The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-30
SOCIAL AND personal.
Items or Interest About Topeka People
and visitors ia Town.

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evening in Library hall. A short pro-
gramme has been arranged, and the AL
hambra mandolin club will play during
the evening. Hon. James A. Troutman
will deliver an address; Chas. d. WEIGH,
the president of the alumni, will speak,
and Clarence Evans will respond for the
class of "a.
quartette, composed of Messrs. Paul
Torrington, Walter Noble, Ed Epps and
Chester Culver, will sing.
All the boys and girls, whether old or
young, who have attended high school,
are invited to be present, and they will
surely have good time.
Light refreshments will be served in
the anterooms off the stage.
General Social Notes.
Miss Mary McCabe has resigned her
position as society editor of the Capital,
and will be employed after next Monday
by the New York Life Insurance COM
pany. Miss McCabe has been occupied
in journalistic work for the past five
years, and during that time has gained
the esteem and friendship of larger cir
Gle of society and business people than
perhaps any other young woman in the
state. She is exceedingly bright and has
won most enviable reputation in news
paper work. The best wishes of \ host
of friends will go with her in her new
duties.
Miss Emma E. Chase will entertain
the ladies' society of the First M. E.
church Thursday evening, May 81
Mrs. G. NJ. Seward will leave Saturday
for Kansas City, and from there will go
to Chicago to spendthe summer.
Misses May Evans, Mary Harris and
Fife Jones, who were visiting friends in
town, have returned home to Arvonia.
Mrs. E. J. DonnelI of Stockton, Rocks
county, is visiting with her daughte
Mrs. N. N. Neher, until after the Wash
burn commencement, when her son
Hugh V. Donnell will graduate.
Miss Lou Mclaughlin is the guest of
Mrs. Emma Everts.
Miss Nellie Buchanan, of Denver, is
visiting Mrs. Neil at 511 Tyler street.
Mrs. ]. Thomson of Monmouth, ILL.,,
arrived today to visit Mrs. c. A. Stultz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Greenabaum are
the guests of Mrs. 8. Greenabaum.
Mrs. A. Washburn will entertained
few friends this evening.
Harry Archer, of Chicago, is in town
for a few days.
Miss Maud Cogswell, of Leavenworth,
is the guest of Mrs. c. d. Majors.
Mrs. John Price who has been visiting
her daughter, Miss Jennie Price, re-
turned to Arvonia today.
Mrs. Fl. III. Hazlett and family will
leave Monday for Chicago to make their
home.
Miss Bessie BIewett, of Kansas City,
who visited Mrs. A. Washburn last week
has returned to her home.
The Pansy club will meet Tuesday
afternoon, June 5. with Miss Marguerite
Bradley.
A fashionable young matron here has
been brave enough to adopt the new
bicycling suit with the divided skirt and
leggings. Her first appearance will
probably attract considerable attention
but after the wonder has subsidized she
will undoubtedly have many followers.
Mr.. G. w. Stoner, of Cameron, Mo-, is
visiting in town.
Mrs. Ira Howe is spending a couple of
days in Kansas City.
Mrs. Frank Conwell is very i'll at her
home on Monroe street
Mr.. Ira Howe is Minneapolis, Mimi,
on business.
Miss Nettie Smith, of Atchison, is
visiting Mrs. D. A. Wolf.
Miss Annie Corell has returned to
Burlingame.
Mrs. ]. G. McCIintock threw open her
pretty home on Fillmore street this after
noon and extended cordial hospitality to
nearly a hundred friends. The usual
pleasures of a thimble party prevailed
and several guests contributed consider
ably to the afternoons enjoyment with
music and recitatiOns. Misses Vera Low
and Ollie O'Brien played, Louise Burn
ham, Aimee Crandell and Helen McClin-
took recited, and Mrs. Burnham and Mrs
C. ]. Brown sang.
The decorations were simple, yet very
effective and masses of daisies and catal-
pa blossoms filed innumerable jardin-
ieres in the hall and sitting room; daisies
and palms were used exclusively in the
first parlor, and in the second the CRATE
was filed in with daisies and asparagus
fern, and luxuriant fuschia stood nearly
as high as the mantle, in full bloom.
A full view of the conservatory might
be obtained from here, and the library at
the west was all in pink roses. In the
yellow and green and lunch was served
from here on small tables.
The affair was given in honor of the
hostess sister, Mrs. Merritt of San Fran
cisco, and the invited guests were Mes
danes DR.. RICHTER, Freeman, Fred Free
w. w. Mills, Geo. Whitcomb, Horace
Hall, Willard Hall, p B. Smith. J.Weiss,
d. L. Lakin, Dan Small, w. G. Smyser,
Dell Small, J. II. Meade, J. L. Van Hon.
ten, A III. Bates, NJ. A. Low, John Small,
Clara Campbell, H. E. Ball, c. 8. Gleed,
DIR. Guibor, w. McA- Green, P. Elliott,
DIR. Martin, Miss Martin, Albert Latham,
ham, Cochran, Bailey, Ed Sims, Kimball,
DR.. Storrs, Edwin Knowles, c. B. Smith.
4. K Rowley, B. Ward, J. b. Hayden, G.
s. Sutton, w. A. Morton, Smith, G. B.
Reed, ]. A Troutman, A. FL. Thompson.
John E. Lord, w. w. Webb, Schuyler
Nichols, Geo. W. Crane. w. A. ) Bird,
III. Crosby, A P. Wilder, M. p Hillyer.
Eugene Wear, Dunning, T. Fl. Chuch, G.
J. Brown, III. K Tefft, Best. Bedden, Dean
MiIlspaugh, I. B. Snow, Ellis Thompson,
Miss Dodds, T. B. Sweet, Crandell. Har-
riett McClintock, r. 81. Cav, Walter
Bates and Misses Gertie Smith, Ollie