The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-27

park The women were shown through
the park by Mr.. E. F. A. Reinisch, the
park superintendent Mrs. Ward Bur-
lingame read a paper on Birds The
Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs. s. j. Craw-
ford. Mrs. NJ. c. Hammatt, Mrs. Clyde
Corbett.. Mrs. Lee Forbes, Mrs. E. w.
Thompson, Mrs. Matt Macferran. Mrs
G. H. Griffin. Mrs. M. v. Miller. Mrs.
e. L. Wilson, Miss Effie Page, Mrs.
G. A Scott, Miss Mary Quigley of
Colorado Springs, Mr.. o. E. Walker,
Mr.. w. NJ. Forbes. Mr.. J. B. McAfee.
Mr.. w. L. Bates and Mr.. F. G. w.
Travis.
The newly elected officers of the
club are: Mrs. Walter Ashton Smith,
president: Mrs. o. E Walker, vice
president; Mrs. W. L. Bates. recording
secretary; Mrs. Harry Forbes. CORE
spending secretary: Mrs. D. o. Coe,
treasurer.
Mrs. Frank Merrick entertained a
few guests Friday for Mrs. C. P. Phil
ley of ST. Joseph, Mo-, who is visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. E. Thrapp.
The following girls were guests of
Miss Mary Burnett at luncheon: Miss
Alice Lyman. Miss Dorothy Sproat.
Miss Elizab beth F'yffe. Miss Dorothy
Crane. Miss Elizabeth Edison. Miss
Edith Council. Miss Ruth Wood, Miss
Joanna Gleed.
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The Rev. Henry NJ. Hyde, formerly
dean of the cathedral at Little Rock,
Ark, will make the commencement
address at Bethany college Monday.
ard he will be guest of honor at a
reception following the commence
ment exercises. A luncheon will be
given in the college dining room Mon
day for all the commencement visi-
tors.
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Women are entering the field of
educational work this year more than
ever before in Kansas. Two women
candidates are out for imortant offices
in school work; Miss Lizzie Wooster
has announced herself candidate for
the office of state superintendent of
public instruction, and Miss Edna Cor
bet, of Valencia and Topeka, is a can
didate for the office of county super
intendent of Shawnee. This being one
of the thickly settled counties of the
state and advanced in the standards
for its schools. the superintendency is
an office of importance in the county
list.
Colorado has turned the greater part
of its educational duties over to the
women in the matter of the public
schools, having a women in the office
of state superintendent and in nearly
all the county superintendent offices
Miss Corbet was a county Superin-
tendent in Colorado, and recently she
received from the past state superin-
tendent a letter. a part of which is as
follows:
Il wish you success in your can
didacy, for 1 remember your fine work
while superintendent of Kiowa county
during my term of office as state su-
perintendent. l have not forgotten
what you accomplished; neither have
l forgotten that the schools were built
up by you and the attendance in
creased-and that, in a dry country
where nothing is easy. Added to that
we have you to thank for the high
school at Eads, for you were the first
to see the need and to open the ques-
ton. Your enthusiastic work resulted
1 recall. in the third largest institute ir
the state being held in your county. al
EadS. How proud you and your
| teachers were that only Denver and
Colorado Springs were ahead in the
size of the institute. 1 hope you may
have an opportunity to repeat YOU
good work in Kansas.
zone of the first lessons learned by
Colorado. after the granting of the
franchise to women, was that hel
schools were better and more efficient
when directed by women. The result
| is that few of our county superintend
ents are men. The women are more
thorough and they work in the face o.
almost insurmountable obstacles, a:
you did in Kiowa county. I do no
underestimate the work of the men
but school work is peculiarly the worl
of women. 1 want women to have
chance in Kansas to demonstrate VIVA
they can do in educational service. YOU
are qualified to prove these things
and you have vision and energy"
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/ Miss Bernice Bullock will give {
piano recital tonight at the Muller
studio. She has been studying music