The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-30

miles north of town on the J. o.
Browning farm.
Soldier Creek Is Up.
Soldier creek lacked only foot or
so OF being as high as the highest
mark this year. On the Central ave-
nue. road water was hub deep on We
hicles; between and o'clock the
creek rose ! foot and is still rising.
Heavy rains around Elmont, Hoyt and
Mayetta this morning are keeping the
banks full.
U. p. Trains Tied Up.
The Union Pacific railroad expert
enced trouble this morning in getting
eastbound trains through. A washout
near st. George, about 40 miles west
of Topeka, caused delays until noon
when the first train east passed
through North Topeka
Postal Telegraph Office.
Beginning the first of next week
North Topeka will have another tele-
graph office. The Postal company is
installing an office in the Baltimore
hotel building, south of the Unicn Pa
cific tracks. Through wires will be
connected with the North Side office
and direct service given.
An operator will be on duty from
$3.50 in the morning until $3.50 in the
evening. Owing to some difficulty in
been delayed several days.
Drying New Wheat.
The building at 933 North Kansas
avenue has been rented by a man
named Anderson living east of Oak
land to store new wheat until it is
cured. On the Anderson farm the
yield of wheat was twenty-five bush
els per acre. Had it not been for the
rains a yield of fifty bushels would
have been obtained.
Police Raid 500 Van Buren,.
Officers Jones and Saunders made
call Thursday afternoon on Clarence
Floyd, 500 North Van Buren,, in
searched but nothing was found;
During the "once over" Mrs. Floyd
was seen to go to the rear of the
lot and fasten board securely In the
shed of the Central Sash and Door
company, that is located immediate
iy back of the Floyd property Be
coming suspicious the police investl-
hidden in the siding of the shed. The
Floyds denied the ownership of the
goods, so no arrest could be made as
the evidence was not found on their
property.
A wedding of interest to North
Shawnee county was solemnlzed in
Holton. Wednesday evening, July IS,
when Miss Elsie McNown, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. r. N. McNown of route
5, and Mr.. Perry C. Helm, son of Mrs.
Mary E. Helm of Rochester, were
united in marriage by the Rev. John
Waldron, formerly of North Topeka
The young folks will spend week
visiting friends in Circleville. Kan,
and will then make their home on the
Helm farm north of Topeka.
Notes and Personals.
Miss Temple Mitchell will leave to-
morrow for Denver where she will visit
relatives several weeks.
H E. Brownell has returned from
Shawnee, Okla, where he is in the
employ of the Santa Fe, and Will be
80 ~ 10 al
T. T. Wright, of Tecumseh, has re-
turned home after spending short
time on the North side with friends.
LATE Tanning, of Granville, was on
the North side today.
Lewis Winter has returned to his
home in Hoyt after a business trip to
North Topeka.
An ice cream social will be given
tonight at Lyman school house by the
Sunday school
A sunflower head weighing two
pounds and grown on a stalk nine feet
tall is displayed in the window OF
cabbage that when picked weighed 10
pounds. The cabbage was grown by
Joe Myers. who lives two miles west
on the lower Silver Lake road.
The Ever Readys" of the Shorey
Sunday school will give an ice cream
social tonight at the Shorey school
house.
Horace wilkie. of the North Topeka
Bend, Ind, where he has been visiting
relatives.
Miss Adele Scheer and Mr.. George
E. Scheer have returned from the
Kansas university where they nave
been attending summer school.
The congeSted condition at the Boys
State Industrial school continues to
grow worse instead of better according
to Superintendent Charles. 1t may De
necessary in the future to enlarge the
institution to accommodate the boys
Little Eugene Williams, the five year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. George VIII
liams, of 923 North Tyler street, is
recovering from a serious accident that
occurred to him four weeks ago, when
he fell backwards into tub of scald-
ing water.
Florence and Helen Layton cele
brated their birthday anniversaries
Thursday with the following guests:
Charlotte Conwell, Margaret Collins,
Elizabeth Johnston, Miriam McMaster,
Janet Johnston, George Johnston.
Gladys Baer, Kingsley Handley, Alice
Voiland, and Robert Layton.
Miss Mona Jerome, of Kansas City, |
Mo- returned home today after spend |
ing a week with her aunt, Mrs. w. T. |
sherwood, of 1909 North Western ave-
The Relief Corps postponed the bas-
ket picnic which was to have been held
today.
Word has been received on the North
side of the death of James Lillard, a
former North side resident, who for
the past six years has been living in
Rossville. In North Topeka he was a
familiar figure on the street as for a
number of years he drove an express