The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-09

as follows: Invocation by DR.. Willis
Goldsmith; Let this be world of
friends, address by Miss NJ Edna Cor
bet, toastQ1istress, and superintendent
of Shawnee County schools. Responses
will be made as follows: An ounce
of Loyalty is Worth a Pound of Clev-
erness'', Miss Maud L. Clare, president
of the Shawnee County Teachers As
ISOLATION; How to Read the Daily
Newspaper, Miss Bertha Hampstead;
What school board expects from
the teachers" Mrs. Ethel GoodeH,
president of the Shawnee County
School Board association; What the
newspaper woman thinks of the coun-
try school teachers, Miss Kate Tho
men; Rural schools as seen by the
County Commissioner, Mr.. Boyd Pol
lom, chairman of the board of Shaw
nee County Commissioners; What do
you want Miss Hattie E. Wood, prin-
cipal of the Auburn high school; The
St John, assistant state superintendent
of schools; THE Burden of My
Heart, Mrs Hattie Moore Mitchell. of
the Pittsburg Normal school.
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The Weedsport, New York, Sentinel,
made an irreparable bIunder the other
day, and their apology for it has a
peculiar significance in these days
of coming home after the wedding"
1t is as follows:
Hull wedding in last weeks issue our
reporter intended to state that after
brief wedding trip the newly mar
ried couple would make their home at
the old Manse,' but through a typo
graphical error which escaped the
proof reader and which we regret ex-
ceedingly, "Old Manse' was made to
read "Old Mans"
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
So accustomed to being waited on
hand and foot by her submissive and
subdued husband, that she has fallen
into the habit of thinking the whole
wide world holds her in the same awe
and is equally obliged to please her
One day she called up the railway
station to reserve her berth in the
Pullman. She chose the most crowded
train of the busiest day of the season
to make her journey in, and she asked
for her reservation about an hour and
a half before the train was to start
Everyone who has travelled at all with
IN the last six months knows how far
in advance it is necessary to speak
Tor first class accomm odations. Said
TINS superbly commanding creature:
reserve for me a lower berth, exact
center of the car, in the last Pull
man of the train, on the shady si6e-
and oh, yes, l like green upholstered
seats best
MY dear madame" replied the
ticket seller, you will be lucky to
get corner upper on the sunny side
OF the first car in the train, with no
upholstery at all, and paid for in ad-
vance"
Poor, dear mani He was not mar
rleo' SO ne didn't know enough to be
cautious how he spoke. But he did
know before he finished that sale.
The kindergarten Teachers asso-
citation gave their annual dinner party
at the Chamber of Commerce Thurs
day night at $50 o'clock. Miss Min
the vlce-president of the association,
presided. The program consisted of
music by Miss Helen Leeper, Miss
Dorotha Leeper and Miss Lillian
Huckel, who play the violin, cello
and piano. Under the direction of
Mrs June Chapman, group of To-
peka kindergarten children gave an
Uncle Sam dance. Claude Putnam
blew the bugle calls, and the children
entered, gave the performance and
retlredNto the notes of the bugle.
X
Mr. and Mrs. William Bunson will
give a program of music at the noon
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
/ merce saturday Mr.. Bunson is a
violinist, and Mrs. Bunson a singer.
Their program will be as follows:
Heard a Cry. Fisher
pay o F .-.'.:... Daniels
ave MARIA Schubert Wilhelm
Mazurka de Concert. Divide Musin
Hopak .Moussorgsky
Love Is the Wind-........... MacFayden
Ooertass Mazurka- H. Wieuiawski
Humoreske -..--.-.... Dvorak- Wilhelmnij
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. j. M. Cornell left Thursday for
Chicago to visit her son, Mr. Joe Con-
nell, who is in the second officers
training camp at Fort Sheridan.
Miss Maude McVey, principal of the
high school at Corning, is visiting her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. w. E. McVey.
Miss Raulah Sta hn of Irving Kan Is