The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04

providing the comfort cases with
everything in sight, rom scrap iron
to hair ribbons.
Tell it not in Gath, friends. but
what will you bet that the men would
give a farm and a pig as b"ot if they
could trade them all off for cigarettes?
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Mrs. J. F. Going, secretary of the
Military Sisterhood of Kansas, has is
sued the following open letter of in
terest to all relatives of soldiers and
| others interested in the efforts and
aims of the organizations:
'In times of war, the women are
called upon to do their share and help
the boys at the front, in many per-
sona1 ways. The Military Sisterhood
| of Kansas has lately been organized to
| bind together, in sisterly love and mu-
| tual helpfulness, the women related
| by ties of blood or marriage to these
men. We are trying to reach every
woman in this state who has any rel
atives, by blood or marriage, in any
military organization to join the
! sisterhood.
The next meeting of the sisterhood
will be held on the afternoon of
August Z, 1917. at 2:30 o'clock, in the
auditorium of Memorial hall, corner
Tenth and Jackson streets. This will
| be the last regular general meeting
| before the boys are called from their
| nome LOWnS, ana we nope all VINO
can will be present. men as well as
women.
THE Spanish war veterans have of
fered the Military Sisterhood the use
of their rooms in Memorial hall Gin
the southwest corner of the building
on the first f1oor) and the rooms are
always open and visitors are always
welcome"
| Mrs. c. Martin, president of the
| organization, is planning a meeting of
| special interest, as it will be the last
meeting before the soldiers leave
Some of the officers will be present,
and meeting of interest to the rela-
tives of the soldiers, in, particular, is
arranged.
Miss Helen Leeper and Miss Dor
otha Leeper gave a porch party this
morning at their home in Clay street.
in compliment to Miss Lois Parker
Parker, Mrs. Ralph McCammon. Mrs.
| Ernest Stanley, Mrs. Bert Anderson,
| Miss Lillian Huckell, Miss Roina
Rain. Miss Anna Horning, Miss Thel
ma Huston, Miss Helen dresser, Miss
Marjorie Petro
Certificates have been received by
| twelve members of class in First Aid,
| which was conducted this summer at
! Washburn college. DIR. Walter Weld
/
| katheryn Albaugh was secretary of
| the class The instruction qualities
| the young women to be nurses aids in
war or to perform service at home
| Certificates were awarded to Miss
| Rheva Bonjour, Miss Anita Weiskirch.
| Miss Albaugh, Miss Annabel Garvey.
! Miss Inez A. Cornell, Miss Mildred
| Cornick, Miss Irene WiIlets, Miss Klara
Levy, Miss Olga Heimerick, Miss
Mabel Cornick, Miss Ruby Bronson.
Miss Reba Becker.
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Mrs w. E. Ringle, of Pittsburg.
Kan, vice chairman of the woman's
committee of the Kansas branch of
the national council of defense, and
one of the efficient club women of the
state, has just completed the work of
organizing Crawford county for the
committee. She was appointed tenn
1 porary chairman and called the meet
ing. More than $50 women attended.
An elaborate program was prepared,
including music by the Boys band of
Bales of the Pittsburg Normal, a
prominent woman in educational cir
cles of Kansas. Officers elected for
| Crawford county were: Mrs. Charles
Alberta Moore, of Pittsburg, and Mrs.
]. G. Sandidge, of Mulberry, vice
chairmen; Mrs. o. E. Draper, of
Cherokee, secretary; Mrs. F. A. Ger
kin. of Girard, treasurer.
! Crawford is the sixty-sixth county to
be organized thru the woman's COM
mittee.
=
Il Miss Rhea Robertson gave a line
party at the Orpheum Friday night
followed by supper at the Chocolate
Shop, and dancing in the ball room
4 of the Chocolate Shop. The party
was in honor of Miss Eulalia Kauff-
man of Oakley, Kansas. The guests
were: Miss Kaufman, Miss Ruth
Thompson. Miss Esther Paxton, Miss