The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-26
North Side Neus

II lNOIlIt Que lNSCOS
! According to local produce men, the
present year holds a very gloomy out
| look for the poultry raiser. Storage
| plants turnout the country are at
present holding between 40 and 60
per cent more poultry in storage than
at any previous period. Much of this
poultry is left over from last years
stock. The price of chickens is SO
| low at the present time that the prod
uce dealers can't afford to sell their
stocks at prevailing figures. They
would have to sell at a loss, over the
price which they paid last summer.
According to Charley Matthews,
who has flock of Rhode Island Reds
numbering about 800 birds, and who
has made a business of raising baby
chicks for several years, a poultry
raiser can't make money at the pres
ent prices of feed. Baby chick feed
which a year ago sold for $3.50, to-
day commands 81 a hundred. Mixed
millet and wheat, the FINEST feed, is
over IS.
. Matthew'S has not made a cent on
| his chickens in the last year. Count
| ing labor, he estimates that he has
suffered a loss. Were it not for the
hope of taking premiums at the state
| fair next fall, there would be no in
ducement whatever to continue in the
| business.
The market and the general situa-
| ton, say produce men, who refuse to
| be quoted, is so uncertain that no
| positive prediction can be made of
| future prices But by present indica-
tions the only way to force the price
up to a point where the industry Will
| return a profit, without which 1t can
exist, is for enough farmers to quit
chicken raising for the scarcity of the
produce to boost its value.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Willetts of
North Harrison street, announce the
marriage of their daughter Elizabeth
to Mr.. Earl Hastings. The marriage
took place in Lawrence Monday. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Hastings are North To
peka young people. Mr.. Hastings is
in the employ of the McCord- KiStler
company. They will go to housekeep-
ing on the North Side in a short time
Archie feathers of Douglas county,
Georgia, was picked up by Scott and
Ford this morning, and sent over TO
the United States marshaPS office FOR
( investigation. feathers claimed that
he didn't know his age.
He was an honest-looking chap. and
, told the United States deputy marshal
what he didn't know in such a con-
vincing way that he was released. The
office of the marshal is badly handi-
capped by the lack of any unified ma
tional system for keeping tab on the
about the country when they had
much better be required to stay in one
spot and do a little useful labor
! Monday Officer F. H. Scott picked
| up Powell Rockewitch of Vienna, Aus
tria. This young man had no real OBJ
ject in drifting about the country. it
is pointed out After a local tailor
had spent an entire day trying to
find Rockewitch a job, Scott finally
landed him a position in the basket
factory in North Topeka. The police
want to do the square thing by the
vags and transients, but they don't
desire that any slackers or worse shall
slip thru their fingers.
Social and Personal.
w E. Section and Edwin Section
will start Wednesday for an overland
trip to Portland, Ore, in their Buick
car. D l.. Button will accompany
them as far as Colorado. The trip
is expected to occupy between two and
three weeks.
Mrs Section and her daughter
Dorothy, will go by train to Portland
where the family will make their
home.
Ethel Hannah is in Colorado
Springs.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. gave a fare
well party Monday evening for the
boys in the society who have enlisted
i nthe army. The members picn1cked
on the Berry farm north of town. The
After refreshments Bibles were pre-
scented by the society to Dean Van
Ness and Orville Rowe. Those who
attended were: Bessie Schenck, Ra-
chael Garrett, Grace Carlson, Ruth
Button, Agnes Carlson, Gretchen Vol
land, Mabel Suit. Hazel Kincaid, Ma
RE Bobb. Freda Hirschberg, Eliza beth
Van Ness Edith Knauer. Grace Smith,
Lucy Kersey, Erma Gray. jeanette
Emert. Paul Van Ness. Albert Hirsch-
berg, Leland Schenck, Albert Hoe
berg. Ben Palmer. Walter Luythe.
Charlie Allison, Ross Frisbie. Dean
Van Ness, Don Bobb, Charles KIuss-
man. Walter Cole. Thomas Voiland,
Buss Voifand, Emery Baird, Mr. and
Mrs. W. NJ Van Ness Mrs. Albert
Hirschberg, Mr.. and Mrs. A J. Berry
Carl Hirschberg, Charlie Martin, Ed
Section.
Ike Trousel and John Howes of the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth are
visiting friends and relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson and
Mrs. o. c. Anderson of Oskaloosa are
guests of DIR. and Mrs. c. H. Thomp-
son of 1918 North Jackson street.
Mrs. E. II. Hackett left today for
her home in Los Angeles, after a stay
with the Joseph P. Hicks family.
The R. r. Baer family is spending
a ten-day vacation at the camp of the
North Topeka Outing club at Maple
Hill.
Mrs John Buechner returned home