The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-20
I'M NORTH Topeka
Stove Men Do Thriving Bust
ness-CoId Alarms Folk.
Cast for ssThe Message of the
VioIets" Announced.

Business felt the first effects of win
ter Thursday. The furnace men did
thriving business, while the cigar
dealers sat around lonesome for some
one to talk to- People were either
gathered around their own hearth
stones or else scurried around in a des-
perate hunt for heat producers
am SO rushed with the coal bust
ness, 1 hardly have time to think"
declared ]. B. Billiard. Everyone
wants coal all at once 1t keeps me
busy answering the telephone. Usage
and urlingame-Kansas coals-are
the most popular. If 1 could deliver
it, could sell 200 tons of coal day.
But | can't deliver it all at once
They're keeping me busy as a
cranberry merchant" says J. T. Coates,
shoemaker. 81 had a helper yester-
day.
The cold has good effect on bust
ness" asserts o. A Pratt, hardware
dealer. 1t makes people buy stoves.
In the warm weather, We got rid of
only one stove week. It's poor day
now that we don't sell several
yesterday was a pretty dull day..
AYERS }. H Hartman, seed and produce
dealer. About the only persons who
| had any business were the stove men.
1t certainly was funny last night
there was regular procession of men
returning home from work, carrying
stoVepipes under their arms"
Fellows come in just running their
legs OFF for ammunition" says Charles
Small. gun salesman. THE ducks are
drawing the hunters out"
Play Cast Announced
J THE Message of the Violets''-a
| play written by Iona Dawson Edmis-
ton. North Topeka girl-will be Civ
en- In the Baptist church next Tuesday
| evening. 1t is a story of early Kansas
The cast is working hard in prepare
ton for the production. The twelve
| character will be taken by the follow.
ing persons: Miss Elizabeth Van Mes.
as Mrs. Baxter; Miss Verneata Win
| derby as Mrs. Bakers daughter. Bes
| sic; Miss Cleda Smith as Mrs Martin
Miss Ina Lancaster as Alice Langdon
MISS Bianch Baird as Mrs. Gethart
Miss Ruth Olson as Mrs. Prescott
! Miss Myrtle Carlson as Mrs Snow
Miss Pearl Barker as Miss Prescott
| Miss Vena Williams as the Indian girl
Cheenwah; Miss Margaret Morns a.
the old negro nanny, Aunt Vinney
ana ralph Gabriel as John Trescott
Notes and Personals.
M. F. Troxell, chaplain and parol,
agent of the Boys Industrial school, il
| expected back from Hawarten, Ia.
Saturday. The last reports are to tn.
effect that his son is much improved
in health H. W. Charles, superin
|
paroles to be granted the first of mex
| month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Roehrig will re
turn to Portland, Ore, next Tuesday
after a two weeks visit to friends an,
relatives in North Topeka.
Mr.. aid Mrs. H. L. Smith of Gar
field Place are the parents of a girl
| born Wednesday.
Elizabeth Van Ness left today t,
spe nd the weekend with her brother
Dean, who is attending Ottawa uni
| yer sity.
| Mrs. c. E. Kistler is rapidly recoy
ering from a recent surgical opera
ton. She will probably be takel
nome from the hospital wit hin tw
or three days.
See Rutter's line of stoves.-Adv.
Edward Martin of Iliro is in toda-
on business.
A curiously shaped sweet potato i
on exhibition in a window of Camp
bells drug store. 1t was grown b
Edward Kassebaum of Menol1en.
See Rutter's line OF stoves.-Ady.
c. H. Huntington of Silver Lake ha
returned from business trip to Kan
, sas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A Fraser O
Oskaloosa stopped in North Topek
Thursday on their way home fror
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