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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-15

the Virginia, where he and his daugh-
ter make their home. Miss Gafford
has not spent a great deal of time in
Topeka since it became her home,
since she attended the State university
at Lawrence, two years, and the past
year she took a course in domestic
science in the Agricultural college at
Manhattan. Nevertheless, she has a
large circle of friends here. She is
talented, educated, and a girl of many
charms, a graduate of the university
and a member of the Phi Gamma
Delta sorority.
Mr.. and Mrs Monte Kistler have
postponed the party scheduled for to-
night, in honor of Miss Hazel Grimes
of Stockton, Texas. Miss Grimes will
not return from Kansas City, Where
she is visiting friends, until the middle
of next week. The party will be given
the last of next week.
Social affairs at Washburn college
will begin in earnest after Easter and
continue through the rest of the term.
The Beta girls are planning to give
their spring party soon, though they
are not yet prepared to give details
concerning it. The Sigma Debts Will
have their spring dance May 4 at
Steinberg's hall; the Varsity dance
has been announced, and the dinner
dance of the Phi Debts at the Elks
club the evening of April 2S. The Phi
Debts will have a party Wednesday
night for the Sigma Debts. The liter
airy societies are also planning some
social affairs. including a street fair
on the campus. Thursday night, April
20. The Junior prom and the annual
banquet of the law school and the
medical school will be important
events in the college crowd.
The Washburn Dramatic club will
give an outdoor presentation Of
Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights
Dream some time in May, probably
the 18th, matinee and evening per-
formances. The parts have not yet
been assigned, but the play will be
given under the direction of Miss LIE
Compile and Professor Lane.
The spring recitals in the fine arts
department will be of interest to the
town people as well as the students.
The alumnae girls of the Sigma
Delta Psi sorority gave a spread Fri
day night at the home of Mrs. James
G. Hughes, AIS Taylor street. for Miss
Rachel Hotchkiss, who will leave soon
to make her home in San Diego, Cal.
Hotchkiss, Mrs. Hughes. Miss Clara
Daniels, Miss Julia Larimer, Mrs.
Preston Coleman, Miss Louise McNeal,
Miss Marguerite Mills, Miss Daisy
Monroe. Miss Edith Thompson. Miss
Grace Koontz, Miss Bess Renwick.
Miss Madeline Whitney.
The sorority girls will have a spread
and initiation tonight at the Sigma
Delta Psi house, and the following
girls will be initiated: Miss Laura
Townsley of Great Bend, Miss Helen
Tfllotson and Miss Ruth Williams,
both of Topeka.
Two afternoon parties already an
nounced for next week are a recep-
ton to be given by Miss Lenore Mon
roe and Miss Daisy Monroe Friday
afternoon, and a tea at the home of
Mrs. w. G. Dickie, at which Mrs.
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EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

