The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-26
What Women WIN Discuss al
State Meeting.
Promise Is That Attendance
VIII Be Large.
CONTINUE THREE DAYS
VIII Be on May Is, IL and
I8.
Mrs. Clement Smith of Topeka
Looking After Details.


Kansas club women win meet in
Topeka May Is to 10 for the tenth
annual meeting of the Kansas FEEDER
alton of Women's clubs. This is the
I old Kansas Social Science federation,
the name having been changed by an
amendment Of the constitution adopt
ed at the meeting in Emporia last
May. Elaborate preparations are be-
ing made for the me citing by the ex-
ecutive boards of the state and of the
Topeka declarations. OF the local
arrangements Mrs. Clement Smith,
the new president of the local feder-
alton, is in charge. Others taking an
active part are Mrs. A. H. Horton,
Miss Lucy Kingman, Mrs J. w Co
MacLennan, Mrs. H. 0. Gfarvey, Mrs.
". A Johnston, Mrs. Dell Keizer, Mrs.
F. c. Bowen, and others.
The meeting this year promises to
be unusually we'll attended, for the
First district has more club women
than any other district in the state.
Besides this is the year for the bien-
NAL election when a successor will be
chosen to Mrs. James NJ. Lewis, of
kinsley, now president of the fedora
ton, and the other officers, who are:
Mrs. Kate Arlington, of Council
Grove, vice president; Mrs. J. T Will
letA u OA AldIlIlelldHs treasurer MIS-. u.
W. Wilder, of Hiawatha, auditor, and
Mrs. Eustace H. Brown. of Olathe
secretary. Interest in the election
usually centers in the contest for pres
ident, and this will be the case this
year. The only avowed candidates
thus far are for that office. They are
Mrs. May BellevilIe Brown, of Salina,
who is supported by the Fifth district,
and Mrs. D. S. Stephens, of Kansas
/ City. Kas. whose friends are claiming
7 the Second and Third district
for her.
The programme of the meeting sent
out yesterday by the president, Mrs
/ James NJ. Lewis, follows:
All regular meetings will be held in
! the First Presbyterian church with
the exception of the Thursday evening
session which viii be held in the
Auditorium. The usual opening re-
] ception will be held at the Governors
| house. There are to be two special
exhibits, held in the Manual Training
/ high school. They viii be the local
art and educational exhibits. The
/ chairmen of the local committees are:
General arrangement, Mrs. A. H.
Social entertainment. Mrs. ]. c. Nc
/ Clintock.
Hotels and trains. Mrs. F. c. Bowen.
Press, Miss Nanon Heron.
Art, Mrs. c. o. Knowles.
Educational exhibition. Mrs. W. A.
kJohnstOn.
Decoration. Mrs. II. o. Garvey.
Badges, Mrs. Speed Hughes.
Pages and ushers, Mrs. Lee c,
c City R9' entertainment. Mrs. Dell
I Keller.
Bureau of information. Miss Lucy
/ Kingman.
Secretary general arrangements
committee, Miss Gertrude Barnes.
The committee on hotels and trains
/ will meet all trains Tuesday. After
that day, club women will be expected
to go to the church where the COM
mittee will take care of them. Com
/ posing the state committees are Mrs.
e. E. Porter. Marysville. federation
/ parliament rian; Mrs. Adrian L.
/ Greene, Mrs w. S. Lindsay, Topeka,
Mrs. Angelina Allison of Olathe, Mrs.
Jeanette Scott Benton, Fort Scott;
Mrs. Louise Olcott, Lyndon. Mrs.
/ Charles Parker Connolly, Hiawatha.
The present officers of the fedora
ton are: President Mrs. James NJ.
/ Lewis. Kinsley; vice president. Mrs
Kate A. Arlington, Council Grove; re-
/ cording secretary, Mrs. Eustace H.
/ Brown. Olathe; corresponding secre-
tary Mrs. F. B. Hine, kinsley; treas
urer. Mrs J. T. Willard Manhattan;
auditor, Mrs. D w Wilder. Hiawatha;
general federation secretary, Mrs. Dell
The Programme.
The programme in full follows:
| TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 16.
800 o'clock.
Conference of state and district Off
/ GERS at Presbyterian church.
TUESDAY EVENING.
500 o'clock.
Social session.
Reception at the Executive resi-
dence, given by the Topeka city feder-
alton
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY II
O'clock
CNo encores).
Music" Jubal Overture" Cvor
Webber) Mrs. w. H. Bobby Mrs. Nor
ton Albaugh, Topeka.
Invocation-Rev. S. S. Estey, To-
peka
ADDRESSES OF WELCOME.
'sFrom the City Federation" Mrs
Clement Smith. president; Mrs. Margar-
ct Hill McCarter.
Bethany College," Rev. J. P. de B
s.S.ifv Schools - Prof T, n White.