The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-25
IN NORTH Topeka
Date of Township Meeting Has
Been Changed.
Knights of Pythias Will Elect
Officers Monday.

The date of the board meeting of
Soldier township has been changed
from Monday, May 81, to Saturday,
of Memorial Days coming Mon
day. The meeting will be held in the
Shawnee State bank building.
The board is now putting in wing
Little Muddy, one mile north of Kill
mer. The bridge is of stone structure
and during the heavy rains the walls
were destroyed
X. p. Lodge Election.
1t was announced at the regular
weekly meeting of Amity lodge No.
231, Knights Of Pythias, which was
held Monday night, that word had
that hereafter the officers of the To-
cal lodge would be elected twice each
year instead of yearly, and that the
next election would be held Monday
He Travels Through Mud.
The speed record set by Clark Ores
ser, of the Citizens State bank. on
the first part of his trip, who IS re-
turning from motor trip through
Iowa and Illinois is diminishing. His
average of two hundred miles day
has been reduced to ten miles in five
hours. A card received by North
Side friend of his this morning stated
he was near Belle PLANE, Iowa, and
travelling through a sea of mud. 1t
has rained in that part of the country
for a week and the roads are nearly
impossible
Secure $50 for Playground Fund.
A canvass of the North Side mer-
chants was made Monday by the pu-
pills of the Quincy and Grant schools
for the purpose of raising money for
the city playground fund. Forty-four
dollars and aighty-five cents was col
lected in actual cash by the Quincy
pupils and the remainder of the $65
pledged.
school were out in full force and
turned their collection over to the
grade pupils were supposed to solicit
funds and as Grant school has only
six grades the pupils living in the
Grant district in the seventh and
eighth grades attend Quincy school.
The amount the city schools are
trying to raise is 81 1000, which will
be used to fit Fairgrounds out for the
use Of the children of the city. The
soliciting will be continued on the
North Side today.
About Miss AIDA Harper.
The following is taken from the
University Daily Kansan, the paper
published by the students of the Kan
sas university at Lawrence, regarding
the recital of Miss AIDA Harper, who
is we'll known in North Topeka and
lives near Menoken. Miss Harper
receives her diploma this month from
the fine arts department of the uni
versity. She is a member of the hon
orary sorority, the Mu Phi Epsilon,
and was one of the six girls chosen
by the entire school to call on Gov
ernor Capper about the reinstating of
Dean Skilton in the fine arts depart
ment of the school
The Kansan says of Miss Harper's
recital: Miss AIDA Harper gave an
unusually brilliant recital last even
ing and many of the audience re-
marked that she had the poise of a
professional. Miss Harper'S style of
int iS nd .rion
and her numbers displayed her pow
erful and brilliant technique All of
her playing was clear and clean, eSpe-
cially in the passage work and her
strong. sweet tone was additional
feature in her playing.
The Sonata Opus So by Beethoven
was exceedingly we'll played and as
this is one of the sonatas written in
.. the later period it is one of the most
difficult of the composers last group.
The Wedding March was very pleas
ing to the audience, and, in this num-
Der, her brilliant technique was dis
played. The Chopin group was we'll
received, the first two requiring a
dainty. artistic touch and tone, while
the last number needed much
strength. as it is filled with much
heavy chord and octave work.
Miss Harper's Interpretation of
her numbers was we'll balanced and
her ciimaxes we'll brought out. The
third group was of modern composers
and a serious dramatic style was
characteristic of the Legend Op. 49,
by Campbell-Tipton. Miss Harper is
expecting after some further study to
take up concert work"
Notes and Personals.
DR.. o. P. Davis left Monday eve
ming for Cawker City, Kan, called in
consultation over the illness of Mrs.
A. NJ Petro's sister, Mrs H B. Mayer
of that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Pollom of Wa
mego, Kan, are visiting Mrs. Pollom S
parents, MIR. and Mrs. o. F. Winner,
north of town.
D. T. Gabriel has returned from a
business trip to Holton, Denison and
Valley Falls.
Ira Hopkins of Silver Lake was a
North side visitor today.
James Mckinley of Scranton, Kan,
was on the North side today visiting
friends.
The members of Shawnee council
No. 3, Knights and Ladies of Security,
will give picnic supper tonight in the
lodge hall, S31 North Kansas avenue.
William Stock of the Fairview
neighborhood was on the North side
today.
The graduation exercises of the