The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-17
North Side News
U. P. GETS ORDERS
Local Agent Instructed to Take
Shipments at Sender's Risk.
Charles Gerteisen Takes First
Vacation in As Years.

W. L. Bridge, Union Pacific freight
agent, has received orders from ]. A.
Munroe, vice president of the Union
Pacific at Omaha, that all shipments
CT freight will be accepted subject to
delay and to loss due to delay in case
OF strike" The order was issued only
as n protective measure to insure the
road against loss. No general ueup
along the western lines is anticipated.
Indications are at present such that 1t
is thought the traffic thru the western
territory will hardly be affected. The
order is merely a precaution against
possible damage to perishable freight
Gerteisen on Vacation.
Charles Gerteisen, retired Santa Fe
agent at the North Topeka Junction,
will start Sunday on his first vacation
in forty-five years He will go to
Spokane, Wash, to visit his sister,
Mrs. Matthew Goodrich. From Spo-
kane he will go to Alamosa, Colo, to
visit with his brother, John Gerteisen,
who left North Topeka in 1867 for
Colorado.
When John Gerteisen left North To-
>peka for his present home. in 1857,
travelling was not as safe or as com
Portable as it is today. When Mr.
Gerteisen made the trip, he took the
overland stage at Wamego, and trav-
eled ten days and nights to reach his
destination. The coaches which pre-
coded the one in which he rode and
the one that followed II, were nelO up
and robbed.
On the journey the coach stopped at
Fort Sarah, Fort Larned, Fort Dodge
and Fort Lyon. These frontier forts
were surrounded by high wooden
stockades with loopholes for repelling
attack by Indians. A code of signals
between the soldiers stationed at the
forts and the stage coaches was in use
to summon aid if the latter were mo-
Tested. They were lnolested pretty con-
stantly, by the way.
Wherever railroads extended into
the frontier region of Kansas in those
days, the trains were always guarded
by soldiers. When Charles Gerteisen
was agent at Granada four men were
murdered almost within sight of town
by Indians. A bridge near the town
was burned by the savases. Threats
of attack upon the town were frequent.
Mr.. Gerteisen thinks the younger gem
era ton fails to appreciate the hard
ships of the pioneers who settled the
Kansas of early days.
Churches.
North Topeka Baptist. w. D. Hand
ley. pastor. Morning sermon by Rev.
J. T. Crawford, secretary of Kansas
Baptist convention. Evening sermon
by Rev. ]. A. Curtis of South India.
Church of the Good Shepherd,
Francis E Anthony, minister in
charge. Canon Geise1. of Grace cathe-
dral, will conduct the Sunday service.
Second Presbyterian, North jack
son and Gordon. j. P. Hicks. pastor.
Morning sermon: 1.-The Open Win
dow" Evening theme: "Other Re
fuge Have 1 None" Brass quartet
at the evening service.
Kansas Avenue Epworth League,
6:15 p. m Leader, Altha Grooms;
subject. "Re-galvanizing Indifferent
Members
A commemorative service to Fran
ces Willard and temperance Sunday
service will be held at the Christian
church. Central avenue and Grant
street Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The service will be under the direction
of the North Topeka w. c. T. U. The
Rev. Robert Gordon will speak, and
short addresses will be given by the
pastors of North Topeka churches.
A good musical program has been