The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-30

regular depositors in the high school
TO INCREASE within the next two or
| school children who have formed the
! thrift habit will then be enrolled in
i the high school.
| At meeting OF the executive COM
lnittee of the Kansas State Mutual in
surance. Companies association held
| recently in the office of W. B. Gasche,
president of the association, the date
of the next annual meeting of the as
| ISOLATION was fixed as November 10
and 16, and Bellevi1le was chosen as
| the site of the meeting. There will be
some seventy-five delegates at the
meeting. and other members of the
association present will bring the
! number well over 100. Floyd Ander-
son. of Wellington, secretary of the
I association; c. ]. Olson, of Chapman;
III, H Collins, of BelleviIle, and w. b.
Gasche are the members of the ex
! ecutive committee.
| Both matinee and evening per-
| formances are to be given by the COT
| fer-Miller players November II, in
| the high school auditorium. These
! leges and larger high schools this fall
and winter. They will come to To-
peka from Lincoln, Neb-, where they
! Will give performances at the Univer-
/ sity of Nebraska. The plays to be
| presented for the Topeka high school
Shrew'' and THE Rivals" The play
ers are being brought to-Topeka high
/ school under the auspiceskof the ORA
| matte club and the English depart
| nent of the school. A special ad :
mission price of 35 cents for both
| performances will be. allowed the high
school students
j Addition of another year to the
regular high school courses. in Kansas
may be urged before the legislature
hNr 1reT% i
board of administration and a men,
Der of the legislature from Atchison
county. A fifth year of high school
i work would relieve much of the pres
ent over taxation of state schools, he
said. 1t is impossible, Underwood
building program in step with the
rapid increase in school enrolment
/ a second reason advanced for the
i fifth year of high school work is the
need OF keeping youngsters at home
i, longer. Underwood asserts too many
/ boys and girls start to college before
/ they reach sufficiently mature age.
/ The committee on young peoples
/ work of the Kansas Baptist churches
held meeting at the Central Y. M. c.
A today to arrange plans for the
young peoples work in the churches
/ young peoples unions Sunday schools
daily religious education schools was
discussed. Tentative plans for the
lsummer assembly at Ottawa next sum-
mer We're discussed. Members of the
committee in charge of the young
peoples work are: Miss Edna UNI
stot. Topeka, director; w. P. Dehan,
| Ottawa; DIR. Perry s Osborne, Argen-
tine, and ]. w Dayles, Wichita. The
| executive committee of the Woman s
Missionary union of the Kansas Bap-
list convention win hold a meeting in
Topeka Friday to arrange the work OF
1.-THE organization for the coming year.
One of the most unusual window
idisplays arranged for Automobile day
by Topeka store, was that of the
/ Lord flower shop on West Eighth
laYenue. In the east window was an
antique baby carriage fashioned ex-
iaCtly like an old-time stage coach. II
! was made in 1911 for Mrs. Lord S
father, the late George Geiger. The
each was filled with small yellow
chrysanthemums, and was standing
ong a carpet of cedar leaves to repre-
sent. grass. BY the side of the vehicle
was an imitation campfire made with
red lights and some old brass andi-
j rons. The composition was tagged
with a placard. bearing the inscrip-
ton, ISL, Days of Yore." In the
west window was miniature repre-
sentation of a modern street, with tiny
yellow taxicabs running up and dowr
its surface. The background of tbs
scene was composed of lunches oil
large yellow chrysanthemufnS TIED
with blue ribbon, and also blue col
labeled 1922 The entire idea wa!
to show the great advance in trans
portation made almost within the spar
of one DPrSOn'S life