The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-09
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Druggists Life Is Not Alto
gether Pleasant Dream.
North Side Man Tells of His
Many Troubles.
IITTIF INV nIANTFn I0F VaIATFR
LITTLE BOY WANTED ICE WATER
But He Wanted to Drink 1t at
Soda Fountain.
GrOcers' Picnic at Garfield a
Success.

A little barefoot boy, with the pro-
verbal cheek of tan, customary one
! suspender overalls. usual blue shirt
and inevitable torn straw hat, came
into North side drug store this af-
ternoon. He slid up on a stool in
| front of the soda fountain and called
to the druggist in the back part of the
store to please get him a drink of
| ice water" The little boy wanted TO
get it at the fountain so he could drink
out of straw and make his friends,
who might be passing by, think that
he was drinking sure 'nough" soda
water
But the druggist didn't have time to
walk clear to the front of the store
! just fer accommodation, so he told me
boy to come back and help himself
from the seat and battered { ut OF the
door, his thirst unquenched.
Such an incident, often repeated
is one of the drug stores bothers, ac-
cording to one of them.
THE worst trouble we have is with
persons who are cranky about pre-
scriptions said North side druggist
this afternoon. Some of these pre-
scriptions have been in the family
even unto the seventh generation and
each generation has contributed to the
wear and tear on the paper. The writ
ing describing the favorite family
remedies is nearly illegible, but
the people presenting them are So
afraid that we will steal the idea that
they carefully keep their hanos on tne
manuscript.
''Often these prescriptions call for
drugs that are no longer on the mar
ket herbs and roots that Ben1amln
Franklin's parents likely insisted that
he take with him on his classic first
trip to Philadelphia, and compounds
that were likely used for ballast on
the 'Mayhower' along with the 1OO,-
600 pieces of furniture which are now
distributed among the d. A. KS
another trouble is that some PEG
nile have ideas of their own about mix
ing drugs, and wish to go contrary 70
think that the hieroglyphics used by
petitioners will work some evil ana
want to know what they mean.
'Outside of the medicine ana drugs
women whose compilations are nope
| loss will often be greatly disappolnl-
ed if the face washes do not give
them a lily white face or IL the Pln lH
pills for pale people do not give tifeii,
cheeks which rival the od"h u"
AZ would YOU believe, a surpris-
inc number of men have the perfume
shabit-spend a great dead q
for sweet smelling HCuloS-
From about noon until late at night
1-bursdav Garfield park was croWoeu
with those attending the r fban : Gao
.areons are thought to have attenotS3u..
Music was furnished by Marsn l4ars
hand. Another feature OF the en- ~,
tainment was the exhlpllloh III ~
the LOYAL Moose team ,.,oa
Tho North side won porSesh &c
nitching contest with Silver Lake ai H
a margin of II points; als6 6 t~o score
games, with the South sue 0'
of to 0 and to l. - ~ the
FoiIowing are the winners III eli; III
o+ber contests: Baby snow: "a
nrize. Earl Meryl Baker; secoHq; ;s+ier
an pn Michael; third, Eugene hLst ia
I I'll 81 F-s+ nrize was a gold ring anu anu
Ia IA neckIace; second, gold ring any
Soir IF kid boots; third, COLA rlIls - 60
3air of silk socks. me Juu49 ond p.
PEI PEI, Kleinhans, Bert Lazzette anu =
a P nTT throwing contest: First pra2e'
I ,1d5raia Snetter, pound of coItee anu
pound of gelatin; ce eee9na and box Of
J Iigiit3e nowder; third, Mabel Jackson
po pilnnine race for girls: First pri l1s
Gene schuler, pound OF conee' vTdar:
lTaIs wharf. pound of baking poMue s.,
May Trio1a MAYER, package of gelatln'
'iil Annle eating contest: Flrst pll1e'
I;ai McDade. pound of coffee; SCI
10 Merle Lucia, pound OIL cotlH
tbird. Ray Hester, pound Oh oaAiA-e
powder. 1,;+ ,or;za ivan
DIa1a and Raymond Sawyer, pound
~ coffee and pound of gelatin; seconu,
loo Cooner and Daniel McDay' pun"
of baking powder and pounu VI
tin; third, Clarence Holmes ana ray
Heslet, pound of coffee. - ;zo
irvine winding contest: First prize;
1abeI slocum. pound of coffee ana
pound of baking powder; second ma NAY
800 cbaf fer. package of coffee.
FTag race for girls: First prize
va1er9 MAYER. one pound butter scotch;
! second, Lola Wright, pound of baking
powder; third, Daniel McDade' poulu
baking powder.
Mixed shoe race for boys: First prize
stewart Olson, pound butter scotch;
second, Ivan Haze. pound butter
scotch: third, Daniel McDade, pouno
baking powder.
Fat mans race: First prize, George
clark pound of coffee and two dozen
bananas; second, w. E. Humbert'
nound gelatin and pound OF baking
powder; third, w. R. wright pouho
| baking powder.