The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25

Miss Daisy Monroe will entertain
her bridge club Thursday at her home
on Harrison street, in compliment 70
Miss Guenn GODDARD, who is home from rom
winter to spend the holidays with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. A. A Cod
ard and also in compliment 10 MISS
Edith Thompson and MISS Luna
Thompson. Mrs. r. F. Thompson
Miss Edith Thompson. Miss Edna
Thompson, and Miss Beth thompson
will leave Friday for Los Angeles ana
will spend the winter in California
daughter of Mrs. Thompson, MIS-
Grace King and her little daughter,
DEBORAH, and Miss Vera Best, of
Centralia, Kansas, will come 10 rope
ka to join them in their trip west
Miss Altha Watson, who is a student
in the University of Illinois, Cham-
paign, ILL.,, is spending the Mondays
with her parents, Mr.. and MRS. r. W.
watson She was accompanied home
nv Mr. Watson's father and mother,
MIR. and Mrs. w. A. Watson, of Bloom
ington. Ill. who will be guests of the
F. w. Watson family during inc
Christmas season. The Watsons had
a family dinner today at their nome
on Topeka avenue
Mr.. and Mrs. Kurtz Kellam, OF Kan
sas City, and Mrs. Frank Smithies ana
her little son, John, are guests at the
Z K. Holiday home, and Mr. and Mrs
Holiday gave family dinner parry
for them.
Mrs. L. ]. Fortune and Mrs. J. L.
Cottren are entertaining at Christmas
dinner, their mother, Mrs. Porter
Cook, of Sulphur Springs, Ark, ana
their brother, Jesse Cook, of the chi
cago Medical college, at the home OF
Mrs. Cottren. Mr.. Fortune. who is
employed in the pension department,
has gone to Washington, d. G, ana
Mrs. Fortune and their little daugh-
ter. will leave in about two weeks to
join him in permanent reS'ue"'
Miss Helen Sanders has asked
guests for a luncheon Friday at her
home on washburn campus, in honor
of Miss Barbara Bradley, of New
Haven, Connecticut, who is making
holiday visit to Miss Sanders. Miss
Bradley is teaching this winter in the
zoology department of the Wisconsin
university.
Mrs. A W. Henry announces the
marriage of her daughter, Sarah M, |
TO Mr.. Henry F. Charles, which took
place in Kansas City, MO- Aprn .. |
At home at Nineteenth and Collins /
streets
DR.. and Mrs. D. A. Cookinham of
1882 Boswell avenue announce the /
engagement of their daughter, Edith, /
to Mr.. Thomas w. Williamson. The |
wedding will take place early in
January.
The son of a Topeka business man
operates an aristrocratic stock farm /
that has some sort of a classic name /
for a background to the blooded |
stock that roam its acres. Sellm and
Endymion and Mercury are sent to |
the horse show to compete for prizes.
and Juno and Isis and the Golden Girl, |
stand in the stalls at the cattle exhibit
his wife drove to town to meet a |
visitor, and found on their return that /
Juno had offered them as a Christmas 1
present her first son. The little calf,
almost worth its weight in coin Of the /
realm, hadn't the good luck to be born
in a stable, but first saw the light on
the shady side of a corral fence. He |
was nearly frozen when the stockman
him and carried him into
the house wrapped in a heavy horse |
blanket. The golden calf was rubbed |
and doped and nurSed back to life, and /
by o'clock in the morning, his owner
felt that he could lie down and sleep, /
for the calf was securely wrapped in |
the blanket and breathing easily !
When the master of the house had !
slept but few minutes he was
turned chairs, and believing that the
axnan was upon him, he rose to do I
battle, and faced his high-born pos
session nosing around among the /
on the library table.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Rohrer and their
little daughter have gone to Fort /
Wayne, Indiana, to visit Mrs. Rohrer's
people Mrs. CutchalI, Mrs Rohrer's
grandmother, who has been visiting at
the Rohrer home, returned to Fort
Wayne with Mr.. and Mrs. Rohrer
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin SchlegeI. of
Kansas City, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
D. NJ. Brill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Chapman are enter
tanning the following guests at a house
party this week: Mr.. and Mrs John
Sans and Mrs. John Whitney, of Corn
ing Kansas; Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Butler
Miss Ethel Butler. and Mr.. Otto But
Ter, of Everest, Kansas; Mr.. and Mrs.