The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-07
Lady Ralph Paget.

leo men among Sne luFd0eEbs
have had great assistance in meeting
! that difficulty.
| One of the first organizations to
/ break ground for the new garden was
the First Presbyterian church, which
has a plot of land on the corner of
Seventh and Van Buren, streets, across
the street from the Y. W. c. A. THAI
/ lot has been used as a billboard stand
and a dump ground. Yesterday the
women in charge of its cultivation
were laying it out for the garden.
The plan of the department is to
/ ask the owners or agents of vacant
lots to lend them for garden purposes.
They believe that the identifying of
I the land will make it more attractive
. if the owner is trying to sell it, and
/ that it will pay him to lend it for gar
den uses
One of the classes of gardens. to be
! in the public school division is the
| boys gardens. These will be vegeta-
bic gardens. TO be farmed by the boys,
who will market their product as well
as do the cultivating of the soil. These
! gardens are to be rs by 125 feet or
| % by so feet. The boys are to get
the use of the land they need. and
some substantial prizes are offered in
| this class.
Another division is to be the moth
ers' gardens, to be tended by women
who can give time for that work
At the meeting of the forestry de-
partment this afternoon, entry blanks
will be drawn up. These blanks will
be printed in the newspapers, and any
one interested in the garden project is
asked to clip the blank, fill it in and
send 1t to Mrs A A Robinson. chair
man, or Mrs. c. W. Kouns, vice chair
man of the forestry department of the
federation This plan will bring the
/ department into communication with
/ a good many people whom they would
not otherwise reach.
| The garden project is arousing a
great deal of interest in the city 1t is
being systematically pursued and a
campaign of education is resulting
4 that promises to be as beneficial as
/ the actual process of gardening All
who are interested in the plan, wheth-
er members of the federation or not
are asked to cooperate in making it
a success.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Quinton will en-
\ terrain a few friends Saturday night
/ in compliment to their house guess
| Mrs j. A Pitkin, of Kalamazoo Mich,
who is visiting them on her way home
from Honolulu, where she spent a few
months.
/ Some of the Phi Delt men will have
a line party Saturday night to the
b
You Never Can Tell"
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Mrs William Collinson will enter
tain her sewing club next Wednesday
afternoon
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The Crochet club will meet Tuesday
with Mrs W. H Fighter. 1920 Fill
more street.
The Argonauts will meet Saturday
{ Wi Mr.
son, 900 Lane street. Miss jeanette
Price Will read a paper on the Folk
Z lore of Hawaii" The social committee
will have charge of the meeting.
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The Social Service club will meet
/ Monday afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock with
Miss Elfie Dean. 1899 Western avenue.
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The Topeka chapter of the d. A r.
viii meet Saturday afternoon at 230
Nell, Gil Taylor street. In addition
to the program. a business meeting of
! Importance will be held
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Herbert Hodge, of Abilene, will
/ be in Topeka next week for the con-
vention of the state federation. and
Will be the house guest of Mrs c. W.
Kouns-
Mrs Chester l. Long and Mrs. C. A
Sautter of Horton, will be guests of
Mrs H o. Carney during the meeting
/ OF the state federation of club next
week.
Mrs Arthur L. Murphy of Tulsa
Ok. who is visiting her mother Mrs
| Emma Redden, will leave next Wed
nesday for Columbia, Mo-. to visit her
daughter, Miss Miriam Murphy. who is
! a student in Christian college Mrs
Murphy will attend the graduation of
her daughter from the college school
4 of expression
from Excelsior Springs. Mo- where
| they spent the past two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Macferran
/ and their son Kenneth, have returned
from trip to Florida They stopped
for a visit in St Louis, Mo, on their
! return to Topeka
Mrs. Genevieve ChalkIey and Mrs.