The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
Society,".

Mrs Henry A. Bubb of Williamsport,
Pa, guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bennett r. Wheeler gave a luncheon
at the Topeka club today for Miss Flor
ence Rossington. The table flowers
were bridesmaids roses and the details
were carried out in pink. Miss Helen
Smith will entertain Tor Miss Rossing-
ton before her marriage.
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Newspaper reporters on one paper are
constantly being asked to correct the
mistakes or inaccuracies made byreport-
ers employed on other papers. This is
unreasonable and unfair. Everybody
has mistakes enough of his own to cor
rect without bothering about other peo-
pies errors. The S. K. has thought ser
iously of wearing a placard with some
such inscription as this: ''Trample on
me I am doubtless guilty But don't
hold me responsible for what the other
s. RS have done"
A winter wedding of interest to To-
peka people will be that of Miss Cora
Carleton of Fort Riley, daughter of
Major Carleton of the Fourth cavalry,
and Lieutenant Glassford of West Point
until recently of Fort Riley. Mr.. Glass
ford is well known in Topeka through
his connections with Kansas college
athletics. He was director of athletics
at the Riley post and vas a favorite
football referee. frequently acting as an
official at Washburn games. One one
Washburn rooters by a decision and
was afterwards caricatured in a college
play but he made good with Washburn !
forever by coming down for the play
and sending the young woman who i'm
persOnated him in the burleSque the |
grandest bunch of American Beauties |
ever seen at the college Mr.. Glassford |
has been detailed as instructor in dra W |
ing at West Point for the next four |
years and went there in August. The |
wedding will take place in December |
after the return of Miss Carleton's |
father. Major Carleton, from the Philip |
pines Miss Carleton is an exceptional |
" pretty girl, a splendid horsewoman |
and shares her f1ance's interest in sport |
She remained with her mother at Fort /
Riley during the absence of Major Garlic
ton in the Philippines and the we'd
ding will take place there.
A local literary LADY, to fortune and
10 fame unknown who actually has had I
poetry accepted and paid for by maya
zines of standing. is Mrs. Harvey Par
sons truth Huntoon) of 219 Huntoon
street Most of the Topeka authors"
publish their own stuff and sell their
books among their friends but Mrs.
Parsons has had number of verses
and stories accepted purley on their
merits. by hard-hearted and level head |
ed publishers, and has been pretty
well paid for them too. Mrs. Parsons IS
an exceptionally clever young woman
10 meet as well as to read and has been |
pegging away at literature''-that is
rhymes and jingles and stories-in an
amateUrish way all her life Just lately
she has begun sending things to the
and she has met with con-
siderable announcement in the way of
publication and checks. When you re-
member that s. s. Mcclure says poetry
Is the hardest thing to get accepted by
publishers and that three times as
much is offered as is published, you re-
alize that it is no small triumph for 1
4rs- Parsons poetry to have broken
into The Reader. Life and other high