The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-14
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lWeyant; address Of welcome, Mrs.
Wesley Smith, Usage City; response,
Mrs Taylor, Burlingame; annual mes
sage, Mrs. Troudners Carbondale; club
reports; paper, Mrs. Miller, Carbon
dale.
A business session closed the meet
/ ing, during which the astonishing news
developed that the federation, after
al its expenses were paid, had more
/ money left than it could spend. By
/ the equanimity with which the mem
! bers bore the shock of this intelligence
/ it was evident that it was no new con-
ditiOn.
The single evening session was a. de-
lightful mingling of programme and
reception.
The following short programme be-
/ gan the evening:
| Vocal solo-Ndiss Lake. Usage CITY.
Reading-Ars. silas Smith, Burlin-
game
NIusio-Nliss Bodelle, Mrs. Williams.
Address-A1rs- May BellevilIe Brown,
] Salina.
| Reading-Miss Nettie Smith. Jersey
/ Creek
/ Music-Bfrs. Miller, Mrs. Jenkins.
/ Following this came a social hour.
for the renewing Of old friendships and
/ the forming of new ones, during which
| time the opportunity was improved
( A short session on Saturday morning
closed this meeting, at which these
numbers were given:
] Music-SOrOsis club, Usage City
Reading-Miss Eva Thorn, Jersey
| C5ts.
Reading-AIiss Mabel Martin. Usage
Cit=,.
This programme closed with the final
business Of the session and election of
officers, after which the visitors were
| invited to the hall on the third floor,
where one of the traditional feasts
I which make tn table groan with its
| load of good things was served by the
Z IDgaen fTffTr o141hn
with much the same zest and apprecia-
/ ton which had marked their disposal
/ Of the preceding business and pleasure
! Several things conspired against at
tendance at the meeting,-a street fair
/ at Quenemo, carnival at CarbondaIe,
/ and other public matters, yet the at
! tendance was good and practical things
were accomplished. A goodly number
Of most excellent books were collected,
( 10 De sent later to the Boys Indus
| trial school at Topeka, and other out
side enterprises were discussed and
planned, to be reported later. At home,
this federation has officially taken up
the work of looking after the comfort
OF the inmates Of the county poor farm.
A committee was appointed to take
charge Of the work, with a sum Of
money at its disposal whereby any nee
essary comforts may be furnished the
SICK or aged inmates. This "cheer-up''
work viii not be all the committees
duties, as they have planned to offer to
unite forces with the county commits
sioners in the care of the county poor.
The federation reelected the president,
mrs Emma Troudner of Carbondale.
Mrs. j. T. Pringle of Burlingame is
secretary of the organization.
Mrs Lee Monroe, general fedora
ton secretary for Kansas, returned
Thursday night from the meeting OF
the Third district federation at VIM
field and her report of the meeting
follows:
We left Topeka at 1855 over the
santa Fe for Winfield on Tuesday. On
getting aboard the chair car we
Pharaohs family coach. It was full
to overflowing and had the plague OF
nies- The idea of standing and hold
ing to the seat and being eaten alive
BY flies! It was too horrible so we
took the sleeper. This was better in
that we could sit and be devoured alive
ana we also saved the price Of tobacco
all the way as there was but the one
section available at the end that gets
tne Iuu benefit of the vestibule smolx~
er. VIII we never have ventilation
and cleanliness aboard cars! With all
our efforts to take our oIfactory sense
INTO the silence that vice tobacco still
assailed US Pipes, cigarettes and ci-
gars. But there is a law of compensa-
uon-it stupefied the flies.
1t present daWned upon our
misery that we were going south. The
ravines and scattered cIumps of trees
disappeared. The plains spread out on
an sides in myriad October coIorings,
stretching away to the limit of vision
IN Dillowy mosaic distances. All the
beautiful things that any poet ever said
or october are multiplied a thousand
Iold by the glories Of this Kansas Oc-
tooer In the Winfield valley OF the
tropic Of kafir corn.
daVe you ever seen this tropic OF
halnr corn where they grow four crops
OF aiIdIra in the year; where cattle
norses and hogs are sleek OF skin and
ti1Lfl or limb; where already the new
~ planted wheat fields f1aunt out their
aiSernate bands of black and green
FLDDons; where the huskers are appalI-
ca at the task of cribbing the wealth of
corn where the last croy Of rough
ness has to crowd the other CROP of
70 ger place TO stand; and the kafE1r
corn ~ IN all stages Of fodder?
r iies and tobacco smoke were go
IhS south, too, but what matters 1T; it
YOU'D only take a slight stretch of
tne imagination to think that the
thousands of blackbirds harvesting the
Aalnf corn, cane and rice corn seeds
were those same flies swarming away
In the distance.
winfield is a good town Of some
Wlere near 5000 souls and they look
q ~ yer them through the efficiency of
ne southwestern NJ. r. college, a
Lutheran college, the indrmarv for
tne VReaix-uinded, the st. Mary's hos
tssal' an array Of dne structures on