The Shawnee County Mirror from North Topeka, Kansas • 4

night with Misses Luciie and Helen vJnase. A. C. Bathurst and family motored to Topeka Tuesday and attended the fair. Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Weaver and son visited at the Henry Stadel home a fc.v days last week. Mrs. Weaver is a niece of Mrs. Stadel.

Eula Barnes spent Tuesday night with Sylvia Larson. Miss Rose Lemon of Topeka visited is quite feeble and Is confined to her room with heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Melton and children returned home from Davenport, after a few weeks' visit with friends and relatives.

Will all persons knowing themselves indebted to me kindly settle as soon as possible. II. B. Talbot. Miss Mildred Sheppard spent Sunday and Monday night with Carmen Mercer.

Jas. Clcland and family attended the state fair at Topeka on Tuesday. Ralph Colhour and Joe Ehrhart will be the next of the Hoyt boys to leave for They will leave soon. Silver Hitchcock and Fred Butt went to Hollon Wednesday morning. 'with the W.

C. Stadel family last pretty hard with elderly people. Friends are assisting during her illness. The Will Williams family received word on Tuesday that Orion would go through Topeka on his" way to New York. They motored down to see him" as he passed through.

Orion has been in camp only a week. This is moving them pretty rapidly. B. T. Bone is driving a Maxwell car these days.

Mrs. Elizabeth and Hester Butt left Monday for Nebraska City, where they will attend school this winter. Mrs. Clara Mercer entertained Mrs. Phebe Holt and Mrs.

Cox and sort Del of Topeka at dinner Saturday. Mrs. B. 0. Smith, and Mrs.

It. B. Talbot, motored-to Holton Friday morn- F. DeLong was in Topeka Saturday. The draft registration was held in the I.

0. 0. F. Hall Thursday, September 12th. Mr.

John Duncan of Chicago was a week end guest at the Chas. Mercer home. Mrs. R. T.

Kirk gave a birthday dinner Sunday in honor of her sister I10YT Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bathurst and son Harold, Mrs.

Fred McFarland, and Mrs. Lura Flesher motored to To-pcka Friday. Mrs. Henry Stadel is on the high road to recovery from an operation and is feeling fairly well. The high school building is progressing nicely.

At the end of last week the west Bide was laid up as high as the windows with the brick, and from now on work will progress even more rapidly. There are four brick layers at work at present. It is going to be a building to be proud of, and Hoyt can congratulate them-stives. Extra room has been rented and high school studies are being taught and classes provided for the best way possible till the new rural high school is completed. Mr.

and Mrs. A. G. Gibson of Schubert, are in Hoyt this week. Mr.

Gibson has the building contract for the rural high school. High school was dismissed laBt week on account of the board's plans falling through. This week the school has opened in earnest with Prof. Ev- set the boys on their way. These are not joyful occasions, but the opposite, and though they are leaving a few at a time each week or so, we can not help but feel bad to see them go.

Some of the boys do not get to return home before they sail, and in that case it is a real good-bye and good luck we must give them here, A coach full of boys going to Fort Riley was attached to the noon train Thursday, and as jolly a crowd as you could find. Hoyt boys who left were: Reuben Burns, Ray O'Brien, A-mos Bolz, Frank Strahn, and John Guffy. John Herde and son Elmer motored to Topeka Thursday. Min Hedrick was in Topeka Wednesday. Mrs.

Jessie Matsinger, who has been with her sister, Mrs. Min Hedrick, was a Topeka visitor Wednesday. Lew Kinney Son were among the heavy buyers at the Red Crosd sale. We understand that they contributed something like $75. Geo.

Woodard, who was seriously hurt in a runaway last week and taken to a hospital in Topeka, died at I A C- Ttstliurat XI Xnv Chaw Afar. week. Mrs. Jas. Cleland and daughter E-dith, accompanied by Mrs.

L.G.Burns, Laurel Boies, Jack Preston, and Warren Ketterman will enter Washburn for this year's school term. All colleges are taking up military training, and Washburn College has been having the military training before, but this year it is to be different. Mrs. Fred Butt and daughters E-lizabeth arid Hester and Mrs. C.

W. Culp motored to Topeka Friday. S. W. Poor and family have decided not to move, but will stay in Hoyt this winter.

J. E. Mathews buys hay in car lots. There are only a few business men cer, and Miss Anna Charles. Chas.

Whalen has found that, once possessing a Ford, you become attached to them, and no other car is quite as good. Last week he sold his Ford to a Silver Lake party, and this week he has purchased another Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butt and daughter Mabel attended the state fair in Topeka Monday.

Mrs. H. C. Colbom and Mrs. Mary a Good toads Jooste Always take a spade with you in your car.

Fill in bad chuck holes. Present bill to Twp Board. Mrs. ChaS. Mercer's anniversary; invited guests were: Mr.

arid Mrs. Ghas; Mercer and daughters Marguerite and Carrie, Mrs. Phebe Holt arid daughter Miss Daisy, Mrs. M. Cox, and son Del of Topeka.

