The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09

MIS- =. f. spencer, corresponding SCI
rotary; Miss Grace Whiting, recording
secretary; Miss Lucy Kingman, treas
urer, and Mrs. w. w. Kitchell, audi
tor. The reception committee, MRS. =;
c. McClintock, chairman, and the nan
committee. Mrs. G. o. Wilmarth, chair
man, have charge of the arrangements,
and they, together with the club ex-
tension committee and the executive
board, will assist throughout the az
ternoon.
The Aletheans will give their an
nual spring party for the Gamma
Sigmas tonight at the home OF MISS
Ethel Grant, Twenty-fourth and To-
peka avenue. The hostesses Will IN
clude: Hazel Arnold, Miss Anna Hen
Edna Walker. Miss Margaret Well
come, Miss Hermione Pratt. Miss
Kathleen Hayes, Miss Helen Adams,
Miss Mabel Pond, Miss Ruth Hoagln,
Miss Jeanette Watts. Miss Laura
Jones, Miss Nellie Pond, Miss Flor
ence and lone White, Miss Ruth Nay,
lor, Miss Ruth Grandon, Miss Hazel
Reed, Miss Rosetta Kerr. Miss Emily
Coe, Miss Ethel Kellar, Miss Zarda
Rankin. Miss Gertrude Cornick, MISS
Mildred Carrier. Miss Minnie Stewart,
Miss Jessie Lee, Miss Grace Tourner,
Miss Nina McLatchey, Miss Ruth
Severance, Miss Grace Brewer, MISS
Katherine Kilburne and MISS Ethei
Grant. Those invited are: ME-. Hiram
Guild, Mr.. James Campbell, MT. Rad-
cliffe Lee, Mr.. Ernest Titus, Mr.. Rlch-
ard Bennett, Mr.. Arthur Boyd, MT.
Joseph Myers, Mr.. Henry Wingblode'
Mr.. James Clark, Mr.. DeWitte Lee MT
John Myers, Mr.. Lester fIisom' MT MI
Fred Ulrich. Mr. Joseph Myers, MT
Floyd Webb, Mr.. Roy Pettis. MI Will
lam Scott, Mr.. Milton Campbell, Mr..
Chester Dawson, Mr.. Roscoe Dawson,
Mr. Talmadge Atkinson. Mr. FRANK
Loidig, Mr.. Sherman Shout. Mr.. VII
lis, Mr.. Owen Clark, Mr.. Francis sto-
ker, Mr. Ludwig Katterfeld, Mr. sand
ers, and Mr.. Rowland TITUS.
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Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Sheldon, Il
40 guests yesterday afternoon for MIS-
Edward Wilder, who has recentiy re-
turned from an extended stay in New
York city and Kansas City.
The evening meeting of the fedora
ton to be held at the First Presby-5
terrain church Monday, May Is, at
D. M, will be an open one to wh1cn
the gentlemen are especially 1nVlteo'
The club extension committee VINO
has charge of the programme, says
that 1t is not quite completed but
Chief Justice Johnston will well
come the guests of honor, Mrs. Saran
Platt Decker, general federatlon
president, and Mrs. Eustace Brown,
president of the state federation, for
the brothers-in-law. Mrs. Brown Will
represent the state club interests in
her welcome to Mrs. Decker, and
Mrs. Speed F. Hughes and Mrs. H. ".
Garvey will speak for the Topeka
Mrs. Decker will give the
address of the evening. Some OF To-
peka's very best music is promised for
the occasion. Mrs. Robert Carver
will play an organ voluntary, MRS.
George w. Parkhurst and Mr.. H. Z.
Pribble will each give vocal SOLOS,
and one or two other numbers are be-
ing arranged for.
The Crescendo club, a music club
of Young girls, will act as ushers. This
is the first opportunity Topeka mas
ever had to entertain national CLUB
president and the club women and
citizens will give her hearty wei
come.
There never was a story so hoary
with age that it wasn't new to some
body Go to any vaudeville show ana
you will hear the audience roar with
mirth and glee over the new ones
with which Noah kept up the spirits
of Shem. Ham and Japhet during
that protracted yachting trip. If
vaudeville performer should spring
when is a door not door, he
would get a hand.
The members of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity at K. u. have set
aside May 16 as their annual Mothers
day. This annual affair is original
with the Phi Debts and is the day
when the fraternity boys mothers are
right royalty at the chap
ter houses. 1t is a good idea and
pretty courtesy to the mothers among
whom are number of Topeka
women.
The Owls will give a shirt waist
dance at McRae's Friday evening. A
of out of town Owls are ex-
pected.
The Rev. Ernest Rudd Altman, for
a number of years deacon OF the
Episcopal diocese of Kansas and rec
tor of ST. PauFs church Manhattan,
Miss Lola Spar of Ellsworth. They
have gone to Abilene, Tex, where the
Rev. Mr.. Altman has taken a parish.
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Topeka has for two years been hon
ored in having one of their club
Der of the executive board of the gen.
era1 federation of women's clubs
Mrs Johnston is one of the seven
directors, scattered among the whole
United States, and Kansas has been
able to hold this on the board be-
cause Of the ability of the women who
have represented the state. Mrs.
Johnston is also a member of several
committees. Mrs. Sarah
Plat Decker and Mrs. Eustaces Brown
will be her guests while in the city.
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Since the women took up the dyeing
fad (Which refuses by the way to be-