The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-31
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Rev. Joshua Barratt Is Made
every Near COmrade."
Blue Post, G.. A. r., COnfers
Honor ON Retired Pastor.
FOR SERVICES RENDERED
"'BingviIIe Auction" at Grant
School This Morning.
Quincy School Also Put on
Glass Play.
FOR SERVICES RENDERED

Rev. Joshua Barratt. founder of the
North Side Baptist church, and re-
tired pastor, was made very near
comrade" of Blue post No. 80, G. "A.
r.. at the Memorial services held at
Prairie Home church Thursday after
noon. This came in recognition OIL
services rendered the government by
Rev. Mr.. Barratt during the Civil war
Rev. Barratt thanked the veterans for
the honor in an able speech.
The program also included the sing
ing of america - 1.-The Boys of the
Sixties" Camping in the Silent Land. "
Adjutant Priddy of Blue post read the
general order No. IL, issued by Gen
eraI John A. Logan, May 5, 1868, es-
tablishing May 80 as Memorial day,
, also LincoIn's Gettysburg Address.
Rev. w. I. Cole gave the opening
prayer, and few remarks after the
principal address.
Bingville characters which are por-
trayed in picture and writing every
Saturday were given in life by pupils
of the Grant school as a feature of
the last day of school this morning.
The pupils We're dressed to represent
the different peopfe~of Bingville-
In d clever manner the actors and
Actresses showed how the constable
tried to arrest the auctioneer for
auctioneering without a license. and
how the fair ladies of Bingville nearly
tainted with fright and excitement,
and how their gallant friends came to
their rescue. The cast follows:
Gong. auctioneer. Walter Cole; con-
stable. Roy McGrannahan; Mrs. Hev-
erly Jones, Miss Ethel Palmer; Har-
rietta Bean, June Hardt; Thomas
Bridely, Zelma Tracy; Aunt Charlotte,
Mamie Mason: Thomas Bridely, Cecil
McGrannahan: the Willoughbys, Earl
Palmer, Mabel Suit and Louise Suit:
Mr.. Parkinson. Harold Smith. The
Misses Suit, Miss Palmer and Miss
Hardt gave instrumental solos.
Rev. W. 1. Cole. pastor of the North
Topeka Baptist church, made a short
talk. C. c. Nicholson of the school
board presented the diplomas.
The graduates are: Mabel Suit.
Ethel Palmer, Augusta Haidt. Zelma
Tracey, Mamie Mason, Roy McGran-
nahan, Earl Palmer, Cecil McGran-
nahan, Walter Cole, Harold Smith.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
So the voice of the victrola sang
in the hall at Quincy school this
morning. And three hundred little
heads were lifted and three hundred
pairs of eyes, brown and blue and
grey and of colors that some divine
artist has mixed looked up as they
drank in the music.
1t was Miss Caroline Morton,
teacher in the fourth grade, who was
giving the children a treat with her
victrola as a parting favor on the last
day of school. Her selections ranged
from the Mother Goose rhymes to a
melody by Tchaikozsky, of whose
genius it has been written. Il heard
music and could not Sleep But the
little tots seated on the floor, en-
joyed them all, and those standing
on the stairs pressed forward to bet
ter hear the airs that came laughing
and sobbing from the beautiful square
box.
When the strains of the Star Span
R2nnPr n no
one by one the pupils began to rise
realizing the respect due to the pa
triotic song.
The following is the cast of "A Col
lege Town play given at Quincy schc-Jl
this morning, a feature of the last day
Jimmie CaTendish, a rah-rah boy
TCarl Knoll