The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
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Misses Eva and Isabel Smith have
asked guests for bridge at the Countiy
club Friday afternoon to meet MISS
Margaret Wilson of Milwaukee VINO
) arrived Sunday to visit them.
Miss Alice Meade and Miss Virginia
Meade will give an afternoon Driuge
party Thursday in compliment 10 MISS
Betty Niles of Salt Lake CITY, guest o.
Miss Permelia Curtis, and Miss Jean
nette Lewis of Knoxville, Ill, VINO IS
visiting her cousin, Miss Mary chase
Chamberlain.
Miss Ethel Davis entertained two
tables at bridge today for Miss Niles.
Miss Permelia Curtis will entertain
a small company informally at CARDS
tonight for Miss Niles and Miss Zella
Lukens of Kansas City, VINO returns
tomorrow after a visit to her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Lukens.
A Topeka woman of a sweet digni-
fed type has two sons just getting OLD
enough to think about femmes ana
parties. They We're asked out for an
evening last week and during the
afternoon their mother thought she
would have their best trousers
pressed for them, a detail which she
well knew they had forgotten. she
was driving down town any way, so
she decided to take the trousers with
her and while she didn't remember
Just where they had their pressing
done she had seen sign Trousers
Pressed While You Wait" and thought
that would be a good place because
she could get them done promptly.
So she drove up to the little shop ana
went in, leaving her bundle in the car
riage. "You press trousers here while
you wait, don't you? p she asked The
Man. yes" he replied, regarding her
,wonderingly. II have some I wished
pressed" she went on. The Man look
ed her up and down and turned away
with a confused expression. 'I-I1i
tell you" he stammered. my wife's
back here: I'll just call her." And he
did.
Emporia Gazette: Mr.. and Mrs. j.
G. Bauer. Miss Bauer. Nina and Ruth
Bauer Of Topeka passed through En-
poria Sunday in an automobile. en-
route TO Newton. When they got as
far as Saffordville they were caught IN
n rain storm. They left their machine
at Saffordville and returned to EN-
poria to spend the night. This morn
Saffordville. where they got their ma
chine to continue the trip.
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Here's a romance-maybe A Topeka
man has been exchanging letters for
six months with Helen Green. author
der the title of The Actors Boarding
House, and is going to New York to
see her Miss Green's pictures in the
magazines show that she is pretty and
young as we'll as clever. She is inter-
ested in horses and maintains a rae
ing stable and a string of show horses.
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Mrs. William T. Davis gave a matt
nee party at the Novelty Monday and
an informal luncheon today for her
guest. Miss Bessie Drake of Pilot Point,
Texas.
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The Kansas City Star publishes this
story: NJ. A. Low, general attorney for
the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
Railway company, is known as the
silent man." Mr.. Low rarely talks.
He Is a good listener. but few there are
who have heard him take the center of
the stage and tell all about it. Mr..
Low has a grandchild the daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Albert T. Reid. Some
time ago a friend was visiting at the
Low residence. The little granddaugh-
ter was there. She is of that talka-
tive age. To the visitor she told pretty
nearly everything that it is possible to