The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
Enrolment of Pupils for New
Term of School.
Junior High at Quincy Re-
ceiveS 20 New Ones.
FLORIDA TRIP CALLED Off
Delegation Warned by Rail-
roads Travel Is Uncertain.
Could Promise to Garry Them
No Farther Than Memphis.

Monday was enrolment day in the
public schools. S. G. Watkins. princi-
pal of Mckinley school, reports that
twenty-eight new pupils were entered
in the school There are one hundred
and fifty-four students enrolled in the
school at present. Six pupils were
given diplomas at the end of last term
and two of them will resume their
work in the high school. One of them
will go to Lincoln institute, Jefferson
City. Mo.
The attendance at Mckinley has
been very good considering the bad
winter weather and the sickness on
the North side. After the holidays
about twenty students were out of
school with the grip but all of them
are back in school at present.
The enrolment of new students in
Grant school was ten and the same
number of students was sent to
Quincy school. where they will be
given the work above the 6B grade.
About two hundred and forty pupils
are enrolled in the school. me SICK
list has been about normal this winter
in Grant school. Miss Belle Shirley
teacher from Tacoma, Wash, and
Salt Lake City, will teach the GA
grade, taking the place of Miss Emma
Burnettc, who will complete her work
in the State Normal
Quincy school received twenty new
students. and under the system adopted
at the beginning of the term last year
the students who would have gone to
the high school were entered III the
junior high school. The junior high
school consists of the sixth, seventh,
eighth and ninth grades. Thirty-five
entered the junior high school from
the sixth grade. The grip made an in
road in the attendance for while, but
it is back to normal now.
Stopped by Floods.
The delegation of North Topeka
people which was to have left for
Tampa. Fla, today TO visit the Florida
state fair and the Gasperilla historic
carnival were notified last night by
telegram from the general passenger
agent of the Frisco railroad that it
would not guarantee to get them any
further than Memphis, Tenn. on ac-
count of high water. The trip has been
postponed by most of the members
until later date. Those who were
leaving from North Topeka were, D.
+. Garner, Ira Williams o. p. Ken
net, Ralph Kennel and H. II. Bair.
Notes and Personal.
Mrs. Edwin James, or Kansas City,
was the guest Sunday of her sisters,
the Misses Haines.
Miss Iva Mae Butler, the only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester
bQlltIs ItOI NtullCy street, was mar
ried to Ernest James Simmons at the
home Of the brides parents. The cere-
mOny was read by the Rev. John w.
Waldron, of Holton, former pastor of
the Kansas Avenue Methodist church.
A large number of friends and rela-
tives of the young people was present.
Members of the Senior society of the
North Topeka Baptist church, will go
on a bob-sled ride this evening. The
party will meet at Z o'clock at the
home of Miss Agnes Carlson, 1913
Central avenue
Pearl NJ. Holcomb. of EITnont, who
is a member of the jury, has been
driving into town with a team every
morning and says that the roads are
in much better condition.
NJ. a. Hutchinson, Kiro, was in
North Topeka this morning or his way
home from Kansas City, where Mrs.
Hutchinson is in a hospital
A NJ. Petro. Druggist.-Adv.
w. r. Griffith left North Topeka
this morning for Denver, Colorado,
where he will visit for short time.
Roy Brainbridge, of Kiowa, who has
been attending tire iumbermen's con-
vention in Kansas City, stopped here
on his way home to visit his sister,
Mrs. Joe WarnoclS, 1918 Polk street.
j. G. Whitehead was in town on
business this morning, from Silver
Lake