The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-25
North Side Neus
BUILD new BARN
Horse and Mule Co. Erecting q
$4,000 Structure.
Trunk of Whisky and Mexican
Nabbed by Holman.

The North Topeka Horse & Mule
company. recently organized, has be-
gun the erection of a big new stock
barn at the corner of Curtis and Van
Buren, streets. The STRUCTURE will cost
about $4,000 1t is planned to COM
pIete the work in three weeks With
this end in view, and to rush con-
struction much as possible the
company is hiring a heavy force OF
men by the day, and great effort
will be made to complete the building
in schedule time
The new barn will be rs by 156
feet, and will house geo head of
horses When it is complete, sales
will be held there every Saturday and
least 200 horses and mules there each
week
Those interested in the North To-
peka Horse & Mule company are
Frank Bechtelheimer, Rome Coivtn
Sam Martin, Joe Hows, Bud White
and L. P. Haley Each of these well
known horsemen has a corps of buy
ers over the country purchasing
stock They will cover practically the
whole middle west
Army buyers will be in Topeka ev
cry week and sales will be conducted
as in an open market The uncer-
tainty in the horse buying and the
chance that the individual buyer will
lose as much as he gains in the I'M
certain condition of the market have
caused the North Topeka dealers to
com bine their interests to do business
on a larger scale for mutual protec-
ton
Get Trunk of Whisky.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Holman this
morning confiscated trunk Of whis-
ky, which came into Topeka Tuesday
night on No. 119. Holman. who had
a tip that the wet goods would make
its appearance was on the job and
watched the trunk all night This
morning an expresSman took it IN his
wagon and hauled it to Second and
Hancock street where Mexican at
tempted to take possession The Mex
lean bore SO unmistakable an air of
ownership that Holman nabbed him
and his trunk which proved to contain
a key of whisky.
Work on Elevator.
Construction on the Golden Belt
Elevator company's building is pro-
ceeding rapidly The forms in which
the concrete towers will be nodded
are being built. When the mcIding
of the solid concrete structure begins
two shifts of men will work cor-tinu-
ously to complete it by September L
By that time, it is hoped the build
ing will be ready for the storing OF
grain
The forms in which the concrete
will be held will be raised on jacks
az the rate of seven feet every twenty
four hours The jacks which viii
force the forms TO a height or over
100 feet will work continuously
turned by workmen- A tower OF wood
in which an elevator or lift for the
concrete will be raised has beer. built
and when complete will sstand Ice
<eet high
Social and Personal
Mildred Fraser of Kansas City. a
former North Topeka girl, IS here
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Goff and
Mr.. and Mrs F. p. Fraser, her grand
parents.
T NJ. Forbes is expected home from
Denver this week. He started July
20. and will stop for a two days visit
I in Paradise, Kan, with relatives
Circus day brought in a stream OF
automobiles from outlying towns this
morning. and the trains on the Unior
Pacific unloaded hundreds of people
4 Alvin Rodgers of Central avenue
/ has gone to Philadelphia to take g
course in Hthogra phing and printing
/ He will be away for three months
Mrs. Lawson of Kansas City with
her two children is in Topeka visitins
( her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl VIII
I liams.
Mrs. John Jackson. of E1mont, is il
a local hospital recovering from a re
[
\ Sam MacAdams of Walters, Okla.
I formerly of North Topeka and nov
associated with B. A Coleman in
; Walters bank. is visiting friends il
/ North Topeka and Rossville.
C. E White, chief special agent fo1
I Kansas division of the Union Pacific
4 and formerly special agent with tn,
! Ringing Bros circus. is fE Topeka
+ spending the day with railroad mel
and friends
The North Topeka B. Y P. U heIs
a lawn party at the W. NJ Van Mes
home, 1909 North Kansas avenue
/ Tuesday evening. Those attendin;
! were Ruth Baird. Ruth Mckinley
Lena Baxter, Grace Smith Vern;
I MARBLE, Edith Kannarr, Eliza betl
Schenck, Ethel Hannah, Callie Kin
caid, Hazel Kincaid, Ruth Button
! Grace Carlson. Leland Schenck. Pau
/ Van Ness. Dean Van Ness, Charli
/ Allison, Charles K1ussman, Thoma
rVoiland. Ferdinand VoiIand, HaroI,
Smith, Carl Hirschberg. Chester Neis
wender. Harold Warnock. CharIi
Martin. Emory Baird, Mr. and Mrs
Vernon Warnock. Fred Voiiand, Mr.
and Mrs W. NJ Van Ness
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