Topeka Socials Highlight Entertaining Week
Social and personal notes from Topeka and vicinity recount Mrs Dan Small and Mrs Henry Keeler hosting a Friday afternoon at a well decorate home with roses and daisies. Guests included numerous local figures and Atchison visitors. An invitation card game preceded by refreshments featured prizes won by Mr. Bradley and Mr. C. G. While Grace Weiss and others assisted. later a literary game and a separate party on Tyler street.
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Dan Small
Menry Keeler
J. Brawl
Atchison
Small
Pauline
Hirstano
Bjortis
Deba Bradley
C. G
Grace Weiss
Selle Small
Bilsa Lukens
C.D Setrium
George Crawford
Prink Cane
Arthur Capper
W. A. Mopton
George W. Crane
J. EE. Torrence
AL W. Laney
Ira
Woolverton
James “A. Troutman
J. Metheny
Hersick
Ehatia Coser
David Palmer
EH. Creaby
W. T. Crate
Hert Henry
Hk Rieti
Mat Macterran
Miaries Trolman
Theadore Hammatt
Clareice Bowmin
Frank Edson
Wallace Tyna
Arthur Purply
Charles “Biued _Snalth
HD Lewis
W. ©. Squires
Ness
C. Mugle
Herman Lesher
Pred Cale
Atrs. Baler
Miteing
Norman. Wear
Itcherd Gundry
Ickert
Feod Freeman
Stra
Dietrich
Delle Martin
Isib- Linker
Brett
Mien Elliott
Vancouver
J. Lyne Stauth
Atlanta
Wall Albuquerque
Oof Tinwarhn
Hissell Codegratt
Munte Hill
Postum Cereal Gold Prize Letter Promotion
A historic advertisement invites readers to write about Postum Cereal Co. and their experiences with coffee replacement. Readers are asked to detail effects on drinking, share testimonials of cures, and describe preparation steps for Postum with specific instructions. Prize: 20 gold coins to be mailed June. Address letters to Battle Creek Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Cereal Co
Lim
Battle Creek Mich
Topeka High Class Party and Portia Club Notes
Topeka social items describe a large high school class celebration with orange and white decor, a class motto, and hosts Mrs. Sweet and Miss Sweet. Portia club meeting at Mrs. Strickler’s home featured papers on sacred music and oratorio and a luncheon, plus gifts to the president. A pleasant musicale honored Miss Gladys Crowe with performances by local residents and students, plus a roundup of upcoming visits, entertainments, and society notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Sweet
Paul
To- Deka Avenue
Portia Club
L. H. Strickler
Monpor Street
L. M. Powell
Strickler
Potwin news and city schools close as summer items begin
June events fill Snap Shots at Home News with school closings, births, repairs, land sales, and local plans. Demuth family welcomes a new son. Dunham family reports a new baby. repairs uplift M A bathrooms. Shawnee county notes include county business, insurance reports, and railroad delays.
Annual graduation exercises become a permanent feature
Police Matron Thorpe notes a destitute western city family in need, with parents in danger and three hungry children. Neighbors assist, but more help is sought, while Ms. Wilson and County Superintendent Stout work to locate a missing 12 year old boy named Osa Garriott. Ralph E Fulton dies after an appendicitis operation in St Louis. his funeral in Topeka set for Monday at the First United Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hackney
von George
Madison
EL ‘Thorpe
Peart
Manhattan
Tayler Hudson
Kansas City
Ben Criswell
Modern Literature Club
Turn
Aliee Prescott
Fanny Moon
Miss McParland
Eilian McFarland
Lawrence
CJ Reed Wil
S .R. Alderson
Portsmouth
W. H. Weitton
St. Clarkson
Portbault
Minn
Shattuck Miliary Academy
St. Mary's Hall
David W. Norton
East
Chillicothe
West Point
Horace Arthur
Ute
A. J. Arthur
H_Stricktor
Presbyterian Sunday School
Monroe Street
Hugh McFarland
Harrison Street
Gertrude Potter
Highland Park
E. J. Roblger
R. J. Hurnett
Omaha
Momonth
Chisenee Pitts
Soldier Creak
May Downing
Glyde Hornaday
Maud Kimball
Will Cleuser
Lewis Bradford
Roy Bradford
Rockford, J
Topeka
Geotee
Everett
Salt Lake City
Jacob Wilkins
M. Whitlock
J. EB. Torrence M.D. Henderson
Midland
Aziell
Pleana
SV. Leeper
Perkins
Denshter
Willam Gushard
Phecetar
de Anis
Watson
Cairo
Egypt
McVicar
Pr Watson
United States
Cuno
F. H. Wallace
Truth
Lancaster
Thorpe
Thor
E. A. Wilson
Talala
Cherokee County
Kansas
J. W. Stout
Osa Garriott
Mr. Steat
Ralph E. Fulton
S.T. Fulton
St. Louis
