The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

With Ash Wednesday and the peni-
tential season only two days off you
might imagine that the popular
thought was turning toward piety and
night, Shrove Tuesday. the end of the
pre-Lenten season, will be marked by
the largest and most important event
of the year, the first annual benefit
ball for Washburn athletics. The ball
will be given at the Auditorium and
the grand march, led by Miss Florence
Rossington and Mr.. Henry Scandrett.
will be begun promptly at O'Clock
even though the committee declares
there is nobody there to lead 1t or
march in it. Steinberg'S orchestra
augmented to eighteen pieces will play
an entirely new programme Inc
Auditorium floor has been thoroughly
cleaned, polished and put in first class
shape for dancing The decorations
will be unusually elaborate and beau
tiful. Wash burn blue will, of course,
predominant and there will be many
college flags and pennants, six dozen
palms and quantities Of southern srnl-
lax and flowers Two thousand invi-
tations have been extended in the
names of the following men who are
promoting the ball with a threefold
purpose: to raise some money for the
college athletic association, to give the
biggest and most successful society
event in the history of Topeka and 10
inaugurate a new era in which Wash
burn college, now a comparatively un-
Of the town, will take its rightful
place, the place occupied by other col
leges in other college towns, as an inn
portant local social factor.
The men who are in charge of the
arrangements for the ball are Mr.. E.
B. Conant, Mr.. Henry Scandrett, Mr.
Ben Scandrett. Mr.. John Waters. Mr..
Harry Donaldson, Mr.. Sam Freshman,
Mr.. Lew Graham, Mr.. Dan Hammatt.
Mr.. Edwin Curry, DIR. Elmer Hill, MT
Thomas L. King, Mr.. David l.. Lakin,
Mr.. Hugh Mcfarland. Mr.. w. w
Stahl, DIR. John H. Outland. DR.. Rob
ert b. Stewart, Mr.. Jim Stewart. Mr..
Harold H. Tice. Mr.. Orville b. Towne'
Mr.. Paul Walker, Mr.. Archie F. Will
liams and Mr.. Joe Wilson
The patronesses are Mrs. Albert 7.
Reid, Mrs. d. L. Lakin, Mrs. George
w. Parkhurst, Mrs. Frank r. Mills
paugh Mrs. ]. c. Pollock. Mrs. Ernest
b. Conant. Mrs Bennett r. Wheeler,
Mrs. James Philip de Bevers kaye,
Mrs. Charles X. Holiday, Mrs. ]. c.
McClintock, Mrs. Thomas ]. kellam,
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas, Mrs. w. A. L.
Thompson, Mrs. Eugene 5. Quinton,
Mrs. John Clark Harmon, Mrs. A. w.
Lacey, Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, Mrs.
James L. King. Mrs. Lee Monroe and
Mrs. William z. Drechse..
Mr. Albert T. Reid drew the cover
design and an inside pen and ink
sketch which will decorate the pro-
grammes. The cover will be Wash
burn girl and the other sketch
WaShDurn nero OF the SrlQlrOn- Inc
programmes will be in the college COL |
ors, blue and white Dancing will be-
gin at nine and end at one. An en- |
tirely new programme. of music will
be played.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. NJ. Hamilton en-
tertained Mr.. James K. Hackett Satur- !
day night following his presentation
of the Walls of Jericho at the Grand. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale Hamilton of New
York, who were formerly members of
Mr.. Hackett's company, arrived Sat
urday night and were also present. |
Mrs Hamilton (Miss Jane Oaker) was
Mr.. Hackett's leading woman one sea-
sen and Mr.. Hamilton was also with
the company.
A special Washburn car has been |
chartered by the promoters of the |
Washburn Athletics Benefit ball which |
will run from the corner of Eighth ana /
Quincy to Washburn college at the !
close of the ball tomorrow night. This |
is for the convenience of Washburn |
students and members of the faculty.
Miss Betty Histed, four years young,
gave party Saturday afternoon to Gel |
citrate her fourth birthday anniver- |
sary- 1t was a perfectly lovely party. |
There was a big tabby cat on the wall |
and the guests. blindfolded. tried their |