The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04

are interested in the cause are invited
to attend the meeting
The Good Government club had a
tea Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. John Coleman, jr Mrs. Lucia
o. case made a suffrage address. The
acquaintance teas that were begun I'M
der the auspices of the Good Gov
eminent club a few weeks ago. are
being continued, and it is the purpose
OF the club that all women who have
common interest in the procuring of
their political freedom, should know
each other, and that other women
should enlist in the cause.
MRS. John Patzel gave a May Day
picnic at her home in North Topeka
wednesday, and invited the members
of the Good Government club to at
tend Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall. Mrs.
Lee Monroe and Mrs. J. d. McFar-
land made short addresses to the
guests.
Wichita county has been organized
Tor Suffrage work, and the officers
that have been chosen are: Mrs w.
H Pine, president; Mrs. Alice Mu-
Smith, first vice president; Mrs. Mu-
rilla Honeywell, second vice president;
Mrs. Emily Scott, secretary and treas
urer; Mrs. Ellen Lutz, press chair
man; Mrs. Nina Pin, educational
chairman; Mrs. Alice Smith, member
ship extension chairman.
Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy, of Good
land, Kan, is organizing in the north
west part of the state. She is now
in Sherman county, and the county
high school will give a play entitled
How the Vote Was Won" The three
prize essays in the county contest will
be read at the entertainment. Mrs
Murphy will address the County
Teachers association Saturday night.
The Clay county essay contest has
closed, and prizes of $40, SIS and 50
were awarded to Gertrude Bonecut-
ter, Mildred Glass and Annie McIIayv
The State Suffrage convention in
er a large number of suffrage workers
from all parts of the state Jane Adj
dams will address a meeting Tuesday
night in the Crawford opera house:
Wednesday afternoon the annual bust
ness meeting and election of officers
will be held in the forum, and the
Business Mems club will give an auto
mobile ride for the delegates Wednes-
day after the meeting. A reception
will be held Wednesday evening in
Masonic hall for Miss Adams and
Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, of Wis
consin, who will also be a speaker at
the Tuesday evening meeting. A con-
ference of officers and workers will be
held Thursday morning in the forum
Miss Adams will be in Kansas City
Monday, and a reception has been
planned in her honor. Also spectac-
ular suffrage parade will be given in
the afternoon. Monday night she will
be in Lawrence. and will speak in the
opera mousse the use OF winch has been
offered without charge for the occa-
sion. The Lawrence meeting is under
the auspices of the City Federation of
Clubs, and the federation of Wichita.
also, has charge of the entertainment
of the delegates to the convention.
Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, who viii
speak at the state convention in Wich-
ita, was one of the workers for suf-
frage in Kansas when the workmen
of this state made the first campaign
for equal rights. She worked with
Susan 3. Anthony and other pioneers
in the cause. She is an aunt of Mrs.
Genevieve Charley, of Lawrence, one
of the state officers of the suffrage
league and it was through Mrs Chalk
ley's influence that she comes to Kan
sas for the meeting next week. She
is now president of the Wisconsin Suf-
frage League, with her home at Ra-
cine, Wis.