The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-12

The announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Anna Hoch the younger
daughter of the Governor and Mrs.
docn, winch was made at luncheon
at the Governors House Wednesday,
was OF wide interest in Kansas. Miss
Hoch's fance is Mr.. James w. Reid of
Chanute and their. acquaintance dates
university, Baldwin, of which they are
Doth graduates. The announcement
came as a complete surprise to most
OF the th1rty-four guests who attend
ed the luncheon in response to Mrs.
Hoch's invitations, and was made by
little Miss Ruth Aileen Auerbach, in
the role of Eros, who wore a mail car
r1erS uniform of scarlet velvet and
row and a little mail pouch from
which she distributed envelopes in
which, on twin hearts of pink lettered
in gold and Joined by golden arrows,
were the names of Miss Hoch and Mr.
Reid. The marriage will take place
before the close of Governor Hoch's
administration, January 1, and will be
the first wedding in the executive resi-
dence.
The luncheon Wednesday was par
ticularly pretty. Miss Hoch's favorite
color, pink, predominated in the deco
ratlons.- The guests were seated at one
long table and a number of smaller
ones adorned with pink roses and
smilax. Miss Hoch wore a simple lin
gerie frock of pink and white with a
pink directoire sash and looked as
pretty as usual, which is to say very
pretty, indeed, for she is a most at
tractive girl and is we'll liked, al
though the MethodiStic affiliations of
the governors family and their well
known scruples against dancing and
cards have barred her from the gale
ties of the smart youn~ set in Topeka
which has scarcely seen the inside of
the Governors House since the Hoch
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clever as she is pretty, a wide but dis
eliminating reader, well up in politics
and the affairs of the day, enjoys and
appreciates the arts, dresses effectively
and is a gracious and agreeable host
eSs. She is a member of the Delta
Delta Delta sorority, Familiarity known
as the Tri Debts, Baker university
chapter. She was graduated from
ated three years earlier and afterwards
took course at the Kansas City law
school. He is a member of Delta Tau
Delta fraternity, is good looking and
invitations for yesterday included: |
Miss Anna Marie NelIis. Miss Grace |
Frost, Miss Berenice Fuller, Miss Mar |
garet Better, Miss Myrtle Radcliffe, |
Miss Irma Doster, Miss Nellie Raster, |
Miss Josephine Lynch, Miss Gertrude |
Reed. Miss Florence WEIGH, Miss |
Grace Collins, Miss Ora Allen of Cha |
trude Clevenger, Miss Lulu Elliott, |
Mrs. Charles Elliott Mrs. John Q. |
Royce, Mrs. H. o. Garvey, Mrs Chas. |
F. Spencer, Mrs. Noble Prentis, Mrs.
Mrs. j. w. F. Hughes. Mrs. F. N.
Lynch, Mrs. E. A. Austin, Mrs Edwin |
Locke, Mrs. S.. E. Barber, Mrs. John
Smith, Mrs. w. A. McCarter and Mrs. |
What do you know about a girl who /
could keep an engagement ring a |
ghe other rs e %SaF See
But that IS the very thing which Miss
Nadine Lyle, who recently began
wearing big sparkler on the third
finger of her left hand did and her
reticence about anything so Perfectly
Grand as an engagement ring. is re-
garded as the eighth wonder of the
aget in the Mellins' Food set with
witch Miss Lyle is still principally
will be married in April. Mr.. Joseph
Henry Bowers of Philadelphia is the
bridegroom. They met in
Emporia, where both have relatives,
IS a, year old. Miss Lytle is the
laughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Lyle
IF 313 West Thirteenth street, and is
L graduate of the high school where
Alpha lambda sorority. She is ex-
ceedingly popular in the college set
md there is much regret that her mar
Rage will take her so far away from
Topeka.
Mrs. Charles Blood Smith has asked
guests for luncheon Friday for Mrs
Avery Turner of Amarillo, Tex.
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Mrs. Julian sydnor entertained her
bridge club today.
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Mrs. F. E. Parr entertained a neigh
oorhood company informally today for
ler guest, Mrs. Bateman of Concordia.
Miss Mamie Veale has asked guests
FOR bridge tomorrow afternoon in COM
oliment to Miss Nellie Baker of Lath-
'op, Mo.
An audience which filed the First
Presbyterian church enjoyed an excel
ent complimentary concert given by
he Ladies' Music club last night. The
was of unusual merit be-
gan promptly on time, ended at 10
o'clock, and there were no encores
There were piano. vocal. VIOLIN and
we're Mrs. Edwin O'Neil, Mrs George
w. Parkhurst. Mrs. Frank S. Thomas,
Miss Nellie Pond Mrs. Robert Car
yer, Miss Helen Hogeboom, Mrs.
Thacher, Miss Berenice Fuller Miss
Grace Keefer, Mrs. S. J. Hodgins Mrs
ARA Clark, Miss Allabelle Troutman,
Mrs. Charles S. Gleed. Miss Myrtle
Radcliffe, Mrs. w. G. Dickie, and Mrs
Carey Wilson.
The women of the First Baptist
and Mrs. J. c. Smith. who leave soon
for a new home in st. Joseph in the
church parlors, Friday evening from
3 to 10 o'clock. All the friends of Mr..