The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-21
in NORTH Topeka
Outlook for New POstOifice
Building Is Poor.
Action on the Granville Road
Is Still Delayed.

Chances for velopments in the
! North Topeka postrffice situation ap-
PEER 20 be slim at this time. In fact
no action will be taken until the mex
session of congress, is the opinion o.
persons who have followed the trent
of events closely. At the next session
/ however, it is expected that Charles
Curtis. United States senator from
Kansas, who formerly resided in NORTH
Topeka, will attempt to clarity thf
situation.
Several y-ars aso, through the eff
forts of Senator Curtis, $1,000 wae
appropriated for 4 new poStofflce Ioi
North Topeka. Since that time, three
inspectors from the office of the SUI
perviSing architect have surveyed the
ground on the North side and have
submitted sites FOR the proposed new
, building. The inspectors, however.
failed to agree IN the sites, each one
advising a different location.
No Granville Road Yet.
The problem OF choosing a route for
the new Granville road is no nearer
a solution than it has been since the
old one was washed out Several Sug-
gestions nave been made and a petit
ton outlining one route has been filed
with the county commissioners. A
start on any of the routes is being de-
layed. however, until members of a
committee appointed by the North To-
peka Civic club corter with lepresen-
tatives of the Union Pacific Railway
company.
The committee from the Civic club
was to have met 1astnight with r. L.
Davis, division superintendent Of the
Union Pacific but MIR. Davis failed to
get to Topeka. In all probability they
will meet him in Kansas City next
week.
Several years ago representatives. of
the U. r. stated that when the land
along the Granville road was washed
away to their property. they would
act. That situation is now, present.
That the Union Pacific will have to
build jetties where their property is
now bordered by water, is the opinion
of persons living in the district. and
these persons favor. if the L. p.
builds the jetties. the rebuilding of the
old Granville road.
Not Enough Rain Has Fallen.
While farmers in the lowlands have
been wondering what they will do with
the heavy moisture 1hat has settled on
the land, farmers in the highlands are
suffering from lack of rain. Farmers
living in the high country north of the
city claim that the heavy rains that
visited Topeka during the past few
weeks gave them but a passing glance.
The heavy rains of the past two
months instead of being absorbed
packed down the ground and made
of the water ran off into the lowlands.
The situation is peculiar in view of
the fact that the rainfall during the
past two months was the heaviest for
this period of the year that has been
recorded by the weather bureau in
years.
With the Churches.
Kansas Avenue Methodist church,
J. E Scheer, pastor. $50 o'clock,
Sunday school, H. A French, superin-
Rev. ]. H. Frazer; 6:45 o'clock. Inter
mediate league; o'clock, combined
service, leader Charles Wiseman.
Topic, 'How to Make the World Hap
pier"
Notes and Personals.
w. r. Bowerman of Manhattan was
in North Topeka Friday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo George of Dover
were the guests Friday of Mrs
Georges aunt Mrs. C. C. Milburn, and
North Van Buren, street.
O. ID. Hotchkiss of Silver Lake was
in North Topeka Friday afternoon on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. X. Burrough of
Granville visited friends in North
Topeka Friday.
w. S. Blackhart, who motored to
Pawnee City early this week, is ex-
pScCeQ TO TO NOTCn topeka
today.
r. D. Johnson is in Kansas City on
business.
George Knaur, who is making an
extended western trip, spent several
days at the Grand Canon.
Hugh A. Ralston of Kansas City was
in North Topeka Friday.
Miss Bess Sheetz will go to Maple
Hill tomorrow where she will be a
guest at the Outing camp.
PRtrO d1-ucvrfSf
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Luthye, who
are now travelling in the west, have
recently visited q number of points of
interest in Mexico. While there they
experienced no trouble according to a
letter received by friends in North
Topeka.
Mrs. Ben Burke and her son Robert
of Sedalia, Mo, are the guests of Mrs.
Burke'S daughter. Mrs. A. Z. Andrews,
of 1904 North Quincy street.