The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-11


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Mr. Dan Hammatt left today for Williams
college after spending the holidays in To-
peka with his mother.
The Conversation club will meet Friday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. {. L.
| Spencer.
having some very interesting guests to
serve lately. One day there were four
| boys who had engaged in the battle of
| Argonne forest on the troop train go
| ing to the base hospital at Fort Riley.
! And there are many interesting sights
where the injured soldiers are being
reconstructed after the terrible effects
! of the war right in this base hospital
of our own state, even tho those things
haven't had much publicity. is the
report that comes to AGATHA.
Red Cross workers are badly needed
| in the garment room at Crosby Broth
/ ers' store where there is a large
amount of sewing to be done immed-
lately There is underwear for refu-
! gee women and children to be sent
soon that they may have the protec-
ton of it this winter and bath robes
and pajamas for the soldiers in the
hospitals of our country are also badly
/ needed. Women who cannot sew at
! the rooms may take the work home
nished SO that workers who do the
sewing al home will be at no expense.
| There is also hand work for those
! who cannot sew on the machines.
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| DR.. and Mrs. Robert Stewart have
returned from the south where DR..
| Stewart was in a base hospital with
| back in Topeka. DR.. Stweart has
received his discharge from the ser
vice. He and Mrs. Stewart have been
guests of Mrs Stewards parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Stubs, in Lawrence,
for a few days.
| Ralph S. Holland announces Nine.
Frank LaForge, pianist and accom-
PIANIST. coming musical event in
Topeka. Nine. Schumann-Heinke will
be assisted by a baritone, whose name
has not yet been learned. The concert
has been scheduled for Friday evening,
February 4, at the city auditorium.
The membership committee of the
| Y. w. c. A, of which Mrs. R. T. Her
rick is chairman, will meet Tuesday
morning at 1890 o'clock at the asso-
citation building. 1t is important that
all members be present. report of
| the Denver conference from which
Mrs. Herrick has recently returned will
be given.
Statistics were given at the confer
ence where all the states represented
reported on the war drive. showing
| that Kansas had raised $4,000, which
| was $50. 900 more than that raised in
any one of the other three states Colo
RADIO, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The
Kansas State Agricultural College
raised more money in this drive than
any other college or university in these
| states n K
A. c. is S13,39O
An interesting feature of the re-
port is the statement that before the
seven-fn-one drive every baker in
literature in with every loaf of bread
sold.
A distinguished visitor to the agri-
cultural association meeting in To-
peka, Mrs. Alice Claypool Merideth.
| has left for her home in Lafayette
Ind. She was the principal woman
speaker at the convention, and made
an address at the evening meeting, in
which she emphasized the need of
social and community life in the rural
dist lets.
During her stay in Topeka Mrs
Merideth was the guest of Mrs. ]. D.
Mcfarland, who has known her for
about fifty years. and who was a
roommate of her sister at college in
Ohio. Mrs. Merideth was the guest
OF honor at n luncheon given by Miss
Effie Graham at the Y. W. C. A. Fri
day, the other guests being Topeka
women who are especially interested
in agriculture.
II had been wondering" Mrs Meri-
deth said. what public spirited Kan
sas women talked about, now that
they have both suffrage and prohibit
ton. But I have never met a group
of a dozen women before who talked
so intelligently on such variety of
subjects.
Mrs. Merideth makes her home in
Lafayette. with foster daughter who
is at the head of the Home Economics
department of Purdue university. She
has a foster son serving with the col
ors in France. She is herself engaged
in educational work in extension de-
partments of advanced schools, and
also in an independent way. She has
lectured in nearly every state in the
union. from the east to the west coast.
and has done special educational work
! in Minnesota. as well as in Indiana
Her interests now center chiefly in the
encoura cement of common commun-
ity interests for farm women. Her
ideas are practical and are such as
can be carried out by farm women
anywhere.
Mrs. Merideth has been a practical
farmer. and speaks from an expert
ence of many years. Widowed in her
early youth. she took up her late hus-
bands business a dealer in pedi-
greed cattle. The industry at thai
time was comparatively new one in
that part of the country. She con-
| Quoted the business for many years
; with marked success. and it is only
within the past few years that she has
made her home in cities.
During the days of the war. Mrs