The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-31
FIT FOR A KING
Royal Entertainment for the
Kansas Teachers.
Plans Were Made at CONNER
cial Club Today Noon.
PREPARING FOR GREAT THRONG
Local Boy Scouts Will Be on
f! Duty Nov. 1914.
Secretary Ellsworth Sending
! Much Mail Matter.
PREPARING FOR GREAT THRONG

Topeka as host will furnish royal en-
tertainment for between seven and ten
thousand teachers who will be in at.
tendence at the fifty-second annual
session of the Kansas State Teachers
association. November 1874. COM
mittec of local educators and BUSINESS
men met at noon today at the Comn.er-
cial club quarters with j. VIII Kelley,
secretary. for the purpose OF preparing
for the reception of the teachers.
The Commercial club. through the
Merchants association. has gone to no
little expense in booking high class
vocalists for a special entertainment
for the visitors at the Auditorium at
S O'Clock Thursday evening. November
IL. Miss Jenny Dufau. coloraura So
rrano and Enrico Aresoni. tenor. mem
bers of the Chicago Grand Opera COM
pany. and artists of international repu-
tation, have been engaged. Charles
T.urvey will be the accompanist-and
he is said to be one of the best In the
country.
Commercial Club Plans.
! Thursday and Friday evenings the
Commercial club will give a banquet
at the club quarters for the officers OIL
| the Kansas State Teachers association.
! The Commercial club will arrange to
have sixty Topeka Boy Scouts ION the
job" while the teachers are here. They
| will meet the trains and serve as gu1oes
at the state house. making themselves
generally useful. The club will also
provide ushers and doorkeepers for the
various meetings.
! E. F. Stanley has big undertaking
! in furnishing rooms for the thousands
of guests, but Topekans always show
their loyalty when it comes to enter
| tanning the school ma'ams of the state.
and they will do it this time. Persons
residing CLOSE in" are particularly re-
quested to open their homes to the
| teachers.
Topeka Entertainment.
The teachers Of the city schools Will
| provide check rooms, rest rooms, WITT
| ing rooms. and other conveniences IN
/ the manual high school building? Light
refreshments will be served.
An invitation is extended to all teach
ers and friends to attend an Informal
reception given by the board OF admin
istration to the presidents Of the state
schools at five O'Clock Friday, Novem-
Der 13.
L Washburn college authorities have
extended the teachers an ivitatfon tc
visit the institution. The privileges OF
/ the Central Y. NJ. c. A. will be extended
to the men present at the meeting.
The meeting has been well advertised
In fact by the time the teachers arrive
100, 900 pieces of literature will have beer
sent out from the Office of D. A. Ellis
worth, secretary.
Marion 100 Per Cent Strong.
Every mail brings information from
towns which will send large delegation,
to the meeting.
Charles w. thompson. of Marion
president OF the Kansas association
of school boards has written as fol
lows: I'VE are attempting in Marion
to have 100 per cent teachers at Topeka
and 100 per cent school board member
at the school boards meeting and are ii
hopes that We will be able to carr!
this out"
OF all the state educational institu
lions the Hays Normal has the highes
percentage of members enrolled in tn
association The entire faculty will b
here for the meeting.
Seventy-twO teachers under F. F
Smith, superintendent of the Lawrenc
schools, have enrolled-practically tn
entire force.
The board of education at Newton ha
not only granted the teachers a tw
J days leave of absence but has offere
. to pay an extra five dollars to eac
teacher who comes to Topeka.