The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-22
in NORTH TOPEKA
Death Is Busy Among Residents
of North Side.
Exodus of Russians to the SUI
gar Beet Fields.

Joseph Sproat, a farmer we'll known
in North Topeka, died very suddenly
last night at his home on r. r. 6.
Mr.. Sproat is the son of Mrs Kate
Cobey. He was a member of several
lodges of the city. Funeral services
will be conducted by the Rev j. e.
Scheer, at the Kansas Avenue Metho-
dist church, on Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
Hardup Social.
If police officers see any suspicious
characters strolling on North Kansas
avenue tomorrow evening, they may
be some of North Topeka's highly re-
spected citizens, CARRIED in the worst
which is necessary if they attend the
'Hardup'' social which is being given
by the members of knights and
Ladies, Council No. 8. Those in at
tendance at the social will be met at
the door by committee who will
| assess fine on them for any clothes
worn which are presentable-
Death of Mrs. Hutchinson.
Mrs. Phoebe Hutchinson, wife of
Ed Hutchinson, died this morning at
her home northwest of the city. The
funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at the Prairie
| Home church. Interment in Prairie
Home cemetery.
Exodus From Little Russia.
| A sudden decrease in the population
of Little Russia took place Sunday
morning. Each year for many years
past, a large number of the residents
of that suburb leave for the west to
work in the sugar beet fields. On
Sunday morning twenty-five or more
| families packed their belongings and
on two Santa Fe coaches left for Hor-
| din, Montana, and Sheridan, Wyoming.
| The Sheridan Sugar Beet company
promise them work in the fields dur
ing the season and in the factory
! T1,fr y, I,a he
winter, and also offers them induce
ments in the way of lands at low
| prices and easy payments, so it is
quite possible that the families who
| left yesterday will not return next fall
as has been their usual custom.
Mrs. Bertha Jones Dies.
Berthat May Jones, wife of Louis B.
! Jones, died Sunday morning at her
home, 1929 Logan street. Mrs. Jones's
death followed a nervous trouble, from
which she has suffered recently. A
short funeral service will be held in
Conwell's chapel, before sending the
body to Rock Creek, Kan, for burial.
burial.
"a, Held Up by Ice.
After depositing enough money with
| Charles GerteiSen, agent at the Union
Pacific-Santa Fe Junction, to insure
passage of their families from Rus
sia, Ignatius Herrelein and Peter Ell
| SenDdCn received WOrQ tnaI the mar
Dor at Archang1e had frozen up before
| they reached the port, and that not
until now have they been able to leave
port. They will reach Topeka in
| about six weeks.
Notes and Personal.
Ed Chiddic of Menoken was in the
/ city on Saturday on a business trip.
| asGeorge F. 2Waychoff of Emporia
4 spent Saturday and Sunday in North
! Topeka visiting his daughters.
Charles SheetZ returned to Topeka
| from business trip to Kansas City
| Mrs. w. NJ. Ost is very seriously
4 i'll at her home, 615 Harrison street
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Gesser have re-
A turned from a trip to Volland, Kan
4 where they visited friends.
/ The Tsuneo Taxi Hashi EN- broidery
4 club will meet Tuesday afternoon with
/ Miss Hazel Boast at her home, 9Os
Jackson.
George E. Lyon. secretary of the
| Kansas Christian Missionary society
/ conducted both services at the Cen
| trail Avenue Christian church.
1 H. c. Mckinley has returned to his
| desk as assistant cashier of the Citi-
zens State Bank after taking a week.
| va cation