The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-26
In SOCIETY CIRCLES.
The Oxford Young People Give
Their FIRST Party.
GENERAL NOTES OF SOCIETY.

Personal Eternz OF Interest About To-
peka People aad Visitors ia TOwH.
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The gay season began in earnest last
evening, the oxford club party opening
it in finished style.
Library hail which lends itself so read
lily to decorations, both of plants and
flowers, as we'll as draperies, assumed a
most homeIike air under the touch of
skillful and artistic hands. The stage
was screened by palms forming an ap-
proDriate music room and the little rooms
each side the stage we're quite luxuriant
with rich rugs aud drapsrIes.
These beautiful house accessories
found fitting complement in the beauty
of the ladies and the elegance of their
costumes A number Of the Assembly
club members were present as chaper-
ons AID guests, and members OF other
ubs were also guests. There were also
some ont of town visitors.
The music was excellent and the floor
in fiue condition so that dancing was
more than usually enjoyable
The young men who are members of
the club deserve much credit for the
and though it is the intention to surpass
it in point Of elegance on Thanksgiving
eve. it seems scarcely possible.
Messrs. Tom King, president; Tom
Clements, secretary, and Dean Low and
Frank Davis, executive committee, are
personally responsible for the success of
the affair.
Those present were: Messrs. and
Mesdames w. A. Morton. George W.
Crane, 7. T. Lewis. r. *. Jamison, G. P.
Ashton, I. Z. Wear. a. A. Scott, George
NJ. Seward, Mrs Fred Mcdonald, Mrs
H. H. Hazlett, Miss Kiblinger. Mrs.
George c. Morgan of Chicago, Captain
A. ii. Fuller Misses Blanche Joerger of
Leavenworth, Bessie Kneutson of Mime
apolis, Libbie Hazlett, 5 Idle Atchison of
Leavenworth. Gussie Fuller, Berenice
Fuller, Edna MorehOu5e, Winifred Wag
ner Edna McClintock, Susie Wilder,
Edna Crane, Franc Litlefeld, Grace
Curtis, Maud Ranney. Lulu Manspeaker,
Caro- -Penfeld, Lottie Ranney. Mabel
Knowles, May Gleason of St. Louis, Etn-
ma Hagar, Edith Isbeil, Mary Roberts,
Craudthwa Packard, Anna Jones, Daisy
Lakin, Lillian Whitlock, Marie Dixon,
Mabel Chase, Norma Smith; Messrs
Charles Fletcher of Atchison, Guy Lee
of Kansas City, Frank Davis, Guy
Welch, Theodore Thomas, Henry
Williams, Clyde Grubbs Alfred Frost,
Tom King, Tom Clements, Jay Keller,
Fred MEG ifsn, Floyd Mcdonald, Burr
Lakiu, David Lakin, Oscar Woolvarton.
Fred Robbins. Barney Leigh, Allen
Lauck, Roy Ranney. Harry Howe Ed
Curry, Fred Wolfe, Walter Smith, J. e.
Clay, L. z. KepIev, Arch Williams, W. n.
Lyon, Ben Blythe, Howard II God, Ernest
Council, Dean Low, VIII u adsworth,
George Penfeid, Mart Wikidal, Ell
Mcbride. Frank Bennett and Master Ted
Mcdonald.
Earn Party.
4 barn parry is a pleasing novelty in
a city. Misses Maud and LOttie Ranney
entertained about forty friends on Thurs
day evening III the handsome new barn
that has lust baea finished at their home
on Topeka avenue.
The interior of the barn was decorat-
ed in boughs and leaves tinted with the
hues of autumn. In the carriage room re-
freshments of doughnuts, pumpkin pie
and coffee we're served from table, the
chief decoration of which was pyramid
of fruits. Cider was served also.
The hay loft floor was waxed till it
shone and glistened like any ball room,
and there the young people danced to
the music of stringed instruments. The
members of the col0red orchestra also
sang for the company's entertainment.
Those invited were Misses Grace Wea-
yer, Dora Furman, Grace Weiss, Marga-
ret Weiss, Mabel Quigley. Edna Crane.
Caro- Penheld. Nina Thomas, May Thorn :
as, Marguerite Bradley, Franc Littlefield,
Arlie Ewart, Edna McClintock Myrtle
Jetmore. Henrietta Thompson, Mary
Thompson, Blanche Dienst, Mary Lakin.
Ollie O'Brien and Villa Rodgers: Messrs.
George Rust, Ed Mcbride, Bob Furman,
John Waters, Howard Wood, Burr La
kin, Ed Dennis, Dana Nc Vicar Julius
Wedding, Ned Osborne, Paul Torring
ton, Fred Wolf, Frank Davis, Tom King,
Viii Alexander, Carroll Merriam, Harry
Howe, Harry Weaver, Park Ewart and
J. B. Clay.
Mrs. Lockard's Tea.
q Mrs. I. Z. Lockard entertained at tea
dsst evening at her home on Van Buren,
street, Complimentary to Miss Eleanor
Baker of Springfield, Ohio.
An elegant menu was served in courses
and the following ladies entertained
Mesdames Willis Edison, Z. NJ. Carpen-
ter, A. v Auter, Jones, Hollinshade,
Frank Baker, Robert Edwards and Yates;