The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16

The Chandos Club will meet De-
cember % with Mrs. w. A. McCarter
The Nautilus club will meet Tues
day afternoon at o'clock at Wash
burn observatory. Mrs. F. X. Sanders
will give an Illustrated lecture on
Alaska The meeting will be a guest
afternoon.
The Minerva club will meet Monday,
December IS, at the home of Mrs. Z.
E. Ames, 433 Woodlawn avenue.
A woman's Civic League has been
organized in Lincoln, Kansas. Mrs.
Charles McCurdy is president, and
Miss Clarissa Green is secretary The
club is made up of two divisions, one
to work in the interests of community
betterment in town and country and
the other to work for home improve
ment and domestic pursuits. One of
the first tasks it has set for itself is
the construction of a cement sidewalk
to the Union Depot, quarter of a
mile from the center of the town.
Mrs. Atkinson, president of the state
federation of womens clubs. will hold
her board meeting in Topeka. January
80, in order to have the meeting con-
venient for those who come to attend
the Woman's Kansas Day club con-
vention.
The next meeting of the City Fed
GRAFTON to continue the re-organiza-
ton of the federation, will be held
in January.
Suffrage Notes.
Mrs w. r. Stubs attended a suf-
frage meeting in Kansas City. Kansas,
last week, and made an address at the
session which was called to organize
Wyandotte County. The Kansas City
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part, and the Post published her pic
ture with that of Mrs. Chalkley. of
Lawrence. Mrs. Stubs mentioned in
her address the objection to the suf-
frage amendment offered by many
men that as soon as the women could
vote. they would begin to demand Of
fees. Mrs. Stubs believes that the
women do not, except in a few cases.
want offices, but that they do want to
help govern the state and the country
by the ballot.
The last report of counties organized
includes: Harvey, Edwards, Shawnee,
Wyandotte Rush, Ness and Lane.
with Mrs. w. Y. Morgan, of Hutch
inson. as president. Mrs. Cora c..
Lewis was chosen president of Ed
wards county. at meeting held at
Kinsley. Both Mrs. Lewis and Mrs
Morgan are widely known club women
and it is expected that their influence
will lend a good deal of weight to the
suffrage cause in their respective
counties. Mrs. Morgan is the wife of
the editor of the Hutchinson News, the
official organ of the State Federation
of Clubs.
The state Horticultural Society,
which had a meeting last week, passed
the following resolution in favor of
womanS suffrage: believing that
equal suffrage will lift Kansas to
higher levels of citizenship, also be-
lieving in Justice. we heartily endorse
the suffrage amendment and pledge
ourselves to its support
DR.. Helen Brewster Owen has been
in Newton the first of this week and
helped organize Harvey county; later
workers of Wichita. and has also Wis
tied Wellington. She will be in EN-
poria Tuesday, and from there she
will go to Lawrence. She will then go
back to her home in New York for
the holidays. It is not vet known
whether she will return to take up the
work in Kansas again or not. Her
officers of the league are hoping to
set her to return.
The State Grange held meeting
Tuesday night and unanimously passed
a resolution in favor of the suffrage
California. where the country vote
saved the day. the Kansas workers are
particularly concerned with looking
after the rural precincts.
The farmers are holding their
grange meetings throughout the cOun-
question of suffrage will be brought
before tho mem hers. The farmers. as