The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-19

tary SiGterhood organization. Follow
ing the Introductory pictures are cuts
of all the boys of Shawnee county who
were connected with either the army
or navy, and a short paragraph telling
the principal facts concerning them.
Only few of these pages have been
completed and the book will not be
out until September or later.
Among the women who are show
ing these books are Mrs. J. T. Reese,
Mrs. Ike Lewis, Mrs. E. c. Fable, Mrs.
c. w. Sheppard. Mrs. ]. S. Thomas.
Mrs. c. l. Martin, Mrs. H. c. Root,
Mrs. E. ]. Hadley, Mrs. A. Biene, Mrs.
Theodore Saxon.
BEING MISSED.
There was a man in Topeka one
time who had many friends and like
wise many enemies; and some people
said he was a foreflusher and others
said he knew how to advertise. But
that is neither here nor there in this
story. This is to tell how he is missed
by a certain Social set in Topeka
now that he is gone to larger city
and a bigger job. 1t is the old ladies
of Ingleside who miss him most. For
their lives are not exactly exciting and
the fact that every week as regular as
the week came he sent his car to take
a load of them for a beautiful long
ride was feature in their lives. They
day at the appointed hour and the
whole thing worked out Systematically.
One woman had a scratch list and kept
tab of who had gone and who should
go. For old ladies are not so different
fundamentally from young ones and
there was a chance of some of them
trying to so every time.
Nowadays they spend lot OF time
on the porch at Ingleside and go out
in the yard but very seldom does a
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and ride" and very seldom have they
such a pleasing and wholesome pleas
ure to look forward to. And the old
ladies of Ingleside go on missing the
man who is no longer in Topeka. But
it would be easy to make them re-
member in the same kindly way other
men and women of Topeka. And it is
a sure way to make oneself missed
when one is gone. And every one
likes to be missed.
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More than a hundred Spanish war
veterans and their friends gathered at
the home of Mrs. c. c. Church, 1925
Lane street, Thursday evening for a
farewell social for the members of the
visiting camps of the u. S. V. There
was good music by the May sisters
and a number of short addresses were
given.
| Kansas in the city of Topeka and in
| the organizat ton of the Social Service
| club when Mrs. Villa r. Kercher,
| president of the club, wanted some
new way to make money for the or
ganization and at the same time to do
something for the children of the
town. Mrs. Kercher has children of
| her own and knows the fascination of
picture shows-and at the same time
| she has a keen realization of the I'M
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for a child. Why, then in this age
of children when there are laws for
children, Fairgrounds for children,
toys, books, schools, pictures for chill
dren, had there never been picture
shows for children? 1t seems strange
that as large a business concern as
the motion picture companies would
have neglected a thing that was likely
| to prove as popular and remunerattve
! But they had and it was left to an out
slider to decide to start such a show
and book pictures one would be will
ing for their children to see and en-
/ joy. From the first Saturday the So
] ciaI Science club has given a moving
| picture at the Orpheum theater 1t has
/ been a success and every week the in
I terest and attendance has grown. The
| churches, schools, clubs have recog-
nized the desirability of these shown
| and recently the picture show COM
| panies themselves have begun to sit
/ up and take notice. They see the pos
sibility of a future in children's pic
lures and the Social Science club and
/ Mrs. Kercher seem to have started
something that is destined to grow and
| wax great.
The American magazine was the
/ first outside company to become in
\ terested in the project and several
| weeks ago they wrote Mrs. Kercher
asking for her picture and the story
of her success with children's pictures.
Soon after this came letters from the
motion picture people in California
| wanting 10 know of Topeka's- response
! to these shows and whether it seemed
| to be paying proposition and what
: sort of pictures Mrs. Kercher was able
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