The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-08
North Side Nelus

About ten boys of the Junior high
school and the higher grades IF
Quincy school have made application
and have gone to the country to take
part in the movement to increase the
food supply. Most of the boys are
working near to town. Others may be
expected to depart for the farms AMI
truck gardens soon. Boys of the North
side are keeping step with those oe
other schools in the back to the farm
movement, which is spreading thru the
country.
Quite a few North side young men
have enrolled in the officers training
| camp at Fort Riley. and a number of
and the engineers corps. Several
Washburn students who live in North
! Topeka have Joined the colors in Cr1e
branch or another.
! The North Topeka postoffice reports
| that since the bone dry law went into
effect. there has been a marked fall
! ing off in the number of mail orders
! sent to Kansas City and similar"
/ points east. What this fact signifies,
! the authorities do not venture to say
| Indeed, they do not attempt to at
tribute this scarcity of mail orders to
any particular cause. They merely
record a fact, and the wise ones draw
their own conclusions. The joke is on
some one, but no one volunteers to
/ indicate who.
! Postmaster W. o. Rigby has re-
ceived specifications and measure
ments for the standard branch postof-
! flee. of the type to be erected in North
/ Topeka. The postmaster will suggest
! to the supervising architect of the
| treasury department changes to be
made to suit local conditions. and
which will adapt the building to the
site prepared for it.
no haC advanced
the unwinding of all the official red
| tape of the department, necessary be-
/ fore anything can be done, takes
good deal longer than the actual erec-
i ton of the building, which Will COM
merce, it is thought, about the end OF
next summer.
Social and Personal.
| The Sunday school cabinet of the
| Second Presbyterian church will meet
| Wednesday evening with Mrs. Allen. of
! 1908 North Jackson street.
Shawnee Council No. meets to-
night at 1000 North Kansas avenue.
| T. N. Mcclure has returned to To-
| peka after spending the winter in
| Leavenworth.
Mrs. c. o. Henderson of Meriden
visited friends in North Topeka today.
! The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres
! byterian church meets today at the
! church.
The members of the North Topeka
Baptist church will hold a business
! meeting Thursday evening at the
| church.
i a. Vi. Petro, Enthusiastically.
The first quarterly conference of
J the Kansas Avenue Methodist church
will be held Friday evening at the
church. The members of the official
/ board, the pastor, and the district
superintendent, DR.. H E. Wolfe, will
meet together.
The Ladies' Aid society of the North
I Topeka Baptist church meets this af-
| ternoon with Mrs. Frank Williams of
! 900 North Harrison street.
The Missionary society of the Pres
/ byterian church meets with Mrs. E. G.
Conkling of 1908 North Harrison
| street.
Golden Rule lodge No. 80 A. F. and
A. M. holds it's bi-weekly session
Thursday evening at the hall. Oil Kan
sas avenue.
| Let me give you an estimate on your
next job of printing. Marvin Bogln.
phone 1878. Fifth and Jackson.-Adv.
| Rebecca lodge will give a ten cent
social Wednesday evening at the home
of Mrs. George Finch.
| The Merry Matrons will hold all
| day meeting Thursday at the home of
Raymond Diffenderfer of 1919 North
| Monroe street.