mo, Name, If the man of the house
hadn't been SO mean that it fairly hurt
him to see me eat, and if he hadn't
always been a month or SO late with
my wages. I'd never left that place
yet
Then you didn't scrap with the
madam"
well. not so you'd notice it. Not
with that Madam. Why, she was the
kindest lady 1 ever worked for. She
wanted the work done and done right,
but If she had any fault to find she had
a way of doing it that made you kind
of ashamed instead of angry, and she
was that quick to tell you about it
when she was pleased / took real
comfort in trying to do things extra
nice. She never let the children get
in my way in the kitchen, and if they
tattled about me she always listened to
me too. She was SO good to me when
was sick, bringing up my meals and
medicine and hot water bottles and
magazines off their own library table
for me to read, that it almost makes
me cry to think of it. And she had the
sweetest way with her with everybody.
I never heard her say an ugly word
while was there to anybody. not even
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ton is wide enough to furnish every
one a becoming shade. Foremost for
all hours of the day stand black and
white in combination. The alliance is
noticeable in chiffons, marquisette. and
voiles. Frequently the neutral color
effect of black and white is relieved
by bit of cerise or emerald green.
Blue is the shade that heads the col
ing alike to blondes and brunettes;
then the peacock blue that can be so
successfully united with green and
gold; sapphire blue that is friendly to
many colors and shades; parrot blue is
the light shade containing a hint of
green. Mediterranean blue, that puz-
zles the eye with it's changes is es-
pecially effective in iridescent silks and
filmy materials. Fellows that vary
from the faint primrose tints through
all the shades of chamios. fax, deep
gold, and into the tobacco and nut
brown colors, are fashionable. They
are especially good for millinery and
for gowns for evening wear. Grays,
either with a blue or tan cast are given
a good place, for they unite, in their
neutral tone. with the more brilliant
shades that are stylish. Green comes
next. The empire green is an out
growth Of the empire cut of gowns,
and gives a brilliant touch to satin or
silk on neutral colors. Olive green is
good for suitings, and what is known
as Paddy Green"-the greenest green
you can imagine-is seen on many
stunning hats. Red, from dark Bur-
CANDY to scarlet will be used much in
millinery and evening hats, especially
of gold and silver nets, have dash
of red at one side. Purple is altered
by additions of grey. Ashes of violets
is a new color that promises to be a
faVOrite.
Mrs. Carl Trap will entertain her
bridge club Monday afternoon at her
home, 1873 Western avenue.
=
The Westlawn people will have a
dance tonight at Steinberg's hall.
The Music Study club will hold all
evening meeting with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Cav. Tuesday, April Is. The
program will be given by Mrs. B. B.
Smythe and Miss Ona May Miller, as
sisted by Miss Gladys Cav.
y
Mr. and Mrs. A. Samuel of SIS Har
rison street, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Odes, to Mr.. Arthur
A Nusbaum Of Chicago. The wedding
will take place some time in June.
Miss Samuel graduated from the To-
peka high school in the class of '09.
She is a musician and an artist of a
good deal of ability, and an attractive
young woman. Mr.. Nusbaum is trav-
cling for a Chicago firm, with head
quarters IN Topeka, and he and his
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Wilm. Miss Marie Wickwire Miss Juliet
Pettyjohn, Miss Laura Townsley, Miss
Isabel Mills, Miss Mary Alexander,
Miss Verna Sjolander, Miss Helen Sha-
yer, Miss Melva Gregg, Miss Ethel Par
fit, Miss Marie Munro Miss Lois
Chambers. Miss Lois Johnson. Miss
Rigby. Miss Smalley, Miss Mildred
Newell, Miss Alta Lux, Mr.. Morris
Sanders, Mr.. David Neiswanger, Mr..
Charles Shedd. Mr.. Karl Menninger,
Mr. Howard Searle, Mr.. Angelo Alt,
Mr.. Lee Davis, Mr.. Laurens White
more, Mr.. Roy Davis. Mr.. Charles
Walp, Mr.. Stewart Drum, Mr.. Ray
mond Lusby, Mr.. Clayton Kline, Mr..
Carl Smiley, Mr.. Ralph Gephardt, Mr..
Herbert Blynn.
The last of Professor Arthur Locke's
lectures on modern composers, has been
postponed on account of Clarence Ed
dy's organ recital, April 10. The lee
ture will be given Thursday evening,
April 20. The subject will be Caesar
F'ranck. and it will be illustrated by
the sonata for piano and violin in A
Major. played by Miss Helen Phipps
and Professor Locke. There will also
be illustrations from the D. Minor
Symphony and the Prelude, and Fugue
for the piano.
The votes have been cast for the
colors that will be good for spring and
summer clothes. and the range Of selec-
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day. Mrs. Prout. before her marriage

