The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Acreage of Potatoes Seeded
This Year Breaks Record.
Biggest Demand for Seed in
History of Valley.

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the coming season. The seed deal
ers report that they have disposed
of a large amount of seed of every
description and believe that the pres
| ent season will eclipse all others in
| the amount of seed planted.
1t is believed that the acreage of
potatoes will be greater than for sew
| eral years. The Union Pacific has
employed a man to work among the
| farmers in the Kaw river valley to
encourage the farmers to raise potd-
toes In addition, he will endeavor to
| instruct them along scientific lines
| that the yield may be increased.
/ The seed dealers are making large
sales of garden seed daily. in addition
| to the grain seed which the farmers
| will depend upon. a large number of
men who live north of the city will
begin this week to plant garden peas
and hardly vegetables of that char
acter.
Mrs. Sarah See, mother of Mrs
| Frank E. Simms and Arthur See, suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis this morn
/ ing. Mrs. See was at the breakfast
| table and was just ready to begin her
| breakfast when stricken. She recoy-
Tered consciousness in about an hour
1 This is the second time she has been
taffected in this manner. The first
stroke occurred more than a year ago.
She is more than rs years old.
| John D. Zimmerman. pastor of the
| Central Avenue Christian church,
spoke last night on The Evolution of
a City, and reiterated his charges of
| failure to enforce the law against
Mayor Billiard. He said:
AT no time have 1 made any
charges against Mr.. Billiard as an in
| dividual or citizen. 1t is his failure
to enforce the law which 1 have criti-
cised. Reference to the mayor fur
| nishing bond for law violators occu-
| pied just seven lines in the printed
| account of my last Sundays sermon,
| and was entirely. Incidental to the di-
rect charges l made against his adj
| ministration. The mayor has taken
more than a column of space to eX
plain the matter, and has not gotten
the facts straight yet. He says the
only evidence was neighborhood gos-
| sip. In thar case the police force
ought to be reprimanded for gossip
| ping, for six of the officers, including
the chief, testified against the dis
orderly house in question. He says
| he signed bonds for some men who
| were found in the place. The fact is
the inmates were not all men. He
intimates that there were no costs in
these cases. The record shows that
there were costs, and that the city
paid them.
Il charged that the prohibitory
law has been violated in fifty places
in Topeka in the last few months.
The mayor did not try to deny this.
| L will raise the number from fifty to-
one hundred. The anti-gamb1ing laws
have been continuously and openly
violated in the city. Can the mayor
explain why? l said that the Sun
day closing laws are being violated.
Does the mayor doubt it? He might
take a column or two of space to
explain these things
Notes and Personals.
The Argonauts will meet this even
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Voiland at 9O1 North Van Buren,
street
The Taxa Hasha club will be enter
tanned Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. L.
NJ. Forbes at 1000 North Monroe
street. sNka%g
Elmer See of Atchison was the
guest Sunday of his mother. Mrs.
Sarah See, and sister, Mrs. Frank B.
Simms, and brother, Arthur See, and
families.
H. e. Gaines of the Union Pacific
has resigned his position. He has been
employed by the company as a special
agent for more than year. He has
succeeded in breaking up the practice
of breaking into cars of merchandise
and coal stealing. He will return to
work as a mason and contractor.
L. T. EARL left this morning for st.
Joseph on a business trip.
William Watkins has gone to Bend,
Ore, on business trip.
A large number of Civil war vet
Grams and their wives attended the
Lincoln Day services which were held
at the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church Sunday morning. Rev. John
w. Waldron preached an appropriate
of the choir which sang appropriate
music. The church was filled to ca
pacity at the evening service. The
second part of the cantata Esther,
hR nj criX-a
Mrs. c. S. Alexander will play
saxaphone solo at the services at the
North Topeka Baptist church tonight.
The revival services at the church will
be continued this week. Rev. w. G.
Handley will have charge of these
meetings He IS proving to be quite
popular. He spoke to crowded
house Sunday night. The chorus was
made up of forty voices with orches-
trail accompaniment, unuer the direc-
ton of w. NJ. Van Ness.
A. Shockley left yesterday for Los
Angeles, Cal, to visit two or three
weeks.
c. 5. Stephenson left this morning
for Pittsburg on business trip.
The mem bers of North Topeka
camp No. 1243, NJ. w. A, will hold a
special meeting at their haH Thursday
evening Business of Importance will
be considered and a full attendance is
Fred Dye and family. who have
lived in Maple Grove number of
years, will move to Oklahoma. They
viii ship their household goods and
other belongings Tuesday.
Mrs. H. Trexal- left yesterday for
Waco. Texas to visit with friends and
relatives.
$. y. Jones went to Manhattan to-
day on a business trip.
Helen Wellman will go to Lawrence
this afternoon to attend a song recital
which will be given by Madame Bar
rachia of Florence, Italy.
Mrs T. J. Murphy of 1909 Central
avenue has gone to Chicago to visit
her son. John A. NeisMender.