The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-20
North Topeka NetDs

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Refro's drug store. or telephone Eleanor
himball. 1881 after O'Clock. Other
hours, $3.50.
The North Topeka Civic club will
hold the regular meeting Tuesday eve
ming at 8 o'clock at the Community
house, corner of Laurent and Jackson
streets. Members are requested to be
there promptly, as a community sing,
led by Mr.. w. NJ. Van Ness, will fol-
low the business meeting. The songs
to be sung on this evening have been
selected by Mr.. Van Ness as those
most familiar to the public. and in
clude a number of oldtime hymns.
No admission is asked.
V. r. Parkhurst, president pro tenn
of the North Topeka Civic club, and
chairman of the committee appointed
by the club to push the new sewer
project, stated an outline of the dis
trict to be severed has been laid be-
fore the city engineer, and a tenta-
tive plan will be ready shortly to bring
before the residents of the benefited
district. The proposed district covers
practically all that not in the sewer
district. It is estimated that the sewer
could be installed for approximately
100000.
The North side branch of the Y. W.
c. A. gym class will meet Monday
evening at 1880 at Quincy school.
The women's class of Bible study
will meet Monday afternoon at the
Community house.
The services at the North Side
Christian church the past week have
been growing in interest and several
have been added to the membership
of the church,
Work on installing the new furnace
in the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church has SO far progressed that the
auditorium will be heated for the
services tomorrow.
The union Thanksgiving service will
o'clock at the North Topeka Baptist
church. the Rev. r. E. Gordon, pastor
of the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church, preaching the sermon.
Mrs. Clara Baker, county president
of the W. c. T. u, was present Friday
afternoon at the meeting of the North
Topeka branch held at the home of
Mrs. Cora Ham. in Garfield Place.
Mrs. Baker expressed herself as
pleased at the work the society had
accomplished within the last year. A
report of the convention at Manhattan
was made by Mrs Mary Liittjohann,
who was delegate from the North
Topeka branch. Each society has been
assessed certain sum to be raised
by the first of the year, and this
branch is to raise $50. The members
plan to do this by placing miniature
barrels in the different stores, in which
money may be dropped by persons in
terested in the work of the w. c. T. U.
The three persons whose barrels con-
tain the largest sums will be given
prizes, yet to be decided upon. One
new member, Mrs. H. E. Brownell,
joined yesterday. At the close of the
business meeting refreshments were
served by Mrs. Ham. The next meet
ing will be held December 8, at the
home of Mrs. Liittjohann, ss5 Jackson
street
Notes and Personals.
Mrs. Sarah Todd, who has been the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Anderson of 1101 Madison
street for several weeks. has returned
to her home in st. Louis.
Doris Payne, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. F. Payne, of 927 South Mon
roe street, is quarantined at her home
with an attack of scarlet fever. The
Payne family formerly lived in North
Topeka where Mr.. Payne was in bust
ness.
Mr. and Mrs. w E. Scotch, who
have been in Topeka for the past two
weeks visiting friends, left today for
their home in Portland, Ore.
N. Morett has sold his home at 1924
Madison street to eJss W. McHenry,
and plans to move to California.
Mrs. Claude Rose, 1915 Quincy
street, has returned from Glen Elder,
Kan, where she was called by the
death of her father.
Mrs. S. F. Cash is the guest of her
brother, 7. A. Wilson, 1434 Kansas
avenue.
News of the marriage of Miss Eloise
Lewis, a teacher in Seaman high
school, and Mr.. Roy Brown OF Topeka,
has just been learned. The marriage
took place sometime in October and
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown were successful
in keeping it secret until a few days
ago. Mrs. Brown is a graduate of
Washburn and is a popular teacher.
Mr.. Brown is graduate of the Uni
versity of Indiana. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown will make their home in
The May Sisters orchestra will play
at an entertainment at Scranton this
evening.
Over five hundred people attended
the circus given. at Lyman school Fri
day by the pupils and teachers. No
admission was charged, but over fifty
concessions. The circus proved to be
the real thing from clowns to red
lemonade. The two cents charged to
see the young lady walk the tight rope
proved well invested, while the fat
lady was a strong drawing card. As
a sample of an amateur entertainment
the circus was certainly a success.
The money taken in will go for school
activities.
The entertainment put oh Friday
evening by the Knights of Pythias of
Amity lodge, for Pythian Sisters of
Anity temple, was a decided success,
the men proving themselves royal en-
tertainers. Following the program re-
were served.
= S. r. Dexter. undertaken. Lady as
sistant. S23 Kansas ave.-Adv.
Several weeks ago a North Topeka
young man shut an opossum in his
garage until a convenient time for
killing it. It escaped one night and
it was afterward learned that on that