day. Mrs. Prout, before her marriage,
was Miss Grace Reed.
Mr.. Frank Snow will give the Mon
day morning address in the assembly
room of the high school to the stu
| dents next week. He will speak about
Africa.
Miss Ceora Lanham. Miss Jessie
Waller and Miss Vera Benjamin, have
returned from a concert trip in the
western part Of the state.
Mr.. George Hart and his family
are moving to Hutchinson, where
| they will make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Gates and their
son, George, will spend Easter in Val
| ley Falls, the guests of Mrs. Gates
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
| SCHNEIDER.
Mr.. Ray Hall spent Thursday in
Lawrence.
Mrs Adelaide Claypoole has returned
| to Mrs. George P. Stitt. Mrs. Stitt,
Mrs. A. H. Baldwin, and Mrs. Charles
Skinner gave informal affairs for her
during her visit.
Mrs. Gilman and her daughter OF
Kansas City, are guests of Mrs. Gill
mans son. at the H. E. Lyman home.
Miss Lucille Decker, who will leave
Sunday to make her home in Califor-
mia, was entertained by the Loyal
Daughters Thursday evening at the
guests were: Miss Decker, Miss Jane
Isenhour, Miss Blanche Dodge, Miss
Faye Clemmons, Miss Ethel Dodge
Miss Gail Moody, Miss Wayne Good
man, Miss Ethel Foshay Miss Esther
Wright, Miss Ellen Goodman, Miss
Beulah Hall, Miss Beth Wright, Miss
Lillian Brown, Miss Ethel Wright, Mr..
and Mrs. Brewer. Mr.. John Evans. Mr..
Frank Leatherman, Mr.. Ernest Clan
der, Mr.. Clarence Messick, Mr.. John
F'airman, Mr.. Fred Leatherman. Mr..
David Owen. Mr.. Floyd Evans, Mr.
Roy Stants, Mr.. Jessie Allen, Mr.. Jack
Bunbarger of Quincy, ILL.,, Mr.. Floyd
Willett. Mr.. Maybrie, Mr.. Arthur Mes
sick, Mr.. Kline Houston, Mr.. Clarence
Staples, Mr.. David Austin, Mr.. Smith
Bishop, and Mr.. Orval Ballard.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. Gillespie announce
that they will receive their friends in
formally Sunday at their home. 5o7
Van Buren, street,.
Try the Sunday dinner at the Mission
Tea Room, from 1890 to 2:3O.
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Dickie, Mrs. Charles Bunger and Mrs.
T. S. Savage will be hostesses. The
dances arranged for are: The Tivoli
party Monday night, the Elks club
dance Thursday night and the Varsity
Friday night,
y
The hostesses at the evening party
to be given by the women of Grace
Cathedral guild Wednesday, April 10,
will be the members of the executive
committee and the advisory board,
who are: Mrs. A. w. Lacey, Mrs.
Frank Hobart, Mrs. E. A. Herbst, Mrs.
c. P. Bolmar, Mrs. Frank Bradley,
Mrs. ]. D. M. Hamilton, Mrs. George
Crane, Mrs. Frank Millspaugh, Mrs.
S. w. Mullinix. Mrs j. L. King and
Mrs. H. HUMPHREYS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Harrison gave
a delightful musicale Friday evening
at their home on Mulvane street for
the members of the faculty and board
of trustees of Washburn college, of
which Mr.. Harrison is vice president.
Mrs. Harry S. DUNCAN of Hastings,
Neb., and Miss Helen Phipps and Dean
Horace Whitehouse, both of Wash
burn college, furnished the program.
Mrs. DUNCAN sang; Miss Phipps played
the violin, and Dean Whitehouse play
ed the piano Accomplishments. Mrs.
Harrison was assisted by Mrs. I. d.
Cardiff and Miss Felt, who served
punch, and by Miss 'Rebecca Welty,
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ed the contract and will start work on
the new house about May 1.
The new Dillon home, modest in
architecture, will be the largest house
in Topeka, and one of the most eX-
pensive. It's extreme dimensions are
ZIG feet facing the Ninth street side
by e. feet on Harrison street overlook
ing the state house. The house is to
be of colonial effect, but Mr.. Dillon
has a horror of "gingerbread' work
on house and his instructions to the
architect were to make the plans
along a line of strict modesty. But
this modesty promises to lend to the
new home an attractive appearance
that will make it the model of To-
peka's modern homes.
The house is to be two and a half
stories above a well lighted and venti-
lated basement the entire length of
the building. Tapestry brick, of pink
ish yellow to tan color. are to be used
in the construction. The roof will be
of tile. Main entrance to the home
will be from the Ninth street side. The
porches fronting on the south and east
of the house are to be of cut stone,
with massive round cut stone pillars.
The floors of the porches will be of
concrete or slate. Plans call for deep
French easement windows on the first
floor.
An Ideal Library.
deep porches and wide doors on the
Harrison street side will open on a
large reception hall, from which doors
open into a library 26x4S feet. A
spacious dining room. kitchen, butler
pantry and closets will occupy the re-
mainder of the ground floor. On the
second and third floors. large bed
rooms, baths and clothes presses are
provided. The interior of the house
will be finished throughout in hard
wood, but Mr.. Dillon has not selected
the particular wood or granting. Above
the porch facing Harrison street is a
second tier porch of pergola effect.
- One of the features of the new Dill
ION home is to be the instalIment of
passenger elevator service. In the
erection of his new home Mr.. Dillon
had in view large, extensive rooms.
This desire was gratified in the plans
of the architect. In the new house
but 13 rooms are provided above the
basement, which will be equipped for
furnace, coal and laundry rooms.
At the rear of the Dillon home a
new garage will be built for the ac-
commodation of four cars. The same
materials Will be used in the erection
of the garage as are called for in the
construction of the home.
Tear Down Crane Home.
Plans were made last fall by Mr..
Dillon for the erection of a new home
some time this year. Late in the win
ter he closed a contract with George
w. Crane for the possession of his
property at Ninth and Harrison, Mr.
Crane receiving in exchange the Dill
lon residence at 919 Harrison. The
Crane home, two story stone dwell
ling. will be sold in the next few davs
Or dismantled. None of the materials
will be used in the erection of the new
home. The Dillon property Includes
80 feet facing Harrison street with a
depth of $50 feet.
The Crane family is to take possess
sion of the Dillon home, under the
contract, not later then May /. and
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the billions are storing their house
hold effects, including the extensive
Dillon library, until their new home
is ready for occupancy. AS soon as
work on the new house is started, it
will be rushed with a view of complet-
ing the contract about November 1.
Several carloads of rich brick have
been on the site of the new home for
several weeks and will be used by the
contractors.
When his new home is completed
Mr.. Dillon will have invested in his
lots and new home an amount some
where between $4,000 and $4,000.
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Another pretty and charming To-
peka girl is to be married within a
few months. Her engagement is to
be formally announced before long,
but meanwhile the news is current
among her friends, and may be said to
be public property. The girl is Miss
Edna Gafford, the daughter of Mr.. ].
C. Gafford, the state accountant, and
the man is Mr.. George Porter, whose
home is in Kansas City. The Gafford
family came to Topeka about three
wears ago, when Mr.. Gafford bought
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Aged Missouri Man Found.

