The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-17
STATE OFFICERS.

The State Journal is the official paper
Clubs. ' KANSAS feo''oH u "
STATE OFFICERS.
President-Mrs. Eustace Brown, Olathe.
Vice President-Mrs. c. H. Trott. juno
ton City.
Cor secretary-Mrs. Charles C. sholes,
Treasurer--Mrs. c.. w. Lands. Osborne
Auditor-Mrs. NJ. S. Munson. Ell Dorado.
Gen Fed secretary-Mrs. c. c. Goddard.
PRESIDENTS OF DISTRICT Fedora
ssarstMM,s; w WI W1 Soifs Horton fo1s
Third-Mrs J. E. Raymond. Girard.
Fourth.Mrs. David Hamilton. Eureka.
Center.
sixth-Mrs Geo. P Griffith. Hays City.
Eishth-Mrs. I. n. Singer ss Wichita
Mrs Isabel Nofftz. Quenemo. president
G. F. W. C. FROM KANSAS.
Direclor-Mrs. w. A Johnston. Topeka
Forestry Committee-Mrs. Grace L.
Health OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. committee:
| Mrs. c. B. Hoffman. Enterprise.
| lions committee. and Mrs. F. H Lemon
of Leavenworth food sanitation committee.
From the State President.
Mrs. c. c. Goddard, Mrs. Eugene
Ware and the president of the state
| federation attended the reception in
Kansas City, Mo-, given Wednesday of
this week by the .Atheneum to Mrs.
| Philip N. Moore, president of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's clubs, and
to Mrs. w. K. James, president of the
| Missouri federation.
An interesting talk by Mrs. Moore
| upon her recent trip to Panama and
| visit with the clubs of the canal zone,
| preceded the reception, which proved
a delightful function.
| The number of Kansas women who
shook hands with the Kansas presi-
: and good feeling which the Atheneum,
under its president. Miss Marie Good
man. is cuItfvating and extending tow
ard the sister state of Kansas.
Many club women of Kansas City,
Kan, are members of the Athencum,
Mrs. Eugene Ware among the num-
| Der.
| The Portia club of Larned is stand
| ing by it's own members with a de-
| lightfu1 loyalty, having nominated a
full state ticket from its members
/ with one exception, that of Mrs. Hale
for vice president, and she is from
| the same district.
This is interesting and refreshing,
| but what kind of a representative
board" would this make-from one
! club, one town and one district
| Individual members of districts,
county or city declarations are not
| there by members of the club at large
| of the federation. Applications for
membership to this club must be made
| to the executive board through the
| corresponding secretary, Mrs. c. G.
Sholes of O1athe. Constitution Artf-
Gle V, application for membership:
All applications for membership shall
be made to the executive board
| through the corresponding secretary.
The per capita tax (25 cents per
| year, is so small, that this rule will
work no hardship on any one really
| caring for the work of the federation.
Mrs w. D. Wolfe of lola, president
of the second district federation call
ed her executive board together al
| Garnett on Tuesday, to consider plans
for the annual meeting to be held in
Pleasanton next fall.
! The members of the board are:
| Mrs w. D. Wolfe, lola, president;
Mrs. George Hodges, Olathe, first vice
president; Mrs. w. r. Childs. Kansas
City, Kan. second vice president;
Mrs. G.. S. Coleman, Garnet, record
ing secretary; Mrs: Charles F. Henson
Paola treasurer; Miss Grace Perrfne
Pleasanton, auditor; Mrs. r. V. Boyd
lola. corresponding secretary.
FLORENCE MARLEY BROWN.
Mrs. C. B. Hoffman addressed the
students of the State Agricultural col
lese at chapel on Tuberculosis, it:
Cause and Cure" on Thursday morn
ing. also attended the opening of the
national tuberculosis exhibit in Man
haitian on Wednesday afternoon.
This exhibit will be taken 20 Hutch.
inson for the state meeting and will
be a valuable adjunct to the civic pro
grom of the federation.
The Columbian club of Abilene a
their meeting on Tuesday appoint
ed the following committee to investi
gate the needs of the tuberculosis pa
! tients at the poor farm: Mrs. c. B
Hoffmen. Mrs. Lewis Ferney, Mrs
Fred Wilcox
The following letter received by th'
club editor of the State Journal yes
, terday is self-explanatory:
MY name having appeared in pub
lie print recently as possible candi
{ date for the position of president o
; the Kansas Federation of Women
: clubs I wish to announce through
: your columns that I am not a candi
| date and shall not be candidate 70
: that nor any other office in the stat
: federation at its meeting to be he'll
: at Hutchinson the coming May.
1 Very Truly Yours,
+ MRS. c. w. SMITH
c A meeting of the civic committe
of the city fed was held at the hom
of Mrs. T. W. Watson, Thursda
n morning to make arrangements 70
5 the prizes to be given for the creates
$ i'm provements in back yards. Tn
/ prizes are as follows.
I, First prize. $4,000
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