The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-07

concerned with food production and
he me economics. Herbert Hoover,
national food administrator, will
make an address, which will be fol-
lowed by an open discussion.
Specialists will lead in the discus
SIGN of the work in the several de-
pa rtmsnts.
The Phi Delta Theta men of Wash
burn college will give a dancing party
Friday night at the Country club
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The Elwell club, who was to have
met today with Mrs. L. L. kiene, has
postponed the meeting two weeks on
account of the death of Mrs. w. o.
Rigby, who was one of the club mem
bers.
Mrs Russell Frost will entertain her
sewing club Wednesday at her home
in Jewell avenue. p,
The Lakota club met Monday with
Mrs. Charles P. Adams. Mrs. A. B.
Mason of Los Angeles. and Miss Belle
Snyder were guests. Mrs. John Eagan
is new member of the club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eagan and their son,
John, who formerly made their home
in Topeka, have moved back to this
city from ST. Louis, Mo-, where they
have been living for some years. Mr..
Eagan will open a law office. Mrs.
Eagan is a sister of Mrs. Charles Ell
lott.
| News of the marriage of Miss Emily
Adele Scheer, and Lieut.. John E. Fast,
of Fort Sill, has been received in To-
peka. The wedding took place at the
home of the brides parents, Rev. and
Mrs. ]. E. Scheer, and the ceremony
was read by the brides father. The
Rev. Mr.. Scheer was formerly pastor
of the Kansas Avenue Methodist
graduate of the Sabetha high school
and attended Baker university, where
! she received her degree in music. She
attended Washburn college in Topeka
and taught languages and was super
visor of music in the Highland Park
high school. She is now attending the
College of Emporia, and will receive
| her degree this spring
| Lieutenant Fast is a graduate of the
Baldwin high school. and attended
Baker university Later he was a
student in the K. U. engineering school
and a member of the Sigma Phi
! Epsilon fraternity. He is now a first
lieutenant. He is in the school of fire
at Fort Sill.
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| The Craftsmanship for the recrea-
| ton department of the Woman's Com
mittee Council of Defense, for Kansas
has been assigned to Mrs. Paul
/ Walker. Her work will have to do
with the welfare of girls who live or
work in the vicinity of army camps
Mrs. Walker has also been made a
member of the board of the home
service department of the Red Cross
Her work in both these departments
is similar to that which she has been
doing in the Y. w. c. A. hostess house
and war work council at Army City
and Topeka.
The Vespuccian club will have an
all day meeting Thursday at the Red
! Cross rooms in Masonic hail.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
! Who has some notions of her own
/ as to who shall sit next to her in pub
/ lie places. such as the theater. She
and two other women sat in one of
: the show houses one afternoon, with
a vacant seat next to her. As the
house filled up, she scrutinized the
/ crowd that came in, and when it ap-
! peared that someone she didn't fancy
was about to take the empty seat next
TO her, she put her coat into it. and
said that it was taken. An old man,
in the uniform of Civil War veteran,
| came in and made inquiry about the
seat. He, too, was informed that the
+ seat was in use. BY that time, find
ing a vacant place was getting to be
real task. Presently a smartly
dressed woman of the head set came
in. The coat was Immediately re-
moved from the vacant chair, and the
newcomer dropped into it,
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At meeting of the Shawnee coun-
! ty workers for the county Unit of the
| Kansas Woman's committee, Council
/ of Defense, instructions were given
| for the two big drives which the com
mittee will put on beginning May 20.
The plan is to make the drive for
! the child welfare campaign and for
! the Red Cross war fund at the same
| time house-to-house canvass will
/ be made turnout the county, and two
women will visit each house at the
same time. One woman of this team
| will present the cause of the child
hygiene department, and the other will
solicit for Red Cross contributions
Miss NJ Edna Corbet, chairman for
I Shawnee county division of the Kan
sas Woman's committee. presided at
the meeting. and gave out literature
/ which contained the Instructions to
the workers. These Instructions are
to be studied by them and to be put
into practice as soon as the word is
given to begin the drive
DIR. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss, who is
state chairman of the child welfare
department of the Woman's commit
| tee, and also head of child hygiene
| work for the state of Kansas made a
short address on the plan for the part
of the drive with which her depart
ment is concerned.
The nation has asked Kansas -
she said, Ito cut down its infant NOR
tally rate fifty per cent this year.