The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23

tional convention in Lawrence, Kan,
April 25, &c and 81. The visiting
delegates will be guests of the Epsilon
chapter of the Kansas university.
Three Topeka women are honorary
members of the sorority They are
Miss Esther Clark, Miss Effie Graham
and Mrs. Margaret Hill 'McCarter.
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A meeting of the U and / club will
be held Tuesday afternoon, March 20,
in the Edison room of Crosby Broth
ers store.
Word has been received in Topeka
that Lieut.. Donald Hudson has reach
ed England safely, with an aero di-
vision of the regular army. Lieuten-
ant Hudson is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Hudson, who made their home
in Topeka at one time Paul Hud-
son is former owner and editor of
the Mexican Herald of the City of
Mexico. Donald Hudson was with his
father in Vermont when war was de-
clared and received his commission
as first lieutenant in aviation last fall
from the first officers training camp
1T Toronto, Canada. He was formerly
a student in the Kansas university
He is a nephew of Mrs. Marie Price
Wear of Topeka.
The State Federation of Women s
year in Salina, April 16 to Is, by in
vitation of the Salina clubs. The ses-
sion will open with a reception Tues
day evening given for all the delegates
and visitors. Three meetings will be
held Wednesday and three Thursday,
mobile ride Thursday afternoon.
The special feature of state wide
interest in the convention will be ac-
counts of the war work being done
thru the federation. Reports will be
made from clubs and districts cover
ing patriotic service carried on by the
organization.
At every federation convention, a
session is held known as Presidents
Evening, when the district presidents
make short addresses to the other del
egates and visitors. The present pres
ident of the federation, Mrs. H. o.
Carney, plans to introduce new fea-
! ture in this meeting. All the past
presidents of the federation will be
asked to sit on the platform and to
make short addresses.
| Department conferences will be
! held Wednesday and Thursday, six of
( them being in session at one time. and
! the delegates will be privileged to visit
! those in which they are most interest
! ed. AT meal times. table talks will be
J given following the meals.
/ The art department, of which Mrs.
Charles f. Spencer of Topeka is chair
man, will have an exhibit at the con-
vention of the work of Kansas artists
/ The group of pictures which were ex-
! hibited in the state house rotunda a
J few months ago will form the collec-
1 ton for the Salina exhibit at the con-
vention. Mrs. Spencer will also show
| her war poster collection. and will
| make an address on that subject
! Tbs Topeka clubs are electing their
delegates to the annual meeting at
Salina. The nine local clubs entitled
/ TO representation in the convention
arc: The Woman's club, the Rota
club, the Native, Daughters, Western
Sorosis, the Vignette club, West Side
| Forestry, Research, Child Conserva-
ticn and the Tuesday Study club
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/ Miss Frances Brown, head of the
extension work of the domestic sci
| enoe department of the State Agricul-
I tura- college, was in Topeka Friday
tc attend meeting of the Woman's
II Farm bureau, which convened at the
4 Y. W. c. A. Miss Brown presented
! plans for work sent out by the fed
! eral bureau, and these were discuss
ed, and the spring work outlined.
b 1t was decided that in the future
( the Woman's Farm bureau will work
. in connection with the Red Cross