The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-20

Publishing company, with headquar-
tiers in Philadelphia, where he and his
bride will make their home.
Out of town guests present at the
wedding were: Mrs. Henry Lockwood,
of Long Beach. Cal; Mrs. E. P. James,
/ of Mansfield. o.; Mrs. T. w. Peers,
| Miss Esther Peers, Miss Irene Peers
1 of Ann Arbor, Mich; Mrs. George Lion
( berger. of Kansas City; Mrs. o. E.
/ James, of Oakland. Cal; Mr.. Gladdan
Baker, of Albany. n. Y, and Mr.. John
williams, of Kansas City.
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The dates for the meeting OF the
First District Federated Clubs of Kan
sas, which will be in Topeka, have
/ been announced as October 22nd and
! 23rd. No further plans for the pro-
gram are ready YET:
! The Women's Missionary society of
kthe First Congregational church will
I have their annual thank offering serv-
| ice Thursday evening with the men of
! the church as guests. After an inter-
esting program which they are now
working on they will have social
hour and serve refreshments f 3
| The Western Sorosis club will have
I a meeting next Saturday afternoon at
the home of DIR. Dorothy Nicoll.
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! The West Side Forestry club will
meet next Thursday at the home of
DR.. Elvenor Ernest, 729 Kansas ave-
nue.. Mrs. d. o. Coe will read a paper
on From What and How are Sugars
Made" Mrs. w. A. Johnston will con-
duct the parliamentary drill.
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The Lillian Mitchner w. c. T. U
| will meet Tuesday at 2:30 p. m, at
the home Of Mrs. I. E. Lock, s34 JEFF
ferson street. Mrs. Parker will read
| a paper concerning the achievements
of the year. Echoes from the recent
county convention will be told. A
/ young peoples branch will be organ
lied and delegates will be elected to
go to the state convention to be held
! at Lawrence. This is an unusually
important meeting.
! The Research club will hold its first
meeting of the club year Friday after
Mrs. G. w. Hunt, ia West Eleventh
| street. Interesting programs have
/ been arranged for this years work
and members are urged TO be present
at this opening. meeting.
The Monday Tourist club will hold
| the first meeting of the year at the
| home of Mrs. w. p. Williams, 1912
/ College avenue, Monday. Domestic
/ day will be carried out by each mem
/ Der bringing their favorite receipt and
/ bringing it filled. Mrs. F. E. Miller
will give a talk on the coming years
work. Mrs. S. D. Flora is the assist
! ing hostess.
The last of a series of lectures on
! practical Christianity" given by
Kate NJ. Nevill, Of the Unity School
! of Christianity. Kansas City, Mo, will
be given Sunday afternoon, at $500
p. m, in the Y. W. c. A. auditorium
Subject. The Healing Power in Man"
Public invited.
DR.. Helen Bowerman, who has come
! TO Topeka recently to be the educa-
uonal secretary for this Episcopal
dicosese, spent a most interesting
summer teaching in Newfoundland
This little country. which is now a do
minion itself, has most inefficient
( school system. The schools are all
| under the churches and they are often
too poor to hire teachers. Many of
the children in the fishing villages re-
ceive only the instruction given by the
/ volunteer teachers who go up there
for the summer.
Miss Bowerman spent her time in
a village of about sixty-five inhabi-
tants called st. Pauls. When you are
told that in the six weeks she was
there she received mail only three
times and that she didn't even hear a
Ford all that time you will realize
what distant and strange land it is.
The industry is fishing, chiefly of cod
and lobster. The climate is cold and
rainy, and II is almost impossible to
| wear too many clothes to keen COM
| Portable, even in July. The people
| are mostly of English descent and
] they talk a peculiar cockney English
and have most unusual way of mix
ing their pronouns. To them nothing
is sit" except when speaking of it
raining or the like. An article is al
ways he. And they say US will go,
and give 1t to we and let he have it,
The children learn quickly enough
when they have an opportunity.
| Doctor Bowerman did her work in
the Church of England school which
was a leaky, windy little building en-
tirely untitled to give the best results.
Doctor Bowerman is a graduate of Mt.
Holyoke. She received her doctors
degree at Bryn Mawr. She is a New
Jersey woman and this is her first ex-
perience in the west. But she says she
is charmed with Topeka and is utter
ly surprised to see such trees and
lawns in Kansas. Besides her work
in the diocese Doctor Bowerman has a
class in Bible in Bethany.
With X. u. stretching itself to &C
| commodate almost 1000 students and
X. S. A. c. contemplating $500, still
Bethany in Topeka is the wonder
school of the state as far as increase
in enrolment is concerned. To jump
in one year from a registration of
twenty some to almost seventy is the
record of this school. And then there
is a waiting list and it is no telling
how many girls would enter Bethany
! IL they had housing room. There is
class room. enough, but this year the
school needs another dormitory. They
arc coming from all over the country.
The ma jority from Kansas, of course,
but some from Michigan, from New
Mexico, and other distant states.
The college department which now
boasts four years and offers an A. B.
at the emo of the course has about
twenty stu6 ents. Credits made in the
kindergarten training department are
accepted at Chicago university. The
intermediate department is so large
that another teacher has been en-
ployed to take care of the students.
A number OF special courses that
are Of particular interest to Topeka
people will be conducted this year.
Robert NJ. Stone will give series of
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