The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Happy End of Romance After
Forty Years.
The AdamS-Cullen Wedding
Celebrated Wednesday.

| "A romance winch began more IMAM
! 40 years ago, eliminated last night
when Mrs. M. A. Adams became the
! bride of R. F. Conwell of Manhattan.
When he was 81 and she was II, the
| young people met at the home of the
/ brides sister in Lawrence, where he
was stationed with the Union army.
An engagement resulted and then he
was transferred and in the confusion
of the times they lost sight of each
other. In the years that followed they
each married and did not meet again
until both had lost their life partner.
Last January Mr.. Conwell began call
! ing on Mrs. Adams and the result was
last nights wedding. Mrs. Conwell
has lived in North Topeka for years
and has been identified with many
North side affairs during that time.
The bride is 65 and the groom II.
| They will be at home at the Adams
residence 1924 North Jackson street.
Want Men for Colorado Beet Fields.
A representative of the American
Sugar Beet company which owns fac
tories at Las Animas, Lamar and
Rocky Ford, will be at the Santa Fe
Junction depot Friday morning to Sc
cure laborerS for the beet fields. He
expects to be able to furnish them en-
plOyment in the factories during the
winter thus avoiding the necessity of
the families returning to Topeka to
spend the winter.
May Day at the Grant School.
At the Grant school May ID, there
will be held the second annual May
day festivities. A May pole, and folk
dance by the little people and a base
ball game and basketball game by the
older ones has been planned. In the
evening the regular Parent-TeacherS
meeting will be held. superintendent
Starr will be the principal speaker. 1t
is hoped that all the patrons and
friends of the Grant school will be in
attendance at these festivities.
Personal Mention.
I.
best prospects for a big strawberry and
cherry crop that they have had for
years.
The Ladies Aid society of the Second
Presbyterian church met Wednesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. M.
Campbell, of North Jackson street.
Miss Rhoda Naylor of Holton, who
has been the guest of Miss Bess Jones,
of North Jackson street, has returned
to her home.
The members of the Epworth League
of the Kansas Avenue Methodist church
Tuesday night. Those present were:
Misses Pansy Antrim, Ruth Ravens,
Hazel Near, Edith Holiday, Stella
Holman, Lois Segar, Myrtle McGrew,
Minnie Wilson, Nellie Handley, Made
line Hopes, Eunice Ruggerand Pretey.
Messers Paul Scheer, Bernard McNoun,
Hugh Smith, Arthur Meyers, VIII
Dodge, Leon Holman, Ralph Smith,
Lon Shore, Lon Euler, Forest Wright
and Halle Euler.
The .Menoken baseball team will play
the K. and L. of S. team at the Fair
grounds next Sunday morning.
NC. Symmonds has returned from
a short business trip to Junction City.
Ed Smith, head miller at the Inter
Ocean Mills, has returned from trip
to New York city.
M. P Heffner and Phillip link left
he fields
RADIO.
]. c. dresser will go to Maple Hill
next Saturday for a short fishing trip
Willis Cochran. of Menoken, was
North Side visitor today.
Roscoe Beecham is very seriously i'll
at his home in North Topeka
Blanche Shirley has gone to Wichita
to attend the Sunday school convention
at that place.
The Masons and Eastern Stars will
dedicate the new altar which the Gold |
en- Rule Lodge No. 80 has installed at
their hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Whitehead are
the proud parents of a baby girl.
John Howerton, of Rossville, has re- |
turned to his home after short visit
to North Topeka. |
E. r. Barber left last night for De- |
catur. Ill, where he will make his |
future home. |
Miss May Reid has gone to Hastings,
Neb. She will remain there 1nueLnltely- |
The equipment for the Domestic |
Science department of Grant school has
arrived and is being installed.
Mothers Day will be appropriately !
observed at the Elmont NJ. E. church
next Sunday, May II. A unique pro-
gram has been prepared and splendid |
service is assured.
Another of the Russian weddings oc-
CURED when Gottfried Macht was
married to Anna Weinbender, of North |
Topeka. The bride and groom were
children together at the village, |
Koegler Province Zsontow, Russia. |
The customary wedding breakfast was
served after which dancing was started
which lasted the greater part of two |
days.
A quiet home wedding at the new
home of the bride and groom at 313
Park street was solemnized yesterday |
when Miss yesterday became the bride |
of Samuel Robinson. Just few of the |
most intimate friends and relatives of
the two young people witnessed the
ceremony.
A. NJ. Petro, druggist.-Adv.
Peace Delegates Visit It. X.
New York, May S.-Delegates to the |
international conference to arrange for |