The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-23


Clubs ' 9' '-'- u " Oi''e'
President-Mrs Eustace Brown. Olathe
Vice President-Mrs. C. H. Trott, juno
Rec. Secretary-Mrs F. B. Wheeler
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,
Leavenworth.
PRESIDENTS OF DISTRICT Fedora
TIONS.
Ffrst-Mrs. w. w. Wood. Horton.
Second-Mrs W. D. Wolfe. lola.
Third-Mrs- J. E. Raymond. Girard.
Fffth-Mrs. Frances A. Jennings Clay
ssixth-Mrs Geo. P. Griffith. Hays City.
Seventh-Mrs. Samuel Yaggy, Syracuse.
g. F. ". c. FROM KANSAS: "a
Director-Mrs. w. A. Johnston. Topeka.
Forestry Committee-Mrs. Grace L.
Snyder, Cawker City.
Health Department-Civics committee:
Mrs. c. B. Hoffman, Enterprise.
The collection and preservation of
early history in Kansas. and the pur-
pose of instilling patriotism in the
youth of that state, was the predo'ri-
mating theme of the addresses deliv-
cred before the Council of Women s
clubs at the Grand hotel, Kansas City,
Kan, at a meeting in commemoration
of Kansas Day.
An enthusiastic audience of 100 wo-
men accorded warm welcome to the
PRINCIPAL speaker of the day, Mrs. ]. S.
Simmons of Hutchinson, president OF
the Woman's Kansas Day club.
Mrs. Simmons, who is one of the best
known club women in the state, devoted
the greater portion of her address to
an effort to arouse in the hearts of
her hearers a realization of the neces-
sity for marking the historic spots of
the state. A strong appeal was made to
the women of Kansas City, Kan, for
cooperation in carrying on this work.
1.-The United States declared the
speaker, has become recognized as the
nation of refuge, place to which the
innocent may flee from the wrath of
the avengers, and where justice, tenn
partially. Even as we owe this, our
great nation, to the heroic men and
women of pioneer days, so we must ever
hold in reverence the memory of our
ancestors who braved a thousand dan
gers that the great arid plains of Kan
sas might be made to blossom into a
loneliness unsurpassed by any state in
the Union. 1t is then both fitting and
proper that all the women of Kansas
should assist in this great work of
concentrating those early Kansas
days"
Commenting upon the movement
which is gaining favor throughout the
state, that of marking the Santa Fe
trail and the erection of a monument
at Pawnee Rock, Mrs. Simmons said
that the women of the state were re-
spending nobly and that the work is
practically assured. Benjamin P. I'm
run has decided to the state of Kan
eas five acres of land surrounding and
Including Pawnee Rock itself The only
the sum of $4,000 must be raised to
make improvements about this natural
park.
Of this sum $4,000 has been raised.
To assist in this work the Woman's
Kansas Day club has published a small
booklet entitled Echoes of Pawnee
Rock This booklet contains anec-
dotes and stories of early Kansas life
by the pen of many prominent Kansas
writers.
Mrs. A. H. Horton of Topeka is the
most prominent candidate for presi-
dent of the Woman'S Kansas Day
club which holds its annual meeting
on Kansas day, to be followed by an
election of officers the next morning
Mrs. Horton has been prominent in
club and D. A r. work in Kansas for
many years. She is at present secre-
tary of the w. K. D. club and is a past
president of the Topeka federation of
clubs. Mrs. Horton is not an active
candidate for the position, but the
Good Government club of Topeka, the
parent organization of the w K D.
club. is booming her. Mrs Plattner
of Ellis is being talked of for first
vice president. There are also district
vice presidents, one from each of the
eight congressional districts to be
elected.
In city federation circles not much
Is being discussed except the Febru-
airy meeting to be held on the eighth
when Edmund Vance Cook the poet
and reader, comes to Topeka to give
lecture under the auspices of the
federation. Mr.. Cook will be the
guest of the federation in the after
noon at Unity church and will give his
lecture that night. Mrs. F. W. Wat
son, the president, who is in Florida,
will return for the meeting.
Those Thursday ''tea-fghts" which
the suffragettes. the club women and
other High Brows are holding during
the Midwinter in the booth occupied
by the editorial staff of the Club Mem
Der are quite the social features of the
exposition. Mrs. L. D. Monroe was i'll
last Thursday and unable to receive
but Mrs. W. A. McCarter, Mrs. Lewis H.
Cboon W.T.,