The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-10
North Side News

According to playground workers.
there are less than fifty boys of play
ground age in North Topeka who have
not been occupied this summer in
some variety of useful labor. They
work in all sorts of positions often in
neighboring gardens, often in grocery
stores or the basket factory or in the
ice or packing plants. Many boys go
to Granville to work in the gardens
for a few days at a time.
While fifty children appear every
day on the Quincy playground, an OBJ
server will note that over North To-
peka one sees very few we'll grown
boys al play. If they are not on The
playground they are working. This
condition is consistent with that ever
, Topeka. E. e. Beargr supervisor OF
Fairgrounds, says that never have so
many children spent their vacations
or part of them in useful labor.
The Fairgrounds directors, who are
in favora BILE position to observe this
! tendency, say that it is the result of
the rising cost Of living, and the m
creased care with which people man
age their households. NOw-a-days, if
the boys want spending money they
/ have to earn it. Then, too, it is said
! the universal need for labor. and the
appeal for every person who can to
J help in the garden work has brought
many, temporarily, into the wage
] earning group.
Persons living on Quincy street
complain that speeding on that thoro
/ fare has not been stopped Motorists
| going to and from Garfield park en-
gage in short impromptu races along
| this stretch of pavement. Several
weeks ago vigorous protests were reg
| istered. and while the result was a
temporary letting down on the pave
ment burning. the speedsters are be-
! ginning to turn on the juice again, it
| is said.
! Social and Personal.
| William Boast has returned from n
months business trip in the Dakotas.
| He has been in Kansas City for the
| last week.
The William Sherwood cafe, 1O7
Railroad street, which was reported
| closed because of inability to obtain
walters. has been sold to Charley
Richards. former motorcycle police
man, and is now in operation.
W. Z. Stanley. of the Meriden Rec
| ORD, was in North Topeka Thursday.
His paper is printed each week on the
presses of the Shawnee Chief
Edith Wilson and Bernice Bullock
entertained number of North Topeka
young people Thursday evening at
| Those who attended were: Margaret
! Morns, Pearl Baer, Gleda Dessen-
| berger. Dora Ackinger. Lois Wright.
Kate Ward, Garnet Cooke, Edith Will
son, Bernice Bullock, John FernStrOm,
! Byron Wallace, Walter Urban. Charles
Holman, Eugene Grace, Russell Wha-
| ley. Roy Cooke, Leslie Farrell, Harry
| Farrell, Harold MARBLE, Ben Forbes
| and Kenneth Hamilton.
| Scott Myers has purchased touS-
| ing car.
Saturday evening the Ladies' Aid
society of the Prairie Home communi-
ty will give an ice cream social at the
| Kinnett home. The May girls orches-
ira will furnish music. and proceeds
will go to the church building fund.
The Civic club will meet tonight at
| the No. L fire station.
! The Shawnee State bank is exhib-
iting nine potatoes grown by NJ. F.
\ Kelsey of Oakland. They are huge
tubers of the variety known as Irish
! Cobblers. Two of them weigh ~
pounds apiece. Kelsey has raised 275
bushels per acre on his farm. OF these
! potatoes, it takes only fifty to fill a
| bushel basket. At prevailing prices
these potatoes are worth about 5
cents apiece.
The body of Frank Berry, who died
last Monday at Salt Lake, Utah, ar
| rived here today. Funeral arrange
| ments will be announced later