The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26
North Side Neuus
TO MEET MONDAY
Civic Club and Grant-Quincy
Association Get Together.
They Are North TOpeka's Two
Live Organizations.

The North Topeka Civic club and
the Grant-Quincy parent-teachers' as
ISOLATION will hold their second meet
ing Monday evening. May %. Ac-
cording t. President Frank Simms, of
the Civic club, this meeting will large
! ly accomplish the purpose of -consol-
idating the organizations of North
Topeka fCr the promotion of civic wei :
fare.
! 1t is the intention of those directing
| the movement to accomplish a great
err efficiency in the work of boostinE
North Topeka, and awakening her to
/ the needs of the hour. The civic club
and the parent-teachers' association
are the most progressive and public
spirited organizations on the North
Side, and if they can work in har-
mony, and not at cross purposes, it is
thought that a great deal may be ac-
complished.
/ j. c. s;nediker, president of the as
sociatio1 is cooperating with Mr.
Simms III the purpose of civic prog
/ ress. AT the meeting Monday even
/ ing, which will be held in Quincy
school, al entertaining program will
| be given before the business meet
] ing Several musical numbers will be
/ rendered, and the patriotic pageant
which created such an impression
and the city auditorium recently, will
/ be repeated
1t Is Real Show.
! This pageant, the most successful
stunt of the sort yet given in To-
peka, will attract many people. 1t
! has scored a real hit. The pageant
| was planned and directed by C M.
| Morrow, principal of Grant and Quin-
cy schools. Forrest Pitt will take the
part of John Bull; Ferdinand Voil-
and, that of Russia Margaret Morns,
Italy; Dema Williams, France; anc
| lode n L foHie. .a~fn O
| Goddess of Liberty and Uncle Sam.
A chorus of junior high school chill
dren will sing the patriotic songs OF
the allies.
| The Monday meeting is open to ev-
cry North Topeka citizen who wishes
participate in the discussion of ques-
lions of public interest. An urgent in
vitation is extended to all residents of
North Topeka to attend.
| Sunday Memorial Service.
For the Sunday Memorial services
in North Topeka the Blue Post and
| Blue Corps will meet at the hall, S31
North Kansas avenue, at 10 o'clock
! Sunday morning and march in a body
to the Kansas Avenue Methodist
/ church where the Rev. Scheer will
give the address. Conveyances will
| be furnished for those who will be
unable to walk. Comrade Musson has
! charge of the music
w. S. Robinson has provided auto
transportatic for forty members of
the Post and Corps, 70 attend the ex-
| ercises at the West Indianola Sunday
school, to be held at $3.50 Sunday aft
ernoon. H. L. Nelson, pastor of the
| Iotwn Presbyterian church, will
speak, and Supt. H. w. Charles of the
Industrial school with a company of
toys will attend. The conveyances
Will be at S31 North Kansas avenue at
! 2:45 p. m.
| AT the Second Presbyterian church.
North Jackson and Gordon, the Rev
j. P. Hicks will preach at the morn
| ing service on The Sunday School in
the Church." Vt the evening service,
the pastor will give a report of the
| general assembly recently held in Dali
| las, Tex.
Social and Personal.
| S. S. Hart of Ulysses, Kan, is in To-
peka visiting his brother Charles F.
| Bridge
| c. NJ. Marker has acquired a new
bull pup to take the place of the late
lamented Satan" who departed for
an unknown destination some months
ago.
D. S. Briggs and his family of Valley
will live at 1923 Monroe street.
| George Allen, a son of Mrs G. E.
Allen, will return today from Cuba,
where he has spent the last year in
contracting work.
| Aaron Sheetz, who has been i'll at
Stormont hospital for the last two
weeks, is improving. Mr. Sheetz has
been suffering from a nervous trouble.
A. M. Petro, druggist.-Adv
Frank Ward asserts that he has had
new potatoes from his garden for the
last week, of a size practical for eating
purposes; that is, of the general di-
mansions of an English walnut
The body of George w. Guthrie,
American ambassador to Japan, who
died recently, will pass thru North To-
peka Sunday on the Overland limited
on its way to Washington, where
burial services will be held.