The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
CLUB NEWS.
Meetings of the Ladies' Clubs of To-
peka and What They are Doing.

Meetings of the Ladies' Clubs of To-
peka and What They are Doing
The Ninde Chautauqua held their reg
ular meeting Monday evening at which
time the annual election of officers took
place. Mrs. H. H. Arthur was elected
president, Mrs. Stevens, first vice pres
ident; Miss Caroline Goddard, second
vice president; Miss Blanche stewart
secretary and Miss Name Waters,
treasurer.
AT the meeting next Monday evening
the following program will be given;
Responses to roll call, quotations from
Tennyson.
Twenty Centuries of English History.
chapter III. Miss Edith Moore.
The Nineteenth Century in England,
chapter III and ", Mrs. Foster.
Recitation, Mrs. Slater.
The Steadman Club.
The Stedman club held a very pleas
ant meeting Monday evening in the
physical culture parIors. The attendance
was very good and an entertaining pro
Mrs N. p. Garretson read a paper on
Club Work; Mr.. Bradbury read an
original poem entitled Soprano and Al
to; Mr. L. H. Crandell had a paper on
Literature in the Far East; Mrs. Har-
greaves read a, poem entitled Past, Yet
Present, and Mrs. Hague read one,
Sunset on the Lake, which she wrote
this summer while on her trip north.
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The SpaIding Reading circle held their
first regular meeting Tuesday evening
at the home of Mrs. D. A. Clements.
This circle was organized about four
years ago and meets every alternate
Tuesday evening at Institute hall.
The annual election of officers took
place Tuesday evening. Mrs. John Now
ers, who has been the president ever
since the circle was organized was re-
elected; Miss Clements is vice preSi-
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secretary and the treasurer is Miss
Hannah Buchanan.
The course of study has not been
mapped out for the entire year but the
first part of it they will study famous
artists and their works, church history
and people of note; along with this they
keep up with the current topics of the
day.
The members of the club are: Mrs.
John Movers, Mrs. D. A. Clements,
Mrs. J. B. Butterfly, Mrs. William Con-
ners, Mrs. J. p. Collins, Miss Minnie
Seller, Miss Mamie Kahr, Miss Annie
Flynn, Miss Emma McMullen, Miss Lii
da Wingert, Miss Minnie Wingert, Miss
Loretta Kinney Miss Wragovich Mrs.
Zercher, Miss Mary Chase. Mrs. E. A.
Thrill, Mrs. Frank Thomas. Miss Sa-
die Doyle, Miss Buchanan, Miss Cog
gins, Miss Margaret Coggins, Miss Nc
Intyre, Miss Isabel Boyle, Mrs. John
McManus, Mrs. william Troutman.
Miss Homer and Mrs. J. J. Kinney.
The Travelling Library.
The Kansas Travelling Library is a
collection of books sent out by the
Kansas Federation of Women's clubs,
in cases containing about fifty books
each, to reading clubs, associations of
citizens, boards of education, state or
county institutions or to public libra
ries, to be kept six months, with priv
ilege of renewal, not to exceed three
earlier date.
The objects of the Federation in TAX
ing up this work are:
1. To aid reading and study clubs
?. To furnish good literature to the
public.
8. To create an interest in the es-
Establishment, of new libraries.
4. To strengthen small libraries.
The Federation will furnish forms for
application to those organizations wish
ing to receive a travelling library, and
will guarantee proper care and safe re-
turn of the books.
Every county district might have a
library association which would serve
as a neighborhood center for study and
The club women, the authors and the
friends of the movement in Kansas, are
furnishing the books. Twenty dollars
was voted out of the treasury of the
Topeka Federation of Clubs to pay for
travelling cases, and besides, several
cases have been furnished by clubs and
individuals. The department OF edu-
"a tiOn through the kindness of Super
intendent Stryker, furnishes room in
the capitol building for the storing of
the books and for the convenience of
the committee, and the committee gives
its time and Ia Dor free but it lacks
means to pay for transportation and
printing, and to meet these expenses a
fee of two dollars will be charged each
association receiving the books.
If a list of the books desired IS sent !
with the application it will be furnished
as near as possible, or if subjects are
named, books relating to those subjects
will be sent.
The Kansas Federation desires wide
circulation for its travelling libraries
and begs hearty cooperation of all clubs
and individuals to whom this appeals
as a means of promoting the culture
the intelligence and the moral standard
of our citizenship.
All communications should be address
sed to the chairman of the committee
Mrs. W. A. Johnston, 1924 Harrison
street. Topeka. Kas.
The Equal Suffrage Society.
The Equal Suffrage club met Thurs
day evening, and elected officers for the
coming year.
Mrs. NJ. A. Cornelius was elected pres |
ident, DR.. Agnes Mckee Wallace, vice
president: Mrs. e A. Wardan, secre-
tary; Mrs. A. o. Case, recording secre-
tary, and Mrs. Carrie Clough, treas
urer.
Mrs WardalI and Mrs. Iowa NJ Holt
wick were appointed as delegates to at