The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-11
| North Side News
ICE ON KAW TODAY
River Almost Frozen Over in
Places This Morning.
w. s. Cook and Companions
Have q Big Hunt.
BAzAR WAS A BIG SUCCESS
Dinner and Entertainment
Given at Methodist Church.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Nauman Dead.
Bazaar WAS A BIG SUCCESS

A little more cold weather and the
Kaw will be ready for skating. This
morning altbo there was consider
able flow of current in the middle,
most of the river was surfaced with a
thin layer of ice and snow. 1t is the
first ice seen on the river SO far this
season.
E.E. Peyton can stand it yet awhile.
.I don't care how cold it gets" says
he, ..if it stays above 26 degrees below
zero In 1891, 1 was working in the
round-house of a railroad. One of
the crew of a switch engine became
sick and they put me on. Almost any
one can throw dust on switch engine,
you know. Well, about the fourth
day 1 was on, the mercury dropped
to 26 below. 1 shall never forget that
night. l don't believe we got 100
pounds of steam pressure. We had to
keep shooting the steam right back
into the boiler in order to keep it from
freezing"
W. S. Cook and two companions
brought back 40 rabbits Saturday as
trophies of a hunting expedition up
Rock Creek. Cook reports that half
of them they brought back dressed for
breakfast.
THE masses are always inclined to
=
chant" declares Q. A. Pratt. las
soon as people buy their goods from
away from home, they hasten the time
when there will be a double row of
empty business houses down Kansas
avenue and the small city will be
overshadowed and swallowed up by
the larger one. This not only will af-
feet the small city, but will have a
tremendous backward influence upon
the outlying country districts"
A. v. Lindell was joking about an
incident that happened in the Shawnee
State bank. Our match safes that we
are giving away are popular. We
don't give them to small children
however. The other day little Rus
sian boy asked for one. I told him
he'd have to bring along his father or
his mother before he could have it.
He disappeared for a while and then
returned with note which said, Give
this little . boy a match box. My
mother is sick"
Grant E. Kelsey has returned from
a trip to Nebraska and the Dakotas.
The expedition is an annual affair, in
which he is associated with c. V. Coch-
ran and Jess Haneyin supplying farm
ers with seed potatoes. This year he
went north and Cochran and Haney
attended to the selling, while he saw
to the purchasing and shipping.
Charles Wesley Nauman. 15-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nau-
man of the Rochester district. died
this morning. Mr.. and Mrs. Nauman
are old residents of the community,
having been in the truck gardening
business for many years.
Due to the fact that w. G. Handley,
pastor of the North Topeka Baptist
church had his tonsils removed. his
pulpit was supplied sunday morning
by the Rev. Robert Gordon, pastor OF
the First Baptist church and in the
evening by the Rev. F. w. Witten-
braker. pastor of the Seward Avenue
Baptist church.
C. J. McCoid of Silver Lake is in
today on business.
Miss Eugene Dennis, 1404 Logan
street. had a birthday party December
7. In the cetner of the table was a
large cake lighted with IL pink can