Cleveland, o., April 15.-With Sc
curities apparently worth 5000 in his
pockets and wearing several hundred
dollars worth of diamonds, an aged
man whom the police claim is DR.. H.
J. Howe of Jefferson City, Mo-, was
found wandering on a downtown street
last night. The police assert that the
man was in a demented condition.
They obtained the name and address
from cards in his pocket and from the
securities.
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SAME OLD GANG
AGAIN AT WORK

Washington, April 28.-Secret
agents of the customs service
have discovered system of smug-
Cling expensive gowns and wo-
mems clothing from Paris which
promises to approach in magni-
tude the famous sleeper-trunk
fraud. U nd erv a luations and
fraudulent manufests are said to
be the means the suspected ones
have used to carry on their work.
Evidence in the possession of
Chief Wilkie tends to indicate
that some of the smugglers con-
victed and fined in the trunk
frauds are the leading spirits in
the new frauds. Raids which
customs officers planned to make
in New York and Chicago were
expected to uncover quantities of
the smuggled goods, with values
running into several thousand
dollars,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
WASHINGTON COUNTY
PHYSICIANS TO MEET.

On next Thursday in this city
the Johnson City and Washington
County Medical Society will meet.
DR.. G. J. Sells is president. DR..
w. R. Dulaney, of Jonesboro, is
the special speaker.
The management of contagious
diseases, by DR.. J. F.. Arnold; re-
port of case, monstrosity, DR..
H. D. Miller; prevention of ty-
phoid fever, by DR.. ]. w. Cox;
report of case, ectopic pregnan-
cy, by DR.. E. A. Long; when not
to use atropine, DR.. C. ]. Broyles,
are some of the questions that
will be discussed by the medicos.
Drs.W ]. Matthews, ]. P. Ran
dali and T. C. Hensley will take
part in the discussions.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
MAY BE TAKEN
OVER BY LEASE
MEETING IN RICHMOND
Of Stockholders Saturday Ratified
Big Bond Issue to Take Over
the c., 6. & o. by Lease.

1t looks now like the Carolina,
Clinchfeld and Ohio railway is
about to pass into the control of the
Chesapeake and Ohio. What eff.
feet this will have upon Johnson
City with regard to the general Of
fees it is hard to foretell. About Io
days ago President Mark w. Potter
and General Manager Caples, of the
Carolina, Clinchfeld and Ohio went
to Dante, Va, and held a conference
with the president and other officials
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio, but
nothing was given out for publica-
ton at the time. The following
statement from the New York
World of Sunday tells the story:
The Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way stockholders, at a special
meeting in Richmond, Va, yester-
day, authorized a new mortgage
to secure an issue of SIPS, 900, 900
5 cent. 20-year bonds. 1t is un-
derstood that the Chesapeake and
Ohio is about to take over the
Carolina, Chnchfield and Ohio
railway under a long-tertn lease,
guaranteeing the existing securi-
ties of that company.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
BOTH SIDES
ARE WATCHING
REGULARS ARE AGGREssINE
Scenes of Reconstruction Days
May Be Re-Enacted in the
Legislative Halls.

