The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-05

The teacher was not certain the
phrase was comprehended by the pu-
pills. What is an awesome slience
she asked. One boys hand snot up;
II do not know just how to explain 1t,
he said, but just before am to get
lickin' there's an awesome silence
Plans for a grand rally to be held
by st. Johns Methodist Episcopal
church are being made by the rev.
Jesse Peck. The meetings VIII De
held during the first week in Novem-
Der and an entertainment will be given
some time during the last week IN NO
Vember in the auditorium in Whlcn LOU
of the colored singers of Topeka VIII
take part. The director, r. G. Jack
son, will be brought from kansas CITY.
The drawings of the teams of the
volleyball league have been made ana
six teams selected to take part IN the
tournament. The first game will be
played November 10, Wednesday, and
the tournament will terminate Deem
Der %. Each team will play the other
once and three games will constitute
a match. Two matches are to be
played each Wednesday evening. The
public is invited to attend the matches.
A carnival pageant and children's
parade will be presented at the audi
torium this evening by St Simon's
church. The program will be made
up of a pageant of nations, the sol
diers of the nations, the anthems of
the world, children's drills, marches,
and dances, and music by several well
known people. Music will be furnish
ed by Jackson's Twenty-third Regi-
ment band, by Ferguson's orchestra
and by F1oyd's Choral society.
officers have been elected by the
Dramatic club of the high school and
work will start at once. The officers
are: President, John TroXell; vice
president, Harry Davis; secretary, Ly-
man King; treasurer, Faith Young;
business manager, Harry Bennett;
rrl1-ca
erty managers. Edwin Jones and
Frances Grote; wardens, Lucille Elmor
and Frances Dewey. Thursday after
noon is the regular meeting time.
Edwin Wolff, who has lived in Sac
ramentO, Cal, for the past six years,
has returned to Topeka to form a
partnership in the tailoring business
with his father, N. H. Wolff. The
firm will be known as N. H. Wolff
and Son. The elder Wolff has been
we'll known here as tailor for a good
many years Edwin Wolff was born
and reared in Topeka. For two years,
during his residence at Sacramento, he
was secretary to the chief of police
of that city.
It's a long, long way to Limerick.
fully as far as Tipperary, but not so
far that a band of that place could
not order sheet music from out here
in Kansas. The J. w. jenkins Sons
Music company has received an order
from the BOnerTOuy NdllOndl BRASS
band of Limerick, Ireland, for sixteen
pieces of band music. Among the Sc
lections purchased were many that are
familiar to American concert audi
ences. The spirit of the war was re-
Elected in the order by the fact that
most of the pieces ordered are
marches and martial music
One hundred and seventeen of the
students of the Topeka high school are
out-of-town boys and girls. In the
figures recently totaled by the Off
Gals, it was found that II subfresh-
men did not live in the city. 81 boys
and 40 girls. Two boys and three girls
in the subsophomore class are from
out of town, three sophomore girls.
with the subjuniors five boys and sew
en- girls, with the juniors two boys and
four girls, with the subscribers one boy
and seven girls, and one senior girl
does not live in Topeka. In all the
classes the girls greatly outnumber the
bows