Kansas Phonograph Company
First United Presbyterian Chur
RODE WITH A CORPSE ON TRAIN TO ENID DISCOVERY
Passengers on an eastbound Rock Island train awoke to find a corpse in the rear Pullman. Miss Sarah Barber, believed to be from Kansas City, died likely of consumption before dawn and was found by the car porter near Enid Oklahoma. The body was removed at Caldwell to an undertaker. Separately West Superior reports Webster Manufacturing plant struck by lightning early today, with partial insurance coverage on the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Sarah Barber
Kansas City
Enid
West Superior
Wis
Webster Manufacturing Company
Fie
Cheap fares to Denver by Missouri Pacific June
Missouri Pacific announces special round trip fares from Kansas points to Denver for the American Medical Association meeting June 7 through 12. Tickets on sale June 6 and 7 with return validity to July 6, price equals the one way fare plus two dollars. Ask local agents for details on Denver to Colorado points side trips and industry work services by Peerless Steam Laundry and Watson's Livery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Cal
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Colorado
H.C. Townsend
G.P
T. A
St. Louis
EB. Nipps
Topeks
Kan
Bill Wests Brother Bank Robber Escapes Jail Ward
South Bend Indiana June 4 George West alias Charles Rivers a noted bank robber escaped last night from the county jail ward by sawing two bars and sliding from a rope made of bed clothes. He hid on the street outside the jail fronts until morning. West wife was with him the night before. He was serving 10 years for another bank robbery when cashier Myron Campbell linked him to a December 1890 heist of fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars from the South Bend National bank. A trial previously ended with the jury disagreeing. last night he was convicted and sentenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
George West
Charles Rivers
West
Myron Campbell
South Bend National Bank
Damaged Wardrobe Valued in UP Case in Circuit Court
Miss Mamie Edelmann of Kansas City sues Union Pacific in the United States circuit court over a wreck at Strasberg Colorado on August 3 last year. She claims three hours in cold water ruined her traveling clothes valued at 35 dollars 26 cents and seeks 5000 dollars total damages for injuries and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific Railway
United States
Mamie Edelmann
Kansas City
Edelmann
Union Pacific
Strasberg Station
Colo
Mixa Edelmaen
American $200,000,000 war loan planned for coming week
The London St James Gazette reports an American war loan of 200 million dollars to be issued next week and hopes that a portion may be offered in London where it is anticipated bonds will be partially taken up. Cold stoves for hot weather advertise at 116 East Sixth Street by Cnes and Morlton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James Gazette
Cnes & Morlton
East Sixth Street
Plans for Triennial Conclave at Pittsburg Advance
Pittsburg Pa June 4 Things pertaining to arrangements for the Knights Templar triennial conclave were very quiet during the past week due to many committee members attending the Harrisburg state conclave. Nearly all committeemen will be at home tomorrow and work will speed up next week. The Harrisburg conclave executive committee reported progress and copies will go to grand and subordinate commanderies. The report says sub committee work is well under way and Pittsburg’s conclave aims to be the most notable in grand commandery history. It notes thirty three grand commanderies have quarters and many subordinate commanderies will use sleeping cars. The report outlines entertainment, parade and other arrangements already publicized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stahl
Potwin
A. Demuth
EW. Dunham
State University At
Lawrence
Allen Love
Oliver Merritt
East Eighth Street
Shawnee
Board of County Commissioners
Board of Equalization
McNall
M. E. Church
Emporia
Miss Egan
van Huren ‘Street
District Court
Harrison School
Ton Townsend
Jointists
Washburn College
Ti Dramatic Club
Horton
Walter Groom
State House
Chickamauge
M. C. Harlan
Chris~ Than Church
Territorial Union Endeavor
Oklahoma City
Jackson's Bend
Shawnee County
Hutchinson
Salina
