The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-07
Attendance Expected Is Be
tween 5000 and 5000.
ADVANCE ENROLMENT HEAVY
Those Who Are Actually Reg
1stered Number $500.
Many Special Trains Will
Bring Delegations.

The fifty-second annual meeting Of
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ti0n, which will be held in Topeka
next Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
November 1914, looms up bigger
than ever. Indications point to an at
tendance of at least 5000 and posi-
4 bly, as high as 5000. Interest in the
meeting over the state is intense, and
many special trains will bring large
delegations to the capital city.
The advance enrolment has
reached the $500 mark, which is the
enro1lment figure for the day before
the opening of the meeting last year.
The number of persons who have
written to E. F. Stanley, principal of
Sumner school and chairman of the
local committee on arrangements,
asking for room reservations, is 1000,
which is in excess of the showing up
to this time last year.
Reservations for Rooms.
Reservations for rooms have been
made for especially large delegations
from Independence, Leavenworth,
Hfawatha, Salina, Coffeyville. Parsons.
+ Lawrence, Kansas City, Kan. Wich-
tia, Beloit. Concordia, Newton. Gar
den City, Hays and other points.
The entire teaching force in many
Kansas towns will be here for the
meeting.
There will be a special train from
Kansas City, Kan. and it is expected
that the attendance from this city and
Kansas City. Mo-, will be 500. In fact,
Kansas City, Kan, wrote for 400
membership blanks.
The entire faculty of Hays normal
has enrolled. Neodesha wrote for
thirty reservations. FormOso in Jew
ell county has enrolled her entire
teaching staff and hopes to have the
entire school board here to attend the
Pherson has enrolled twenty-five
EmpOrians In Force.
The entire staff of the Emporia
lily schools will attend. In previous
years the EmpOria teachers have
come in a special coach, but this year
y 1t probably will be necessary to have
special train. L. A. Lowther. SUI
perintendent of the Emporia schools.
will head the delegation. The State
Normal school at Emporia will close
Abr two days on account of the meet
ing. One hundred faculty members
will be here aside from many students
who have been teachers.
C. S. Risdon, superintendent of the
+ Independence schools, has written
Y that the teachers under him will come
J. o. Hall. superintendent of the
= Hutchinson schools, has written as
follows: I'VE have just arranged for
special train to leave here at 1880
O'clock next Wednesday afternoon
companied the letter.
Some Big Delegations.
There will be a Union Pacific spe-
cial from Salina which will reach To-
peka on Thursday morning in time
for the first session in the Auditorium.
Charles w. Thompson Of Marion
president of the Kansas school
& boards, says:
I'VE are attempting in Marion to
4 have 100 per cent teachers in Topeka
\ and 100 per cent school board mem
bers at me school boards meeting
and are in hopes that we will be able
70 carry this out
The entire faculty of the Hays Nor
Z NAL expects to attend the convention
Nearly seventy-fve teachers of the
Lawrence schools under F. P. Smith
superintendent, have enrolled.
The board of education at Newton
has not only granted the teachers g
two days leave of absence but has
e6ered to pay an extra hve dollars te
each teacher who comes to Topeka.
Special From Wichita.
wichita has chartered a specia
train and a large delegation will come
from that city. The contingent from
3 Goncordia - the entire staff - will
come in special car. The delega
ton from Leavenworth will be unusu
ally strong. All of the Atchison teach
ers expect to come to Topeka, ant
there will be a heavy delegation from
Il Valley Falls.
There will be large contingent
from many other towns.