II. G. Freese went to Kansas City five o'clock Thursday evening. This has been one of the saddest of accidents to happen here in Hoyt, as it leaves the wife with four small children to be cared for. Surely we know not when the hour cometh in which we are called hence.

Mrs. Charley Aiken and baby daughter are visiting her aunts, Mrs. Stephen Tripp and Mrs. R. A.

Mr. L. M. Chase was in Topeka Monday and Tuesday. Miss Guila Joy visited friends in Denison a few days last week.

in the town who have not seen fit to advertise in the Hoyt Reporter. The advertising hag been below $8 fdr nearly every week for the past four months, and if the average doesn't come up to $10 for these four months the paper is likely to cease on December 31st. Patronize our advertisers. E. II.

Mall of Topeka spent Saturday evening and Sunday with his sons F. W. and C. E. at this place.

Mrs. G. Claugherty returned recently from a six months' trip to California on account of her son Carl James being required to register and maybe to be in Class 1, and she wanted to be here with him till he went. Miss Luciie Chase spent Sunday wjth Imogene Foltz. F.

S. DeLong moved his family from the L. W. Riddle farm to a farm on Big Soldier some 12 miles west of Hoyt. Mr.

and Mrs. 0. C. Powers accompanied Mrs. Jas.

Morris to the Indian fair Saturday. Carmen Mercer had as dinner cattle. Mrs. John Herde was taken to St. Francis Hospital on Friday, where she will undergo an operation.

Mrs. Frank Chase of Topeka spent Friday with the L. M. Chase family in Hoyt. Miss Minnie Carroll of Topeka Is a guest of Miss Carmen Mercer this week.

Miss Helen Holt of Elmont was a erett of Kansas City, principal. Miss Agnes May of Manhattan, guest of Reba Hall and Miss Minnie Carrol of Topeka, guest of Carmen Mercer, were visitors at the high school Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E.

Edwards of Lawrence were in Hoyt Saturday. Mr. Edwards was looking after the brick work of the school house, of which he is the contractor. O. F.

Blanc will solder your tinware on short notice. Take it there when you drive in. Emerson Benedick motored down from Omaha, to see his brother C. R. Benedick.

Oscar Herde, who is at Camp Pike, has been promoted and is now corporal. II. S. Foltz was in Holton between trains Thursday. All ordinary repairs in stock for Ford cars.

Others gotten on very short notice. O. F. Blanc. The Red Cross rooms were opened Tuesday for work.

The attendance was very small, just why no one knows. The work must be done, and helpers are badly needed. Those present Tuesday were: Mesdames C. Brown are planning on leaving this week for Flowerville, for a stay with relatives. Be sure to get my price on Ford tires and tubes.

Economy is the watchword. 0. F. Blanc. Mrs.

Clarence Lindsay with her young son Wilbur spent Friday and Saturday with her daughter Miss Eva Lindsay of Topeka. W. E. Stafford of Lyndon, was in Hoyt this week looking after property interests. C.

R. Benedick returned Tuesday from a visit with his mother at La Moile, 111. Miss Florence Herde will teach the coming year in the schools at Lake Basin, Mont. George' Schermerhorn spent Thursday in Holton and Mayetta. R.

A. Burns resigned from the school board of District No. 40 in favor of Will Rickel. Born to Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Pettijohn a baby girl on Sep. 10. They have given her the name Sarah Elizabeth. The annual Indian fair held on the reservation near Mayetta was widely attended by large crowds last week. Very nearly all the Hoyt people who Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Bostwick and family motored to Topeka Saturdady. Miss Eula Spalding of Topeka is guest of Miss Esther Stadel at her home east of town.

Mrs. C. E. Hall went to Chicago on Thursday to see her son Delman, who is in training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. Mrs.

Elmer Fleischer, who has been visiting Mr. Fleischer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Fleischer, and other relatives the past few weeks, returned to her home in Chicago Thursday. Mrs. L. M. Chase and daughter Lu- week end guest of Carmen Mercer.

Mrs. Jas. Cleland and daughter E-dith, and Miss Jessie Knox and Mrs. W. Williams attended the Indian fair at Mayetta Friday.

Mrs. Chas. Aiken and baby daughter of Kansas City, was a guest of Mrs. L. M.

Chase Friday night. Laurel Boies and Carl James were Topeka visitors Wednesday evening. Ray Stewart, who is in naval training at Philadelphia, is visiting his guests Sunday Minnie Carroll of Topeka, Helen Holt of Elmont, and Mildred Sheppard. The W. W.

Herrington family will Continue the war till the Kaiser and his gang surrender unconditionally. Let the finish be on German soil move to Topeka Thursday. Mer Herrington is employed in the Poehler Mercantile Co. wholesale house, and the Herrington children will attend school in Tepeka. Mr.

Herrington is. could do so attended this fair. The exhibits were considered good. There was a lot of fancy work done by the Indian women which was greatly ad mired. This fair is held each year, and people come from a distance to attend.