Topeka
Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company
Lucinda Thompson
Pleasant Valley
Hev.j. A. Swaney
Lowman Hill Chapel
Kansas Normal College
Topeka Exposition Company
Bishop
Washburn
Huber University Tose Ialf
Santa Fe
Wakarusa
First Christian Church
Salvation Army
Sixth
Quincy Streets
Tenth Street
Quincy Street
Twelfth
Jackson Streets
Board of Education
Laptad
Lottie Bowes
Charlotte Crane
Hers
Dolman
Jacob Klein
John 8
Branner
W. W. Webb
Brrs
Schuyler Nichols
Shawnee County Normal Institute
Topeka High School
J. W. Stout
Eli G. Foster
J. H. McBride
W. Hf. Wright
W. H. Wasson
H. Martin
Christ Hospital
Grace Cathedral
Siiver Meaals
Pittsburg
Pitsburg
Knights Templar
Harrisburo
United States
Tax on Car Seats
Washington June 4 The senate adopted an amendment to the war revenue bill providing for a tax of one cent on every berth in a sleeping car and seat in a Palace car as a substitute for White's amendment levying a tax of one fourth of one percent on gross receipts on sleeping car companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
White
Blanco frees correspondents on condition they depart island
The foreign office states Captain General Blanco allowed release of English newspaper correspondents Messrs. Robinson and Whigham only if they leave the island and do not return. They are to sail on the British cruiser Falcon to Jamaica, with permission granted for Havana calls to embark British residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Foreign Office
Blanco
Messrs. Robinson and
Whigham
Falbot
Jamaica
Havana
Iowa Regiment Moves West to Join Philippine Expedition
The Fifty-first Iowa regiment received orders to move from Des Moines to Pueblo then to San Francisco as part of a Philippine expedition. The force is among 125,000 volunteers mobilizing, with other regiments already in camp or en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Hook Island
Des Moines
Pueblo
Cal
San Francisco
Mobiluzaa
Italian deputies sentenced after Turin riots
Long Terma Parle dispatch from Lugano reports Signor Costa and Signor Andreis of the Taelian chamber of deputies and correspondents of Secola and Italia Del Popolo were arrested in Turin during the riots and sentenced to prison for terms of 10 to 18 years, shocking yet to civil news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parle
Gano
Switzerl
Petite Republicque
Signor Costa
Signor Andreis
Taelian Chamber of Deputies
Secola
Italia del Popolo
Turin
North Topeka News Briefs From June Events
Items note autumn plans left at Kimball Pig Co and visits by Miss Ide Henry and Mrs. J. P. Hannen. Miss Birdie Stoker to Manhattan soon. Minnie Doering and Minnie McCall travel. Christian Endeavor and sunrise prayer at North Topeka church. W. Wright hosts eighth grade picnic at Garfield park. Funeral of Evan J. Evans at Topeka cemetery. Welsh-born Civil War veteran. Prof Spencer concert tickets on sale locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ide Henry
Knox
Fairview
J. P. Hannen
Mankatoaa
J. W. Hart
Birdie Stoker
Manhattan
KK. C. Bean
Emporia
Ia Town
Horn
Howard Stanley
Bo Me. Templen
Rossville
North Topeka
Harrison Street
Minnie Doering
Misa Minnie McCal Haa
Wichita
Orlin McCall
Christian Endeavor Societies
Tomor
Christian
Evan J. Evans
Sotacopa
Reynolds
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Mra
Topeka
Air Evane Waas Rative
Wales
Prof
Spencer
Wasgonerieux
Eure
Maitle- Adams Co
Kimball Piano Co
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ANL
Ed Anderson
Li’ Erary Gune
Abcormuth
James Tane Allen
Bolth Ott
Wits
Mun
Agnes Walsh
Mise Mamie Dutts
Bitse de Hamses
Afies Hattie Ebright
Annabel King
Bdlch Ort
Milas Maycheteler
Minnie Rich
Radi Shay
Mise
Clara Abright
Merle King
Fherley Hanstitot
Will Dick
Paul Roehr
Bert Rehr
Day Karr
Malcolm Garrard
Karl Case
Ed Clarke
Olan Dorman
Marnie Worral
Gladys Crowe
Cora Evans
Miss Worral
Roy Evans
Harvey Worral
Clementi Benediction
Mendelsaotin
Tarragon
Bradbury
Leachers
Hradbury's
P, Adams Music Pavillion
West Sixth Street
Chaney & Morton's
Presbyterian Church
Ivery
van Buren
Steinway
Apollo Mandolin Club
C. P. Adams
Music Pavilion
Watson's Livery
7Th and
Bill West
George
North
Tupera
Kimball Pig. Co
Pacis
Seren
Joe
Goureud
Barential
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