The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-22
North Side Neus

Friday evening Amity lodge No.
231, K. P, will celebrate its twenty
fifth anniversary. An entertainment
will be given and refreshments served
There are about twenty-five members
in the lodge who have been affiliated
with it since its establishment and
these will receive the gold insignia
in recognition of their years of mem
bership.
North Topeka grocers have issued
the warning that state officials will be
very strict this season in running
down those guilty of selling bad eggs
to dealers. Some chicken raisers have
an interesting habit of removing the
eggs that have refused to hatch IN an
incubator, and distributing them
among fresh ones. Then they market
them to the grocers in town.
One dealer asserts that in crate
four dozen bad ones. He draws the
Inference that they didn't find their
way there by accident. State officers
it is asserted, will make an effort to
discover what persons attempt to
market bad eggs, and they will be
subject to fine.
Druggists report that the fruit
growers and gardeners north of town
are more and more universally adopt
plants. 1t is found that the use of
spraying solutionsfs the only method
of assuring a crop of some commodi-
ties.
The steadily increas sing demand for
arsenate of lead and Paris green par
allelS the steadily rising price of these
poisons The cost of Paris green has
doubled and that of arsenate of lead
increased SO per cent in the last two
years.
Almost the only thing in the way
of drugs or medicine, if one wants to
! call them medicines, that has not risen
since the war began is the large va
! riety of patent medicines on the mar
ket
The price of these is stamped on the
bottles. and tho the wholesale cost of
these has in many cases risen. the re-
tail price has remained the same.
Social and Personal
Mrs. George Stoker of Long Beach,
Cal, who has been visiting at the
home of w NJ. G. Lane, left today for
! Scranton, Kan, for a stay with her
brother, Mr.. Easter. She will return
t to Topeka in a few days and leave for
her home by May 30 Mrs. Stoker is
a former resident of Topeka
A large flag and staff has been pre-
| sented to the Church of the Good
| shepherd by Miss Juliet C. Smith and
was carried for the first time in the
professional sunday morning.
Some of my fathers customers NAV
| be pleased to know that L do the sa me
! class of painting and papering that he
| did. Drop a card. H Duck, 500 N.
| Van Buren.-Adv.
The members of the Woman's Re-
| lief Corps No. will give a patriotic
program Wednesday evening at the
/ Redmen hail. 500 North Kansas ave ?
nue.. North Topeka young people will
take part. 1t will consist of drills and
songs of a martial and stirring sort
The public is invited to attend and
help make the entertainment a sue
cess. An original song composed by
two North Topeka women will be sung
by Ralph Gabriel.
A M. Petro, druggist.-Adv.
L. B. Willetts, of VolIand, is visiting
his mother in North Topeka
The North Topeka drainage board
met Monday afternoon in tn, directors
room of the Citizens bank and allowed
bills and expenses in connection with
the work along Soldier creek 1t Is
| anticipated, according to J. B. Billiard
chairman of the board, that the ex-
tensive operations there will be COM
pleted in the course of a week, if the
weather is favorable.
The Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Busch
of Arkansas City; the Rev. Albert P.
Mack, of independence; the Rev. A. E.
Hawk, of Parsons, and the Rev. Mr.
Eastman, of Wichita, are the guests OF
Miss Juliet c. Smith, of 80 Quincy
street, while attending the diocesan
convention of the Episcopal church
Joe Montague, of Perry, was in To-
peka this morning on business.
Mrs Ralph Campbell will entertain
the Vespuccian club Thursday after
noon at her home on North jackson
street.