The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-05
NORTH side NEWS
TrainIOad of Russians to Beet
Fields.
Rains Bring Joy to Farmers of
North Side.

| A special train carrying 200 families
of Russians to the beet fields will
leave over the Union Pacific next
Thursday morning for Sterling, Colo,
where the members of the families
will find employment in the raising
and harvesting of beets. Frank Ack-
erman, a representative of the COM
pany who has been here for some
time contracting with the Russians,
viii be in charge of the train. They
Will go by way of Lincoln, Neb-, where
they will pick up more families of the
beet laborerS. The Russians who have
gone from Topeka in the past have
stopped at Lamar, on the Santa Fe,
but the Sterling company has offered
greater inducements and in the future
the greater part of those leaving here
will probably go to Sterling. Their
transportation both ways is furnished
and place to live after they arrive.
They are paid SIS per acre for tend
ing and harvesting the beets.
North Side Drainage Board.
There will be a meeting of the
North Topeka Drainage board this
afternoon in their rooms over the Citi-
zens' bank. The principal business to
come before the meeting will be the
paying of bills and the consideration
of plans for another jetty to be built
on the north bank of the Kaw, west
OF town where the river has been SO
persistent in washing the bank. This
is the fifth jetty for this part of the
river. The Union Pacific is at work
on one now near where the new one
will be placed, but the drainage board
does not think that four will be
enough to turn the water completely
away from the north bank and are
very anxious that the washing be
stopped.
Rains Bring Joy to Farmers.
The farmers north of town are
viewing with the greatest pleasure the
rains. Last week the high winds to-
gether with the chinch bugs made
working in the fields so disagreeable
that number of the farmers post
poned corn planting until after a rain.
This rain,' said David Bowie of the
Mid-Continent mill, lis all that is
needed to make a record wheat crop
for the coming year. I am predicting
12O, 100000 bushels for Kansas this
fall. The wheat was so far along
needed and now the crop is practically
assured"
Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Pollom left last
night for Lindsborg, Kan, where they
will be the guests of Mrs. Pollom's
sister, Mrs. Dulcie Shields.
The Epworth league of the Kansas
Avenue Methodist church will have a
vicente roast tomorrow night.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. F. Collier were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Buechner
yesterday.
Jacob Rinehart died at his home
west of town last Saturday afternoon
The funeral is being held this after
made in the Prairie Home cemetery.
Mrs Chas. Killian spent Sunday
with Mrs. Diffenderfer and Mrs. Al
Gurtler.
Mrs Bert Green of Denver is visit
ing relatives in North Topeka.
Howard Wilkerson of Menoken was
a North side visitor yesterday.
The senior B. Y. P. U. will hold a
business meeting at the church next
Tuesday evening.
See Foucht's Hardware, S25 North |
Kansas avenue, for lightning rod work. |
Houses and barns not rodded are in
great danger.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Suit entertain |
ed Miss Gretchen Voiland, Mr.. and |
Mrs. A. E. Finney and Miss Fern Will
kens yesterday at their home on North |
Jackson street.
Mrs. J. B. Cain is i'll at her home on |
Central avenue.
Mrs. Fred Clarke will entertain the |
Merry MatronS next week.
Ed Reckards, who was injured by |
being thrown from horse last week |
has recovered from his injuries.
Jim Forbes of KirO was a North |
side visitor yesterday.
Joe Campbell, North Topeka boy |
won two medals in the recent big !
from the half mile race and the other |
in the mile.
Mrs. Chas. Calkins of Elmont is in |
North Topeka today on business.
Frank Mongold of Silver Lake was |
a North side visitor yesterday.
See Foucht's Hardware for all kinds |
of repair work on tin roof, spouting |
and pump work.-Adv.
A number of men of the North To- |
peka Outing club went to Maple Hill |
last Saturday evening where they |
spent the night in fishing. They do |
not report a very heavy catch. The |
camp arrangements were all COM
pleted.
James Oswald of North Taylor
street left this morning for Portland, |
Ore, where he will make his future |
home. He will stop for a short time !
at Salt Lake City, where he will visit |
his mother.
Mrs. F. A. Weston has gone to |
Waterloo, Ia, to remain indefinitely. |
w. G. Chaffee has returned from an !
extended business trip to Mexico.
VIM. Altibone is substituting in the |
place of Theo. Willxie at the North |
Topeka postoffice.