The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14

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Miss Helen Louise Crosby will ask
guests this week for dinner. follow
ed by dancing, which she will give next
j Saturday night at the Country club
Miss Elizabeth Holiday will give
luncheon Tuesday at the Mills tea
room. complimentary to Miss Frances
i Dorsey of Columbia. Mo-, who is visit
ing Miss Marian Wear.
Mrs. S. E. Barber kave a luncheon
today at the Topeka club in honor of
Miss Gertrude Clevenger, whose mar
rigae to Mr.. Robert Fullerton will
take place Wednesday evening. The
4 colors for the decorations were green
and white. The table centerpiece was
a Marie Antoinette basket filed with
sweet peas and maiden hair fern The
guests were the members of the bridal
party.
Miss Dorothy Porter entertained q
few of her girl friends at an informal
afternoon party today
The following guests attended din
ner party at the Country club saturday
night for Miss Frances Dorsey of CO.
lumbia, Missouri, at which Miss Mar
ian Wear was hostess: Miss Dorsey,
Miss Elizabeth Holiday. Miss Dorothy
Porter, Miss Clyde Bonebrake Miss
Laura Hall, Miss Wear. Mr. Clarence
Jordan, Mr.. Lewis Hall, Mr.. Allen NC
Neal, Mr. Joe Risteen. Mr. Harry
| Eagle, Mr.. Hugh Mcfarland and Mr..
John Hamilton.
An attractive Topeka girl with
brown eyes and gold lights in her
SOFTLY coiIed hair that is drawn back
from her brows like strands of spun
copper, is wondering about the identity
of an unknown admirer, who SENDS
her pictures, flowers, cards and letters,
and who, for some two or three years,
has been content to give, with no
| smile and no thankyusir for reward.
The girl has decided that he is trav-
cling man. for his gifts are sent from
| various places and at one time she
thought she had hit his trail; for upon
receipt of a picture. she recognized 1t
as one that she had seen in a picture
| store window and taking it back to its
former owners, she demanded to know
to whom 1t had been sold but the
| stupid salesman, having made not less
than twenty-five sales that day, had
actually forgotten the name, address.
length. width and complexion of the
purchaser of that particular article, so
the clue was given up as unproductive.
And now (she says) If he has played
hide-and-seek long enough, VIII ne
please make himself known, or else,
little later If he runs out of pictures
and pressed roses, and postcards and
letter paper. she will be quite content
to accept theater tickets as substitute
Center aisle. third row from the front,
parquet' preferredo.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Norman Ram
sey of Boston, Mass, are the parents
of a son, born Sunday. Mrs. Ramsey
was formerly Miss Nina Bauer, of To-
} peka, and Lieutenant Ramsey also
formerly lived in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. S. Clevenger, of New
York, arrived today to attend the wed
Gertrude Clevenger, and Mr. Robert
Fullerton, Wednesday evening. Mr..
ICleVenger is engineer for the New York
Telephone company, and for a number
of years, has made his home in New
York, on Long Island. He and Mrs.
/ Clevenger will be guests of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. ]. Clevenger, about a
week.
Mrs. J. D. Mcfarland has returned
from Morganville, Kan, where she
spent a few weeks visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. c. c. Stillman.
Miss Ruth Harrison has returned to
Topeka from Hutchinson, where she
visited DIR. and Mrs. J. z. Foltz.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Irwin have gone
to Hutchinson to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Jake Lewis. and Mr.. Lewis.
Miss Katherine Mcfarland and Miss
Bertha Clay left Saturday to spend two
weeks in Morganville, with Miss Nc
Farland's sister, Mrs. c. C. Stillman.
Mr.. w. W. Mills will leave Thursday
for Estes Park, Col.
Mr.. Eliot Porter has returned from a
camping trip near Lawrence.
Mr.. E. W. Rankin has gone to Flint,
Mich, to join Mrs. Rankin and their
son. He will be gone two weeks.
Dr. E. S. Pettyjohn has returned
from trip to the east.
Miss Josephine Pickens has returned
from Chicago, where she spent the past
few weeks.
Miss Nellie Hoar has returned from
Colorado Springs. Col, where she went
for a vacation trip of two weeks
Mr.. H. H. Wolcott, editor of the
Larned ChrOnoscope, is visiting rela-
tives in Topeka.
Miss Gussie Pickens has gone to Chi
cago, where she will join her sister,
Miss Eileen Pickens, in a visit to their
sister, Mrs. Nelson Emmertz. From
Chicago they will go for a business trip
to New York.
Mrs. G. NJ. Blair will leave Tuesday
for Petoskey, Mich, where she will Join
her daughter, Mrs. S. P. Skeen, and lit
tie Richard Blair SAeen. They will take
a cottage and remain in Petoskey until
cold weather.
Mrs. L. T. Reinisch went to Kansas
City last week to attend the national
convention of park superintendent
A called meeting of the Potwin cir
Gle Of the Ladies' Aid society of the
First Methodist church, will be held
Tuesday afternoon at Z:30 o'clock at the
home Of Mrs. J. P. Slaughter, 11S Green
wood avenue.
Mr.. Clyde C. McCarter, of St. Louis.
arrived Sunday 20 visit his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. McCarter, Of High
land park.