The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-28
In NORTH Topeka
Halloween Season Is Here and
Youngsters Get Busy.
Residents of Garfield Place
Want Road Repaired.

Want Road Repaired.
At the beginning of the week, the
police department issued its annual
ultImatum calculated to throw big
chunks of fear in the hearts of the
Halloween gangs. They explained in
detail the fate that awaited any young
ster who dared break the rules laid
down. Then they sat back and waited
for developments
If they intended to wait until Hal
loween, however, they are doomed
to disappointment. Wednesday night,
youngsters on the North side decided
that the Halloween season was here
and started out on the war path. APP
parently several divisions We're out
They confined their efforts mainly to
Central avenue, however.
All along the street, windows bear
evidences of the handiwork of North
Topeka'S young generation. One party
evidently carried bucket of paint and
several brushes and today number
of busy housewives are buster than
ever in an effort to remove the marks
that show the way of the vandal mi
grafton.
Another gang was discovered by
Special Officer DodsOn and Officer
Ransom last Wednesday night. The
officers came on the youngsters who
We're breaking tile sewer pipe and
throwing the sharp edged pieces into
the street. The policemen crept around
the Flat IRON building on the cor
ner of Gordon and North Kansas ave
nues but were sighted by the marau-
ders in time to give them a good start
The race was close. however, until
Dodson slipped in making sharp
turn around the Austin Snediker
building. Ransom fell over him.
Officers say they have the names
of members of gangs who were out
Wednesday evening and promise to
make calls at several residences to-
day.
Want Road Repaired.
\ formal complaint will be made to-
day by residents of Garfield addition
to township trustee, Albert Bartram,
relative to the condition of strip OF
the road on Burgess street which con-
meets the Granville and Kansas ave
nue. roads. a portion of the highway,
which is just outside the city limits,
has been allowed to deteriOrate until
holes extend the width of the road.
The stretch contains several hills that
makes it a bad place to travel when
conditions are best The condition OF
the road at present makes travel over
it almost impossible.
The climax of the sentiment against
allowing the road to remain in its
present condition was reached We'd
nesday night when a wagon owned by
J. Pile was broken, his two horses in
iured and he and a neighbOr, Mr..
knight, narrowly escaped serious in
jury While the two men were bring
ing home a load of ties, the wagon
pitched into one of the holes in the
highway, threw the men to the ground,
piled the wood on the front end of the
wagon and the horses, MASKING the
former, and badly SHINING the legs
of the latter
Clever Entertainment at Shcrey.
One of the cIeverest entertainments
planned in some time will be held at
the Shorey school house Friday eve
ming when residents of Shorey VIII
hold shadow social
AS the guests enter the building
they will be met by a line of ghosts
who will tax them one cent for each
foot of their height They will then
be sent to the main floor of the
building and the basement where
candy, cider, doughnuts, pumpkin pie
and various other booths will be pre-
sided over by members of the school.
Other features will be the fortune
telling witch and i fish pond"
Later in the evening the guests will
meet in the assembly room where
shadows of the women present will be
auctioned off. Every purchaser of a
shadow will eat lunch with the orisi-
nal. In all other respects the party
will resemble a box social.
Funds raised by the social will be
applied to the piano fund and to pro-
vide for immediate needs of the
school
Notes and Personals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Rude of
Shorey will leave today on an extended
western trip. They will spend several
days in Denver, two days in Salt Lake
City and a few days at other large
western cities. Several weeks will be
spent in Seattle, Wash, where they
will be guests at the home of Mrs.
Rude's brother. They also will visit
both California fairs and expect to be
gone six weeks
o. l.. Bentley of go North Harrison
street has returned to his home after
spending several months in the west
ern part of the state.
Tracy Doan has returned to his
home, 1928 North Quincy street after
spending a week in Kansas City on
business.
Fred Buechner of 925 North Kansas
avenue has disposed of his Ford and
purchased a Dodge touring car.
F. p. Gilmore, of the Shawnee State
bank, was called to Nortonville
Wednesday night to be with his
brother ]. L. Gilmore, who was ser
iously injured when a tree which he
was chopping down fell on him.
Probably the largest radish ever
grown in the state is on exhibition at
the Citizens State bank. The vegetable
which was raised by J. w Dillon, of
Menoken, weighs a little more than
five pounds and is larger than three
dozen average radishes.
The Kaw river has been falling
rapidly in the last few days and more
than half the stream for several hun
dred yards west of the Melan bridge
is taken up by a huge sand bar.
Bert Ellis, of the Campbell drug
store, and William Colvin, of the
Shawnee State bank, have returned
from a duck hunting trip to Willard.
The two men floated down the river
in a canoe but failed to sight many
wild fowl They brought back several