The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15
OLD OFFICERS ELECTED.
Interesting Meeting of Woman's
Press Club Comes to Close.

All the old officers of the Kansas
Women's Press club were reelected
at the meeting at the Copeland yes
terday afternoon. They are Mrs. l..
A. King, Plainville. president, Miss
Martha Beck, Holton, vice president,
Mrs. NJ. H. Bishop, Abilene, secre-
tary and Mrs. Jessie Mackenzie Walk
er of Kansas City, treasurer. The
election followed the afternoon pro-
gram to which Mrs. H. o. Carney,
Mrs. w. A. McCarter, Mrs. M. H.
Bishop and Miss Florence Kmball
contributed
About forty members Of the club
and guests were at the dinner at the
Copeland last night, which brought
the annual meeting Of the K. w. p.
A. to a close. The after dinner
speeches and papers were by Mrs.
May Belleville Brown of salina, who
talked about Being a Woman, Mrs.
j. G. Wood whose subject was Hyp-
notism, Senator w. H. Haskell, ward
en- of the state penitentiary, who dis
cussed the Indeterminate Sentence,
and whose speech is published else
where in the State Journal today; Mrs.
Matte Toothaker Kimball of Manhat-
tan, Mrs. E. E. Forter of Marysville,
and Mrs. w. A. Morgan Of Cottonwood
Falls, the founder of the club, whose
interesting "reminiscences under the
title of Rosemary, That's for Remem-
speeches Of the evening. Mrs. Nor
gan is perhaps, the best beloved wom-
an in the press club. Active in news
paper work for thirty years, the wife
of one well known Kansas newspaper
man, w. A. Morgan Of Cottonwood, re-
tired, and the mother of another, w. Y.
Morgan Of Hutchinson, Mrs. Morgan
had never missed a meeting of the
press club in all it's history until last
year. She was on her way to the
Bermudas with Mr.. Morgan, in search
of health and rest, when the meeting
of the club was held, but no woman
present in the flesh was mentioned
oftener and more affectionately than
Mrs. Morgan.
The company last night included:
Mrs. W. A. Morgan of Cottonwood
Falls, Miss Ella Morgan, Mrs. E. E.
Forter of Marysville, Mr.. John Mac
Donald, Senator and Mrs. Haskell of
Lansing, Mrs. ]. r. Burrow. Mrs. Geo.
j. Barker of Lawrence, Mrs. D. A.
Deputy of Manhattan, Mrs. s.. A.
Thurston, The Rev. E1lin w. Brown
OF Powhatan, Mrs. w. A. Johnston,
Mrs Harriet Tuttle Bartlett of Kan
sas City, Mrs. Jessie Mackenzie Walk
err of kansas City, Mrs. r. E. Rice,
of Lawrence, Mrs. Francis L. Hayes,
Mrs May Bellville Brown of Salina,
Mrs Isabel Worrall Ball OF Wash
ington, D. c., Miss Nan Wilson OF
Kansas city, MIS-. E<IIZdOSlh Ddlo Will,
DR.. Elvenor Ernst. DIR: Fay ].
Ernst, Miss Zu Adams, Mrs. Helen
Adams, Mrs. Kimball Of Manhattan,
Mrs. Helen w. Ball, Miss Maud Kim
ball, Miss Florence Kimball, Mrs.
L. A. King, Plainville. G. F. Kfmball,
Miss Dollie Tilford, Miss Jane Balson,
Mrs. M A. Bishop, Abilene, Mrs. j.
ID. Mcfarland, Mrs. L. d. Monroe.
The. club voted in seven new mem
bers yesterday: Mrs. May Bellville
Brown of Salina, magazine and news
paper writer, Mrs. Lila Day Monroe
OF Topeka, editor of the Club Mem
Der, Mrs. Bell Spencer of the Man
haitian Nationalist, Miss Nan Wilson
of the Kansas City Globe. Miss Eliza
beth Barr, author of Washburn Bal
lads and The Rev. Ellen w. Brown
of Powhatan, editor Of Our Messen-
ger.
Resolutions of coincidence We're
adopted on the death of the husband
of the president, Mrs. L. A. King,
which occurred last month.