The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02
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Mrs. Harry Hobson has asked
guests for Thursday afternoon at her
home on Lincoln street in compliment
to Miss Berenice Hough whose en-
gagement to DR.. J. d. Freeman has
just been announced Miss Hough has
just completed a course in the Stor-
mont hospital training school for
nurses. and leaves next week for
Ottawa to spend the summer with her
sister. Mrs. E. B. Gossett. The mar
riage will take place in November.
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Little Billy Drechsel recently re-
covered from an attack of scarlet
fever. "Billy," his mother said to
him solemnly one day, 'you ought to
thank God for making you we'll. You
ought to get down on your knees and
thank Him. 'Huh!" said Billy eff
have to thank Him what were we
paying that nurse thirty-f1ve dollars
week for?'
DR.. and Mrs. Charles M. Sheldon
will be at home Friday evening, June
5, from to 10 o'clock for DIR. and
Mrs. Norman Plass as a farewell from
the Central Congregational church.
No invitations are being issued, but
4.
vited to call.
Hard luck story: A Topeka chap
took a girl to a picnic Decoration day.
Before they arrived at the picnic
ground she lost her pocketbook con-
tanning eight dollars. (Clue number
one: She was either an heiress or a
Poor Working Girl) The horse ran
away and smashed the wagon (prop-
erty of the livery barn, damage, about
thirty doIlars) and spilled all the
lunch and to cap the climax the girl
another man.
Miss Elizabeth Dickey of Tulsa,
Okla, Miss Sara Hill of Lecompton
and Miss Helen Spielman were
graduated Yesterday from the College
Dickey carried off the scholastic
honors of her class. Miss Dickey is
the second daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. l.. Dfckey of Tulsa, formerly of
Topeka, and a granddaughter of the
late Archie L. Williams. In addition
to being clever and good student
she is an unusually pretty girl.
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The Provident association has set
apart saturday, June 6, for Tag day
for charity. The ladies in charge of
the different tag stations which will
10 GIL OfCl Tic lOWn llcluQ6. MIS-.
Frank Thompson, Mrs. George Clark,
Mrs: e. w. Hughes, Mrs. Harry
Gavitt, Mrs. James L. King, Mrs.
Arthur Mills, Mrs. Earl Williams,
Mrs H. A. Auerbach. Mrs. Geo.
Crane Crane. Mrs: E. H: Crosby: Mrs. W. T.
Henderson, Mrs. Margaret Virgins,
Mrs. Willard Hall, Mrs. H L. Alkire,
Mrs. A A. GODDARD, Mrs. G. A. Huron.
Mrs. w. H. Bowlby, Mrs. Eugene
Quinton, Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs D.
p: Esterly, Mrs. Ralph McIntire, Mrs.
Mabel King, Mrs. A. H. Thompson, Mrs
J: p. Rowley. Mrs. E. A. Tirr1II, Mrs
Chester B. Reed. Mrs. F. M. Grossly
Mrs. III. S. Morgan, Mrs. B. F. Akers
Mrs; Gil Updegraff. Mrs. Armin weis-
kirch. Mrs. A. J. August, MRS. D. E.
Palmer, Mrs. C. L. Mitchell, Mrs. Ar
thur Lingafelt, Mrs. Joseph E. Morgan,
Mrs. w. A. Sloo, Mrs. j. w. Going.
working under them will be about TWO
hundred girls including representatives
line Food crowd up. The girls Will be
provided with ribbon tags of different
colors and if thy see a man first they
will tag him and it will cost him a
dollar or more. No charge will be
made. If a man hasn't dollar he
will have to pay five so it behooves
him to have pocketful of change
Saturday. OF course it is a plain hold
up-might as well go out with a stock
ing full of sand-but think of the OBJ
Ject! No institution in Topeka accom-
plishes more practical good than the
Provident association. You may have
PAID your taxes, kept up your life in
surance, given your stipend to the
but if you haven't given something TO
the Provident association you are still
in debt, and Tag Day will give you an
opportunity to wipe the State clean.
Might as well make up your mind to
come through"
When a new man of means and posi-
ton dawns on the local social horizon
he Is Immediately grabbed at py all
the clfques in town, and every woman
who has marriageable daughter, and
every daughter who is old enough to
look out for herself and every hostess
who has felt the need of agreeable |
men Tor her entertainments, and every
young matron who has been married |
long enough to sit up and take notice |
have their try at him. And if, as hap
pens now and then, he doesn't respond |
readily, that is, shows no disposition.
for society. refuses more invitations |
than he accepts, pleads business en-.
gagements and doesn't fall in love with
any of the attractive girls. the story
goes around in few months that ne |
Is not marrying man. Sometimes |
there is romantic reason attached |
to the statement One man in Topeka |
is said to have decided never TO marry |
because there is the faint or tubercu-
losis in his family. 1t is said of an
other that he promised his mother on |
her death bed not to marry any girl |
unless she were a Baptist and wore her |
hair parted. Still another is said to |
have loved once and once on.y. The
girl died. A number are vaguely de.
scribed as having been disappointed |
IN love" One man was engaged to
be married to a beautIru1 girl Very
Prominent in Society. But he went in |
bathing one day, was taken with a
cramp, and barely escaped drowning. |
As he was going down for the third
time he saw his whole past life pass