The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-13
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The state Journal is the official paper
Clubs
Presfdent-STrs. Eustace Brown. Olathe
Vice President-MTs c. H Trott, juno
Rec secretary-Nrs. F. B. Wheeler.
Cor. secretary-Mrs. Charles C. sholes,
Olathe-
Auditor-Mrs NJ S. Munson. FL Dorado
Gen Fed Secretary-AIrs- C c Goddard,
Leavenworth.
PRESIDENT OF DISTRICT Fedora
TONS
Ffrst-8Irs. w W. Wood. Horton
Second-AIrs. W. D. Wolfe, lola
Third-AIrs. J. E Raymond, Girard.
Fourth-Mrs- David Hamilton Eureka-
Fifth-AIrs- Frances A Jennings Gay
sixth-Nrrs Geo. P. Griffith, Hays City.
Seventh-ATrS. Samuel Yaggy, Syracuse
G. F. ". c. FROM KANSAS.
Director-Mrs- w A Johnston; Topeka
Forestry Committee-Mrs- Grace L
Snyder. Cawker City.
Mrs. c. B. Norman. Enterprise
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Kansas Federation of Women's
clubs will be held in Hutchinson. May
3. S and :. a reception TO precede the
opening Of the session and to be held
at the EIks club house Tuesday
evening. May 4 The train and hotel
the Bisonte parIors-the Santa Fe
hotel-this will make it very con-
venient as the car connections are good
with the Rock Island and Missouri
Pacific depots-
ANY information desired regarding
price and location of rooms will be
furnished by Mrs. c. w Hill. SIS
East First street, Hutchinson. Kan
FLORENCE MARLEY BROWN
Miss Esteua Barnes sends the fol-
lowing item from the eighth district:
The Cary circle has decided to take
as its special work in the new public
library at Wellington an alcoVe or
Kansas authors. Quite a number OF
books have already been purchased
and more are ordered It is the in
tention Of the club to keep up the coll
lection. Mrs. W. H Burks is pres1-
dent Of the Cary circle.
From the state President.
The meeting of the board of man
Rgement of the x T. VIC. recently
held In Topeka more than realized all
expectations of profit and pleasure to
the members: and If each successive
year brings together as many earnest
Intelligent women in council. for the
good OF federation, the state organiza-
be reckoned with when any work
educational phiIanthropic. civic or
altruistic is to be planned and ex-
ecuted, in Kansas
1t makes a large expense for the
state federation treasury TO meet, but
# our finances viii permit it the re-
suit Will be of tncalculable benefit to
the organization.
With ten new clubs recently adj
mitted, six in the sixth district four
In the third. and one the Mary Tenny
Gray Travellers club of Kansas City,
Kan. returned to the second, the out
look for growth in membership is
good
The sixth district voted s25 to the
scholarship loan fund at its recent
meeting in Oberlin- This is the third
district to vote that amount, but we
haven't yet enough to make loan of
$50 to our student at K Z. for her
next years course.
With bumper crops and live stock
amounting to nearly half billion dol
lars last year in Kansas. we shall be-
lieve that the man of the state not
only holds the purse strings but that
he has them pulled mighty tight If
we can't raise a few hundred dollars
to insure a university or college edu-
cation to one or two bright worthy
young women OF this state
Colorado has over $4,000 for that
purpose-we much less than $500.
Let the fund increase
The chairman of the general fed
Grafton committee IS asking for a re-
port from Kansas concerning free
Relationships and the loan fund. VIII
alterations which have voted funds
or clubs and individuals who con-
template subscribing to it, please re-
port at once to Mrs. W. D. Atkinson
Of Parsons. chairman of our COM
mittee on education and scholarships
let Kansas have in the G. F. w c.
the credit that is due her
The second part OF the couplet
MANS work is from sun to sun,
But woman's work is never DONE
Is as true in this period OF the New WO-