The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-06

Mrs Coppedge will be the honor
guest at a meeting of the Topeka Art
guild this evening. She will make an
illustrated address on landscape
painting in oil. She has with her one
of the sketches from which she made
the prize winning picture.
Mps. Coppedge had studio in
Pennsylvania, in the picturesque town
t., of Darby on the southwest outskirts
of Philadelphia. During the past
winter she sold four canvases, which
is something of a record for a western
painter in the eastern field. Paint
ings from the brush of an artist who
has won the recognition that has
| come 10 Mrs Coppedge, sell for no
mean sums.
"A Kansas City paper, in a review
of the exhibit, mentions Mrs. Cop
pedge's work as first in the exhibit,
and describes it as having distance.
dei,th. charm of vista, surety of line,
and graceful ease in the handling Of
/ her subject
| In compliance with a request for
he'll, at tn Red Cross work rooms, the
Woman's club is making a systematic
effort to get all its members into Ped
Cross activities. To this end. the pres
ident. Mrs o. L. Moore, has divided
the club alphabetically. and assigned
workers for each morning of the week
for each of the Red Cross work rooms.
Her plan is as follows:
For Monday morning, all members
of the club whose last names begin
with A, will go to the work room at
| Warren NJ. Crosby's store; those whose
names begin with Is will go to Crosby
Bros, and the C's will go to Pelletier's.
Tuesday morning. the assignment is
as follows: The DIS and Els will go to
! Warren NJ. Crosby's; the F's and G's
to Crosby Brothers, and the HIS to
| Pelletier's.
| Wednesday morning: The Us and
KS to Warren NJ. Crosby's. the LIS to
j Crosby Bros, and the Ms to Pelle-
tiers.
| Friday morning: Ms and O's to
Warren NJ. Crosby's; P's and Q's to
Crosby Bros; RS to Pelletier's.
Saturday morning: SIS to Warren
NJ. Crosby's: rs and VS. to Crosby
Bros, and W's to Pelletier's.
| Thursday morning assignments are
not made. because that is the regular
meeting day of the club and the de-
partments. On that day, women who
are not attending department meet
| ings, are asked to go to the Red Cross
rooms to work.
In each of the work rooms will be
| placed a register and those who go to
work from the club according to the
assignment, are asked to register.
A meeting of the Shawnee county
liberty loan women workers was held
Friday afternoon at the National no
tel. Miss M'Edna Corbet, chairman OF
the work for Shawnee county, presid-
ed. Mrs. D. w. Mulvane, who is at the
head of the womans committee fol-
| Kansas, explained the connection OF
her committee with the government
loan campaign which begins today.
The woman's committee" Mrs
Mulvane said, 'is the regular appoint
! ed government channel by which al
i war work for women is brought to the
! women of America. All women's wal
/ activities in this state are expected By
the national government to operate
thru this committee One of our di-
visions is the liberty loan division, o.
which Mrs. McAdoo is the nationa
head. Mrs Henry Ware Allen head.
that department for Kansas. Mrs w
A. Johnston is the First district chair
man, Miss Corbet the county chair
man. and Miss Effie Page the chair