The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-21
HOW THEY WORK.
Bright Kansas Women Tell How
They Run Newspapers.
Mrs. King Compares the City
and Country Reporter.
AMONG THE INDIANS.
Miss Helen Ball Describes Their
Newspaper Experience.
Mrs. Porter Discusses the
Source of Patriotism.
AMONG THE INDIANS.

The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Kansas Women's Press club is in ses-
sion at the Copeland today. The mem
bers of the club began struggling in
from different parts OF the state Mon
day. more came this morning and about
60 guests are expected for the banquet
with which the meeting closes tonight.
There was a short business session this
morning and a programme this after
noon. At the banquet tonight Mrs.
Minnie D. Morgan of Cottonwood Falls
win act as toastmistress and Mrs. No
BILE Prentis of Topeka, Mrs. Cora G.
Lewis of Kingsley and Miss Constance
Crowther Of Topeka will respond to
toasts Mrs. Fred Dumont Smith of
Kingsley was on the programme for a
toast but was not able to be here and
the paper of Mrs. Charlotte F. Wilder
of Manhattan on My One Act of Fol
ly'' will be read by Mrs. Margaret Hill
McCarter of Topeka.
Isn't the Women's Press club com
posed largely of women who do very
little press Work2" asked a scofing
cynic today. Needless TO add it was "a
Mere Man who put the question. But
among the women who Joined the club
this morning was one, Mrs. c. p.
Townsley of Great Bend. who has writ
ten and worked on her husbands paper,
the Great Bend Republican for y years.
Mrs-M /. Rupe. who has been the treas
urer of the organization since it was
started, is one OF the pioneer newspaper
women of Kansas. She and her hus-
band publish the Clyde Herald and
hers is the mechanical department. She
sets the type. makes uD the forms be
sides hustling local, writing ads and at
tending n Mrs Minnie ID
Morgan of Cottonwood Falls, who is
the president of the club, worked on her
husbands, ". A. Morgan, paper, the
Cottonwood Leader for over 80 years
from the time it was started until they
sold it month ago She declares that
she feels quite lost, now that she is out
of the harness. and not even the pros
pect of the European trip upon which
she is soon TO start with her husband
entirely consoles her although she VIII
write for the press during her absence
abroad.
mrs. Olive I. Royce. of the Phillips
burg Dispatch, Is another prominent
member of the organization who is in
active newspaper work every week Of
her life. Like so many of the other
press women, she is employed on her
husbands John Q. Royce paper, the
sole management of which she has UNI
dertaken at different times when MI.
Royce was obliged to neglect the paper
The new members taken into the CLUB
at this meeting include, beside Mrs
Townsley who has been mentioned.
Mrs Elizabeth Prentis Mack. a daugh-
ter of the late Noble Prentis who as
sists her husband. J. c. Mack. in the
publication of the Newton kansan-
Republican: Mrs. S r. Peters. also EN- =
ployed on the Kansan-ReD publican: Mrs
NJ. H. Risho0, who owns and publishes
the Abilene Democrat and Mrs J.. w
Wait. who works Cor her. Mrs. r. 2.
Murdoch, of the Wichita Eagle. MEM
ber by marriage of the Murdoch family.
famous in Kansas newsDa Derdcms Miss
NanOn L. Heron and Mrs. Louise D
Wolfe. of the To3eka Modern Mercury.
and Mrs. A. B. Clerke, of the Oskaloosa
Times.
Mrs l. A. King. who edits the Plain
vile Gazette, read q paper on THE
Country News Gatherer'' at this after
Moons session She compared the du-
ties, responsibilities and requirements of
the reporter who works on the country
weekly with the one employed on the
city daily. The country newspaper.
Mrs. King said. is nearer to the life of
the community in which it circulates
than any other publication to its ell
entele, and for that reason sympathy
and a real interest in the people among
whom she lives and of whose often
trivial dOings she writes are essential
qualities of the country newspaper WO-
man. She must be progressive and keep
just ahead OF the community in which
she labors. She must have tact a
pleasing personality a knowledge of