The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-08
Cantata tonight.

Cantata tonight.
Miss Mamie Littlejohn who has been
quite i'll is very much improved.
J. B. Belts is in Hutchinson attend
ing the Republican convention.
Remember the cantata.
Thomas CraueI came in from Denver
last evening and is visiting his mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wilkerson are
enjoying a-ViSit from Mrs. Harry Staley
and daughter Marie, of Chicago.
The ladies of section of the Kansas
Avenue M. e. church will meet Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. Woolverton,
1880 Van Buren, street.
On Thursday afternoon at half-past
two the ladies of division of the Bap-
fist church will meet at the home of
Mrs Ogden, 1929 jackson street.
The Cantata Queen Esther" was
given last evening to a good sized au-
dience at Lukens' opera house. The
soloists and choruses showed careful
training. Among the SOloists, Miss
Dora Brown as Queen Esther, Mrs.
Charles Curtis as Zeresh, Mr.. Will Nc
Noun as Ahasueras and Mr.. L. P.
Fraser as Hannah, deserve special men
ton.
The Epworth league of the Kansas
Avenue M. E. church held a business
meeting last evening and elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, H. A. French; first vice
president, G. r. Houghtellin; second
vice president, Miss Mary Brown; third
vice president, Miss Viola TrOutman;
fourth vice president, Miss Ida Henry;
secretary, Miss Ella WOODBURY.; treas
urer, Mrs. Arthur Collum.
The w. T. K. club held the last meet
ing for the summer yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. F. c. Bowen.
An interesting paper on Scandinavia
and the Vikings was read by Mrs.
Section, after which the election of Of
f1cers for the coming club year was
held. Mrs. M. NJ. Hale, who has been
vice president, was elected president,
as the former president, Mrs. Robert
Morris, asked to be excused from this
office as she is absent from the city
so often. The other officers are: Vice
president. Mrs. w. H. Davis; second
vice president, Mrs. F. G. Bowen; sec
rotary and treasurer, Mrs Gender;
corresponding secretary, Miss Fanny
Cole. Committee on programme Miss
Fanny Cole> chairman; Mrs. Reagle,
Mrs. Gender. This club has been meet
ing every Tuesday but the members
have decided that hereafter they will
meet every first and third Tuesday of
the month. A former popular member
Mrs. W. S. Hamrick. was welcomed
back into the club yesterday, and three
new members, Mrs. II. c. Stafford, Mrs.
McMasters, and Mrs. w. NJ. COstley,
were voted in.
STANFIELD-SW ARTZ
The marriage of Miss Ida NJ. Stan
field and Mr.. Lee Swartz was solemn
lied Tuesday evening, June Z, at the
home of Mrs Colburn, 1108 Quincy
street, where Mrs. Stanfield and
daughter have been boarding for some
time. Promptly at half-past eight
o'clock as Miss Ina Colburn played
Mendelssohn' welding march the bridal
party entered the parlor and stood in
the bay window where Rev. J. r. Mad
ison, presiding elder for the Topeka dis
trict of the NJ. E. church, performed
the ceremony. The parlors were hand
i II h T1d
paragus ferns, the bay window being
a mass of roses. the bride wore her
travelling gown of gray cloth with
trimmings of silk. After receiving the
congratulations of their friends Mr.. and
Mrs Swartz left for Kansas City where
they spent the day, from there they
will go to CoffeyVille where Mr.. SWartz
has a position as telegraph operator.
Mr. and Mrs. Swartz are we'll and faV-
orabIy known on this side, the bride
having been a successful teacher in the
city schools for several years, and both
were active members of the Kansas
Avenue church and Sunday school.