The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
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ONLY a. few relatives and close Irlenus
| have been asked for the marriage OF
Miss Louise KelIam and DR.. Frank
| Smithies of Ann Arbor, michigan
which will be solemnized at the nome
| of the formers mother, Mrs. Tnomas
| ]. Kellam, this evening, ana altnouSn
Z, the bride is one of the most admlraple
| girls in town and her family one or the
| oldest and most prominent, the Weo-
ding will be a simple and unpretentlous
ceremony. The Very Reverend James
! Philip de Bevers Kaye, dean of Grace
cathedral, will read the service and the
attendants will be Miss Kartharlne
Kellam and DR.. A. r. PEBBLES OF Boul-
| der, Colorado. The music will be by
! Miss AllabeIle Troutman, pianist, ana
Mr.. Darwin Bradley. baritone. Mrs.
Russell Philips of Leavenworth, Mr..
and Mrs Walter w. Colbitts of Kansas
City and Miss Marian Edwards OF
Kinsley are out of town guests here for
the wedding. DR.. and Mrs. Smithies
will go directly to Ann Arbor, where
they will be at home at 900 Lincoln
| avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Deane Nelson
| OF Ironwood, Michigan, have issued in
vitations for the marriage of their
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Mr.. Ches-
ter Amos Sheppard, lieutenant Twenty
eighth infantry, u. S. A, at their home
Saturday, October g. at half after seven
in the evening. At home after Novem-
Der Is, Officers Club, Fort Smelling,
Minnesota Miss Nelson is known to
many Topeka people through visits to
her sister, Mrs. James Philip de
Bevers Kaye, and was quite the most
popular visiting girl in town last
spring on the occasion of her latest
visit. Dean and Mrs. Kaye have only
just returned from Ironwood and will
not go back for the wedding.
*
Mrs. Julian Sydnor of Chicago and
Miss Gay Shepard of Kansas City, who
are Miss Maud Grimes guests, will be
the guests of honor at a theater party
at the Grand tonight. Mrs. Sydnor will
go to Kansas City tomorrow to spend a
week with her mother, who is living
there now, before going on to Chicago.
Miss Shepard will be here for some
time. Mr.. and Mrs w s. McClintock
entertained a small company inform
ally last night for Mrs. Sydnor and
Miss Shepard.
y
Mr.. and Mrs. Dibert Knox. their
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Fowler of
Wichita, and Mr.. George Dibert Knox
were in Kansas City this week for the
marriage of Mr.. Frank Holmes Knox
and Miss Catharine Rau, youngest
daughter of Mrs. Lena M. Rau, which
took place Wednesday evening at half
after eight o'clock at ST. Peters Evan
gelical church in Kansas City. Tho
Rev. DR.. Sans, pastor of ST. Peters,
performed the ceremony and the at
tendants were Miss Eleanora IIipes, the
brides cousin, and Mr.. George Dibert
Knox, the bridegroom's brother. Lohen-
grln's wedding march was played on
the pipe organ and before the scere-
mony Miss Anna White, another cousin
Of the bride. sang My Love Is Like the
Red, Red Rose. The bride wore a prin-
cess gown of white embroidered Swiss
and carried white roses. A reception
followed at the home of her mother for
relatives and close friends and Mr.. and
Mrs. Knox left that night for Excelsior
Springs to spend a. fortnight, after
which they will be at home in Kansas
City, where Mr.. Knox is employed. Mr..
and Mrs. Dibert Knox and Mr. George
Dloert Knox have returned from Kan
sas City but Mrs. Fowler remained for
a visit to Mrs. Alice Gregory Whitson
In this graceful model draped
tunic of the material-which is one
of the new raw silks in wheat color
falls over closely fitting skirt
tucked in points The tunic is cut at
the top in the new bib effect, mount
ing to the bust over a bodice COM