The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-21


Bunker, for the art and manual train
ing teachers Of the state. The classes
close this week, and an exhibition OF
the work OF the student teachers will
be held all day Saturday in the gym
nasium on the basement floor OF the
Manual Training high school. The pub
lie is invited to attend the exhibition.
Miss Ella Schenck. who has been
with her sister, Miss Mamie Schenck.
part of the summer. will leave in Sep
TENDER for Morenci. Ariz.. to resume
her work as teacher OF English in the
Morenci schools.
The life of a young woman teacher
n frontier mining town has it's novel
and interesting side. The town of
Morenci is built in a sort of bowl. the
sides OF which are the mountains. One
little passage through the hills admits
the railway train. and automobiles and
carriages can enter by the same route,
but no wheeled vehicles can be used
In travelling about the town farther
than a small plateau near the entrance
to the town, called the Plaza. The
streets Of the town are simply trails
that wind along the hill sides, and
those who traverse them either walk
or go horseback or muleback. The ore
from the copper mines and mining
equipment and provisions are trans
ported from place to place in the town
In boxes strapped over the backs of
the burros The city has a ball park
that is said to be the most expensive
in the world, and it was twenty years
in the making. A level place was
blasted out Of the rock and that space
has been covered in process of time,
with Stag, the retirement of the ore
from the mines after the copper has
been taken out. This substance hard
ems. and the result seems to be a ball
park that can never be used for any
thing else.
The only unmarried white women in
the town are the school teachers. and
long before they arrive in the autumn.
the young men of the place lay their
plans for the rushing They find out
| from the school authorities when the
teachers are to arrive. and literally
hundreds of young fellows are there to
see the cars come into the station and
the feminine travellers alight. Last
year the men heard there were to be
four new teachers for the season. They
begged the superintendent to send
them the photographs Of the young
women who had been chosen for the
places nowadays photographs are re-
quired to be sent with applications
when the applicant cannot appear in
person). The superintendent answered
their plea by sending them the four
piainest. most unattractive pictures in
his collection. which not even the char
ity with which men viewed them, could
make inviting. However. the superin-
tendent's joke made the contrast be-
tween the photographs they had seen
and the young women who actually
came, the more pleasin when they ar
rived.
Miss Schenclk's sister. Miss Mamie
Schenck. taught in a gold camp in Mo-
renci. something more than twenty
years ago. when the town had only
thousand inhabitants. and she had with
y hit $ck4 fnn
to go to school, and who last year vert
back tc teach in the we'll appointed,
literally supported schools of the city.
Mss Schenck before she began tea I'll
ing, graduated from the Woman's col
lege. oxford. O.. of which her cousin
| is president.
| Miss Isabel Dickinson was hostess to-
day at luncheon at her home in West
! Sixth avenue, complimentary to her
house guest. Miss Helen Kobrock. of
Seda!ia. Mo.
| Covers were placed for Miss Kobrock.
Miss Irene Carter Of St. Louis, Miss
Aida Frans of Oklahoma City, Okla,
| Miss Mary Close Of Kansas City, Miss
Mary Cooper, Miss Bess Lagerstrom.
Miss Cystre Hardy, Miss Florence
Davis, Miss Helen Casey, Miss Marie
Hyatt. Miss Grace Grady, Miss Alys
Grady, and Miss Dickinson.
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| Miss Harriet Hill was hostess at 4
meeting of her sewing club Thursday
| afternoon.
| DR.. and Mrs. w. D. Storrs, Mrs.
| Ralph Cav, Miss Gertrude Barrc~ and
Miss Maude Barnes motored to Waka-
| rCsa to be guests OF Miss Frances Cav,
who is a member OF the camping party
at Dew Drop Inn, Stony Lonesome
i Camp.
Miss Grace Gaines gave a slumber
party Wednesday evening, her guests
being Miss Louise Mennin-cr, Miss
Anna Menn1nger, Miss Alma Patrick of
Tell City, Ind, Miss Ella Waldron and
Miss Ruth Leonard.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Claude Butlin and her family
are leaving for New York city, where
they will join a party of friends and
will sail for Vera Cruz. Mexico. They
will return to their home in Mexico
I City. The Butlins have been in To-
peka with Mrs. Butlin's mother. Mrs.
Anna J.. Wilson, on account of the war
in Mexico.
Miss Dorothy sproat is expected to
return Saturday from a visit to Mrs.
John Romadka of Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr.. William Collinson will leave to-
night for Colorado Springs. on a vaca-
ton trip.
Miss Lolita Johnston, who attended
summer school at the California uni
versity, Berkeley. Cal. will remain in
California through the coming winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Wilder, are spending
the month of August on the Massachu-
sets cOast.-Kansas City Star.
Mrs. Hugh Hope, of Victor. Kan, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. J. B. Mckee.
Mrs George E. Dougherty gave a !
o'clock luncheon Thursday for Mrs.
. Frank Dougherty of Glen Elder who is