The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-05
| North Side Ne1Us
is LADY OF HONOR
Charles Navarro Gets Unusual
Position in His Lodge.
Charity Lodge, Degree of
Honor, Elects Officers.
$4,000 FOR N. 7. POST0FFICE
Treasury Department Asks
Money to Continue Branch.
No Definite Plans for Erecting
New Building.
$50, 900 FOR N. 7. POSTOFFICE

1t isn't often a man is elected lady
of honor" That's the office for
which Charles Navarro was chosen at
a lively election meeting of Charity
lodge No. 26, Degree of Honor. held
in it's hall at S33 North Kansas avenue
Saturday evening. Ellen Smiley was
elected chief of honor; Charles Ma
varre. lady of honor; Ellen M. Jones,
chief of ceremonies; Alcena Hurst. re-
corder; Mrs. L. c. Kaser, financler;
c. KAISER, receiver; Ida NJ. Navarro.
usher; Sally 7. Roth, inside watch;
c. Lane, outside watch, Laura Nor
gan, representative to the grand
lodge; Henriette E. Slaybaugh, alter
nate, and DR.. Miriam A. Swift, medi-
cal adviser. Mrs. Kaser has held the
office to which she was reelected for
thirty-Six years.
! The treasury department. Monday in
its annual estimates for the construc-
ton and improvement of public
| buildings, asked for the appropriation
Of $4,000 fol-. continuance of the
| North Topeka branch postoffice. ac-
| cording to a dispatch from Washing
ton. D. C. w. o. Rigby, postmaster
states that this sum, if granted, I'M
| doubtedly will not effect the plans
| for the erection of a new branch post
office building. No definite plans for
the building have yet been adopted
but the construction is expected to
! commence next year In case there is
any money left from the $4,000
called for it will be turned back into
| the department fund.
No / fire station was called out to
a fire at Laurent and Taylor streets
at AIS o'clock Monday afternoon to
extinguish a blaze on the roof started
| by spark from the chimney. The
| building was a frame house occupied
by William Fraser and family. Prob
ably $500 worth of damage was in
Cured. The fire boys returned at
| Sis o'clock.
| The program which will be given in
the auditorium of the Second Presby-
| terrain church Wednesday evening at
o'clock following a bazaar and sup
per, is as follows: Orchestra selection,
orchestra of Second Presbyterian
church; vocal solo, Mrs. Ben Pool;
reading, "a Confidante," Miss Thelma
Day; 'whistling solo, Miss Florence
Fair: reading, Miss Miller; vocal solo,
at Was in Time of Lilac" Mrs. C. H.
| Thompson; orchestra selection; read
ing, "a Real Lady" Miss Elsie Saville
| whistling solo, Miss Florence Fair;
reading, Daisy Wriggles's Half Hour
Practice Miss Thelma Day; orches-
ira selection; benediction
Lumber for the erection of a bunga-
| low oil station by the Standard Oil
company is already on the grounds at
the corner of Central avenue and Cor
! Dur
up as soon as possible.
Members of Eugene lodge, I. o. o.
! F., will meet for drill tonight in their
hall at 1897 North Kansas avenue.
Victor council No. 4, Knights and
Ladies of Security, will hold their third
annual homecoming meeting in their
hall Thursday evening. Invita- tions for
$50 guests have been sent out. mu-
! steal and literary entertainment will
be furnished, consisting of selections
by two readers, a whistler. the Sun
| flower Glee club composed of seven
colored singers, the Knights and
Ladies orchestra and band, and a
! pianist. Refreshments will be served.
Stunt night" which YVES to have
been held by the Baptist young peo-
pie at the church Wednesday evening,
December 6, has been postponed one
week.
Charles Skinner. who has been
working on ranch at Numm. Colo.
is visiting his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J.
B. Skinner, 1921 North Tyler street.
He leaves January 1 to take charge
of his parents farm near Perry
THE drop of another cent in the
price of butter announced in the
morning paper will not hit Topeka
until the latter part of this week or
the first of next-the price never
fluctuates in the middle of the week.
says c. A. Marker of the Topeka
Creamery company. 81 don't look for
| butter to go much lower than it now
is, altho wish it would get down to a
decent price. 1t knocks sales all to
pieces Boycotters are affecting the
price just now"
H. G. Barrett's motor truck "died''
on him on his way in from Granville
Monday and he furnished considerable
amusement to his friends when he
came in behind a sturdy team of
! horses.
son street, of the B class, Quincy
school, has blossomed into a promising
poet. A class in drawing. L. F. Rey-
nolds, teacher, was making folders to
inclose a piece of poetry which they
| themselves were to select Edgar
| wrote his own verse. Here it is:
Some people think Thanksgiving
Is just for fun and play,
And others think of Turkey"
| But yet some people say.
Il wish that this was Christmas
m And not Thanksgiving day
Then little Mary Jane would cry
In voice that's nice to hear.
'Hurrah for our Thanksgiving day.
Tho it comes but once a year.
]. S. Henderson. harness dealer, ad-
vises farmers to get out their old
! harness, see to the necessary repairs,
| and oil it. It'll cost them like smoke
to get new harness in the spring The
price of leather is higher than a cats
back. Leather is wholesaling at 50
cents pound. It's going to rs cents
/ next spring. That means that new
farm harness will cost from 500 to
S125 a set by the first of March"
Roy Hall of Granville leaves today
for Fayetteville, Ark, to spend the
| winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Marsh of
Kilmer leave in two weeks to spend
1.-THE winter in California.
| Mrs. Weatherwax of Bay City
/ Mich, who has been visiting her
| daughter, Mrs Ben Pool 931 North
| Jackson street, returns to her home
| this evening.
Sam Roller of Kiro. Mr.. and Mrs
| NJ. NJ. Shirley of Granville, and
George Wendell and son. Clarence. OF