The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
| North Side NerOs
new OFFICE SOON
North Topeka Federal Building
To Be Begun i'm Spring.
A Big Drunk Joy Ride Ends in
Shooting Fest.

indications at present are that work
on the long hoped for North Topeka
postoffice will commence early next.
spring The federal appropriation fer
the building was made about three
years ago. Much delay was expert
enced in selecting a site for it. At
length the lots at the corner of Kan
sas avenue and Gordon streets we're
purchased and the old buildings stand
ing there were torn down. 1t is now
up to the supervising architect in the
treasury department at Washington to
publish plans and specifications on
which bids will be submitted. The
sum of $4,000 was appropriated for
the structure. and it is planned with
a part of this to beautify the grounds,
raising the level two and a half feet
above the street. The postoffice is of
a type of second class buildings drawn
to standardized plans by government
architects, and will be a handsome af-
fair.
An exciting comedy that came very
close to being a tragedy was staged
Sunday night on a country road north
of North Topeka. Three gentlemen
of foreign extraction had been testing
all the drinks on a somewhat restrict
ed local market. They were very
tight They started on an agricul-
tural sightseeing tour in hired auto
mobile with a perfectly sober driver
The two stews in the rear seat be-
came involved in an argument, which
one of them proposed to settle by the
use of a revolver. Instead of point
ing the gun at his opponent, however,
| he pointed it at the sober driver. The
driver didn't like it. 1t made him
nervous. So with the assistance of the
| other two stews he tried to take the
gun away from the practical advocate
of militarism.
The stew objected, and voiced his
objection by pulling the trigger. The.
gun went off and a healthy sized
| chunk of lead drilled a hole thru the
thigh of the stew on the front seat
At this point hostilities ceased and the
party fastened to town with the in
| jured man. He was taken to a local
establishment. During the interval of
waiting for the arrival of a doctor, the
injured man protested in a fearful
voice that he didn't mind the hole in
his leg if someone would only give
him a quart of whisky Another
asked the shooter why he pulled the
trigger Well he inquired in
righteous wrath, 'whas tina trigger for
anyway
A new form of outdoor sport was
evolved at the Rochester school en-
tertainment Friday evening. 1t ap-
pears that two enterprising youths IN
pany of two young ladies to the af-
| fair Their invitation was declined.
Two more fortunate gallants, VINO
could produce no more tempting IN
ducement than a horse and carriage
however, were strangely enough ac-
copied They drove to the place OF
! celebration, unconscious that their re-
jected rivals were plotting vengeance,
| But when they emerged from the
building the automobile had come and
gone. Upon attempting to drive away,
| the party found that the lines and
traces had been cut. This discovery
So incensed one young white hope that
he Immediately offered to clean up
everyone in sight, and was proceeding
! to do so when taken in charge by his
more prudent companions. With the
assistance of rope or two and a
little kidding from onlooEers the party
made its way slowly but safely back to
town.
The body of Mrs. Bernice Ellwood
Redmond, who died suddenly at her
home in Concordia Friday night,
passed thru Topeka Sunday on the
way to Odessa, Mo. where interment
will take place. The cause of Mrs
Redmond's sudden death has not yet
been learned. Mrs. Redmond and her
husband, Claude Redmond, were well
! known on the North side, where Mr..
Redmond was formerly employed in
| the Austin-S ediker store.
| Personals.
| L. 1. Mcfarland went out last week
in his machine to try the latest sport
of hunting rabbits at night behind the
Searchlights of an automobile. The
machine came back all right, but no
rabbits were in evidence in it.
Miss Lena Hohnbaum has been Wis
| iting with Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Maze and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred F'irner for the last
few days.
| C. A. Marker motored to Hoyt Sat
urday He found the roads in rather
bad condition.
Several hundred people took advan-
| tage of the cold snap to go skating on
Soldier creek Sunday.
The stork presented Mr.. and Mrs.
W. L. Murphy of 126 East Norris
street with twin girls Saturday even
ing.
Frank Wier and H. Harrington of
Silver Lake were in the city today.
The price of potatoes is still mount
/ ing. Jobbers are now asking $500 a
bushel wholesale. Potatoes not only
are scarce but in the extremely cold
weather prevailing farther west in the
Rockies, the Pacific coast growers
/ have great difficulty in reaching the
middle western markets.
]. S. Brownell is seriously ill at his
home, 314 East Laurent street, with
pneumonia.
Ed Martin of Kiro was in the city