The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22

learn that she had in her veins the
blood of thirty Of the Mayflower i'm
migrants.
Mr.. A. E. Van Petten was asked to
make a short address. He emphaSiz-
ed the pride that one was justified in
feeling for the honor of being descend
ed from American pioneer stock.
Mrs. Annie Brewster Morgan of
traces her descent to Elder William
Brewster of Plymouth colony. Our
interest in our ancestors should pro-
duce in u.s. she said, "a desire to
leave to our descendants a record that
they will be proud to trace"
Miss Anna Paddock of lola spoke at
the banquet in the place of her moth
er, Mrs. Paddock, a new member of
is said to be the oldest person who has
ever taken out an application in the
society. She is SO years of age, and 1t
was thought inadvisable for her to
make the trip to Topeka to attend the
meeting. Miss Paddock said that the
family was descended from John Hol-
land of Plymouth. and that she had
four ancestors in the Mayflower. One
of her ancestors, one Mayhem, was the
first governor of Nantpcket islands,
and a missionary to the Indians.
Mrs McGregor, who was dele
gate from the Kansas Society to the
national society held in Plymouth this
year, made q report on the meeting. ;
DR.. c. A. Mcguire was asked 70
speak on the feelings of the husband
of a Mayflower. DR.. MCGUIRE, being
Irish, claims no ancestors in the May
flower. He thought that the boat
which brought the Pilgrims across
considering the vast numbers it must
have transported, and he passed
Judge showing the Pilgrim Fathers
and driving them off from the land.
He closed his remarks with toast IN
rhyme, to the early immigrants and
their descendants.
The new members of the society
are: Mrs Gertrude Amber of To
peka Mr.. Merrill Masters sherman OF
Crawford, and his son and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Sherman and MI Carr
Kansas City, Mrs. Annie Brewster
Morgan of Kansas City, Mrs Gladys
Evarts HILL Salina, Mrs. Pauline Pad
dock of lola, Mrs. Mabel Fenstermack-
The charter members include:
Mrs Harriet Handy Shelton of To.
peka, Mrs Clara B. Eddy Mcclure OF
Topeka, Mrs. Annie Scott of topeka:
Wichita, Mrs. Sadie Damon George of
Wichita Mrs Mary \. Stratford OF
Wichita, Mrs. Caroline Macomber Ben
net of Holton, Miss Victoria Benneee
of Holton Mrs. Minnie L. Wilcox OF
Abilene, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt Purcell!
of Manhattan, Mrs. Kate de Graff OF
Mania ttan, Mrs. Clara huntington
Dods of Kansas City. Mrs. Margaret
B. Brownell of Lawrence, Mrs. Helen
Scott johnson of Lawrence, Mrs. Susan
]. w. Burtch of Hutchinson, Mr.. Ar
thur II. Bennett of Topeka, Mr. Alfred
Emery Van Patten of Topeka, Mr.
Edwin Mortimer Hopkins of Law
renee, Mr. Albert T. Hyde of Wichita,
Mr.. Luther c. Newcomb of Wichita,
Mr.. Edwards A Hitler of Salina, Mr.
Ralph a Hitler of Norton, Mr. George
Handy Shelton of Topeka.
j. q j.
A five-year-o girl gave a demon
stration of simplified spelling today
for the benefit of the patrons of
Douthitt avenue street car. The little
girl. who had just learned her A
C's in the kindergarten, was carrying
a box labeled animal Biscuits" She
was with her mother and suddenly
thought struck her:
Il can spell cracker, mamma" she
said.
The mother said that she bet her
daughter couldn't spell cracker and
the little girl proceeded to win the
bet. She looked at the label on the
box and spelled:
''B-i-s-c-u-i-t = cracker. There
mother"
Mrs. Morgan Perkins has announced