The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-10
Other News Notes of Interest in
North Shawnee.


the quality will be restored as soon as
the berries are dried.
! Millers In North Topeka have ex-
perienced much Inconvenience during
wheat. 1t has been necessary to send
several carloads to Kansas City to be
dried by a special process, but the
millers have been able to use a part
of the new crop that has been re-
| ceived.
| With no more rains for a time, the
| farmers OF north Shawnee county will
be able to finish threshing and to cut
| and thresh the oat crop, which is re-
ported to be exceptionally good.
Claude D0an Returns Home.
! Claude Doan, theatrical property
man, has returned to his home here
after having been absent two years or
more. He was with the Every Woman
company, which was staged at the
Grand during the last winter. Mr..
! Doan will spend his vacation here, and
has several offers which will demand
) his attention during the coming sea-
son.
Mrs. Sarah Meade Dead.
Mrs. Sarah Meade died Thursday
night at her home at s15 North Har-
rison street. She was Sc years old.
Mrs. Meade was stricken with apo
plexy a week or more ago and was
unable to survive the shock.
i She was among the oldest settlers
/, Of north Shawnee county. She and
her husband. who died few years
! ago, and family of four sons lived for
many years on a farm about seven
; miles northwest Of the city.
| Mrs. Meade has lived in North To-
peka during the last few years and
+. made her home with her son, Eman-
i uel. who is employed in the postofiice
!. in North Topeka. She il eurviyed by
] three other sons, -Sentney. ReassAu and
, William. None Of the trio lives in
Topeka.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
Potato Crop Better.
The potato crop is better than was
expected. Recent rains are reported
to have caused q better yield than was
lives near Shorey, sold two carloads
of potatoes yesterday. His crop Is
; much better tina he expected. Ralph
! Skinner of Shorey also is reported to
have gathered more potatoes than he
expected
Boys Escape at Industrial School.
Willard McClain and Chester WEIGH,
! two boys at the Boys Industrial
| school, attempted to escape from the
! institution Thursday. They were
among the favored TRUSTEES Of the in
stitution, and when sent to the hos
! pital, they eluded the officers and ran
away.
! They went about mile before be-
ing captured, and were returned to the
| institution.
Notes and Personals.
Employees of the city street depart
ment today flushed the cutters on
Kansas avenue in North Topeka. The
cutters were badly filled with dirt and
refuse from the street.
| Baseball fans Of Hoyt have organized
| a baseball team and have purchased a
full set of new uniforms. They now
| are selling season tickets good for adj
! mission to games that the team expects
to play this season
| ]. K. Schriver, formerly of Topeka.
/ has started a new weekly newspaper at
Hoyt, which is called the Weekly News.
The paper has four pages of five COL
umns each. Mr.. Schrfver is not new In
the newspaper business as he has pub
i lished other papers in the state and is
\ well known to the Kansas editors.
II The Rochester Sunday school will give
an ice cream social and entertainment
at the school house next Tuesday even
ing. An interesting program il being
arranged for this occasion.
II w. H. Rutter, of the Rutter Fur
niture company. will leave soon for
the northern part of Michigan to visit
a month.
The choir of the North Topeka Bap-
fist church will meet to hold a special
rehearsal tonight. A good attendance
is expected.
y s. A. Strickland has returned from
Wichita, where he has been on a bust
ness trip for several days.
III A. ". Lindell, assistant cashier OF the
Shawnee State bank. and family, today
will move to Vinewood park. where they
will camp until about September 1. A
number of other families will take ad-
vantage of the opportunities of Vine
wood park.
d. " Gilmore and Wayne HorninE
motored to Kansas City and return
Thursday.
| The members of the board of directors
of the North Topeka drainage district
held their regular quarterly meeting
Thursday. Only routine business was
considered.
I The b. Y. p. U. society of the North
Topeka Baptist church win meet at So
o'clock Sunday evening. The subject Of
the meeting be "OId Songs and Their
History" Paul van Ness will have
chcrge II the meeting. AZ special feat
ures Majorie Cole viii sing solo and
other music will be furnished by the
West Indianola quartette.
III u. r.. Ralston. OF Kansas City. wal
IN North Topeka today on business.
W. r. Sherwood and wife and his eon
william Sherwood and wife mot0red t.
Kansas City today and will return SUM-
day.
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