The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
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Mrs. Frank Smithies, of Rochester.
Minnesota, and Miss Julia Larimer Will
be guests of honor at a party Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs James
Hughes. jr., in Potwin. The affair will
be a reunion of the alumnae Sigma
Delta Psi sorority, of which Mrs.
Smithies and Miss Larimer are mem
bers- Mrs. Smithies. formerly Miss
Holiday home, and Will be in To-
peka about three weeks longer. Miss
Larimer. who is teaching this year in
the Graham school for Girls, New York
4 making visit to her parents, Mr.. and
airs. ]. B. Larimer, and viii return to
New York at the close of the midwin-
ter vacation, after New Years
Mr. Alfred Quinton, jr.. has received
an appointment in the government
service He will be stationed at For
tress Monroe, Virginia. in the Coast
Artillery department. and will enter the
service with the rank of second Heuten-
ant. Mr.. Quinton graduated last year
from Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, where he took the civil engineer
ing course. He has lately been engaged
In engineering work at Dodge City,
Kansas, and came to Topeka to spend
Christmas with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Quinton, and having re-
ceived his commission, he left Friday
night for Virginia to assume his new
duties.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. B.fQuinton expect to
leave in January to spend the rest of
the winter in the South, and during
their absence. their house on Topeka
avenue will be occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Jewett Shouse, of KinsIey. who is
q member of the state senate which
Shouse was formerly Miss Marian Ed
wards. of Topeka, whose father has
served as secretary Of state.
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Bishop and Mrs. F. r. Millspaugh will
be at home to their friends from three
10 six O'Clock the afternoon of New
Years day.
The executive board of the Good
Government club had a meeting Friday
afternoon to talk over plans for the
erection Of a womans building in To-
peka. to be built by the women of the
state to commemorate the passing of
the amendment which enfranchised
them The women who are interested
in the enterprise expect to raise about
S250,00O by small contributions from
women in the state and to enlist the
support of all women citizens. An ad-
visory board, the members of which
will be chosen from the various wom-
ems organization all over the state, ]
viii be elected. and a nominating COM
Iuittee made up of Mrs. Lee Monroe, |
Mrs Lillian Mitchner, and Miss Ger
trUde Barnes, will get the names of the
them in noninat ton for membership on
the board. Mrs. Fred Farnsworth was |
chosen as temporary treasurer of the !
board, and subscriptions to the fund /
have already begun to arrive. There is |
no limit to the amount subscribed but !
those who are interested in the pro- /
ject would rather have small amounts I
from many women than large amounts 1
from q few, so that the interest in the |
building may be as wide spread as
possible.
The funds are to be handled through
the office of the secretary of state, I
Charles Sessions, who will receipt for
all money paid into the treasury of the
new organization.
The building will contain an audi
torium for the use of all orga nizations
of women. and there will be parlors,
dining room nd rest room The build
ing will be open to out-of-town women I
who are in the city, and will be con-
venient for the wives of legislators and
state officers who are here temporarily.
In the library will be books by Kansas
women. and exhibitions of the handi-
craft of women from all over the state.
The women who are interested in the
building expect TO make II the finest
women's building in the country.
The Lakota club will meet Monday
afternoon, January 6, with Mrs. c. W.
Hanchette, 1896 Harrison street The
has been postponed
Miss Gwen GODDARD will give an in
formal luncheon next Friday at her
home on Boswell avenue. Miss God
ard is teaching this year in Illinois,
and is spending the holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. \. a GODDARD.
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Invitations are out for the wedding
of Miss Nellie Stevens, of Hiawatha,
and DR.. c. E. JOSS, of Topeka. The
marriage will take place at the Stew
ems home in Hiawatha at noon, Tues
day, December 81. Mr.. and Mrs. c. F.
joss and Mr.. and Mrs. George Joss
will go to Hiawatha to attend the
wedding. After a short wedding trip
Dr. Joss and his bride will come to
occupy a new house that DR.. joss has
had built on Lincoln street Miss
Stevens has occasionally visited in To-
Peka, and was a guest at the wedding
Williams DR.. Joss has been practic-
Ing medicine in Topeka about three
years. having come here from Phila-
delphia, where he graduated from the
jefferson Medical college.
Cynthia Monroe gave dinner party
Friday night in compliment to Helen
Robinson. of Galveston, Texas. who is
visiting Beatrice s 7
About ESQ guests attended the
alumnae lambda Alpha lambda
dance at Steinberg's hall Friday night.
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Miss Grace Page, Miss Effie Page,
and Mr.. Frank Forbes have gone to
BeechwOod, Pa, to attend the we'd
ding of Miss Mary Kerr and Mr.. David
Page, which will take place New
Years day. The Misses Page will be