The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-15
North Side Mews

Items for this column may be left
at Petro's drug store, or phone
kle.uo- Kimball after p. m; other
hours phone $3.50.
The Boast farm on the Rochester
road has been sold for $11,70O. 1t
was bought by J. D. Miller Of Auburn.
The farm had been the Boast properly
for nine years.
John Knoll of Camp Funston visited
ing family over Sunday. Mr.. Knoll
is proprietor of a forty-chair barber
shop at the camp. He employs one
man whose sole duty is to call the
numbers of the customers. And he is
kept busy at that.
Miss Jessie Hoover, head of the eco
nomics department of the University
of Idaho, left last Friday for Wash
ington, D. c., in response to tele-
gram from the national government.
Miss Hoover arrived last week Tor a
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D.
F. Hoover. PIT Elmwood, Potwin. and
expected to be here several weeks.
| The Hoover family are well known In
| North Topeka and vicinity as the fam
lily formerly lived at Rochester. Miss
Hoover attended the Quincy school
and was graduated from the high
school, later attending the State nor
NAL. She taught at Grant school sew
eral terms before going to Manhattan,
where she studied domestic science.
| She has been most successful in her
| chosen profession and her field covers
over half-a-doz states. Miss Hoover
and Miss Frances Brown, travelling
| demonstration for the Kansas Agricul-
| tural college, were friends and fellow
| teachers in North Topeka, and en-
| tered the Agricultural college at the
same time.
| Notes and Personals.
Mrs. Bert Trahoon has received
| word of the illness of her husband
| who is in a hospital in Idaho. Mrs.
Trahoon will leave soon for Idaho.
Tom H. Baker of the Graham Cloth
Ing Co. spent Sunday in st. Joe the
Mrs. Bob Alworth OF s12 Harrison
street. has been called to Wisconsin
by the serious illness of her father.
Guy Shonkweiler of Camp Funston
spel.t Sunday with his parents.
NJ. and Mrs. Charles Small and
daughter, Jennie Bell, returned yes
tel lay from a weeks fishing trip in
Missouri.
Mrs. j. V. Taylor and Mrs. Otis
Cummings are visiting their husbands
in Lawrence, where they are in the
mechanics training school.
Samuel Clarence Long, nine-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Long
$50 West Curtis street, received some
minor injuries when he fell from the
figure eight at Garfield park at the
Capper picnic. He was trying to re.
cover his hat which had blown off
Hhe was taken home and treated BY
DR.. o. P. Davis.
The May Sisters orchestra will rem.
der a special musical program at the
Indian Creek grange hall. tomorrow
evening. Refreshments will be served
|; Mr.. and Mrs. John Buechner ant
FAMILY spent Sunday in Usage City
the guests of relatives
Miss Florence Rowe ana Miss Haze
Boast spent yesterday in Manhattan
| the guest of Miss Rowe's cousin.
II Mr.. and Mrs. John Shaffer of 80:
Jackson street are visiting their son ii
Usage county.
Mrs. Bud Ashley of s2o Van Burer
| street is visiting relatives in Kansa
: City.
The Fred Morns family left toda,
for two aweeks' outing at the Mi
creek camp. Thursday the A. M. cIul
girls will go to the camp and will b,
the guests over Friday OF Margare
Morns. The members of the club are
Freda Smith. Elizabeth Van Ness
Ihelma Johnston. Verna walgomott
Mabel Mckee. Gladys Crawford. lie
more Swartz and Margaret Morns.
Mrs. w. H. Nicholas and daughters
Flora and Dorothy, Of Rochester LEI
saturday for California in compan
with Mrs. Frank Tamblyn and he
daughter and niece. They will sto
at Denver and Salt Lake City. the
VIII continue their trip to Los Angelo
and Long Beach. They will also 90 I
Portland, Ore. They will meet ~
brother of Mr.. Nicholas at Los An
geles. and he will accompany them t
Des Moines, Iowa They expect to h
gone about three months