The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-16
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Delegates to Kansas Official
Council Arrive in Topeka.
Opening Session VIII Be Held
This Afternoon.
MUSICAL PROGRAM TONIGHT
Registers of Deeds to Hold an
Affair of Own.
Officers To Be Elected at SeS-
sion Friday Morning.
MUSICAL PROGRAM TONIGHT

Afternoon trains today are bringing
the bulk of the Kansas officials to the
Kansas Official Council in Topeka.
The early arrivals commenced regis
tration at the Chamber of Commerce
at 10 o'clock this morning and the
registration was light up to noon.
The delegates to the council meeting
are being met at the railroad stations
by motor cars which take them to the
Chamber of Commerce for registra-
ton, and then to their rooms.
The council attendance this year will
probably be larger than it has ever
been before, according to Oscar
Swayze. editor of the Kansas Official,
the official organ of the associations
There will be more county commls-
sioners than other officers at the con-
vention, judging by the early enroll
ment and by the attendance at past
councils.
Irwin Mcdowell, chairman of the
board of county commissioners OF
Phillips county, in the northwestern
portion of the state, and one of the
early arrivals this morning, believes
that there will be at least 200 OF the
county commissioners at the meeting
Mcdowell is one of the first resi-
dents of Phillips county, where ms
father settled in 1871 Il Shot pu1-
| falo and antelope out there in Philllps
| county," Mcdowell said this morning
| Features of the meeting of the
county officials will be entertainments
| arranged by host commlttee OF To-
peka men: There will be mus1caI
programs tonight and Thursday night,
after the buffet luncheon which is to
| he served at 6 o'clock at the Cham
ber of Commerce.
Program by Industrial School.
Music, speeches. and stunts by the
bows from the State Industrial school,
are already scheduled for the enter
| tainment of the country officials, and
since the program is to be more or less
| impromptu, other features may be
| added.
and dancing for those who care 10
| dance. Thursday night, after the en-
| tertainuent at the Chamber of Com
| merce, there will be line party 10
! the Novelty theater.
| The registers of deeds will have an
affair of their own at o'clock Thurs-
day evening. The nature OF the al
| fair" is not stated in the program
| The County Engineers association
will have a banquet at o'clock the
| same evening at Pelletier's tea room.
| The tickets are on sale by F. W. Epps
of the office of the state highway en-
| gineer. The clerks of the district
| court will also have their own asso-
| ciation dinner at O'Clock Thursday
| evening.
To Begin Work Today.
The opening sessions of the various
association programs will be held at
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon. For the
most part the opening sessions will
consist of the call to order. the call
ing Cf the roll, the appointment of
committees. and one or pore ad-
dresses
| The Kansas County Clerks associa-
tion will meet in the senate chamber
at the state house and be called to
order by their president, J. B. Clay
well, of .vestmoreland; the county
| commissioners will meet in the su-
preme court room. Their president is
r. V. Brokaw. of Hiawatha. The
/ registers of deeds will meet at the Of
flee of the secretary of state, Oran
Layton, of Topeka, president. The
county treasurers will meet at the Of
| flee of the state treasurer, John NJ.
| Price of AtchisOn, president. Probate
judges will meet in the public utilities
hearing room, w. w. Potter. of Marys-
vile, president. The Kansas County
| Engineers association. viii meet at
the Chamber of Commerce, 9. NJ.
Cooper of Columbus. president. The
! in the offices of the attorney genera |.
! and will be called to order by their
president. A. B. Campbell, of Marys-
Vile.
/ To Form New Organization.
The program and organization of
1.-THE county probation officers is ten
ltative. The probation officers viii be
Ecalled to order by the chairman of
1.-THE tentative organization committee,
and one of the first jobs which will
tconfront them will be the establish
fment of an organization which will be
lmade permanent at the final meeting
Friday morning.
There will be but one general ses-
sion of the eight various associations.
Each association will meet for the last
time Friday morning at 9 o'clock for
1.-THE election of its own officers and
the transaction of it's unfinished busi-
mess.
At II o'clock Friday morning there
will be a general session of the entire
council for the election of council
officers. The general session will be
held in the supreme court room at the
state house.
A J. Harvey. of Marysville- is presi-
dent of the council; J. Wendell Ready.
of Wellington, is vice president, and
Mrs. Bertha Kempton, of Goodland.
is secretary. Ex-officio, the president
land secretary of each of the associa-
ltions are members of the executive
committee of the council.