The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-25

Drilling for oil was started Wednes-
day on the Will H. Ripley farm, To-
Gated six miles east of Topeka and
one mile from the Victory highway.
Drilling is going on both night and
day, a system of electric lighting hav-
ing been installed to facilitate the
work at night Mr.. Ripley is en-
ployed at the North Topeka postoffice
and lives at 925 Van Buren, street.
A young business man of North To-
peka, married less than year, is in
a quandary. His wife is visiting in
her old home town and wrote to him
that she was having a delightful time
but woEld probably be home by the
last of the week. Her husband wrote
in reply that there was no need for
her to return so soon. to stay on and
enjoy herself, pleasant company was
better than a crouch, which he was
during the present hot weather. By
the next mail he received a card say
ing she would be home at once And
he is wondering if she suspected him
of mousey conduct while the cat was
away.
A public sale will be held next
Wednesday at the KimbaI farm, six
miles northeast of Topeka on the
Meriden road.
Notes and Personals. -
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Pratt, $40 Jack
son street. who continued on to Dem
yer to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Charles I. Lamb and family, when
returning from their eastern motor
trip, expected to leave for home We'd
nesday, but on hearing of the exces-
sively hot weather in Topeka. con-
Guided to remain over for a few days
until the hot spell is broken.
Miss Olive Fisher of Morns & Myers,
who is taking her vacation. will spend
a week with Miss Augusta Hardt at
the Wakarusa camp.
Miss Nell and Miss Alice Skinner
and Miss Nell Purdum, who are visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Austin of Blackfoot,
Idaho, are having a delightful time,
and write that they, with their friends,
motored to Yellowstone National park
where they spent a week.
Miss Ruth Holiday, formerly en-
ployed at the Morns & Myers grocery
store, will teach school this winter in
Soldier: township.
NJ. c. Holman, 116 Evelyn street,
returned last evening from a vacation
in Manitou. Colo. Miss Clara and
Miss Lou Holman will remain for
Mrs Myrtle Takernire is visiting her
relative, Mrs. Henry Coleman. at st.
Joe and from there will go to L.enexa.,
Kan, where she will be the guest of,
her aunt. Mrs. Roger Stevenson.
Mrs. H. L. Sanders and daughter.
Maymie Sanders of 81 Quincy
street, will leave Saturday for. Earle
ton, Kan, where they will visit Mrs.
Sanders son.
Mrs. E. A. Christy. 81 Quincy
street. has returned from a visit to
Severy. Kan.
Mrs. Davis and daughter Edna of
Quincy street, who have been visiting
in Hiawatha, have returned home.
Mrs. A. E. Kingman. who has been
visiting her children, Mrs. Edna Rob
inson, Ed, Isaac and Berk Kingmarl,
for the past three months, left today
for her home in Pueblo. Colo.
Members of the Central Avenue
Christian church who are camping out
this week in the grove near the bank
of Soldier creek on the William oliver
farm. north of town, are enjoying a
pleasant vacation. The young men
and women employed in town during
the day. come out in the evening and
spend the night, taking their break
lasts in camp. An auto takes them
to the car line in the morning when
they start to work. The children stay
at the camp and are chaperoned dur
ing the day by Mrs. A. L. Tice. Camp
ers this week are: Mildred Miller.
Mildred Clark, Ada Benin, Addie
Knight, Emily Westbrooke, Alice
Kessinger, Ruth Blanchard, Lillian
Salyer, Norman Smelser. Louis Smell
ser, Doyle Duncan, Guy Tice, Robert
Miller, Ernest Patterson. Roy Basye.
Dillon Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Adams. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Winn,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Miller. Mr.. and Mrs.
l. A. Wilson, Mrs. Emma Westbrook
and Mrs. A. L. Tice.