The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
North Side NeUs
SOLDIERS HUNGRY
Battery "B" of Kansas City
Passes Thru on u. p.
Battery "a" Boys Had Beaten
Them to All Restaurants.

Battery B of Kansas City passed
thru North Topeka on the Union Pa
cific railway Friday night at S:S5
o'clock 1t planned to stop ten min
utes for lunch but in reality the troops
didn't Ie-embark until $3.50 o'clock be-
cause of the difficulty they expert
enced in getting anything to eat The
Topeka Battery. A boys had almost ex-
hauSted the supply of eatables. Bat
tery had to content themselves for
the most part with partaking OF choco-
lates, sodaS and cigars. One drug store
did a two days business in the short
time that the Kansas City boys were
here. After consuming all the sup
plies it had, the boys left and scat
tered in all directions. some going as
far away as five blocks from the sta
ton. 1t required a number of bugle
calls to bring them back. One of the
boys came back from the border with
5000 coming to him from the govern
ment and another owed his Uncle Sam
S25. Those were the financial ex-
tremes. They were all hoping to have
steady jobs when they return to the
big town.
The members of the interline freight
department of the Santa Fe made up
a purse, bought goods, and played the
good fellow literally to several pow
erty-stricken families of North Topeka
Friday.
Mrs. Sarah Y. Duncan, so years old,
died this morning at the home of her
son, Charles Duncan, 529 East Fair
child street. The body is to be taken
to Winchester, Kan. for burial Christ
mas morning.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Sheetz of Ar
gentine, Kan, will spend Christmas
with Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Sheetz, 1888
North Quincy street, and relatives on
the South side.
The Buechner grocery auto truck
started out this morning and the key
of the axle broke off 1t had to wait
until 8 o'clock before a union work
man could give his attention to it. Then
it was thought the job would take four
hours. So the old delivery wagon was
resurrected but had not proceeded
far before the single tree snapped. Ed
Buechner says, do your Christmas
smashing early
The Senior B. Y. P. u of the North
Topeka Baptist church held its an
nual business meeting Tuesday evening
and elected the following officers:
Carl Hirschberg, president; Elizabeth
Schenck. vice-president; Emory Baird,
treasurer; Grace Carlson, secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Wynans of Los
Angeles, former residents of North To-
peka, are spending the week visiting
old friends on the north side. sr
Notes and Personals
Renney Robinson, of Wichita, is
spending the Christmas holidays with
his mother, S27 North Jackson street.
w. H. Markham will spend Christ
mas in Rossville.
NJ. F. Southwicke went to Greenleaf,
Kan, to spend Christmas with his
daughter, Mrs. ]. Close.
NJ. G. Hutcheson, of Kiro, has re-
turned from a business trip to Kansas
City.
The choir will sing a Christmas
cantata, ''The Prince of Peace in the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Sun
day evening at o'clock.
Robert Spetter, who missed the Bat
terry A train, came in on a later one
Friday night.
The Kansas Avenue Epworth league
meets at $50 o'clock Sunday evening
in the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church. The topic will be "The First
Christmas Circle and Ours" Harrison
Euler leader.
A. v Linden of the Shawnee State
bank has received word from his fa-
ther-in-law, Gust Johnson, of Usage
City, that a fire in his mine Thursday
night burned out the shaft, but that
no men were killed or injured and
that the workings of the mine were
H. G. Barrett of Granville. Lon
Berry of Elmont, Ed Mcconnell of
Menoken, Frank Mongold of Perry
and Ed Wyant of Silver Lake were in
on business Friday.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. of the North
Topeka Baptist church will hold their
annual banquet at the church Monday
evening, January 1. The ladies of the
church will serve the banquet, the pro-
ceeds going to the new church fund.
The Rev W. G. Handley will preside
as toastmaster. Toasts will be given
by the following: Marjorie Cole.
Grace Carlson, Don Bobb, Leland
Schenck, Chas. H. Klussman. Ethel
Callie Kincaid, Mrs w. E.
Scotton, Elizabeth Schenck, Greta
Gardner and Ruth Baird
A. M Petro, Druggist-Adv
A Christmas program is to be given
at the West Indianola school house
tonight by the children of the com
The children of the school.
and of various Sunday schools are to
take part in the entertainment, which
will commence promptly at O'Clock
The public is invited to attend the
event.
Christmas gifts that satisfy. L. P.