The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-09
North Side News

The Kaw Valley Canning company
which last spring erected a new tao
tory in Garfield Place, north of North
Topeka, will open for business Fri lay
morning All farmers and truck
gardeners who have tomatoes to sell
may dispose of them to the canning
company, according to J. L. Her5ch,
manager of the plant
The severe drouth for a time threat
ened the business of the concern with
total humiliation. The crop of beans
which the factory planned to accom-
modate earlier in the season was de-
stroyed by the dry weather. The to-
matO crop has been threatened, put
the recent rains have so far revived
the prospects of a heavy yield, that
IL is predicted that with the continu-
ance of favorable weather bumper
crop will be produced.
The canning factory, which is equip
ped to. handle 1000 quarts a day, will
buy up the surplus crop of all farmers
market the canned product locally.
While the company had contracted
with a few gardeners for their tomato
crops, the contracts were merely for
the purpose of assuring the factory
the material on which to operate.
II was not the intention of the plan,
as some gardeners have thought, to
depend upon contracts made in adj
vance. The principal reliance of the
concern is the surplus crop of neigh
boring farmers and gardeners with
whom no agreement had been reached.
Anyone having tomatoes to sell can
dispose of them at the canning factory
beginning Friday morning.
A real sure enough stew" was an
pretended by the officers this morn
tnerat--z-o.eloelx.--F 1e-f nebriated- Gne-
was gracefully reclining against the
rear wall of the American Express
company's building near the tracks
and time or tide had long since ceased
TO cause him worry. What his in
terror contained no one knows but
his hip pocket was blessed bN the
odiriferous presence of a half pint
whisky bottle, part of the contents of
which still remained intact. The nan
did not know his name.
Social and Personal.
Mrs. w. E Cowdry will return this
evening from visit of several days
in Hort On, Kan
j. G. Snedikef went to Kansas City
today for short business trip.
Mrs. E F. Hamilton and her daugh-
ter Celeste have gone to Carrollton,
Mo, for a weeks stay with friends
Marjorie Cole left this morning for
Sabetha, Kan. Miss Cole, whose en-
gagement to Mr.. Paul Van Ness was
announced some time ago, was given
nnen shower tuesday afternoon at
the j. H. Kincaid home on North Kan
sas avenue by the Camp girls.
William Sherwood has accepted a
position with the Morns & Myers Gro
Gerry company The Sherwood cafe at
107 Railroad street is closed at the
present time from an inability, it is
said. to obtain walters and competent
help.
A. NJ Petro, the Druggist-Adv
Fri Hansford, of Silver Lake, was
in North Topeka today and asserted
that very heavy damage was done
there by the hail
ID. T. Gabriel went frog hunting
Wednesday at Perry. He found thai
while the ponds in the neighborhoot
had reappeared owing to the recent
rains, the former frog inhabitants haC
dried into mummies during the pro
tracted drouth of July. These new
fishing poles were abandoned in the
vicinity of Perry.
The North Topeka Civic club will
hold a meeting Friday evening at
o'clock at fire station No. 1, according
to the president, Frank Simms.
The Ladies' Aid society of thu
Prairie Home Community church will
give an ice cream social Saturda,
night. August IL, at the Rase Kinnet
home. The music will be Furnished
by the May Girls orchestra. The pro
ceeds of the entertainment will go to
ward the rebuilding of the Prairi,
Home church destroyed by the Elmon
twister.