Louis Darling is on the lick list. He was in a high fever On Tuesday. 1 Raymond Sconce has returned from Western Kansas, where he has been with relatives all summer. Five more Hoyt boys left Friday noon for Fort Riley to go in training. A large crowd was at the depot to W.

Culp, Clarence Lindsay, O. C. Powers, Wm. Chapman, II. C.

Andrus, W. C. Stadel, J. M. Burns, W.

A. Early, W. L. Sconce, John Bums, Alex Grandma Robb is back in the little home again after being with her son in Kansas City all summer. Grandma i i VISITORS ARE INVITED To Visit ALDRIDGE THE PHOTOGRAPHER 527 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kans.

cile entertained at a miscellaneous shower for Miss Laura Isaac on Sat' urday afternoon. It was a lovely day, even if it did Shower. There were a number of useful gifts Such ad a housewife will need in her new home. The afternoon was delightfully spent in several contests, with several musical selections by Miss Imogene Foltz and Miss Luciie Chase, and a reading by Helen Chase. A two course luncheon was served, the salad course and ice cream.

Those present were: Misses Laura Isaac, Kathyrn Butt, Mabel Butt, Ruby O'Brien, Elizabeth Butt, Imogene Foltz, Grace Marie Smith, Hester Butt, Mrs. Edwin Smith, Miss Juanita Brain of Topeka, Luciie Chase, and Helen Chase. Mrs. A. Freel was in Topeka Wednesday.

Mrs. L. M. Chase and son Harvey were Topeka visitors Wednesday. Mrs.

Min Hedrick, who has been on brother Arthur Stewart west of town. Ray is on a 15 day furlough. Joe Burns and F. W. Hall were a-mong Topeka visitors Wednesday.

The curriculum for the Hoyt Rural High School is such as to make it an accredited high school in which its graduates will be admitted without examination to any of the big state schools. The board aims to make the school rank with the best in the state. Why pay 75c for oil when you can get good auto oils at Blanc's for 50c per gallon? 1 J. E. Mathews shipped a car of hay to Whiting on Monday.

I Miss Daisy Holt had a slumber party at her house Saturday night. Those invited were: Miss Minnie Carroll of Topeka, Miss Helen Holt of Elmont, Miss Mildred Sheppard and Miss Carmen Mercer. Virge Graham left Sunday for Atchison, where he will be in school this winter. Rev. Janssen filled his appointment in Mayetta Sunday morning and evening and in Point Pleasant in the afternoon.

Miss Oma Scott of Kansas City is spending her week's vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lee and family. "'Mr. and Mrs.

Geo. Patterson enter 1 You can still get Ileal Gravely Chewing Plug for, 10c a pouch. It gives you more solid tobacco comfort than ordinary plug. Tastes better lasts longer. having a large truck from Topeka to move their goods ddwrt.

Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Johnston and Mrs.

W. L. Johnston of Revere, spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Painter and family.

Mrs. C. S. Johnston and Mrs. W.

L. Johnston are sisters of Painter. While here they all attended the Indian fair at Mayetta. See J. E.

Mathews when you have hay to sell. It Del Cox is staying at the R. T. Kirk home while awaiting the call from Uncle Sam. Mrs.

Lura Flesher and children Or-val and Opal spent Sunday at the Will Barker home west of town. Quite an attraction in the form of a German helmet was to be seen at the Thos. Painter store on Monday. F. W.

Hall received this genuine, honest to goodness, solid steel German helmet in the mail from France, sent by his son George, who is seeing active service over there. The helmet has a German name written on the steel and was used. If one has a good imagination they can see one of those fierce, brutal Huns under this helmet. These helmets seem to be greatly desired as trophies of this war, as we read of them being sent here and there from France. Mr.

Emmet Robb of Stillwater, and Dick Robb of Kansas City, are with their mother, Mrs. Rachel Robb, who is very ill. Mrs. Robb, better known as Grandma Robb, is at an advanced age, and heart trouble goes 1 Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch and worth it the sick list for some time, is much improved. Dr.

and Mrs. H. B. Talbot attended the Indian fair at Mayetta Friday. Doctor Talbot was one of the judges for the most perfect Indian baby.

Little Du Wane Stadel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stadel, is on the sick list this week. Mrs. E.

E. Ketterman and son Warren and daughter Margaret and Miss Anna Charles motored to Topeka Thursday. O. F. Blanc has a good supply of Ford repairs, and more coming in.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Deil of Emporia, left for their home Friday evening after more than a week's visit with Mrs. Deil's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Chas. Felker. Miss Oma Scott spent Monday tained at dinner Sunday Mrs. F. Kent and daughter Elizabeth and son Ham.

Mr. Grant Woodhead of McLouth, Kansas, visited with his brother Wm. Woodhead Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Chas.

Aiken and daughter of Kansas City were guests of Misses Genieve and Harriett Cleland Sunday. Miss Olive Becker of Topeka visited with Miss Ruth Irwin last week. Miss Mary Cox of Topeka visited at the Chas. Mercer home last week. Crmvlylait aomach lomgmr it cotta I MMMrvf.

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