The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-12

have friends and relatives in this city.
They will make their home in Kansas
City.
Glass elections for the second
semester made Friday a day of eX-
element 1t Washburn. A tie on the
first ballot between Albert Ferguson
and George Barrett in the junior class
and a hot political campaign among
the five candidates of the freshman
class lent excitement to the occasion.
The seniors elected Ernest Bearg
to the presidency of the graduating
class. Bearg is member of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity and will be re-
membered as an all-state man in foot
fall for the last three years. He was
also coach of the consistently victor
ious Washburn freshmen team and
a member of the Y. NJ. cabinet for
this term. Mildred Marsh was elect
ed vice president and Lola Curry sec
rotary.
The juniors elected George Barrett
president; Miss Hazel Jones, vice pres
ident; Harlow Price, treasurer; Bryant
Drake and Stein Haynes, marshals
The new sophomore officers are Ken
meth Kerans. president; Miss Eliza
beth Culver. vice president; Miss Faye
BonJour, secretary; Albert Reed,
treasurer. The freshman president is
James Perry; Miss Elsie Saville. vice
M n.
secretary, and Miss Elsie Cuthbert,
treasurer
The senior class of the Washburn
academy elected Miss Nally Fox presi-
dent; Miss Mildred Wiggin, vice presi-
dent; Miss Gertrude Harley, secretary;
Mr.. Finley Neal, treasurer. The acad-
envy Y. NJ. c. A. elected Miss Mildred
Owen president for the next semester.
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Miss Bernadette Huycke entertained
this afternoon with a line party to the
Iris, followed by luncheon at the Pei
letter Tea room, complimentary to her
guests, Miss Jeanette Byrnes, Miss
Regina Byrnes and Miss Mary Beck
with, of st. Marys. The other guests
were: Miss Winifrcd Hartley Miss
Marguerite Dolan, Miss Mary Connors.
Miss Esther Gamlowski, Miss Mary
Fitzgerald and Miss Helen Woods.
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Word has been received from Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, of New York
City. that she expects to come to Kan
sas to establish her residence. and be-'
come q voter She will arrive in
March or April. and will be met by a
reception committee of Topeka wo-
men, some of whom have written her
ana other eastern suffrage workers,
inviting them to Kansas The Rotary
club has also written letters to east
ern women. asking them to make their
homes in this :tate.
Mrs Blatch is daughter of the
late Eliza beth Cady Stanton, who cam
paiened for equal suffrage in Kansas
in 1SG7, when the late Joel Moody,
whose widow still lives in Topeka,
hauled the party of suffragists over
the country with his OK team and
wagon. Susan B. Anthony Lucy Stone
and other pioneer suffragists were
IN bers Of that campaign party Mrs.
Stanton is said to have called the first
equal rights convention in the world,
which convened at Seneca, N. " in
1S4s.
The Washburn college freshman
class had a party Friday even
ing, with the following in attendance:
Miss Imcgene Snyder. Miss Edna
Smith Miss Esther Jensen, Miss Mar
guerite Calvert Miss Frances Cav
Miss katherine Conkling, Miss Avis
Clayton, Miss Elsie Brace. Miss Doro-'
thy Harrington, Miss Flemming, Miss
Gertrude Loomis, Miss hris tin a
Ward, Miss Ruth Tomlinson, Miss
Ian, Mr.. Glenn Kassabaum Mr.. Byron
Babb. Mr.. Arthur Shakeshaft. Mr..
Martin Potter, Mr.. Harry Anderson,
Mr. Glenn Hussy. Mr.. Sterling Shaw,
Mr. Churchill Sargent, Mr.. James
Lowe. Mr.. DeVaughn Dean. Mr. Pres
ton Palmer, Mr. Blaine Batty. Mr..
Lowell Berry. Mr. Lawrence Gage, Mr..
Paul Bush, Mr.. James Irons. MI Arch
farrell. Mr.. Fred Worlev. Mr. Glenn
Romig, Mr.. Ilsyn Kim, Mr. Raymond
French, Mr.. Edward A, Thompson.
I. /, I.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Shelleharger en-
tertained at auction bridge Friday
night Those who PLAYED were: DIR.