The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23

gave a dinner Monday at their house
on Harrison street for Colonel Smith s
brother officers on the governor S
staff of the Kansas National Guards.
Covers were laid for Miss Belle Ira
Wis Miss Anna Tholen and Miss Anna
Mcdonald of lola. Colonel Samuel
Wooiard of Wichita, Colonel Fred
Bergen of Summerfield. Colonel Frank
L. Travis of lola and Colonel and Mrs.
Smith.
All her friends declare that she is
engaged but anyone who can tell to
whom is certainly entitled to the gold
plated oil stove and the barrel OF
-four. People even wonder if she her
that the men in the case do not, al
though they probably think they do.
OF course it is comparatively easy to
manage two contemporaneous love. at
fairs when one man lives out of town,
but what does she do when he comes
on to see her-call in the aid of a
train Dispatcher 1t is not the first
time that a Topeka girl has had us
all guessing on similar problem and
to be sure it is awfully sweet of her
to give people something to talk about
in this dull season. but do the men
find il equally interesting? Mean
while, where's your money? Some
have picked one to win, some the
other according to their opinion of the
comparative advantages of long dis
lance and of ground circuit facilities.
it is just as likely as not to be rank
outsider.
Mr.. and Mrs. w 1. Drum will enter
tain a limited number of young people
Informally tonight for their sister,
Miss Elizabeth Bentley of St. Joseph,
who will be here until the last of the
week.
One of the bellies of the MeIlins
Food crowd was telling her older sis
ter of the tragic episode of a girl
chum whose mother, looking over the
her and her very youthful sutton kiss
ing one another good night The
older sister (by the way the older sis
ter is a belle of the Helianthus crowd, !
but of course she had never heard of
such a thingD was greatly shocked. |
I'm glad" she said severely. that
you have too much sense to do such |
a thing" well, I'm glad,' retorted
much sense to look over the BAN !
isters."
Mrs. ]. B. Larimer gave an in
formal afternoon Manday for the
members of the Chaldean club in hon !
or of Mrs John Pond Fritts, who will /
leave Topeka soon for a permanent
residence in New York city. The |
Mrs. A. L. Greene, Mrs. w. F. Bowen, /
Mrs. L. H Wolfe of Indianapolis. Ind.
Mrs Harry Larimer, Mrs Armin /
Weiskirch, Mrs. J. r. Mcguire. Mrs. !
II. NJ. Philips. Mrs. w. w. Mills. Mrs. |
Robert Steele, Mrs. George Walp. |
Mrs. Albert Watkins, Mrs. Mary /
Holmes. Mrs. Warren NJ. Crosby. Mrs. |
Samuel Larimer, Mrs. Bertha McGif- |
fert and Mrs. John Sims.
Mr. Giltner Hostutler, who formerly /
lived in Topeka and is now of Pitts /
burg. Kan, and Miss Blanche Hoyt |
of Pittsburg were married last week /
in Pittsburg. and are now visiting the
st. Louis exposition.
Col. Samuel Woodland, of Wichita, /
and Col. Frank L. Travis of lola. will |
entertain at dinner at Camp Bailey |
this evening in honor of Miss Alice
Williamson, of Los Angeles, Cal. The /
will include the other Off
GERS of the governors staff. Mrs. F. NJ. /
Prescott, Miss Pearlade Prescott. and
Miss Rose Prescott.
The senior nurses of the Stormont 1
hospital training school entertained |
last Saturday evening in compliment