The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-13
ONLY Eve LII.
Nine Members of the Vignette
Club Resign.

At the business meeting of the Vi
gnette club which was held at the home
Of Mrs. A. c. MCGUIRE, 1908 Topeka
avenue Thursday afternoon. the follow
ing members handed in their resigna-
tions: Mrs j. r. Lord, Mrs. A. 9. NC
Guire, Mrs. willard Hall, Mrs Frank
Willard Mrs. Reid Alexander Mrs. -
c. Esterly, Mrs. A. D. Gray and Miss
May Kellam. The designations include
all the officers except the vice president
Mrs. 7. F. Doran, and all the members
except nVes not counting Mrs Wills
Norton, who IS in Europe and regard
ing whose action in the matter nothing
definite is known.
The remaining members are Mrs. H.
o. GarVey, Mrs. G. #. Spencer. Mrs 4.
#. Doran, Mrs r. NJ. Bonebrake and
Mrs. Speed Hughes They VIII hold 4
business meeting Friday morning at the
home Of Mrs BOnebrake. 1912 Buchanan
street, when new officers viii be elected
to ill the vacancies cause by the resig-
nations and some arrangements made
for next years work
Neither side in the controversy which
has resulted in the DISRUPTION Of the
club will make a statement as to the
exact cause Of the trouble, and both
factions seem anxious to avoid pub
licity. We are all still friends" said
one member Of the club Yesterday but
IS merely the elimination of sever al
years OF friction" said another "and u
an unpleasautness OF which we do not
wish to speak. 1t is nothing that inter
ests the public"
Some OF the members object to the
implication in a Topeka newspaper that
Mrs, A H. Thompson has had anything
to do with the disturbance as Mrs
Thompson Is not even 8 member of the
club. It has been stated that the rela-
lions of Mrs. Thorn pson, ex-president
OF the city federation, and Mrs. H. 0.
GarVey, who is now president, are not
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in Los Angeles there was a discussion
In the corridor Of the hotel where the
two women were staying which result
ed in an open breach
This discussion was over the Ques4
ton or Mrs. Garvey's part on the pro-
gramme of the afternoon session devoted
to the work of the subordinate fedora
ton at which Mrs. Thompson presided.
Mrs Garvey. it is asserted, felt that
she should have been asked to give a
report of the work Of the Topeka fed
Grafton but such a request was not
made by the chairman. Mrs. Garvey's
friends say that Mrs. Thompson asked
Mrs Mary Vance Humphrey of juno
ton City TO make this report in order
to slight Mrs. Garvey. Mrs. ThOmp-
sons friends say that the programme
committee asked Mrs. Thompson not to
put any Topeka women on her pro-
gramme as Topeka already had several
representatives on the programme and
was very prominent in the biennial and
that Mrs. Humphrey, who was asked to
speak suggested that she mention the
work of the Topeka federation as being
especially successful Mrs. Thompson
session, her friends assert, was not in
tended to be devoted to reports from
clubs or declarations. There was anOth-
err session of the biennial devoted to
this purpose. However, although she
had not been asked to talk when Mrs.
Thompson opened her subject for gen.
eral discussion Mrs. Garvey rose and
made an address of the work of the To-
peka federation Sore of her opponents
say that Mrs. Garvey's talk lasted fif-
teen or twenty minutes. but Mrs.
Thompson, who as chairman was call
ing time and ought to know, says she
thinks it did not exceed two or three
minutes in length Mrs. Thompson fur
Their denies that there was anything IT.
regular or presumptuOus in Mrs. Gar
vey's taking this means of getting be-
store the convention. The subject was
open for discussion, she said, and any
one had a right to talk
If it is true that there IS anY IN
pleasantness between Mrs. Garvey and
her predecessor in Office it was not ap-
parent at the June meeting of the city
federation. Mrs. Garvey presided and
called upon Mrs. Thompson with others
of the Topeka delegation for a five
minute report of the biennial and the
graciOusness of her manner in calling
for Mrs. Thompson was only equailed
by the courtesy and Difference of Mrs
Thompson in responding.
Just why this Los Angeles incident
should be made an issue in the Vignette
club is not apparent as Mrs. Thompson
as has been said before. is not a mem
Der Of the club. Some Of the mem bers
deny that it is an issue and resent the
introduction of Mrs. ThompsOn's name