The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
NORTH SIDE NEWS.
Civic Club Will Give a Banquet
November 3.
Ex-COuncilman Jordan and Fred
VOilaRd on Details.
LUKENS OPERA HOUSE.
Feast Will Be Served Thereto
Create Interest.
When Teachers Met at Topeka
in 1870.

in 1870.
Under the auspices of the Civic club
banquet will be held at Lukens
opera house Wednesday evening, NO
vember 8. This was decided at an
enthusiastic regular meeting OF the
club at fire station No. last night mt
ExCouncilman Jordan, from the
First ward, and Fred Voiland, were
appointed a committee to look aIter
ARRANGEMENTS They will work out
the details of the feast in cooperation
with the club The dinner is for the
members of the club, their families
and prospective members of the CLUB.
The object is to create interest IN
| the organization both among the
members and the new corners on the
North side. 1t is also to develop &C
uuaintanceShip and enthuSe the
booster idea among the citizens or
the First ward and Topeka. Let the
good work continue"
The annual state teachers conven-
ton which closed here last evening
recalls the state teachers conVent1on
held in Topeka in the Christmas nom
| days of 1869 to J. H. FOUGHT, VINO was
| teaching at TecumSeh then ana at
| tended the meetings. He recalls now
| that even then, H. D. McCarty, after
wards state superintendent of schools,
was advocating compulsory education:
! A Mr. Jewett, then superintendent OF
/ the Valley Falls schools, now OF ADJ
| lene, had a great hobby in regard TO
teaching arithmetic.
"About one hundred teachers were
| in attendance said Mr.. FOUGHT, ana
we had no trouble in finding rooms Tor
them. Our sessions were held in Rep
resentative Hall at the state house.
| II remember how Mr.. McCarty
/ education and L
think he was afterwards elected state
superintendent on the strength OF his
hobby. He worked the state legisla-
ture to pass the compulsor'' law
I HE was big man, OF about SIX
feet in height and weighed 200 pounds
or more. Like the majority OF tat
men he was good natured and jolly
remember how much fun we hao
when a school ma'am from either
Atchison or Leavenworth, forget
which town, described him dressed in
women's clothes when she read pa
per comparing men and women teach
| ers. No, I do not remember her
name, but she was a bright woman.
Another man prominent at the
convention was a Mr.. Jewett, then
superintendent of the Valley Falls
school, now of Abilene, 1 believe. His
hobby was then in teaching arlthme-
] tic the instructor should say seven
of thirteen leaves six instead or seven
!
| trated this with apples, etc, and also
| told how a teacher in Atchison fur
nished an illustration of the truth of
the theory The anecdote showed
how a teacher held three matches in
one hand, then took two in another
and said to her pupils: When I took
| two of the matches from the three,
| one was left but little boy answer
ed: why, teacher, you didn't take
two matches from the three, but two
of the three.
"Mr. Jewett was a great ladies' man,
and seemed to know how to make
them smile. He afterwards became a
book agent.
"The weather was very mild and
pleasant In fact that whole winter
was mild until in March when it sud-
denly froze and ice four inches thick
formed on the Kaw."
Mr.. FOUGHT taught in Kansas in
l1S69-TO at Tecumseh and on the
North side where 907 North Kansas
avenue now is. Here he taught SEN
ator Charles Curtis how to read.
A group of interested little girls
with needles and thread in hand, bent
over pieces of cloth around table
at the parish house of the Church of
the Good Shepherd, at 210 East Laur-
ent street this morning. They were
the members of the sewing clzss
which begun work for the fall and
winter today. They will meet every
Saturday at 10 a. m. at the parish
house. All girls are eligible irrespec-
tive Of denomination. Miss Leila
Caldwell and Miss Maud Willitts are
in charge. Those who enrolled this
morning are: Laura Miller, Grace
Snodgrass, Garnett Shields, Hazel Will
Iiams, Ruth Williams, Dema Will
liams Margaret Collins, Ruth Collins,
Cora Brayman, Louise Holiday and
| Viola Van Nice.
| The Merry MatrOnS were entertained
! Thursday afternoon by Mrs. H. NJ.
Barnes, 913 Harrison. Her guests were:
Mrs. John Johnston, Mrs. Raymond
| Diffendorfer, Mrs. w. G. Swartz, Mrs
John Sheetz, Mrs. Walter Shocks, Mrs.
Fred Clark, Mrs. Charles Killian, Mrs.
| Charles Berry, Mrs. Edgar Winans and
| Mrs. Bert Keihl.
Mrs Guy Gardner and Mrs. Norris
were guests of the club.
Mrs Edgar WinanS and Mrs. John
| Johnston will entertain the club mem
bers and their husbands at an even
| ing partv October 81 at the home OF
| Mrs. Johnston on Jackson street.
The Topsy-Turvy camp girls gave a
/ masquerade party last night at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Dana.
| Almost all nations and types OF people
were represented. The clown, who was
| discovered to be Mr.. Leighton, received
| the prize for keeping his identity I'M
known. Everyone had good time, be-
/ cause it was the first mask party Tor
most of them. Those present were
Miss Mamie Zarker, Miss Hazel Kin
caid. Miss Ruth Emert, Miss Marjorie
Cole. Miss Jeanette Emert, Miss Calhe