The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-20
and Mrs. Eddy's, with

the Y. NJ. c. A, and Mrs Eddys, with
the Y. w. C. A.
Another speaker of the afternoon
will be Miss Butler, of New York, a
sister of Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University. She
has a position of Importance with the
national Y. w c. A, and is one of
that associations most brilliant public
speakers. Miss Wigal, of Junction
City. who is at the head of the work
for the welfare of women and girls
at the fort and camp, will also make
an address.
The War Work Council is not at all
an organization growing out of d de-
sire of a few individuals or societies
to be doing something" but it is the
result of an official governmental
order, given to the national Y. w
c. A. Its purpose is to look after
women and girls about the camps.
This work is larger than one would
think who did not understand that
the number of women employed about
the camps runs into the thousands.
For instance, there are some 500
laundresses, two or three hundred
girls employed in the amusement zone
managed by the government, girls SELL
ing candy and chewing gum at the
canteens, and there are many tele-
phone operators, clerks and steno-
graphers, etc A new ruling makes it
impossible for a woman to enter the
SOVernment reservation without an
official pass.
The Y. w. c. A has provided at
Junction City what are known as
/ Hostess Houses" These buildings
are we'll built and attractively finished
and they are to furnish refreshment
/ and resting places for the women and
! girls employed at the camp and for
/ visitors They are equipped with bed
rooms, eating rooms, rest rooms etc
/ There are two of these houses pro-
/ vided, one to be looked after by the
, Wichita association, and the other by
| the Topeka association.
The guests at the luncheon will in
clude some fifty Topeka women
Others who will attend include some
sixty women from over the state who
are connected with the large educa-
tional institutions, and also members
of the war work council in Topeka
The council is authorized by the ma
tonal Y. w. c. A. and is composed of
some members of the association, their
field representatives and some nom
members of the association
Mrs. Paul Walker is chairman of
the council in Topeka. and those who
are chosen as members of the COM
mittee are:
Mrs. Paul Walker Mrs. Charles Nit
| Mrs. David W. Null cheII
.vane Mrs. James Mcclure
] Mrs l.. II. Mum Miss Edna Hopkins
| Mrs. Roy Thompson bine
Mrs. Dick Alden Miss Ernestine Klein
Mrs. Horace Hall Miss Mary MacLen-
| Mrs. Robert Herrick nan
| Mrs. Clark Zugg
A big meeting of war work council
/ members will be held in Kansas City
| October 80, and Mrs. Walker desires
] that every membe of her committee
arrange to attend it. Many New York
women of prominence. who are in
! terested in the organization, will at
tend that meeting and will make ad-
dresses. Arrangements will be made
to run a special car to junction City
so that the eastern visitors may have
an opportunity to know the sort of
work that is being done at one of
the largest military camps of America.
The hostess building which is to be
| in charge of the Topeka council, will
| be known as The house by the side
of the road
x X
The marriage of Miss Lois Johnson
of Eureka. and Mr.. Harold Cone of
Seattle, Wash, was solemnized
| Wedn esday evening at $50 o'clock,
at the home of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. David c. Johnson, of
Eureka. The wedding was attended
by a number of Topeka people, who
are friends of the young couple. Mr..
Cone is the son of Mrs. P. w. Cone
of College avenue, and she was one OF
the guests at the marriage. Miss An
Meta Nicoll, Miss Helen Brigham and
number of the young women at the
Alpha Phi house also went to Eu-
reka for the wedding.
The bride was attended by Miss
Vera Croft of Nortonville, a Wash
burn and Alpha Phi girl, as brides
maid. Her matron of honor was Mrs
Robert Garst of Wichita, herself a
bride of last week. Miss johnson was
one of her bridesmaids. Two little
girls carried flowers. and Mr.. Cones
best man was the brides brother, Mr.
Roscoe Johnson, who was home or
furlough from the Great Lakes naval
training station, for the wedding.
Miss Sabra Eppler of Washburn
! college played the wedding march, and
Miss Esther Lauterbach, another col
lege girl. sang four songs before. the
ceremony.
i The brides gown was of white satin
worn with long tuile veil. She car
ried a shower bouquet of roses and
lilies of the valley.
The house was decorated with
masses of roses and ferns. oak leaf
balls and bowers, and tall, brass vases
of yellow chrysanthemums.
After the wedding Mr.. and Mrs
Cone left for trip to Chicago. stop
ping in Kansas City to attend the
opera From Chicago they will &c
to St. Paul, and then to Seattle where
they will be at home after Novem.
Der l.
The bride was a graduate of Wash
burn college and re-entered last fal
10 take post graduate work She i: