The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-13

Mrs. B. F. Criswell has asked six
teen young people for informal cards
tonight at the home of her sister, Mrs
NJ. p. Hillyer, Oil Eighth avenue west,
in compliment to Miss Annie Laurie
Hillyer, who has recently returned
from boarding school in New York to
spend the summer in Topeka. The in
vitations include Miss Hazel Grimes,
Miss Clyde Bonebrake. Miss Henrietta
Alexander, Miss Leona Curtis, Miss
Mary MacLennan, Miss Elizabeth Ho1-
Hday, Miss Esther Rodgers, Mr.. Rus
sell Grimes, Mr.. Roy Johnson, Mr..
Dick Reed. Mr.. James Mcfarland. Mr..
Francis Bonebrake, Mr.. Alfred Quin-
ton. Mr.. Richard Fritts. Mr.. John
Hamilton and Mr.. John Clugston.
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Opportunity is fairly pounding her
knuckles off on the door of certain
Topeka man and although he hears
her he owes his tailor and can't obey
the summons. Few of US lack oppor-
tunities: the trouble is we are never
ready for them when they come.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter NJ. Gust. 1926
Yale avenue, Chicago, are the parents
of a daughter. born July II. to whom
they have given the name of Eveleen
Fay. Mrs. Gust as Miss Martha
Bradshaw of 221 Woodlawn avenue.
now chief clerk in Mr.. w. ]. Blacks
office, Chicago, but was formerly con-
nected with the passenger department
of the Santa Fe here, have many
friends in Topeka.
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Miss Ann Troutman and Miss Emma
Bolmar are giving a tea this after
noon at the home of the former in
Potwin. About 200 guests were asked
for from 4 to o'clock. The assisting
girls include Miss Hazel Hartshorn of
Sedalia, Mo-, Miss Alice Larimer, Miss
Hazel Howe Miss isabel Heath. Miss
Edna Hopkins. Miss Mary Dallas
Gage. Miss Myra Tompkins, Miss
Dorothy Porter. Miss Leona Curtis,
Miss Berenice EmahiZer, Miss Mary
Sutherland Miss Grace Koontz Miss
Marguerite Koontz, Miss Marguerite
Mills. Miss Isabel Mills, Miss Elizabeth
Mills. Miss Laura Southwick, Miss
Helen Haughey. Miss Nadine Lyle,
Miss Ruth Larimer. Miss Edith Upde-
graft. Miss Gertrude Gray. Miss Alice
Hughes. Miss Margaret Updegraff of
Madison, Wis, Miss Ariel Nichols, Miss
Dorothy Nichols.
The Emporia Owls have rented a
large tent and will camp during the
Chautauqua in their town.
They were talking about one of the
old girls whose marriage took place a
number of years ago. Said one of the
Tattlers: "She met a new man two
nights before her wedding and took an
awful fancy to him. In an hour she
was calling him by his first name and
in two hours he had kissed her.
.'Teddy?' she said, looking at him
archly I believe you're going to be
the last man 1 kiss before I'm mar
RED
New York correspondence in the
Kansas City Star:
Mr.. Clifton Devereux has closed his
apartment in the Royalton in Forty
fourth street and has Joined the ranks
of the summer commuters. He is stay
ing at the club at Douglaston, Long
Island, where he is near his fiancee,
Miss Anabel Rickert, whose people
have a country home there. The club
formerly was an old manor house, and
is set down in the middle of a park of
fine trees. 1t has become the social
center of quite a large summer colony
and is the objective point for many gay
motoring parties from town. Miss
Rickert is very fond of motoring, and
has her own car.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Easley, formerly
of Kansas, the former now the chair
man of the executive committee of the
Civic Federation, have given up their
home in Yonkers, where they have beer
for several years past, and have bought
a small farm in New Canaan. one oil
the charming Connecticut towns. New
Canaan Is too far out to be really q
suburb with all the attendant discom-
forts of a commuters life, and still
near enough to give a New York mar
of leisurely hours a country residence