Nashville, May with the
opening of the first week of tie
hold over legislature there is an
ominous quiet about the hotels
which promises a storm soon af-
ter. A number of regulars were
on the ground already early this
morning, and it was claimed that
all will be here before night.
Among these few are some who
stated positively last week that
they would at the close of the
week go to their homes to remain.
Their presence so early on the
ground seems significant, and it
is whispered that something will
be doing before the day closes.
From fusionist sources comes
rurnors of unceasing activity since
the close of last week, and with
these rumors are others of things
likely to happen within the next
twenty-four hours. Whether the
work done has produced results
remains to be seen, but both sides
were keyed up to high pitch
this morning, and each alive to
the situation and ready for most
anything that may happen. 1t is
expected that some effort will be
made at once this week to force a
quorum, and scenes enacted in
reconstruction days may be re-
peated on capitol hill.
No indication of any change of
plans come from Alabama, but
the filibusterers there persist in
their determination to remain out
of the state two weeks longer and
possibly then some. They will
likely go to Pensacola as soon as
the Legislature settles down for
it's week wait here. There feel
ing has been further intensified |
by more charges and counter
charges.
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WASHINGTON-TU -TUSCULUM
TRUSTEES TN SESSION

The annual meeting of the board
of trustees Washington Tusculum
college was held at Tusculum,
Thursday.
There are twenty-four members
and twenty-one were present.
Much business was transacted
and plans were matured for the run
ming of the college for the next
year. An ordinance was passed by
the board that members of the facul-
ty of the college would not be eligible
to hold membership in the board of
trustees, and this made it necessary
for .Profs. S. c. Haynes, T. S. Ran
kin and {. B. Armentrout 20 resign.
Judge c. E. Luckey, of Knoxville;
Mayor George w. Doughty, of
Greeneville; H. c. Jackson and
w. S. Hickey, of Jonesboro, were
elected to membership on the board,
and Prot. ]. t. Browning, G. w.
Mathis and J. E. Brading, of John
son Cis,, were reelected.
The granting of permission 10
Tusculum to make the preparatory
department perm anent part of the
institution was very important part
of the business transacted at the an-
nual meeting.
The progress which has been
made during the present year in the
institution is gratifying to the trus-
tees and prospects are good that the
next year will be better than the
one which will close.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
LADIES' MEETING
SUNDAY NIGHT

The ladies had charge of the
meeting at Munsey Memorial church
Sunday night and a most interesting
program was carried out. The
Call to Christian America. was the
feature of the evening. Mrs. R. D..
Default represented America and
ladies representing different nations
and environments. AS each entered
they made their plea to America and
took their places by her side. Mrs.
Stafford, represented China; Mrs.
Tranum, Brazil; Miss Nugent, Ko-
rea; Mrs. Barton, Cuba; Mrs. John
Lacy, immigrant Chinaman; Mrs.
S. B. Crigger, immigrant; Mrs. Col
lette, Japan; Mrs. Range, Mexico;
Mrs. St. John, Africa; Mrs. George
Hyder, American negro; Mrs. Con-
ner, Indian; Arma Cooper, mill
child; Mrs. S. B. White, person
from city; MRS. Edna Cooper, dea-
coness. Mrs. S. c. Williams, pre-
sided. Mrs. Akin sang solo and
there was a duet by Mrs. Barton
and Miss Nugert. The collections
exceeded $23o.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
TRACY BROWNE BACK
FROM CHAT TAN0OGA

Tracey Browne, of the MacAr-
thur Brothers Company, has just
returned from a trip to Knoxville,
Chattanooga and several smaller
places in East Tennessee, and re-
ports that in the matter of build
ing of railroads and manufacture
ing plants of various kinds, this
section of the country is not only
holding its own, but is forging
ahead. Three new iron furnaces
will soon be erected near Chatta-
nooga; a large power plant is be-
ing erected on the Tennessee riv-
er at Ladds, Tenn; the Tennes-
see, Alabama and Georgia railroad
is building additional lines; the
Krager Turpentine Cup Company
is installing new equipment, and
as Mr.. Browne says, "the impress
sion | gathered on this trip is
that things are picking up in this
vicinity" We are glad to hear
it, and we know East Tennesseans
we'll enough to know that the
good work will go on.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-05-04
JAMES VALLEY
DIED SUNDAY

Sunday afternoon when the sun
was nearing the western horizon
little James Valley closed his eyes
in death after an illness of sever
al weeks. He was the son of ID.
P. Valley and was only fifteen
years of age. For more than a
month he has baffled with a COM
plication of pneumonia and gall
stones and it was believed for
awhile that he would survive, but
the best medical service and at
tention was unsuccessful and the
little sorl was taken back just as
it was beginning to unfold.
The heartbroken parents and
brothers and sisters have the
sympathy of the community in
their sad bereavement. The fu-
neral will be conducted at the
residence on the corner of Oak
street and Watauga avenue this
afternoon at one O'Clock by Rev.
S. B. Vaught and the body laid
to rest in Oak Hill cemetery.