The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-04
CONVENTION NOTES

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| $4,000. was due principally to his
/ efforts. According to his friends as
soon as he accomplishes one project
1 he starts another.
The smiling face of o. A. Thomas
| superintendent of the Usage county
schools, was seen at the convention
today Thomas is a little leary of
what will happen to him at the con-
vention. as this happens to be the
! thirteenth session of the association he
/ has attended. However. he has the
reputation of having made the Usage
! county school organization one of the
strongest in the state.
The only regrettabie action of the
| teachers attending the convention
| that has come to the notice OF the
public occurred Thursday evening at
the first general session. Twenty min
utes after the concert began they
started to leave the building in large
numbers. Altho their seats were rap
/ idly filled the noise which resulted
was enough to interrupt any enter
tainer. The school ma ans continu-
| ally have the problem of entertaining
students from forty to sixty minutes
at a time but were unable to be enter
tanned for more than twenty minutes
Thursday evening.
One hundred and fifty graduates.
former students and friends of Wash
burn college had enrolled at noon to-
day for the annual Washburn college
lreunion and banquet which will be
held at O'Clock this evening at the
Chamber of Commerce. according to
Miss Faye Hathaway, who is in charge
of the enrolment.
Former Washburn grads will be
glad to know that Miss Marie Green,
I1.4,-A
attending the convention. Miss Green
was graduated from Washburn three
years ago, and was popular student.
She also has a wide acquaintance
lamong Shawnee county school teach
ers, having been an instructor at High
land Park high school for two years
and having resided at Dover for four
years.
T. L. Knight, representative of the
Welsh Apparatus company of Kansas
lCity, Mo, is attending the convention
lana meeting many of his friends
Thru his position Welsh is widely
known to the teachers of Kansas.
Fifty teachers attended the lunch
con of high school principals in the
breakfast room of the Y. w. c. A
to-day.
Topeka merchants are well pleased
with the results of the shopping ex-
petitions which have been INDUCED in
by the state school teachers Milton
Tabor, secretary of the Topeka Mer-
! chants association, said today. I'VE
realize that the primary purpose of the
teachers in coming to Topeka is not
to shop, but we also recognize the
fact that the superiority of Topeka 6
stores is one of the things which as
sists them in making up their minds
to come to Topeka. The volume of
business done in Topeka stores this
weakness in terms of dollars
and cents taken in, is not as great is
that of last year, but there have been
| more goods sold. The difference is
due to the fact that prices are so
much lower this year. Business has
been good in all lines
The Topeka high school girls are
doing their bit in making the cOnven-
ton a success. They are in charge of
the check room at the Y. w. C. A. and
checked more than 500 suit cases,
grips and travelling bags Thursday.
G. C. Rieniet, an instructor in
Quenemo high school and widely
known in school circles in the east
central section of the state, was seen
at the state house today. When asked
if there was a large number of pretty
teachers attending he replied, Sure,
they are prettier than ever
| L. DlIleHlOT6B dySIOuIlu lIlSlI uC-
tor in the Topeka ward schools had a
number of his pupils give a demon
stration of how to play various school
games at 1880 o'clock this afternoon
at the north end of the state house
grounds. Among the games played
were: soccer, playground bali and bat
ball
Kansas university appeared to be
: represented with its usual quota OF
delegates at the convention. Among
them were: James Naismith, veteran
instructor in physical education. and
who has attended the convention for
twenty-three years; G.. B. Patrick. as
sistant instructor in physical educa-
ton, who has recently come to the
university from Chicago. and J. E
Brown, assistant physical director, re-
Gently of Port Arthur, Texas.
Supt A F. Senter of Ottawa and
Supt. NJ. f. Pearson of Kansas City
Kan, engaged this afternoon in a spi-
rited argument as to which city had
the most complete organization of its
teachers in the Teachers association
Ottawa has a 100 per cent organiza-
? ton. Every teacher in the city is q
member of the association. How arc
you going to get around that?" Sen
ter asked. That's easy" Pearson re-
l turned. 1--WE have one more than a
100 per cent organization. There are
; Alb teachers in the city schools OF
Kansas City, and I've brought up 474
enrolment cards and s948 in cash
r One man who was not a teacher en-
rolled for the convention" The argu-
ment was closed.
When Clarence T. Rice of Kansas