The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-22
KANSAS is INLEAD
Club in California Bests All in
It's Enthusiasm.
At Regular Gatherings jay
hawkers Are Ever Loyal.
TOPEKANS KEEP UP THE SPIRIT
James L. COttreH a Factor in
Los Angeles Organization.
Transplanted Kansan Takes
Root and Grows Out There.
RY HAZZARD PAGE.


OIazzard Page is a son-in-law Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. II. Squires, oId-time residents of
Topeka. Mr.. Page and his wife. formerly
Miss Anna Squires of this city, now reside
at 400 S. Harvard boulevard, Los Angeles.
The accompanying cartoon, along with
story of the Kansas clubs activities, APP
peared in the Los Angeles Evening Herald)
The buzz of animated conversation
fills the large hall. The lady who
used to live out on Tyler street is
making interested inquiry of a new
arrival who lived next to a mutual
friend out on Garfield avenue. An
other group is recalling a holiday
when they ate their dinner under the
trees at Gage park.
In a corner an elderly couple from
Wichita Is renewing their acquaint-
ance with old friends who used to live
in Stockton while an animated group
of young people laugh over mutual
experiences while they were at Wash
burn, while yet another group OF,
perhaps, more earnest chaps discuss
the practicality of precepts absorbed
at K S. A. c. as applied to the prob
lens thtat confront them on their
California ranches and farms.
Ed Herrick mounts the rostrum, at
one end of the big room, his gavel
falls, conversation GIBBS and quiets, the
gathering comes to attention and the
regular monthly meeting of the Los
Angeles Kansas club is in session, a
big and enthusiastic group of Cali
fornians by adoption but, in their new
prosperity and happiness, not for
getfuI of their native state and its
traditions
Thousands to California.
Thousands of Kansans have mi
grated to California and the Kansas
clubs, both of the state and of Los
Angeles, are among the most active
and successful of all the numerous
state clubs in the land of sunshine.
Successful within the idea of bringing
all Kansans together, making them
acquainted with each other and max
ing them feel "at home" in the state
of their adoption.
The Kansas club of Los Angeles
takes particular cognizance of the
fact that social contacts are essential
to the happiness and content of the
transplanted family.
The man of the family, occupied
with his business affairs and, thru
these affairs, meeting large numbers
of other men, does not constitute so
much of a problem. But the first year
in California is more than liable to be
n tedious and lonely year for the lady
of the house.
she inevitably misses the social con-
facts and innumerable friends that she
left behind her. And it is the purpose
OF the Kansas club to handle this
problem for her and, thru its meetings
and administration, bring her in con-
tact with other Kansas families and
further thru those who have been
here longer and become established,
make her acquainted with new people
and bring new interests into her life to
take the place of those she had in her
o home town back in the Sunflower
state.
CottreII n Leader.
The tremendous success and popu-
larity of the Los Angeles Kansas club
is largely due to the active interest
and indefatigable efforts of James L.
Cottrell. formerly of Topeka and now
one of the most successful realtors of
Los Angeles. E. f. Hebron, also
formerly of Topeka, and now the
energetic head of the Oso Chemical
company of Los Angeles, and Mrs.
Mary Watkins, the secretary of the
organization.
Meetings are held once a month, eX-
cept thru the months of June. July
and August, and at these meetings the
problems of the transplanted Kansan
are thoroly threshed out and solved.
Prominent speakers appear with brief
addresses based upon the theory of
the organization and its ambitions and,
after adjournment, d program of en-
tertainment offers a variety of high
class amusement. Prominent singers,
musicians and readers usually appear
and frequently pretentious vaude-