The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-19

The marriage of Mr.. George H.
Minchin of Topeka and Miss Myrtle
Brown of Denver, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs J. H. Brown of Las .Animas,
Colorado, Will take place wednesday
at the home of the brides family. Mr.
Minchin, who is chief clerk in the Of
nee of Mr. James E. Hurley, general
manager of the Santa Fee is from
Sterling, Ontario, Canada, and has
been in Topeka only a short time. He
viii leave - tomorrow for Colorado.
The. wedding trip will include a visit
TO the Wisconsin lakes and they will
be at home in Topeka.
X
You've heard about the Young Man
or Shawmut, who at home was most
virtuous. Buti-when he did afar-go
st. Louis, Chicago, New York, New
Orleans,-O Tut Tut; A man of that
description lives in Topeka. One
evening last winter as he and his wife
were on their way to a little dinner
party he put his hand in his pocket
and found-a pair of long kid gloves.
He felt of them furtively for a minute
and tried to Think! No. use, he
couldn't remember, but he knew he
must be guilty so he slipped the gloves
out of his pocket and dropped them in
a dark, shadowy place on the side
walk. When they arrived at their
destination his wife stopped him at
the head of the stairway before she
went into the dressing room assigned
the. ladies and said, Give me my
gloves, please, dearl" Your gloves
he calculated. (But a Great Light
was dawning upon his troubled con-
sciousness.) why, 1 haven't your
gloves!" His wife insisted that she
had slipped them into his pocket and
he rummaged, just to satisfy her, but
he knew where the gloves were, all
right, and when he remembered that
they cost five dollars a pair he didn't
In, J. Af1 70 obs to III
extreme caution or his bad memory.
n X
Leavenworth Times Saturday:
The Misses Helen and Isabel Smith of
Topeka, who are the guests of Chap
lain and Mrs. Percy Silver of the Post
are the recipients of much social at
tention during their stay. Lieutenant
Jones of the Thirteenth cavalry was
the host at a drag party on Wednesday
evening for the Misses Smith and
Thursday evening Lieutenant Hensley
entertained with a theater party at
the Air Dome, followed by supper at
the Colonial cafe. Lieutenant Lockett
entertained with a supper on Monday
evening, and tomorrow Chaplain and
Mrs Silver will have to dinner Lieu
tenants Roger Fitch, West, Lockett
is being planned for the pleasure of
the visiting young women.
Still, you never meet a married
couple TAKING the OalnOun BUTTS drive
by moonlight.
Mr.. Harley Reisman of Chicago,
editor of the Rock Island railways
employees magazine, was in town to
spend Sunday and returned today. Mr..
Reisman came to Topeka from Well
man. Iowa. where he has been to at
tend the funeral of his mother, Mrs.
Ellen Reisman. whose death occurred
in Boulder, Colo, Saturday, August 1 o.
Mrs. Refsman- formerly lived in Nell
man. but had been in Boulder for a
number of years.
About the best looking chap in
town according to some of the girl
connoisseurs is a young railway clerk
who recently returned here to live
after a few years in the west You
are always hearing about a perfect
Gibson girl but this chap certainly
does look as If he had stepped out of
a Christy double page illustration in |
colors-the kind the girls rave over |
and have framed and hung in their !
rooms.
The capable and domestic pose is |
becoming more and more popular with |
the girls all the time but Evelyn rath-
er overdid it the other evening. She |
was wearing a fetching new gown and |
He praised it exfavagantly. Yes she |
returned with elation. land I made it |
all myselfl'' But just at that minute |
the hem of the skirt was lifted ever |
50 lightly Dy a passing breeze ana MS
foxy eye fell upon a department store |
price ticket pinned in the hem which |
she had overlooked.
Miss Mary Weightman gave an
afternoon party today for her guest, |
Miss Mary Robertson of Las Vegas, N. |
M. The invitations included Miss Mar |
garet Trautman. Miss Marie Beer
bohm, Miss Helen Koontz, Miss Mar |
guerite Koontz. Miss Rose Hite, Miss |
Georgia Henderson, Miss Lucille Mills, !
Miss Isabel Mills. Miss Hildegarde |
Hurley, Miss Louise Culver. Miss Ruth |
Amelia Brown. Miss Esma Calvert, |
Miss Dorothy Parkhurst. Miss Mary |
Miss Josephine Mckee, Miss Ruth |
Hughes, Miss Katharine Albaugh, Miss |
Marian Foster. Miss Sarah Webster, |
Miss Lillian Hale. Miss Helen Craw- |
ford and Miss Lucille Organ.
Wichita Beacon: The Misses Jose |
phine. Esther and Lucille Lynch of |
Topeka were guests of honor at a de- |
lightful party Friday evening at the |
home of Miss Georgia Cramer on Cen
decorated with Japanese lanterns and
bright Jap colors. A launch party |
will be given for the honor guests |
Monday evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest |
Cramer chaperoned the party. 49,.
Mrs. Hiram Imboden left Thursday for
Lake Geneva to attend the Y. w. G. A.
summer conference. Ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor Harry Richter of Pro-
of his sister. Mrs. Fred Richter, while
his wife and son are i'll at the st.
Francis hospital.
Notes and Personal Mention
The Misses Helen and Isabel Smith
Of Topeka, who are the guests of
Chaplain and Mrs. Percy Silver at
Fort LeavenwOrth. will remain until |