The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Five Days of State Meetings
and Conventions.
Ninth Annual Meeting of Dis
triet Judges of Kansas.
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION HERE
Thirty-Third Annual COnven-
ton VIII Open Thursday.
Kansas Peace and Equity
League Next Sunday.

Lawyers, politicians, male and fe-
male, district judges and peace advo-
Gates will occupy the center of the
stage during the next seven days in
one of the biggest convention weeks
IN Topeka "a , this year Beginning
meeting of the district judges in the
supreme court rooms, Topeka will be
the scene of one constant round of adj
dresses, interviews and political in
triguing until Sunday afternoon when
as a fitting finale will come the an
nual meeting of the Kansas Peace and
Equity league al the First Baptist
church. Governor Capper, the Rev
Charles NJ Sheldon and Chancellor
Frank Strong of Lawrence, will be
among the speakers.
Meetings and conventions are ar
ranged so they will dovetail into one
another Those attending the frs.
meetings will remain over for the
next and at the end of the week
major portion of delegates will be
present on Saturday night to attend
the big Kansas Day club banquet, the
grand climax to the week.
Judges Are First.
Judge T. w. Sargent of Wichita, and
Judge W. 1. Stuart of Hiawatha, will
be the principal speakers at the ninth
annual meeting of the Kansas District
Judges in Topeka Wednesday. The
next day the thirty-third annual meet
ing of the Bar Association of Kansas
will open at 1920 o'clock in the SUI
preme court rooms. A report of COM
mittees and routine business will COM
prise the morning session as arranged
by d. A. Valentine, secretary of the
association.
The opening address in the after
noon by the president, C. L. kagey of
| Beloit. on THE High Cost of Justice"
promises to be one of the most senSa-
tional in the annals of the association.
This will be followed by reading of
| meritoriouS papers of the senior class
of the State University Law school.
Their. subject will be Effect of limo
| cent Misrepresentation on Contracts"
Next will come an address on, The
Lawyer Outside of Court by T. A.
MoXcey of Atchison.
The Annual Address.
The annual address of Edward j.
/ White, St Louis, general counsel for
| the Missouri Pacific receivers will be
the principal feature of the evenings
program. The program for Friday
promises to be equally as entertaining.
George T. McDermott, a Topeka at
torney will be on Fridays program.
Election of officers will be held Fri
day afternoon. H-t
While the attorneys are in session
Thursday evening, Vernon ]. Rose OF
Kansas City, will speak at big mass
meeting in Representative hall, in OBJ
servance of industrial Relations
Day" The meeting will be held in
response to a request addressed to the
central labor bodies throughout the
country by Frank P. Walsh. chairman
of the industrial relations commission,
asking that a day be set aside for
keeping alive the work of the commits
sion.
now-Your-Town.
That same evening another big
event will be the second Know-Y our
Town dinner to be held at the Com
| mercial club rooms at $50 o'clock.
Included i'll the program for this din
ner are descriptions of the Rehkopf
Brothers Carriage Works by MEM
Der of the firm; a description of the
Metal Silo company plant by c. p.
| Buck and an outline of the work done
by Adams Brothers Printing company
by c. p. Adams.
Then comes the annual meetings
and banquets of the Kansas Day clubs
male and female. The women will be
! entertained at reception Friday
evening at the governors home. Prior
to the banquet of the Kansas Day
club in Masonic hall a meeting of the
! Republican state committee and a
meeting of the First District Republi-
can committee will be held at the Ma
tional hotel. All sessions of the Wo-
! mans Kansas Day club will be held at
the First Presbyterian church.