The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

to spend the holidays with Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Geo. E. Cole, at 1119 Van Buren, street.
/ Mr.. J. c. Gafford, the state ac-
cOuntant, went to his home in Mime
lapoiis Saturday. He will return Tues
day.
Miss Emma Viets, assistant state
accountant. went to Girard Saturday
/ to stay until Tuesday.
Mr.. Frank Stiokney of Winfield came
home Saturday and accompanied his
mother and sisters to Kansas City to
/ spend Christmas.
Mr.. Fay Evans. agent of the Rock
Island at Manhattan, will be in Topeka
on Christmas to pass the day with his
parents.
Miss Mary whittier left yesterday
/ for Chicago, to spend Christmas with
her brother, Mr.. Floyd w. Whittier.
Mr.. Whitmer King Of Kansas City is
here to spend Christmas with his
mother, Mrs. K. F. King.
Miss Mabel Dutton and Mr.. Fred
Dutton Of Concordia are guests of Mr.
J. H. FOUGHT and Miss Mabel FOUGHT
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Ellsworth Kirby
Of Anaconda, Mont, are the parents of
a daughter, born December ID. Mrs.
Kirby was formerly Miss Edna Evans
/ Of Topeka
Miss Stella Mitchell, Miss Gertrude
Seers, Miss Annabel= Cook and Miss
Flora Fisher wheahave been attending
/ the State Normal. have returned to
! spend the Christmas holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. w G. Tandy and
daughter Kitty and Mr.. Tandy's father
of Louisville, KY, left Thursday to
spend the winter in California and
4 Oregon The members of the Tsuneo
Embroidery club pleasantly surprised
/ Mrs. Tandy Friday evening before her
I departure for California.
The Topeka Club Woman.
Although it was a general wish in
/ the city federation of clubs that the
/ present officers. elected last April,
should be reelected at the adjourned
meeting of the federation to be held
4 the first Thursday in January, many
/ of them have refused to accept an
/ other nomination and the nominating
/ committee will have to furnish new
! names for most of the Offices. 1t SEEM
/ ed especially desirable that Mrs. Glenn
ent Smith, the president, who mas
served only half a year, should accept
/ another term in order to carry out the
! policies Of her administration, inter-
rupted by the constitutional amend
/ ment providing for a change IN the
| annual election from April to Deem
Der. But Mrs Smith has refused on
the score of i'll health, and many con-
f1icting duties to be a candidate for
4 the presidency again, which leaves the
l nominating. committee no choice but
to select 9th er names to present to
+ the Federation. A number have been
/ presented but the list is still open
and the nominating committee re-
quests the clubs to send the names of
i their candidates for the different Of
fees to the chairman, Mrs. W. A.
Johnston.
Mrs. E. G. Foster, secretary of the
4 federation will be at home, 713 To-
peka avenue, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday morning for the
/ convenience of the secretaries of the
4 individual clubs who wish to report
dues and lists Of members before the
4 If 11a
| federation Thursday, January 4.
The club secretaries are again re-
! minded that the dues with a correct
list of the membership of the clubs
fore the clubs can have representation
at the business meeting.
A Christmas entertainment will be
/ given at the east side reading room
Tuesday evening for the members of
the Girls and Boys clubs. The civic
I committee of the federation is in
I charge of the entertainment. Books,
games or toys will be gladly received
by the committee for the children and
any one willing to give them is re-
I uuested to notify Mrs. Clement Smith,
i Independent telephone 145-3, or Mrs.
4 J. p. Carnahan, Independent telephone
! 1892 who will send after the contri-
kindergarten were given a Christmas
tree Friday night.
Most of the clubs are taking a vaca-
ton during the holidays. There have
4 been few meetings the past week and
/ few are scheduled for this week. The
first week IN. January. however, bust
4 ness win pick up again and the an
l-nual business meetings when new Of
ficers will be elected for the city fed
Grafton viii be held.
| Lawrence Journal: DR.. Ida. Hyde
left this afternoon for Chicago, where
/ she will spend the HOLIDAYS with rela-
tives. On December 427 she will go to
/ Ann Arbor, to read q paper dealing
with her own original research before
| the American Physiological society
1 DR.. Hyde addressed the Topeka fed
Grafton at its October meeting.
The Current Literature club, through
its secretary, Mrs. R. S. Magee has
sent to the nominating committee the