The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-05

soon as possible. The headquarters
for that work are asking for more
garments than the Topeka branch had
ready at the last shipment The
is foul weeks and in nearly all other
cities, the work is limited to two
weeks
The concert which has been an
nounced to be given at the Cozy Thea
ter Sunday afternoon, has been post
poned until Sunday. April IA, on ac-
count of the concert to be given by
sousa's band Sunday. April l.
meeting of the captains and lieu
tenants of the Topeka city committee
of the Woman's division of the Lib
erty Loan committee, was held this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, in the as
sembly room of the National hotel.
Miss Malone, of the Bank of Topeka,
made an address.
Mrs. H. c. Nulroy, formerly of Den
yer, is in Topeka for a visit to her
mother, Mrs A. B. Jetmore. She will
Mulroy in a permanent residence. Mr..
Mulroy is engaged in government
work in connection with the railroads,
and has been sent to Chicago ME-
and Mrs Mulroy have been living in
Denver for the past two or three
years.
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The Woman's club has devised a
new means of handling it's government
loan policy in the coming loan cam
paign. Mrs. w. A. Johnston, who is
chairman of the First district loan
committee for women. presented to
the club a plea for it's support in buy
ing bonds at the club meeting Thurs
day. An arrangement is made where
by the club will buy bonds to the
a of n %
bond issue, each member contribut-
ing 81. The amount afterward will
be used for the club house, which the
club women of Topeka hope to build
at the close of the war. Previously
the club gave $500 to the war library
fund, and recently it raised another
$500 for the furlo homes in France.
At the business meeting Thursday
the nominating ballot was taken. The
vote has not been counted. and the
work of making the count takes d
good deal of time, and the result of
the ballot cannot be determined in less
than a week or two. Among the mem
bers who have been spoken of as prob
able candidates are Mrs. J. F. FARRELL
Mrs. w. A. McCarter, Mrs. H. E. Ray
Mrs. Frank SquireS and Mrs. John W.
Mowers. The election will be held at
the annual meeting of the club in
May.
The forestry department of the club
held it's open meeting at II o'clock.
Mrs. S. J. Thurston spoke on the work
that should be done in the garden dur
ing the month of April. Her address
was informal, and was much of it TAX
en- up with answering questions from
the audience. Mrs. A. A Robinson
wrote a paper on the Arnold Arbor-
atum but as she did not attend the
meeting on account of the death of
her close friend, Mrs. NJ C. Hammatt
her paper was read by Mrs H O. Gar
vey. 1t was a scholarly account of the
Arboratum at Harvard university
Mrs. r. G. Herrick had an excellent
paper on Birds" and music for the
meeting was furnished by Mr.. B. T.
Bartlett and Mrs. George H Allen,
who sang, and by Mrs. Robert Carver.
accompanist.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is member of one of the large
clubs of women. Someone asked her
about a business measure the club
was contemplating. She didn't know
the answer. 81 thought you were on
one of the committees having that
business in hand remarked her ques-
toner. "Oh no." replied the woman
I'm not on any committee. | am
much too useful and straightforward
to have any kind of a job in that
club.
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Mrs. George Krauss gave a birth
RI; V marty Thursday for her dauVbter