The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

DoWen Saiina.
Auditor, Mrs. Grace L. Snyder CaWkeE
General Federation Secretary. Mrs. Lila
Day Monroe Topeka.
Superintendent Travelling Art Galley.
Mrz. Kate Arlington, Council Grove.
District Presidents.
First Distriet-AIrs. H. o. Garyey' TO
peka, president.
Third District@Siiss Estene Dalton.
Fourth Bisfrict1arrs. Flora Sands of
Pea body. president.
Fifth District-aIrs Catherine HoffEian.
Sixth District-Mrs w. H. Nelson,
Smith Center. president.
Seventh District-Mrs. r. L. Pettijohns
Dodge City, president
Eighth District Organizer-Mrs. b II.
PETERS, Newton.
Usage County Federation-Mrs. Emma
Iroudner. Carbondale president.
Topeka Omcers.
President, Mrs. Clement Smith, 721 Polk
street. Ind. tel 145-3.
vice President. Mrs. ]. w. Going 500 To-
peka avenue Ind tel 80
Second Vice President, Miss Lucy g.
Iflngnan, 635 Monroe street
Secretary, Miss Maud Bishop. 1900 Col
iege avenue. Ind. tel. 1891.
Treasurer. Mrs. 4. d. Robertson, 41S
sixth avenue west.
Auditor. Mrs. G. a. Huron, 221 Fillmore
street Ind tel. S6Z
One Of the youngest children in the
federation, but a lusty and promising
one, is s'The Searchers" of HeringtOn,
who began their searching before the
Fifth district meeting. Mrs. Gay Car
man is the president of this club, and
Mrs. Jessie Tufts the secretary. Its
programme is one of the most pa
triOtic ones of the state, since its
cial interest to Kansas Indeed al
most any of it's days would prove a
most interesting programme for Kan
Eas day Altogether 1.-The Searchers"
(there are twenty-five of them). will
have to search long and far before
eNcelling their first calendar.
one of the standbys of clubdom is
the NJ p M. club, of Ottawa. This
club has not only fulfilled its part as
a study club. but it has proved itself
Of the yeOmanry in working for the
Womans Council at the Ottawa
assembly. The record on the cal
endar reads 1882-1905-'06, and many
Of its charter members are still in
active service. Mrs. p. r. Noise
Yields the gavel this year. with Miss
Grace Meeloer as sseretare Th hook
IS a unique one formed oil 8 sariea 81
cards. ax41z inches, boa4 to her
by silk cords, each card bearing the
81
the thing to slip into a purse or to
tuck into the belt Of pOcketIess wo-
man. Art and literature, most en-
ttcingly arranged. take up good
share of the work, with just enough
miscellaneous topics to spice the
whole This club has forty members.
Club women welcome Mrs. McCarteY's
bright little Club Member" as it an
pears from month to month. and hope
that its days may be long in the land.
There are many interesting things about
The last number but, as always, the
most interesting is Mrs. DIcCarter her
self Some day, if Margaret Hill Nc
Carter viii just sit stin long enough.
she viii write book that will make the
literary world sit up and take notice ~
Envy is very wicked among club wo-
men, but any day that Mrs. McCarter
is not using her literary ability. the
president Of the Kansas Federation of
Womeu's Clubs would like to borrow it.
Talking about club extension work
was not talking of it, of course, but it
is always i'm order-sO many women, in
speaking of certain neighborhoods, will
assert that there is positively no ma
terial at hand for club that it would
be impossible to organize one. The other
day received a letter from a country
ueighbOrhood. the writer of which was
lonely, and so anxious to have some
line of study which she could carry on