The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-08

He served FOUR years anu Slx IuOutu8
in the Twenty-sixth regiment of In
diana volunteers
Often we'll known motion picture
stars are spoken Of as THE Queen OF
the Movies" And now comes Jack
Wilson. manager of the Hip theater.
The Hip is showing Mrs. Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch. this week. Mrs.
Wigs" remarked Mr.. Wilson this
morning as he stroked his curly hair,
should be termed the queen of the
turnips.
Dean Arthur has announced the en-
gagement of Fred s. Jackson and
George McDermott as instructors in
the Washburn law school. Mr.. Jack
son has served as encouragement for
Kansas. and congressman from the
Fourth district. He will teach Car
riers." McDermott. who will teach
Agency" is a partner in the law firm
of McDermott and Stone.
Mrs. w. M. Neeley is under arrest
for the assault alleged to have been
made upon Miss Frida Bechtel, a
teacher in the Belvoir school, but
Mrs. Harmon. the other negress in
volved in the affair, and daughter
of Mrs Medley. has left town. The at
tack. it is charged, was made as a
result of punishment inflicted by Miss
Bechtel upon a child OF Mrs. Harmon.
The second semester of the Topeka
Training school for Sunday school
workers will open this evening at the
First Presbyterian 1.surch. An adj
dress will be delivered by President
Mason of Baker university. The gen.
eral public is invited to attend. There
will be no admission fee. H. B. Will
son, superintendent of city schools, is
director. and Mrs S. s. Estey. chair
man of the executive committee.
H. B. Wilson, superintendent of
city schools, returned today from
trip to Pittsburg and Wichita. Thurs
day and Friday he attended a meet
ing of superintendents in connection
with the annual meeting of the South
eastern Kansas Teachers association
spoke on Some Detectives in Super
vision of Schools" He spoke at
Wichita Sunday morning at a meeting
attended by 200 boy leaders.
Members of the Topeka Rotary club
are reminded of the twenty-five cent
fine that will be imposed upon ev-
cry person who attends the meeting
wednesday noon VINO does not bring
book for the tuberculosis sanitarium
at Norton. DIR. Roy B. Guild will give
the business talk. His biography
will be given by DIR. C. B. Van Horn.
Herbert Dale will give a Rotary talk.
The meeting will be held at the L. C.
T. hall on East Eighth avenue.
DR.. W. c. McIrvin of Atwood is Wis
iting the legislature and friends in To-
peka this week. He is one of the
pioneers of Rawlins county. He
speaks enthusiastically for his town
and county. and says the prospect for
another big crop OF wheat is promis-
ing. His town and county is the
home of ex-senator Fred Robertson,
now United States district attorney;
James Malone, the present state sena-
tor. and Robert Hendricks, member
OF the legislature.
Prof. W. A. Jessup of the Univer-
sity of Iowa. an educator of broad
teachers of the city schools in the as
sembly room of the manual training
high school building Thursday after
noon at four O'Clock. His subject:
Scientific Attitude in Education"
The meeting is open to the general
public. Professor Jessup is a forceful
speaker and his address should be of
interest to all persons interested in ed
ucationa1 questions.
A series of meetings for grade
school teachers is being held this week
in room 203. high school building.
This afternoon beginning at four
o'clock a meeting of the teachers of
the third and fourth grades was held.
Tuesday afternoon the instructors in
the fifth and sixth grades will get to-
gether at the same time and place.
and Wednesday the seventh and
elSntn grace tedCnerS Will meet. fFOD-
lens relative to the school work are
discussed at these meetings.
! Edward P Harris, foreman and
prOofreader in the Crane and Com
pany printing plant, is probably the
Oldest active printer in the country.
He is eighty years old and has been a
printer for sixty-two years. Mr.. Har-
ris has been with the Crane establish
ment since 1891. Before that he was
employed in Lowell, Mass; Lawrence,
Kan. and Emporia. He was working
for the Lawrence Herald in 1856 when
the office of that paper was destroyed
in the famous Quantrell raid.
Up to last Friday ten days had gone