The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-22

Smith, Miss roberta WATSON, Miss Mary
Chamberlain, Miss Marjorie Wheeler, Miss
Isabel Thompson, Miss Essie Chamberlain.
to represent the Mayflower. placed
upon a mirror and surrounded with
| rocks. The dinner arrangements were
in charge of Mrs. H. A. Perry.
The after dinner speeches were
| chiefly concerned with the society's
field of work. The POSTMASTER was
Mr.. Maurice Alden of Kansas City.
Mrs. John R Shelton responded to a
toast on THE Betterment of Our So
| ciety." She said, The betterment of
any society is found in work. We
want to make our organization
power in the state to stand as unit
study to find historical spots to be
marked and kept in memory. Our
state is busy making history, and the
| older we grow the more difficult it
will be to find our old landmarks. The
grave of Governor William Walker,
which has been located. should be
marked, and so should the most east
ern Indian pueblo, which is in our
state, be marked
Mr.. W. E. Connelley, secretary of
the State Historical society and a
writer of Kansas history, was asked to
| speak on the Indian pueblo in Kansas.
He said that it was built in Scott
| county about 100 by Indians from
the region of the Rio Grande, and had
| been occupied about thirty or forty
years. 1t was then abandoned as a
communal dwelling, and that the
white people during the early settle
ment days in Kansas, had used a
| great deal Of the stone in making the
| foundations for their houses. The
site has even been plowed over, but
| it is known where the pueblo is To-
| Gated, and Mr.. Connelley suggested
I that the society buy up about ten
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try to get the state to erect suitab
| monument. Mrs. A. L. Wilcox of Abb
| lere was asked to speak on the work
| of the society, and she endorsed the
suggestions to devote the efforts of
/ the organization to the preservation
of historic places.
| Mrs. Gladys Hill of Salina respond
! ed to a toast on Membership She
told of the plans for a convention of
/ the national society to be held next
year in Chicago, when an old steam
/ ship would be fitted up to represent
/ the Mayf1ower, and arrangements
would be made for a pageant enacting
the scenes of the lading of the Pill
| grims. THE look into the past she
| said, will have to give prace to the
| look toward the future. We best hon
/ or our ancestors by pressing forward
/ to present tasks. The members should
| do all they can to interest other peo-
pie; We should have a membership in
| of people who came from England in
the Mayflower. The parents of this
| generation should keep records that
will be of historic interest to their
children and their grandchildren
AT the meeting of the afternoon
bronze tablet, bearing the names of
| the charter members, with the names
| of their ancestors in the Pilgrim COL
| ony. was presented to the state his
| torica1 society by Mr.. Maurice Alden
n or On he ~ If r.
| torical society by Mr.. Connelley The
| tablet was yelled with a flag sent for
| the purpose from Vermont. The un-
| yelling was done by Mrs. Sadie Damon
George of Wichita. In Mr.. A1den's
| speech, he reviewed some of the bene-
! fits to America thru the ideals of the
| Pilgrim fathers. 1T is not the pur-
pose of the members of this society to
glory in their ancestry, so much as
it is TO keep before the people the
1 character and deeds of those ances-
/ tors to which we owe so much
| Mrs. McGregor. the secretary of the
/ society. gave an invitation for a meet
ing OF be held in May in Wichita The
! invitation was accepted. All the an
/ nual meetings are to be held in To-
! peka, according to the bylaws. Mrs.
] A. S. Amber, of Topeka, who is ILL.,
! was visited by committee appointed
! by Mr. A H. Bennett, the governor of
/ the society. 1t was decided to remit
to applicants the SIS application fee, if
/ they were unable to get their papers
I thru.
/ The charter members. whose names
appear on the tablet, are as follows:
Arthur Henry Bennett and A E. Van
II Petten. both of Topeka. and both de-
scended from William Brewster; Mrs.
Sadie Damon George of Wichita, de-
! scended from jail Alden; Edward Al
len Hitler of Salina. Ralph Adds Hill
Ter of Norton, both descended from
7 James Chiffon; Edwin Mortimer Hop
lxins of Lawrence. Mrs. Elizabeth
| Hoyt Purcell of Me nhattan, both de-
| .cended from Stephen Hopkins; Al
| bert Todd Hyde of Wichita, descend
! ed from John Rowland; Mrs. Helen
Scott johnson of Lawrence, Mrs.
Clara E. Eddy MEG lire of Topeka,
Mrs. L B. Brownen of Lawrence.
| Mrs Annie Bryant Scott of Topeka.
4 Mrs Mary Ncwcomb Strattford of
i Wichita, all descended from William
I Bradford; Mrs. Lenora Cove Nc
/ Gregor of Wichita, descended from
| Edward Fuller; George Handy Shell
! ton and Mrs Harriet Handy Shelton
of Topeka, desc ended from Thomas
Rogers; Mrs Minnie Walker Wilcox
of Abilene, and Clara Huntington
| Dods of Kansas City. descended from
i Richard Warren; Caroline Bennett and
Rachel Victoria Bennett of Holton,