received
letter from the officials of the Ottawa
team, asking for game Friday.
J. B. Nicholson. manager of the Kaw
company, has returned from
business trip to New York. He visited
in Chicago on his way back. Some of
his meals he took at the Congress
hotel patronized by the big men at the
convention. However, MI
Nicholson did not have time to go
near the Coliseum where the national
convention is in session.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Robinson will
return tomorrow from Meriden where
they have been visiting Mrs; Rooln-
sons brother, Rev. Clyde Hale
Guy Gardiner, city passenger agent
for the Union Pacific, and sister, Miss
Georgia Gardiner, left today for visit
with relatives in Wabash, Ind Ihey
are expected to return Monday with
Mrs. Gardiner who has been visiting
relatives in Indiana.
Horace T. Wilkie. who is attending
K. S A c., Manhattan, is visiting ms
father. W. r. Wilkie, clerk at North
Topeka postoffice.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Shube of Du-
ouque, Iowa, arrived tod&y for visit
with Mrs Shube's father, ]. H. FOUGHT
Mr.. Shube is at the head OF the Latin
5epartment in the Dubuque high
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