The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-29

MONDAY EVENING,
many parties in those days. At we'd
ding feast the only sweets were made
from honey. The cake and coffee
were sweetened with it,
| Mrs. GODDARD quoted from her faith
er's diary tribute to Abraham Lin
| coin.
The Registrars Report.
| Miss Clara Francis made the reg
istrar's report which showed a mem
| bership last year of 486. IS of whom
were native-born women and eighteen
! residents of Kansas during territorial
| days. "Of these eighteen, the Oldest
! in point of residence is Mrs. John M.
| Meade of Topeka. She is entitled to
further mention in that she was born
| in Kansas. Her father, Anthony
Ward, was in the Indian service and
his family lived at the Shawnee mis-
sion in johnson county. Mrs. Meade's
early recollection of what is now To-
peka is a group of log cabins that had
| been used by the Indians and French
traders
| The program closed with a peace
| pageant. directed by Mrs. Clement
| Smith. Mrs. c, ]. Wilson and Mrs. H.
| E. Ray. Mrs. Ray was chosen to rep
resent the Goddess of Liberty. She
wore white robe and carried large
silk flag which nearly EMBODIED her.
A procession entered from each side
| door carrying flags. One, represent
ried the flags of those countries, and
was led by Miss Helen Lucas. The
other, representing the central pow
ers carried the colors of Germany and
Austria. The two groups surrounded
the central figure during the singing
of a song, Peace" the words of which
were written by Mrs. J. F. farrell, and
the music by Mrs. Norman Hay. both
| of Topeka. After the tableau. the
two divisions marched down the side
aisles of the church. The little girls
in the pageant were Mildred Bolinger,
Helen Jacobs, Lillian Miller. Marie
Lenhart, Lillian Carson, Margaret
Glover, Virgiline Wieman and Janice
| Brown.
\ The Third District.
I Mrs. A. C. Graves. of Pittsburg,
president of the Third district told in
verse the history of her district,
speaking of the struggles incident to
building a state. Her paper was call
ed .1The DAYS of F'ifty-Eight'' She
said:
They call this bleeding Kansas in the
When our fathers faced the danger of
a deadly, lurking foe.
With courage still undaunted, prepared
They built their homes and affairs in
the days of fifty -eight-'
The poem relates the trials of the
territory in drouth and war, closing
thus:
Here's to territorial days and to nineteen
seventeen
And to all the great achievements of the
years that lie between,
And to the golden promise of nobler,
A heritage, now and ever, to the days of
fifty-eight.
"QuakerS in Kansas"
Mrs. Homer Hoch of Marion took
the place of Mrs. Neese Olson in rep
resenting the Fourth district the
program Her subject was kansas
Quakers." She received some of the
story from Mrs. Sara Ann Hinshaw of
Emporia, who has just celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of her coming to
Kansas, and who was one of the
Quaker women who made the journey
west by wagon. 'fIt was" she said.
Fin the stirring days of anti-slavery
agitation. when big things moved
point, that across the arena of reused
men walked the broad-hatted, deter
mined figure of the peace loving
Quaker, who has made himself felt
for all time to come in the life of
Kansas. His greatest gift to Kansas
, was the peace spirit. and would that
it might move men to pay in dollars
, and national sacrifice what they are
willing to pay for kennels to house
the dogs of war"
The Fifth District.
Mrs. w. S. Roark of Junction City,
Fifth district president gave the story
, of Quivera. In Logan Grove of
Geary county is a monument, erected
in August, 1902, commemorating the
discovery and rediscovery of the pro-
Spanish explorer, first visited the
place, and since 1912 nothing has
been known of it, until it's boundaries
were rediscovered by J. V. Brewer in
1896. He was then president of the
. Quivera Historical society, and made
: a rediscovery of the site of Quivera
, at some great flint quarries in Geary
: county, by means of determined his
: account of Mr.. Brewers army SER
: vice and subsequent researches.
Mrs. Murphy's Address.
Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy. of the
Sixth district. spoke on Sherman
: County's First Family She told OF
the coming of Joseph Colyer in 1879
who, with his wife and seven children
settled on Beaver Creek. The father
freighted, located new settlers, farm
. ed and helped the newcomers build
= houses. The mother and girls made
butter which they sold to the cowboys
: and neighborhood bachelors. They
picked buffalo bones for the fertilizer
market of the east. Where the sod
house of the Colyer family then stood
is now one of the finest homes of the
4 state. The Oldest daughter of the
9 family was the first girl married ir
j that county. All the children hold
t places of prominence in the county.
2 Early Western Days.
Mrs. L. ]. Pettyjohn of Dodge City
: gave entertaining incidents of the
9 early settlement days of the Seventh
district 1.-The "reminiscences of the
, remarkable men and women of pic.
neer days are all we have to remind
us of the early hardships. They tel
: of stampedes, Indian raids, billiards
and all the difficulties that the from
2 tier hurls at civilization. These hard
ships were felt in the Seventh district
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